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El Cap Report 05/31/07

ElCap Report 5/31/07
By Tom Evans
Yo... here it comes... right on target, dropped
by a B-2 bomber on a laser guided bomb so it can’t
miss... Today’s ElCap Report.
Skipping the long intro today in favor of the BIG NEWS
OUT OF THE VALLEY TODAY...

Rob Miller and Justing Sjong did indeed free the
freeable Muir and even added a few nicer pitches to the
route than the old "Shaft" route... they are calling it
PreMuir and I was fortunate to be able to shoot them
over the past 2 and 1/2 years they have worked on it on

El Cap Report 05/30/07

ElCap Report 5/30/07
By Tom Evans
Ok... dig out your rain gear, get that bailers topo
out, and hunker down under that rain fly because fresh
from the base of the Blast comes all the dirt and
delight brought to you by a Peregrine falcon right here
from the deck of the Heartbreak Hotels best suite. I
have the eyes and ears of an eagle and you cant slide
that BS story by me... so here it is straight from the
Deck of the Ditch... the epicenter of the center of the
big walling scene here in Yosemite... the ElCap Report
for today.

El Cap Report 05/29/07

ElCap Report 5/29/07
By Tom Evans
Yo... here it comes straight to you via a low pass by
Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 at Mach 1.05... I rapped
off Heartbreak hotel today to find that some guys had
taken my spot at the bridge and that threw a snag into
the days shooting as I need the van to block the wind...
but I made do... so pack your imaginary haul bags and
get your gear racked and head out onto the greatest big
wall climbing in the solar system this side of
Neptune... remember I am the hard eye of honesty coldly

El Cap Report 05/28/07

ElCap Report 5/28/07
By Tom Evans
Yo... down the invisible lines from Heartbreak Hotel I
slid to man my station as the gate keeper at the gate of
adventure... another great day here at the epicenter of
the center of the climbing universe in Yosemite... lots
to report today... big sends... big bails ... and of
course big flails... so throw that rack back into he
closet because your little vacation is now over and you
have to rely on Ansel Evans for all your big wall
vicarious thrills and I've got the dope right from the

El Cap Report 05/27/07

ElCap Report 5/27/07
By Tom Evans

Yo... a little late posting this one as the Valley was
a Zoo yesterday with huge traffic volume ... but here it
is fresh from the pack of a hitch hiker I sent out as
the van couldn't be moved in the traffic... your man here
on a windy warm day with all the action from the cap..
we had the bails and the flails today and some "walk of
shames" too. We had some expeditions backing their bags
and hauling their shit up fixed lines and down from the

El Cap Report 05/26/07

ElCap Report 5/26/07
By Tom Evans
Yo.... loosen your tie, take your jacket off, go to the
fridge and get a cold one... the time has come to escape
your pitiful daily struggle for the legal tender... let
your imagination take you away like a bath in a tub full
of Calgon Bubbles... straight from the Ditch comes the
dirt for today... brought to you from an RPG fired from
the bridge at a low passing commie satellite.... the news
from "The Ledge" on the Dihedral to the Bolt Ladder on
Zodiac....

El Cap Report 05/25/07

ElCap Report 5/25/07
By Tom Evans
Yo... kick back, take off the shoes, flop down after a
hard day at work, escape to the Valley for a few
moments, hang with gang at the epicenter of the center
of Yosemite big wall climbing here at the ElCap Bridge.
Relax, your man Ansel is here at the scene actually
viewing the action directly, no web cam crap here Bro!!!
I cover it all... the sailors, the flailers, and the
bailers... don't try to pass that story you made up off
on me ... I know the real deal and am not afraid to
squeal....

El Cap Report 05/24/07

ElCap Report 5/24/07
By Tom Evans
Ok... it is that time again... go to your room, close
the door sit down and relax. Its time to take some time
for yourself for a change... escape to Yosemite with me.

Yes it is ElCap Tom dishing the dirty and the
delightful, fresh from the ElCap Bridge and brought to
you directly paper clipped on the wing of the raven I
called down from above as the trout from yesterday was
caught by a bear earlier in the day...

As you would expect it was a fine day with lots of

El Cap Report 05/23/07

ElCap Report 5/23/07
By Tom Evans
Yo.... Well here it is ... fresh off the back of a
trout swimming upstream from the ElCap Bridge. All the
news from the center of the universe of wall climbing...
the ElCap Bridge... direct to you from your man on the
scene, Telephoto Tom, Ansel Evans, ElCap Tom, Ewans the
most famous climber in Japan, ELCap-pics... call me what
you want... the dirt is dished here and I report on it
all, the good, the bad, the ugly! So tie in, hang on,
and pay attention as I'm only going to type this once!

El Cap Report 05/22/07

ElCap Report 5/22/07
By Tom Evans
I know you have been waiting all your boring day to get
this report... so here it is fresh from the base of the
ElCap scree slope and brought to the computer by a
Sherpa runner who is here for the week... from Dead Bird
ledge to the Teflon Corner here is all the latest dirt
dished by the man on the scene...

Zodiac: The orange soloist on Zodiac continues to cruise
effortlessly up the route and has reached the Nipple
pitch but came down to the belay below that for the