El Cap Report 06/08/07

ElCap Report 6/8/07

 By Tom Evans

Yo... have to be somewhere else in 15 minutes so this is short...

Zodiac.. someone on the direct start... also the two guys from yesterday who topped out with no rain fly... they had a rain fly and they are Brits, Oli and Chris... they make a hammerless ascent too.. nice work.. they came by for beers and socializing this afternoon...

 

SSPO: Ragan made it off I think this afternoon... saw him at the last pitch at 11am... sweet!

 

Nose: Team of two, Scott and Dan reached high point again ( forced of due to storm a couple of days ago) and did the king swing around 4pm ... heading for camp 4 tonight.. Elaine, Scott’s wife, was here and brought us food and drinks so we could watch the climbing ... thanks Hans and Steve are on the route for filming and there were a pile of people in the Stove legs doing that I suppose... but the two guys with the yellow bag who jumped the crews lines and jugged two pitches to Dolt (chuck and ?) were not part of the work.. They were just getting out of a huge clusterfuck that formed a couple pitches below Dolt Tower when three parties were jammed at one stance in the stovelegs...

 

Salathe/ Free Rider.. Saw the O'Neill crew on long ledge this day ... did see DP down below on the headwall doing some top rope climbing.. Never saw R and Amee... did see Jean and Anna head up to the block... Matt and Micah worked up the Monster crack in the morning and were last seen in the alcove. Did see a brief glimpse of Nick as he and Cedar were making a one day try for FR...

 

That’s it for now

Later Tom