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Grit Ground Up 29-Apr-2012 At 12:02:01 PM Dave J

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On 29/04/2012 hagges wrote:
>Dave. For the Braille Trail how did you attach a sponged out nail to a
>carabiner? Do you still have it?

I think it was just a bit of 6mm cord or something tied off around the head. I can't really remember an I left it in England just in case anyone else wanted to use it. I had my Masters Edge tricam for a few years but never found another use for it.

I don't know about the "Braille Trail is essentially 28/29 with a V8 crux" though. I would say it is essentially slabby 26 and, if you were going to compare it to a boulder problem, its like one of those 6as at fontainbleau (those ones that you slip off a hundred times and then some old man comes along and pads up it in his hobnail boots). Doing that sort of thing ground up though is leagues away from head-pointing it after rehearsing it on a toprope (like I did). Does anyone know if Braille Trail has had many ground up ascents? I think Jorgenson and Honnold did some of the routes ground up, like the first ground up ascent of Parthian Shot and maybe the first ground up of Gaia???. The harder ones (for them) though they top-roped first.