Alex Honnold free solos Freerider, 30 pitches up to 7c+
Freerider is the Astroman of the new millennium. This route is climbing at its finest. The route follows complex crack systems up the southwest face of El Capitan.
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Free Solo - Freerider - El Capitan last updated 5 Mar 2019 On June 3, 2017 Alex Honnold free solos (climbs without ropes for protection) El Capitan, a 3,200 foot granite face in Yosemite. He went up Freerider, a 5.12d route, with a few variations in 3 hours, 56 minutes.
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Grade context: US Length: 2900ft Pitches: 32 Ascents: 18 TRAD description The route follows complex crack systems up the southwest face of El Capitan. Essentially it is the Salathe wall with a few variations used (pioneered by Alex Huber) to avoid the numerous 5.13 crux pitches first freed by Paul Piana and Todd Skinner in the mid 80's.
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Details Description El Capitan is home to numerous classic routes but "The Nose" is the mega classic of them all. Towering nearly 3000' this route offers 31 pitches of superb climbing right up the middle of the wall.
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Freerider is a 5 star, classic route on El Capitan (and a contender for one of the most famous free-climbs in the world), first climbed by Huber Baum (one of the famous Huber brothers) in 1998. It's a variation of the Salathe Wall, another world-famous route on El Cap. - Around 3000 ft of climbing - Around 33 pitches - Crux moves at 5.13a and 5.12d
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Take a look at the topo (it is missing the Boulder Problem pitch). It is not equivalent to several 5.13a pitches in a row. There are a variety of grades, but several are 5.12 and 5.11. There are several different challenges. One is to do the Boulder Problem pitch perfectly.
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Freerider, El Capitan Written By Bronwyn Hodgins On November 8th 2018, I stood on the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite, California, after free climbing the route Freerider over 5 days. With Jacob supporting me, I led the crux pitches and weighted the rope only three times over the 3000ft of climbing, lowering down and sending each pitch after.
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Freerider is a contender for the most famous free-climb in the world, being El Capitan's most well-known, achievable and popular free route. It links together large features, cracks, corners and chimneys that make for brilliant free-climbing, forging a path through swathes of immaculate granite.
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Climb Year: 2017. Publication Year: 2018. ON JUNE 3, I free soloed Freerider on El Capitan, the culmination of an eight-year dream. The year and a half I took to actually realize the climb has, at this point, been well documented. The story of that journey is told in an upcoming documentary film, titled Free Solo.
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Climb Profile The Route For reasons not hard to comprehend, El Capitan - an incomprehensibly massive granite cliff in Yosemite Valley - is threaded with hundreds of world class routes. Freerider sits off to the left side of The Nose, El Cap's premier buttress, and tops out at 3,300 feet/30 pitches above the valley floor. Topo of Freerider
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The Freerider is a 5 star, classic route on El Capitan (and a contender for one of the world's most famous free-climbs) that first appeared in 1998 with the help of Huber Baum (one of the world's most famous free-climbers). It's a more traditional route on El Cap than the Salathe Wall, which is a world-renowned route.
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Matteo Della Bordella and David Bacci make a free ascent of Free Rider (VI 5.12d, 37 pitches) on El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. Free Rider is a four-pitch variation of the Salathé Wall.
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However, as climbers got better, it became obvious that the scale had to keep getting harder, so we ended up with 5.10a, 5.10b, 5.10c, 5.10d. Then climbers started climbing things harder than 5.10d, and we turned the dial to 11. Climbers put up 5.11a, b, c and d routes, before adding 5.12, and 5.13, etc. with the letter grades for each level.
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The hollow flake is probably the longest climbing pitch of the route, almost 280 feet, but after all that you end up 70 feet from your belayer. That's because from the belay you downclimb 100 feet, then climb over 30 feet, and then climb back up about 140 feet of wide crack. And for the whole pitch, all you bring is a single number 6 Camalot.
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The wall was a blast! We hauled an inflatable shark the whole way and read aloud The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy every night from our portaledges. We reached the summit in 6 days, Jacob and Chris both managing to free the route. I was stoked just to be there and fell in love with vertical camping! 2016