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ElCap Report 5/18/11
By Tom Evans

Yo….  The weather continues to confound.  Enough!!  Enough I say!!  Snowed last night and dawn broke cold and beautiful.  I was out early taking some shots… always wanted to visit in the winter and now I know what that season looks like.  The climbers are here and impatient to be climbing.  We are to have two nice days starting tomorrow but the weekend will bring more of the same shitty weather.  Late next week looks like a more solid forecast.  The SE Face is the only alternative for those wanting to get on the Captain, and it looks like the women have it to themselves.  There is a rumor that a team is to start on Zenyatta Mondotta tomorrow… yep and they are men too!!  A team of women is eyeing Zodiac for later in the week.
 

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VA/Trip:  Holly did climb another pitch yesterday and I was able to see her cleaning to her high point this morning.  She is 11 pitches up as I type this and will go a couple more today I think.  

Climbers on the SE Face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holly cleaning the 11th pitch this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your enjoyment… some shots I took this morning.

Morning mist and snow at the ElCap Bridge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ElCap Tower area on the Nose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heart and ElCap Spire area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning view Stoneman Meadow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun mist trees and rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meadow view toward Yosemite Falls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Cathedral Rocks view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other news:  We await the warm weather.  Denise, Russ, and Soren came up from SoCal yesterday to hang out in beautiful, warm Yosemite.  Surprise!!  They are the three people in the Bridge shot above.  
That’s it for now…
So that’s the way it is, for this Wednesday the 18th day of May, 2011.
Later Tom Evans