Kevin Jorgeson provides an update for the Black Diamond Journal on the first week of his and Tommy Caldwell’s efforts to free a new line up El Capitan.
First Mescalito Update From Kevin Jorgeson
Posted In: Asides, Traditional Climbing
Tags: Dawn Wall Project
Climbers: Kevin Jorgeson, Tommy Caldwell
Areas: Yosemite
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October 29, 2009
[…] first 5.10c in Yosemite. Sarah Kate and I did a lap while Stein explored the base and saw Tommy and Kevin working on freeing […]
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Nate: The narc lives on, at least as an archive. Miss th...
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Animull89: So gnarly that he did that twice...I remember the ...
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Matt: Hola, Narc! Glad you keep the site alive. Retur...
The Journal link is not working for me
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I double checked it and it seems to be pointing to the correct URL
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Soooo sick. Keep the hardcore coming!
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Ya, it works fine. Something is wrong with our Internet at work. I had to use a proxy server to view the link. Time to call Time Warner
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We looked up at the first four pitches when they were working on it two weeks ago. You could see the blue fixed line. It is so amazingly blank…. Good to know that easier pitches and 5.13d can go in the same paragraph! So Wild!!
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Seeing some of the harder pitches on Magic Mushroom in the Progression extras blew my mind…and made me realize I enjoy climbing things with actual holds.
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Not to mention the 10 foot sequence on Mescalito consisting only of thumb gastons. Ridiculous. And that 7 foot dyno is pretty crazy too
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