Southern Yosemite Climbing Discussions
Southern Yosemite Categories => West of the San Joaquin River Canyon => Topic started by: susan on March 13, 2013, 09:50:53 am
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(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx99/susangodar/P1020846.jpg)
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(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx99/susangodar/sig.jpg) (http://s745.photobucket.com/user/susangodar/media/sig.jpg.html)
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(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx99/susangodar/sig.jpg) (http://s745.photobucket.com/user/susangodar/media/sig.jpg.html)
WOW!
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Beautiful, eh? Sigrid and Jerry on as yet an unnamed East Fuller Butte, Anderson route
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I love stunning sweeping slab climbs. Something aesthetically pleasing about a clean or even featured slab.
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Great pic of great people on great rock. Looks better than Chiquito slabbage.
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Not a great pic, but a view from across the canyon. Aren't they Butte-ies!
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That slab does look attractive and Jerry does put in nice protection. Sweeping is a perfect description.
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Yes, that route of Jerry and Sigrid's is very nice! Connects to another cool white dike with handy features to climb.
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Does the route all go free?
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The route we did all went free.
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Those twins are the Buttes but what is the one to the left slightly down?
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Companion Domes
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I am calling it Dudleya Dome based on how the party with the earliest recorded ascent I have run across has long used that name. There was an even earlier name from an even earlier unrecorded ascent yet to be re-discovered...stay tuned...could be decades...The shorter one furthest to the West doesn't have a name that I know of nor routes. Between Dudleya and West Butte is Friendship Dome, formerly 4th Of July Dome.
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I love it!!!!
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The domes southwest of the Fuller Butters are called the Companion Domes. Mike Maciaszek (SYMG) and I climbed a couple new routes there summer of 1993. Notably a spectacular continuous steep right angling fingers and hand crack for two pitches, "Dos Amigos" 5.10. One bolt was placed at the top of the first pitch. This obvious crack is located up on the left wall of a narrow gully that is on the southeast side of the Companion Domes. We also climbed an obvious short left facing corner to knobby face to flake route that is just west of the narrow gully.
Pete Cassam
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Cool. How long an approach?
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Sounds like an amazing line! Yes I wonder about the approach and suspect it’s big. Maybe not Balloon dome big but weekender’s big? Wish there were photos.
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Approach was a couple hours to the Companion Domes from what I remember. Here are a couple pics, me heading up the first pitch of Dos Amigos and Mike Maciaszek following. You can see that the crack just keeps going.
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Approach was a couple hours to the Companion Domes from what I remember. Here are a couple pics, me heading up the first pitch of Dos Amigos and Mike Maciaszek following. You can see that the crack just keeps going.
http://www.southernyosemiteclimbing.com/SMF/photo_album_resized/IMG_0387_resized.jpg
http://www.southernyosemiteclimbing.com/SMF/photo_album_resized/IMG_0386_resized.jpg
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Looks five star. Great to see your photos!