Author Topic: Resolutions (Read 13001 times)

Jody Langford · « **Reply #20 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:28:29 PM »

Clarification via e-mail from my dad:

This is the western-most Yak. The photographer would be standing on the ridge crest, probably on the climbers trail itself. One must scramble down a few feet into a cleft (if I remember correctly) and cross over to the base of the chimney. Hey, that's the best I can do after 30 years. I could draw a picture, I guess, scan it and send it to you.

The Big · « **Reply #21 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:44:48 PM »

Ok, I think I know what it is. Do not know what the name is in the book will have to look but it is on what we now call South Yak.

Jody Langford · « **Reply #22 on:** January 10, 2007, 05:46:52 PM »

Dad actually DID draw a map and send it to me...LOL!

Brad Young · « **Reply #23 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:05:56 PM »

That would make it the West Face of the South Yak. That makes sense. I haven't been on the route for 10 years, but I thought it was longer than the photo makes it appear. Ask your dad Jody if this was a route that saw any traffic. Does he know who did the FA? Maybe that would help us pin it down.

While you're talking to him, tell him I rewrote the history part of the book some time ago, but after I sent it to you. I added a few sentencees about his contributions to climbing in the Monumnet. It wasn't a lot, but I added some.

Jody Langford · « **Reply #24 on:** January 10, 2007, 06:58:01 PM »

Brad, my dad said the Yaks didn't get much traffic at all when he was there. The Rubine guide said the FA was Hammack and Larimore in 1951. Dad said when he did the route the only protection they used was a couple of pitons in the chimney and nothing on the face leading up to the chimney.

What did you add to the history section, my dad's freesolo of The Monolith?

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Author Topic: Resolutions (Read 13001 times)