Postcards: Yosemite N.P.

Postcards: Yosemite N.P.
ViaMont on The Nose

Two brothers who has bought our gear recently planned and made a trip to Yosemite to climb The Nose. After their return back home, they sent us a message and a few pictures that we want to share with you:

"My brother and I are back safely from our Yosemite climb. The rock there is breathtaking. Big exposure, pitch after pitch of solid granite walls soaring about the valley and views that make for great postcards.

I wanted to tell you that while the rock is pretty good in most places, nature has a way of keeping you nervous. "Run out takes the fun out" is the term of choice when you're 20 feet above your last piece of pro and are 1000 feet above the valley floor. We never hesitated to reach for and use the wired tri's from ViaMont. The older style wireds give you that extra few inches of reach that a Camp tri-cam cannot give you and the new combi cams work great both as active and passive pro. Taking a fall is just part of climbing and as hard as you can try to prevent it, when your pushing the envelope of your climbing ablity, you are on poor rock, or when your just half way up a simple 130 foot 5.9 pitch, the reality is a fall is part of the game. We never hesitated to trust the ViaMont gear on my rack. In fact, the smallest wired tri from ViaMont caught me on about a 20' bounce down a chimney pitch. It suffered no ill effects and we continued to climb on it the rest of the trip.

Happy Climbing!"

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