Setting up alcove swing on el cap

I would like to do the alcove swing but was told as of this past weekend (july 6/7) there isn't a fixed line. I'd be happy to fix a line but was wondering about setting it up. My understanding is its fixed on the route South Seas. Is it fixed to the top of p1? MP route description reads p1 as A3 or C3ish. Anyone know which one? Don't have a hammer but could do C3 if that's what is required to setup the fixed line. Thanks!

From my understanding, it can either be done from the pitch 1 anchors, or from the pitch 3 anchors. The topo for South Seas says p1 is A2/C3, P2 is A2+ and P3 is C1. If you do it from the P3 anchors, it is 330' to the ground though.

Also, full disclosure I haven't actually rigged the alcove swing before. I just looked into doing it a while ago and this is just what I remember from my research into it.

Yeah you want a beak pretty quick off the deck on P1, or first move might even be a beak.....don't listen to this nonesense - no one climbing SS right now you can totally do the first pitch and swing off. That was the original swing and it was only later that Atlantis was established and Richie saw the vision for a 100m swing from the top of pitch 2.

Erik

Yosemitebigwall.com

Lol, Kevin, and no one else has been climbing the Dawn Wall.....so the Swing area is wide open.... if you wanna set it up hundreds of psyched locals will rejoice in swinging on your rope! Best, E

....cracks me up these arm-chair climbers are like 'we know what's up' lol - try to be respectful Y'all!

Maybe some kind soul will put a via ferrata in so folks don’t have to worry about bringing a hammer up there anymore 

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Erik, it's a bit weird with you when an arm-chair climber says, "be respectful of the experience of others" and your response is that those arm-chair climbers need to try to be respectful 

Sorry, Nanook - I laughed out loud at that one!

See you in September, eh? 

We're taking another kick at a certain ocean current cat. Might the Delta 3P be available for pickup around the end of September??  Cheers, buddy, and thanks for your support of me and the community.

Lol - my comment of 'try to be respectful Y'all' meant 'to the mountains' not to me lol - if the mountain is wide open it's wide open, anyone can recreate however they see fit..........cracks me up the attitudes here - for example, a group of cavers comes every year and sets up a 3,000 foot rappel line off the Dawn Wall and proceeds to climb up and rappel down the rope for two weeks ish each July.......they don't worry about bugging anyone on Dawn WAll, Mescalito, New Dawn, Reticent or Space - the routes that they float by and intersect with at the base and summit....there can be a full on scene at the base, and no one asks the climbers if they are planning on doing any of those routes or worries about anything - they just go and do their recreation. Get Sum Ya'll it's good up there ....the colder nights have started so the Fall is imminent! Best, E