Nice.

I took some climbing lessons when I was 13 and the last day we did this climb. I just cleaned all the gear behind the instructor. Really sparked my love for trad. I would love to go back and lead this route for myself.

5.7 with finger jams?? sheesh. looks tough

Great video for showing what this adventure is like!

Great climb! Gets a bit narrow in places. Id be a wee bit worried.

This is not the real hall of horrors

Great video. 5.7 C1, I suppose ;)

Did this in May 2021 - such an amazing experience!

What’s this dive site?

So many trad climbing videos, so few show them testing their cams with a hard pull before clipping. Good to see it done properly for once. Faith isn't enough climbers!

I wish there was more footage of what you did after the hand crack pitch. I went up there with a friend and got super lost after the splitter. Ended up keeping left and over some ledges to bail into the couloir

Heading out to do this in May, going to take on Tenaya and Matthes as well! So stoked!

Where was this?

Is it difficult to find?

Ahhhhhhhh, ya'll skipped filming the third pitch slab....a full value pitch. Or did you just hang a right at the base of the slab and follow the crack

I love it.. I went there yesterday but I got lost ;( when is the best season to dive here?

nice!

Ended up here after watching your El Champo climb. Brought me back to when I dove a Cenote in Playa del Carmen back in 2008. I forget which one we did but it was awesome. Cheers.

one of my favorite spots on Earth. not like Ive seen much of it though LOL

Looks fun, gotta leave some gear for the third sometimes.

Looks like a burly 5.7.

That vis is incredibe for CA. Wish it were like that today ha

Scary anchor on pitch 2 and did you really run out a 100 ft pitch?

Nothing like Shaw's Cove on a winter day. Best time to dive SoCal is late October to early March. Flat weather and water, up-welling's bring up clear water and no body around on the beach. This was my old stomping grounds in the 90's, used to dive there all the time. Man I miss it all.

I wish more people could see the beauty from up on El Cap. Thank you for the great video!

Don't tug on your cams like that. In a bad placement it will pop, hit you in the face and you will lose your balance and fall. Set your nuts, but not your cams...and if you think either are bad, they are so don't test them like this its dangerous.

This is so cool. Will have to add it to my trip.

The type of granite that Cathedral Peak is made up of is pegmatite: "a coarsely crystalline granite or other igneous rock with crystals several centimeters to several meters in length." It forms through magmatic differentiation, which "involves processes by which chemically different igneous rocks, such as basalt and granite, can form from the same initial magma. High-temperature minerals can crystallize and settle out, causing the remaining molten material to be concentrated with component that may later form rock enriched in low temperature minerals (such as granite). The last rocks to crystallize in a magmatic intrusion will be enriched in low temperature minerals (quartz, mica, and potassium- and sodium- feldspars). Gases and fluids including water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and other compounds are also dissolved in magma and will be concentrated in the remaining lava before being expelled as the last traces of magma cools into rock." The High Sierra are such a geological wonder!

you made this look like its so much harder than it is

Is the cam at 2:08 just not cammed at all?

This is the only trad climb I've ever done. So nice to watch your video to relive it! Love when you look down from the chimney and say 'its getting in thats hard' that just flooded my memory... :)

Dude, why did you stop right in front of him? He fell because of you.

My body is fine. My ego and pride took the brunt of it fortunately. This has to be one of the most comical wipeouts yet. Haha!

This is awesome! What did you use to film this?

sweet pitch looked a bit harder than 5.7, nice climb!

Love it. Looks so relaxing. Going snorkeling her tomorrow

What was the maximum depth of your dive?

Nice crack. To climb only with friends an nuts.....,i have to learn that ( this ? ) Sorry for my bad English. Deutsch könnte ich besser. ;-) Have a nice time.

That look`s great. I wish we had rocks like that. ..but free solo is nothing for me. ;-) Ich wünsche euch noch viele schöne Seillängen. Habt noch eine schöne Zeit. Best regards.

Whoa I didn't know there were caves there. My friends and I went snorkeling there too. Check out our video kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6emmn6ppbNqo5I

Cool vid!!😊😋😌😏😃😄

Very cool. Looks deep and cold.

The "something man-made" at 2:30 is the deck made by the shop above. The gift shop has stairs that lead down to this pier/deck in the cave.

I mean was it hard to get to the caves I didn't have fun cause no one wanted to go that far

Was hard to get to the would it be better to use a kayak last time I went my family was too scared to go that far lol

Hey man you stole my video man!!!

the stairs or "man made thing" they see lead up to a gift shop. they charge a few bucks to walk down into the cave to the ocean

With poor visibility like that, if be scared shitless of great whites.. Nice Garibaldi Damselfish though, must be cold ass water

Fish: What are you looking at?