Yosemite Valley Quad

Michael Vaill and Tanner Wanish just set the new standard for massive valley days - 4 big walls in under 24 hours doing The Nose, RNWFHD, South Face of Washington Column, and the South Face of Mt Watkins in 21:50, the weekend after setting the new speed record for the Yosemite Valley Triple. Absolutely inspiring effort from two “less-than-household-names”

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBpGh1nTlH9/?igsh=MXMzandrMGlwM2lkcA==

Fucking sending 

A few years back I did the Nose with friends in 4 days, which I guess means I'm 1/16th the man these guys are. I'll take it! 

Dammit!! I completely misunderstood and did four laps on cathedral on Saturday thinking these guys bailed on me!!

They meant the VALLEY Quad.....  I was way off.  

How disappointing! I clicked on this thread in anticipation of an interesting discussion about an exciting new way of attaching oneself to two bolts.

Tal M wrote:

Michael Vaill and Tanner Wanish just set the new standard for massive valley days.

My major muscle groups hurt just reading about this push. Solid work, ballers!

So, wait a minute, they did The Triple once, and then less than a week later, they went back, did it again and added a route?

Is that right? 

Mark Hudon wrote:

So, wait a minute, they did The Triple once, and then less than a week later, they went back, did it again and added a route?

Is that right? 

Correct. And I was on the support crew so I can also add that they matched or beat their triple times for each of those walls

ETA: Jabroni, it was in the order of tanner’s instagram post (Watkins, Nose, Column, HD)

Tal M wrote:

Correct. And I was on the support crew so I can also add that they matched or beat their triple times for each of those walls

Did they do the south face of the column last?
inspiring stuff. 

HowNot2 interview with the pair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg0PwlN-wEs

Does that now mean the valley is just for cragging? Do big walls even exist? 

Brooks K wrote:

Does that now mean the valley is just for cragging? Do big walls even exist? 

Wait, there are big walls in the valley? I just go for the sport climbing

How many pitches is that ?

Gerald Adams wrote:

How many pitches is that ?

4 simuls

Gerald Adams wrote:

How many pitches is that ?

more pitches then I can climb in like 6 months!

Tom R wrote:

HowNot2 interview with the pair:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg0PwlN-wEs

This is good stuff. I don't even really get into aid climbing much, and I still enjoyed listening to these guys.

Really cool when they said "our day isn't any more important than the guy spending five days on one route."

I’ve done all of those route! (Over maybe five years!)

Gerald Adams wrote:

How many pitches is that ?

88 guidebook pitches. in 21.5 hours. 

at 72 my Quad is 4 pitches in a day. ;)

Jabroni McChufferson wrote:

Did they do the south face of the column last?
inspiring stuff. 

HD was last, because it has a big descent and you stop the watch on top of your last wall

Matt N wrote:

4 simuls

They don't simul much.  I think they simuled first 10 on HD (because it's like 5.9 ish) but in the interview they said simuling is too tiring.  You'd simul for the Nose speed record, but for these mega linkups in a day, you short-fix and the 2nd jugs.  They do the Nose in two blocks: one guy leads to Camp 4, then the other takes it to the top, 2nd jugs the entire time.

I find jugging to be pretty strenuous, but I guess it's still easier than following 5.10.

They pakistani loop on lead... brr...