SUPER COOL DUDE! My buddy and I climbed on Elephant head east of here. We made a video of it on my Channel. Baboquivari has been on my wish list for a LONG time. Several of my friends have done it. One said he felt like roping up was a bit unnecessary on the route they took but he said he lead some less experienced climbers up. DANG your first lead was LONG... I'm a bit of a novice! I'd be shaking in my boots waiting for you to put something in the rock.
@@HikingEngineer do you have a good 4wd truck? The road is a bit rough. I have a stock suspension 2001 Tahoe which works but it's pretty dicey getting across the ditch on road to elephant head. I was discouraged cause we called the climb off 300 ft from top. REALLY wish I'd climbed the whole thing but I hit a wall and was SMOKED.
@@HikingEngineer I need to go back there. Looks awesome. Your first lead in that video was pretty long w/o placing anything. I presume the rest of the route was fairly trivial?
@@exploringgodscountry I didn't place any pro, I just free soloed it, then my friends used the rope for help up and we all used it down. The route is pretty easy but my video should help!
I was having same trouble rappelling. Take your brake hand and lift it above the belay device... as you move it down to your hip it will slow you down. You can adjust your decent speed that way without having to constantly feed the device. You can also tie a backup on the rope incase your brake hand comes off. I am just now learning, from some super experienced climbers. Thought I would share, likely you know anyways.
woo woo, I've been waiting for this one. Nice footage of Class 5, really brings it back.
That would've been a tough downclimb!
I definitely hesitated a lot before committing to moves, ended up downclimbing more to the right, in the black streaked dryfall area
SUPER COOL DUDE! My buddy and I climbed on Elephant head east of here. We made a video of it on my Channel. Baboquivari has been on my wish list for a LONG time. Several of my friends have done it. One said he felt like roping up was a bit unnecessary on the route they took but he said he lead some less experienced climbers up. DANG your first lead was LONG... I'm a bit of a novice! I'd be shaking in my boots waiting for you to put something in the rock.
elephant head is on my list to do
@@HikingEngineer do you have a good 4wd truck? The road is a bit rough. I have a stock suspension 2001 Tahoe which works but it's pretty dicey getting across the ditch on road to elephant head. I was discouraged cause we called the climb off 300 ft from top. REALLY wish I'd climbed the whole thing but I hit a wall and was SMOKED.
@@exploringgodscountry I do not, i have a low clearance sedan but this road wasn't too bad any 2wd car could make it
@@HikingEngineer I need to go back there. Looks awesome. Your first lead in that video was pretty long w/o placing anything. I presume the rest of the route was fairly trivial?
@@exploringgodscountry I didn't place any pro, I just free soloed it, then my friends used the rope for help up and we all used it down. The route is pretty easy but my video should help!
I was having same trouble rappelling. Take your brake hand and lift it above the belay device... as you move it down to your hip it will slow you down. You can adjust your decent speed that way without having to constantly feed the device. You can also tie a backup on the rope incase your brake hand comes off. I am just now learning, from some super experienced climbers. Thought I would share, likely you know anyways.
appreciate it! yeah I've kinda figured that out after the last couple times
@@HikingEngineer felt silly mentioning it but was a MAJOR frustration of mine until my climbing friend told me how to better do it. Really cool video!