Did my first big wall. Just wanted to thank you guys for all your help!
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I know it's only a grade IV for a lot of you guys, but I just did the west face of leaning tower! It was my first big wall, and I know that I never would've been able to pull it off without all the resources at mountain project. Just wanted to say thanks to the folks here on the big wall forum for your advice and for the information I got from earlier posts. Also, thanks to the folks at the FS/FT forum for helping a college student outfit himself with an aid rack and big wall climbing books. |
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WFLT is legit grade V. Most people do not climb it as a grade IV. Good job, that's a fun route. |
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A couple of guys doing it in a day blew past me on day 2, so I figured that's how most people did it. Good to know I'm not a total slowpoke! |
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Most of the people I see do it climb it as the Supertopo book recommends, which I think is something like sleep on P4 and again on 8, or something like that. Also, Some people fix to 4 and then blast the next day, but I would not call that climbing it in one day, not if you climb 4 pitches the day before to fix. |
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Nice work! |
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Damn, that's bad luck about the weather. Did you stay dry on awhanee ledge? |
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It seems like a Yos IV is different than the other ones. It seems. |
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badmoonrising wrote:Damn, that's bad luck about the weather. Did you stay dry on awhanee ledge?The next day was warm and sunny, very pleasant. On day 1 got to see a wall of snow 20' away from me as I wimpered up pitch 3, which was just surreal. It had been wet for at least a week before and there was a lot of spring melt keeping the guano flowing. It took me 17 hours from car till I got the haul done to Awhanee. Soloing is just slow and hard work. |
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badmoonrising: Great job! What were the conditions of fixed gear on WFLT? |
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Nice! The majority of climbers do this as a grade V, and solo as a first wall is proud. |
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viet goes west: There were oodles of fixed gear, and most of it seemed pretty solid. Definitely clipped a couple of questionable angle pitons and a sketchy aluminum head, but that was about it. For the most part fixed gear was nuts. There's definitely a ton of it on the seventh pitch, through the roof sections. |
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Very cool! Leaning Tower isn't too hard, but the approach is somewhat involved and it's got instant exposure that freaks some people out. Props on the solo. |
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Good Job BMR! |