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Help a chap out 8-Jun-2012 At 4:20:34 PM crazyjohn

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On 7/06/2012 Olbert wrote:
>As for what I am climbing - the main goal is The Nose, but we are hoping
>to bag something on the Washington Column with a name I can't remember
>right now and The East Face of El Cap as warm ups.
>
>The goal is for the leader to be freeing/French freeing everything and
>the seconder freeing the awesome pitches but jugging the rest.
>
>As for the fixing of the lines, we thought we could get away with one
>person jugging with a grigri and a jumar and the other person having the
>ropeman and a jumar. It's not ideal but it isn't that far.

Please dont take offense to this, but if you attempt to climb the nose over several days using this set up, you will probably fail. Please let us know when you go up so we can watch your effort on the El Cap Report! Good Luck anyway!

Also you are probably going to climb the East Buttress of El Cap. There is nothing called East Face. The East Butt will give you some experience with free climbing on the nose. But not much in the area of big wall stuff. However, if your psyched, you should climb Moratorium into East Butt of El Cap for a good day out! If your planning on free climbing alot of the Nose, this will let you know where you stand. If you do WA Column first, you will definitely reconsider your jugging/hauling technique and hopefully wont get screwed on the nose. Have fun man!

cj