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Heinz57 Jugging on the Tangerine Trip (view)
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This is a shot I took from the second belay of Scorched Earth on El Capitan.
"Heinz57" is jugging three ropes he used to fix the first four pitches
of the Tangerine Trip (ed. note: Heinz said he fixed the first five
pitches).
This is the steepest section of El Capitan, and his fixed lines hit the ground
about 70 feet from the base. Fixed ropes here have been known to fail, and
two people have died on this jug.
Spooky.
[When I introduced myself to Heinz at the base, he instantly recognized me
from my writing here at RC.com. But when I asked him his user name, he didn't
have one - he was a lurker. Heinz was struggling with the
traditional Yosemite system of jugging, until I fixed him up with
the Petzl Frog System.
[If you are interested, you can click here to open a new browser window and
read Heinz' testimony as Dr. Piton's Wall Patient. Heinz
most assuredly "gets it. - Pete]
Tired of hanging around at the base? Itchin' to get on the wall? You can
click here to
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| Votes: 28 | Comments: 15
Submitted by: apollodorus on 2003-01-21 | Views: 2551
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