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The ones that you have got away with... 17-Mar-2012 At 8:33:05 AM crazyjohn

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>After a semi hanging bivi on our second night at Sois le toit or whatever the 1 foot ledge is one or 2 pitches below el cap spire we were beging to feel worked and stoked (one of the party felt we shouldn't climb in the dark to reach the better bivi in spite of my insistance I was happy to get the rope up)

The bivy you stayed might have been the"the alcove". Its one pitch below the spire but its not semi-hanging. There is a short offwidth off of a one foot ledge between the monster OW and skinner corner and the alcove.... Actually it sounds like you stayed there. If so, that was a very bad choice! The Sois le toit is the belay at the enduro corner just before the roof. Sounds like you were in good climbing form with a couple of bumblies. Can be fun most times, or you can end up with a tshirt plugging a hole in your hand.

Here is a story of a really bad accident that happened on my first time up el cap. Which happened to be the Salathe as well! Basically, a french climber popped a cam and rattled down the chimney behind the spire to land upside down above us pissing blood out of his head.

You did Half Dome and Astroman in a day? Pretty cool. Did you freeclimb? What route did you do on HD? I just climbed the Regular Route of HD free a few months ago and to do both free in a day would be pretty Fing hard! Good on ya!

http://www.cjclimbs.blogspot.com.au/

The top entry is the latest epic... More crap talking than anything really, but with videos and pics. The Bottom of the page is the Salathe rescue Story. YOSAR used that rescue as the best example of when things go good in last years training.