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| Half Dome |
Back to Yosemite, I meet Loggan who I know from the trip ! He tells me he wants to climb Half Dome but has no partner ! I answer : "Me too !!! But I have no partner...!"
That's how our Half Dome adventure began ;)
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| Loggan in front of Half Dome |
We'll climb the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. 23 pitches. About 600m.
We freed up to 5.10c and aid climbed the rest to be fast.
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| Me racking up ! |
We hiked to the base in the evening and got there just before dark. We decided to fix the first pitch, this time in the dark, to gain some time the next day !
That being done, we ate what we
prepared in the afternoon and then slept !
The next day, we started climbing at 4AM and kept going until...
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| The first chimney pitch for Loggan |
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| The window you go through in the chimney ! |
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| In the window ;) |
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| Outside the window !!! |
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| Second chimney pitch... for me ! |
...Until we arrived to Big Sandy Ledge, around 5PM ! There, we noticed our face and discussed if we should keep on going to the top or sleep here and keep climbing the next morning.
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| At Big Sandy ledge... Life is hard ! |
We decided to climb the 2 next pitches (we aid climbed them) and see.
Loggan goes for it, links the 2 pitches and when I join him, it's
getting dark already. The next pitches aren't too hard but we decided to
sleep on Big Sandy anyway, so we can enjoy the view and have more
adventure :)
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| Loggan aid climbing the fist pitch after Big Sandy |
Good morning !
The night was quite cold as we had no sleeping gear with us... But this is part of the adventure !
Warming up for the next pitch !
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| Our great bivy just besides these people and their portaledge... They must have been so jealous !!!! ;) |
Let's start jugging !
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| Thank God Ledge ! |
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| Loggan on Thank God Ledge |
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| Last pitch before the top ! |
Yes !! We made it !!!!! :D
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| The cables on the way down ! More dangerous than climbing...! |
Our rewarding...!
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