Ascent Notes for: Little John Left - 5.8 Average Rating : 4.12/5

in a squeaky sort of way makes liebacking a chore, stick to the OW technique.

The direct start has good clean, 5.10 liebacking and/or fingers (this might be part of the 1st pitch of Hardly Pinnacle?). The top was excellent for practicing offwidth: chicken wings, hand stacks, and hand-fist stacks for me. Longer than 60m rope needed to TR (done after rappelling down from Little John Right)

...But a mother bear started getting into our bag at the base when we were on the first pitch. So we bailed after one to get our stuff out of there. The first pitch was real exciting for me!

Tough little bugger. I could have used a #4 cam for sure. But for a first climb on the base of El Cap I wouldn't have it any other way. ON site with some resting on big holds.

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Set up TR after doing Little John Right. Was perfect fists for me at top.

climbed this when it was about 100. this would be more fun in cooler weather.

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Had to pull on cams to complete. Tried to TR afterwards, still had one fall on TR.