What is a wallrat?

[mousewallrat]

Well, aside from being a Facsist, and a NeoCon...this is what I used to do for fun. This was taken on day three, about 1800 feet up El Capitan in Yosemite. We spent the night on that ledge. Damned bad sleeping you know, especially if you roll over during the night. I was scanning some pics, and this brought up some great memories! This wall is so steep, if you fell off from where we were, you'd land about a hundred feet out from the base. You have to drag all of your food, water, gear, and yourselves, up the stone for up to a week...sometimes more. By then you're dirty and smell bad. Thus, Wall Rats.

[JooX]

You do know they dynamite huge holes and pave through those fuckers now... right?


Hotels? Room Service? Showers?







Looks bloody magic, I'd be thinking the best part would be the total lack of other people, peace, quiet, tranquility, the view... awesome.

[chinni]

Woaw!! So you actually climbed up there!? Holy shizle nips must have been enduring!

[tgd_02]

dude


did u bang a broad up there?


MOAR PICZ

[mousewallrat]

dude


did u bang a broad up there?


MOAR PICZ
I did a route over away to the right called the Salathe...about twice the height of Zodiac, five days, and about 3000 feet, and with a girlfriend of mine. We spent the night on this tower, which is free standing out away from the wall...about 1500 feet off the ground. That's all I'm gonna say about that, except that it was an awesome route and an awesome place and a Hell of a place to camp.

[JooX]

I did a route over away to the right called the Salathe...about twice the height of Zodiac, five days, and about 3000 feet, and with a girlfriend of mine. We spent the night on this tower, which is free standing out away from the wall...about 1500 feet off the ground. That's all I'm gonna say about that, except that it was an awesome route and an awesome place and a Hell of a place to camp.



Dude... he totally slipper her one. heh heh heh hehehe he heh heh

[Big Ozzie]

El Capitan is one BIG mother of a piece of Rock! Solid Granite and totally awe inspiring!
Climb it? Only in my Dreams! I am so afraid of Heights that I Crapped my Shorts the first time I jumped off of the Tower at Airborne School! :omg:
Kudos to You, WallRat!
I used to see you guys all over the Mountains and Cliff Faces in the Wyoming Rockies. Fookin Nutters would be driving down the Highway, see a cliff, jump out and start Climbing! :eek:
Sometimes it caused cars to stop and watch because there would be a couple of peeps dangling from a rope several hundred feet above the road! All the shoobies would stop and take pics and vids...like they saw Big Foot or sumpin! http://bilderkiste.de/phpcliparts/media/smilie_fernrohr.gifLOL
Nothin like Extreme Sports to keep the Adrenalin Pumping!
ME? I'll stick with Stealing Cars for a Living!!!
Terra Firma for Me!

[Josh85]

that looks fucking awesome.

I'd love to get into that shit.

[mousewallrat]

Ozz, it gets worse than that; for a while I was in this zone where all I wanted was to go up the Big Stone again. It was like some spiritual quest or something. For the entire summer, I'd get off of one route and in a week, when I'd recovered I'd go do a route on Half Dome, or next to the Yosemite Falls on that wall, somewhere, just anywhere there was a high steep wall. I wound up the summer doing a line that took me seven days, solo. It came close to punching my ticket for me. I ran out of water, and in 90 degree heat, just about didn't have the strength to finish it. The line was way away from the trails, and there's not much for creeks or springs up there. It was like a car accident or being mugged, I suppose. One of those things you're never going to forget, and that makes you strong.
Here's a picture of the Leaning Tower. Three days, and it is just as steep as it looks. Overhanging about a hundred feet in four hunderd feetof climbing. You can see that there is a great ledge where Steve is standing, and behind him where the rocks are laying is where we spent the night. I hope you can imagine what it's like to sleep up there, when it's so quiet...nothing but a few cars going by, and the night birds and bats flying around. You're stuck on this little island of flat stone, it the middle of a vertical desert. And you know that of all the Schmucks in the World, the only people that will ever get to where you are had to do it exactly the same way you did.