Comments on: My Anniversary Present: Northeast Buttress of Higher Cathedral

By: mudworm

mudworm — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:22:42 +0000

Thanks for your kind words! Revisiting my own blog, I now remember that there are a couple of pitches consistently wide. So, being comfortable with wide stuff definitely helps keep a decent pace above Pitch 5 and conserve energy. If you go to my home page (where all my posts are), you can see that in year 2005, I did seek out wide stuff quite a bit. That was three years before this climb, but what I learned back then still helped tremendously. Nothing else, take a look at my Offwidth Training in Yosemite (and ignore the free soloing Royal Arches part). If you can get up those wide cracks, you should be fine on this climb.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:03:19 +0000

Great report and beta. How much wide stuff had you done before this climb? Were the wide sections all long or were they mostly short sections? I'm planning to do this, but a little worried about my experience level.

By: le_bruce

le_bruce — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:21:05 +0000

Enjoyed it, thanks! And thanks for clarifying the ending variations that C Cummins had written about – it was never clear to me until now.