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Show Russell Jacobs 19 March 2010 classic climbs, including two on El Cap, Half Dome. Uh, Sentinel was one of them, which was pretty good, a pretty good climb. The North Face of Sentinel Wall. And we did a, I know, another climb as well, from the 50 Classics, Les and I did in the same week. Whether we did a third, and I thought we had, but I'd have to check my notes to see if we'd done a third. So, moving on, I think we're gonna jump to, uh, Ship Rock, which was, uh, finally accomplished in 1988. Um, and I had made a couple of attempts in previous years on Ship Rock. Ship Rock is also one of the 50 classics of North America. And it's located in the Four Comers region, just up the road from Farmington in New Mexico. It's on the Indian reservation [the Navajo Nation]. And, I believe, one of the attempts was with a client of mine, who ... we became friends after I had taken him up on the Grand on two different routes. We ended up being good friends and ski companions and, uh, I thought, well, this would be a good climb. It's well within his ability. Ship Rock is not that difficult as far as its technicality, uh, but it was difficult to find the route, um, extremely at first difficult to find the route. So, the fellow that I went down with was Rob Paul. And I believe we took, you know, probably we had three or four days of leisure time to go down and explore and hopefully accomplish this. So, we headed down, and I, of course, knew I'd be doing all the leading. Rob was not a ... he's not a typical mountaineer even though he loves the mountains. He's just .. .it just wasn't one of his passions, but he was willing to go on the adventure, um, with me. So, we hiked in. It's not too far, maybe three-quarters of a mile from the dirt road we would park our car on. And it was, uh, I thought at the time and it still may be, not something that is done too often, Ship Rock. Uh, I think the local Indians there prefer us not to climb on this formation, which is basically a volcanic plug that reaches 1,700 feet up 5 |
