I was climbing Johnny Vegas the other day and I was literally just saying to Jess “Not that I’m gonna start, but I kinda understand why people like free soloing this stuff”. We’re from New England where there’s a ton of technical granite, so the tasty holds of red rocks sure are a treat 😌
Looks like a great climb. Did Black Orpheus years ago and it was quite the adventure. And if anyone put sticks on my hood and car like that, they hide!
There’s not much on earth like it. At least that I’ve seen. It’s very cool because it is so full on, but the technique is so intuitive. Back on one wall, legs on the other, pushhhh
@@extreme_ryan_delena Me and my buddies were the three morons who did this with only 2 liters of water each....in July. We got the top of the black tower at about 40-50 minutes per pitch but that's when we actually ran out and had to decide to try to summit or back off. I lead all the face pitches after the chimney and even with absolutely heinous runouts every pitch just took ages as we got more and more dehydrated. We we're hoping for water in the emergency cache at the top but all it had was a can of tuna, I was the only one in the crew who wasn't allergic so I ate it and carried as much of the gear as I could for the descent. Stripped my shorts and shirt off to reduce sweating as much as possible and popped our nut tool's out to cut open the cacti while marching down. Some real time type II fun. Car to car time was a full 24 hours and 14 of which we're without water. We got the single best slushies of out entire lives at the gas station down the road from the parking lot.
Great video; only wish the video has more details on how each pitch looks like. As someone with aphantasia (inability to visualize things in mind), video tend to make the most sense to me instead of words on mountain project.
Thank you. I definitely understand where you’re coming from with needing more visuals for route finding. In this particular video, I only had 40 minutes of memory left on the SD card, and was already dealing with frozen batteries, so I chose to only film the most exciting pitches. I will say that once you locate the chimney, you’re pretty much following the same weakness all the way to the summit, and most of the upper pitches follow a big dihedral. It would be hard to get lost. • If you want more information on Red Rocks and full pitch by pitch videos, I made one of Dream of Wild Turkeys and Tunnel Vision that show at least one clip of every pitch.
It took us around an hour. It’s pretty straightforward, stay out of the wash until the trail forces you in. The 4th class step can be made harder by not looking around, but I found following a ledge system up and right was the best way.
