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Show Russell Jacobs 2 December 2009 mean, it was just like, let's go, let's go, let's go. So, he and I did a lot of climbing in , uh, in the Tetons together. Uh, and that lasted for about, oh, three years or so before he got a job and moved to Colorado. Uh, he's still living in Colorado. He's married and has a little girl. Climbs a little. Not much. But he was ... he ended up being a big, big mountain climber, not a rock climber so much. But he ended up doing McKinley a couple of times and other peaks around the world. But he was more of a mountaineer. MD: Um-hum. RJ: He never did a big wall in Yosemite. Uh, and that's really what was my focus. Everything would fall into place from that. MD: Um-hum. RJ: You know. I mean, if you're on a big wall, all the other stuff is not as difficult to obtain. MD: So was there anything that was maybe the most logical step towards that big wall in Yosemite before you went there? And what would it be? RJ: Well ... nothing other than what I've mentioned, uh, in that. .. Little Cottonwood Canyon was the starting point. And even though a lot of that was, you know in Little Cottonwood, is kind of slabby formation ... I mean, it's not extremely steep. The protection's the same. The degree of difficulty is exactly the same. You'd find, I mean, the difficulty pitch for pitch from what you'd find in Little Cottonwood Canyon and say what you'd find in ... on Half Dome are ... the difficulty's the same. The only difference is in Yosemite it gets a little steeper. It gets almost vertical. MD: Um-hum. 23 |
