First Ascent Photos

[Jerry]

Hi John-

They did it ground up freeing 1-3 and then freed 8 to the top. With a really strong free climber I think everything but P. 5 "might" go free. 6 looks like a classic thin lieback, 7 is cams, bolts (some may still need hangers) and hooks and is just a little less steep. It would be really hard if it goes, P. 5 is beyond anything I can imagine.

No mandatory free over 5.5 so I want to go do it again as an aid climb next year!

[Jerry]

Lynnea starting the 11c crux, pitch 1 of "Do It Don't Spew It" on the red point ascent, 9/9/09. Pitch 1 has the only vegetation, the rest of the climb is spotless.

[NateD]

Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or did she shed a rack of cams on a bolt below? 
Looks great.

[Jerry]

Yup, gear to that point and the rest of the pitch is bolts

[John]

You call that vegged out? Looks fine to me.

Nice shot, looks steep.

[Jerry]

Splitter cracks on P. 1 of Do It Don't Spew it. The first 6 pitches are just under vertical then 7 and 8 gradually back off.

[Jerry]

Just found another picture of "Do It", me leading pitch 6 on the FA, maybe the best 5.8 pitch I've ever done. This was about the only day we had without snow

[mungeclimber]

Granite!!!!!

[susan]

Yeah, nice shots Jerry. Beautiful rock. What's up with those cracks that look so good for gear -- been too many times we look at what appears to be a good pro-able crack, only to get up close and see it out of the shadows, where it turns out to be sealed seams, shallow, flaring and/or decomposing rock...  The veg there is so minor it just looks pretty. 

[NateD]

Bumping a good thread, (despite the strange warning that this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days).

Ger buzzing away in the heat on p.2 of Dazzzed Vizzzion. Photo by the indefatigable Dave Daly.

[John]

What is with the packaging around the drill? It looks like a duct taped cereal box.

[mike a]

what no hand drilling lol :-)

[NateD]

Ger should respond, but I think he hoped to protect the thing when dragging it up a cliff on a tow line.
And it looks more covert, right? 
Power drill? What drill? That's just my box of Cap'n Crunch.

[mungeclimber]

That shot makes him look a little like Peter Croft

[susan]

Huh, 120 days. That's winter for ya!

Good shot of Tiki.

One of my favorite shots from those days at Owl.