Yosemite National Park
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Thomas B.
top roped Little John, Right (5.8) at Yosemite National Park.
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subsequently, cleaned the first pitch twice on TR. learnt how to chimney and chickenwing!
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Thomas B.
attempted Little John, Right (5.8) at Yosemite National Park.
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Tried to do the first pitch, the combination of a very large lizard in the crack and the offwidth scared me off.
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Owen M.
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17 Jan
Owen M.
"Climbed Superslide on Jan 15th with Jon Plaut. This was my final birthday celebration. Just a beautiful day in the valley, especially since it was January! We took our time eating breakfast in a sub zero camp, letting the sun hit the wall and warm up. First pitch, while only 5.2 had its fair share of awkward moments; glad we had quickly dismissed the free solo notion. Second pitch was Jon’s; an interesting 5.7 up a pin scarred seam, to some friction traversing, and finally meeting a nice hand crack. Fun climbing, but with weak enough pro that things were..."
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Thomas B.
climbed Selaginella (5.8) at Yosemite National Park.
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Commitment-Selaginella linkup. Selaginella was easy enough to find. Jon took the first pitch, did it in an hour and took once at the offwidth section. It's a burly pitch - I didn't feel that secure on top rope heading up the constant wide cracks, and the offwidth section is pretty steep. Jon's lead head was gone so I led the remaining three pitches. 2nd had some more wide stuff but a combination of jamming and stemming did the trick. Routefinding started to get difficult at the end of pitch 2. Pitch 3 had a difficult few moves in the 'chimney' off the anchor, but not really that hard. The end of 3 was a scary traverse onto this crystal platform - rock I've never seen in Yosemite. Pretty cool! Pitch 4 was chill - enjoyable stemming leading to a spectacular no-pro 5.6 lieback & 5.7 mantel finish. Waiting for Dave and joana to finish put us descending on the falls trail by headlamp - pretty chill. Overall, a sweet route - definitely want to go up and get back on those offwidths!
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Jon P.
followed Selaginella (5.8) at Yosemite National Park.
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If this climb ended after the first 2 pitches, I would say it was one of the worse climbs I've done. However, the last 2 pitches totally vindicated this climb for me to the point that I'd consider climbing Selaginella again. I led up the first pitch, which had a short 5.7 handcrack start, leading to a grueling mungy 5.7 ow with lots of big, loose rocks (which was, for me at least, the crux of the climb). I definitely learned that I need to do a lot of work on my ow technique, as I spent a lot of the time trying to handjam in the back of the crack, which did not work at all. The second pitch was chill, but also rather mungy. The third pitch was great, some lb and faceclimbing, leading to an extremely committing and exposed traverse around a chrystally bulge. Very memorable. And the 4th pitch finished up the climb with fantastic 5.8 finger lb. I think I'll have to do this climb again, but not lead up the first pitch. That threw me off in the beginning and ruined my lead head for the rest of the climb (and perhaps even the rest of the trip).
