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wlevando
Dec 7, 2009, 4:39 AM
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I am wondering what the most vertical mileage ever covered over rock in a day is. I'm thinking about bona fide fifth class (i.e. over 5.7) climbing including anything from tossing laps on local boulders to big walls.
Any ideas or avenues for investigation?
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altelis
Dec 7, 2009, 4:44 AM
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wlevando wrote: I am wondering what the most vertical mileage ever covered over rock in a day is. I'm thinking about bona fide fifth class (i.e. over 5.7) climbing including anything from tossing laps on local boulders to big walls. Any ideas or avenues for investigation?
there's just GOT to be a your mom joke in there somewhere.....
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rockforlife
Dec 7, 2009, 4:47 AM
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altelis wrote: wlevando wrote: I am wondering what the most vertical mileage ever covered over rock in a day is. I'm thinking about bona fide fifth class (i.e. over 5.7) climbing including anything from tossing laps on local boulders to big walls. Any ideas or avenues for investigation? there's just GOT to be a your mom joke in there somewhere.....
vertical....bona....
nope i got nothing
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Carnage
Dec 7, 2009, 5:32 AM
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tommy caldwell climbed el cap twice in a day, so thats like 6000 feet in a day. thats like 1.1 miles
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rainman0915
Dec 7, 2009, 6:25 AM
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Carnage wrote: tommy caldwell climbed el cap twice in a day, so thats like 6000 feet in a day. thats like 1.1 miles
6200 feet 1.2 miles
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brokesomeribs
Dec 7, 2009, 8:18 AM
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I'd also look into the data from this year's 24 Hours of Horseshoe. Tommy Caldwell and Jeremy Collins climbed 222 routes in 24 hours. (Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, they won... by a lot). If you assume an average of only 40 ft per route, that's over 8,000 feet of vertical. I have no idea what the actual average route height is though - I pulled that number out of my ass.
On a different note, I recall reading that the 2nd place team would have had to climb something like an additional fifty 5.13 routes to beat them. Shit is crazy.
No surprise that it's still TC though.
(This post was edited by brokesomeribs on Dec 7, 2009, 8:20 AM)
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guangzhou
Dec 7, 2009, 8:23 AM
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Hard to say, but I remember reading something about Peter Croft soloing a bunch of Valley Routes in A day.
Most I've done in a day is Serenity, to Son's of Yesterday, to Crest Jewel. I'm just in ordinary climbing,s o that doesn't help much.
At Kings Bluff, I managed to do 133 routes in 48 hours, but I had everything pretty wired and average length was 40 feet.
El Cap, half Dome, and Sentinel in a day, that's a bit of mileage, but I bet someone has done a bunch of long moderate routes in a day in place like the Dolomite.
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danull16
Dec 7, 2009, 4:02 PM
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brokesomeribs wrote: I'd also look into the data from this year's 24 Hours of Horseshoe. Tommy Caldwell and Jeremy Collins climbed 222 routes in 24 hours. (Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, they won... by a lot). If you assume an average of only 40 ft per route, that's over 8,000 feet of vertical. I have no idea what the actual average route height is though - I pulled that number out of my ass. On a different note, I recall reading that the 2nd place team would have had to climb something like an additional fifty 5.13 routes to beat them. Shit is crazy. No surprise that it's still TC though.
it was more like seven 5.13 routes. i was there. it was great fun to watch. but according to my guide book the average height is 65.35 feet. which puts the total of vertical feet at 14507.7.
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JimTitt
Dec 7, 2009, 7:06 PM
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John Arran climbed 536 routes in 24 hours on gritstone in the U.K, 4897m of climbing.
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brokesomeribs
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danull16 wrote: it was more like seven 5.13 routes. i was there. it was great fun to watch. but according to my guide book the average height is 65.35 feet. which puts the total of vertical feet at 14507.7.
Are you sure about that? I certainly wasn't there, but this article in Climbing http://www.climbing.com/..._hours_of_horseshoe/ puts them at over 10,000 points higher than the 2nd place team. The figures presented in that article give the average route a value of 239 points.
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brokesomeribs
Dec 7, 2009, 7:19 PM
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JimTitt wrote: John Arran climbed 536 routes in 24 hours on gritstone in the U.K, 4897m of climbing.
That's a shitload of climbing.
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JimTitt
Dec 7, 2009, 7:27 PM
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Correction, in 18hrs!
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danull16
Dec 7, 2009, 10:50 PM
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yep! 
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