A Vell-Organicized Bivi on El Cap Spire

You must alvays have a vell-organicized bivi und a vell-organicized belay!" shouted Thomas at me again and again.

We were making our ascent of Salathe Wall, which was only my second-ever big wall, and my first in seven years.

Needless to say, I was something of a Big Wall Gumby, and not particularly "vell-organicized."

Here you see an example of my bivi setup on El Cap Spire - while it was possible to get away with this kind of clusterf*ck when bivi'd on a big ledge, you can click here to read about the wall I did next, which was without doubt my most clusterf*cked wall ever!