How long did this route take you?

Solid work

Are the lime green Punisher/skull faces just for decoration? Oh, they are probably a sponsor's logo?

You cleared that first drum mag jam lightning quick at kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXjTkKiErLqqr9U Lucky you had that nice clear mag as a back up : )

This is probably the worst experience I have had watching one of your videos. I'm not afraid of heights but the ground is very nice.

Awsome!! Thanks for sharing

The feet must be pretty sweet. So much hands free work

Still shooting the lead star in this video? How do you like them as a lefty?

hey, man this is a sweet climb, i did this route on Saturday and i was wondering how i actually did this route. I ended up going right and the very first ledge where you placed your #3. It was directly up and quite hard. and i passed a piton and then ran it out 25 feet to the top on the most technical climbing of the route. I was thinking, 'there is no way this is 5.6' ... your route looks like what i should have done. Also ' a couple of those placements in your video sounded hollow' how was the rock quality on that side? it looks horrendous.

why a holo with a canted red dot

Nice video, I like that route. Why did you fully extend your slings when the route is straight and rope drag is minimal? You can lessen your fall height and save time by using them directly from your harness. For example at 5:20 on pitch 3.

Henry Bridges brought me here. Hi H.

You should think about using chocks more, They are very secure in some of the cracks where you struggled placing cams. I've done this route twice. Nice climb.

Great climb! I think I did this way back in the day. One of the Grack routes anyway. No cams back then.

Great work! Keep sending!

I love Totems, don't you?

Do you ever have a fear of your cams walking when you don’t use a sling instead of a draw? Especially on your first piece? Granted it is a pretty straight line.

This first pitch kinda looks terrible to be honest. Slippery rock the whole way and it's basically a loose gully. Also why go off belay before building the anchor and attaching yourself? Thanks for sharing the vid though!

Certainly carried along enough gear to lace it up. I've led this climb several times and only used stoppers for protection and anchors. Of course I'm an old fart "Old School" leader. I think it's either 3 or 4 times on this route. The real climb on the Grack is Marginal on the slabs to the right. First time I led this Center Route was in PA's in 1974. Just a very small selection of stoppers and a few slings.

I led this pitch in 1986, late July or early August. Also led the Durrance Crack (next pitch). Wife led the short pitch and then I led the Flake Crack. These pitch numbers don't correspond to the ones we used--I suspect a slightly different approach to the Leaning Column pitch, which we called pitch 1. We finished via the Bailey Direct.

Awesome man. I just shot carry optics for the first time yesterday. I’m a GM in PCC and RFRO but it’s a challenge with CO. Are you going to half cock or all the way down for CO? Nice runs!

I think Royal Arches might be easy enough for me (a very novice beginner) scared of heights or falling. looks incredibly fun!

Hey man! Thanks for all these videos! It helps a lot. Don’t know if you’ll see this comment but I was wanting to ask you some questions about your experience. I can send you my email or phone number, whatever works best for you

nice job finding the line of kill... more controlled than chez's style. clearly 5.4b is a more accurate lake gread for this classic

Blindshot at 6:30 was king

Was the hand crack even on route for the standard route? I only climbed it once, but I remember pitch 3 being easy 4th class scrambling.

Nice Climb! At 13:41 you clip the thumb loop of the big purple cam, that's not recommended per manufacturer. I believe because if the carabiner were to twist it could potentially unclip itself. Safer to clip the sling

kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6Szk619pamtj5I Was baller dude!

So how do you keep track of all of the targets and the order?!

Nice! Good holding onto your nerves at 1:01

Holy wah I hardly remember this.

and just asking for advice.What would be a easy first climb single pitch climb in Yosemite to kinda warn up on setting techniques? thanks

is it a "general" distance on setting a cam or stopper? or just how far you think you can survive a fall ha ha

You really need an auto time-extending, 10X shoulder-length sling to avoid rope drag on the traverse

I'm just starting to climb.Love your videos.I was just wondering "about" how much all the gear you are carrying on your harness amounts to? (Roughly) thanks and it's gotta weigh a few pounds

Cool to relive it again. Love to go back sometime. Cheers.

It’s easy to go fast once. Hard to do it 4 times in a row (;

Very nice! Thank you! There used to be this rotten log lodged across the dihedral to the left. The route was easier then.

Nicely done

Hey man how tall are you? This looks crazy slippery and reachy. Like the placing the piece in the first boulder and when you had to reach to place the piece in the overhead boulder. How was the climb overall?

Nicely done!

Are there a lot of small foot holds on this or is it sloped style foot holds

Thank you for bringing me along @davidp. It was great! I haven't been here in 48 years, and it was different. There was the "notorious" rotten log that spanned the open book to the left and led to more class4/low 5. I remember that we discussed "what will folks do when this log falls away?" We looked at this pitch and agreed it was doable, before we shimmied across the log. It is good to be alive.

1:56 I don't do any trad climbing, but is it typical to trust pre-existing placements like this? I'm sure the hardware is permanently wedged, I think I've watched enough of the HowNOT2 KZbin channel to never trust soft materials in the wild.

5:10 oh man that nut placement just welded you to the rock

#4 doesn’t fit because it’s too small.. procedes to take out a #2 and wiggle it around lol

I'm amazed people wear crack gloves on everything these days. And clip directly into the pendo rope.

Very exciting slab at the end!

Just getting into trad climbing. Doing this one for sure!

So many Yosemite climbs seem awkward and polished.