Possibly the most beautiful video I've seen on the Sift. Thank you.

Maybe I'll get my kletterschuhe back out this summer. I know I need a new harness. I'm a fat cat now. I might want to switch back to 11mm lead rope, for that matter.
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Here's a great topo of the route. I'll take the first and fourth pitch, we can swap around on the chimney. Starting out on a 5.9 layback in the morning is rough, but I'll do it if I can take the finish! Who's game?

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, April 12th, 2009 4:49pm PDT - promote requested by schmawy.

Oh, and somebody else has to do the roof.

>> ^schmawy:
Maybe I'll get my kletterschuhe back out this summer.
Who's game?


Some of those camera angles even gave me a bit of anxiety. I can't understand how you can be comfortable being up that high schmawy.

I once hiked to the very first base camp of the Matterhorn and I just about crapped myself a few times.

It takes a long time, but after a while you trust your gear, you trust yourself. But even then most climbers get that butt-pucker of terror now and again. Eventually you get to the point that you can enjoy looking down on the back of birds in flight. Spending a night out on a big wall is not something you'll forget. The internet likes to use the work 'epic' but doesn't have much understanding of it's real meaning most of the time.

When I was younger I spent a few days at The Maze in Southern Utah. After slipping and nearly going over the edge I never was the same about heights. Roped I was pretty good, but without some sort of belay I just froze.

One and a half years ago my vestibular system was poisoned by prescription drugs. I now have no inner ear gyroscope, so to speak. I guess I'll never be able to climb again, but I can dream.

This was truly awesome.

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I'm in Schmawy! Although a 10c dirty roof day 2 would suck. That 5.7 chimney would rock so hard... I agree with Beth though, climbing in the cold blows, and I'm still not 100% on trad climbing