Ascensiones en Second Pyramid como Onsight

Theres 14's and then there's 14's, this was one of the latter. When we first saw this route on the hike up, it looked like an easy solo to access the summit. The first 20m agreed with this sentiment, rolling past like a sandpaper treadmill. After plugging in a couple nuts behind some pockety flakes this thought train begun to struggle up the steepening incline. When the slab hit 70 odd degrees it lost all traction and begun slipping, cheese-gratering backwards. My ego... trapped in the coach carriage bathrooms reluctantly went with. Ahead lay a featureless expanse, so barren and inhospitable that even holds had decided it was no place to live. Crucially, redemtion lay on the other side. A newer... better ego taunting me. Willing mind and body to trasnsend the limits of friction and embark on this desert crossing. I pushed up, got scared, then immediately tried to downclimb poorly. On my fourth false start, now fully aware that despite gravitys insitance, going down was harder than it looked. Far below, the wrought screaching train wreck rattled past the belay. At this point I decided this narrivtive was getting a bit long in the tooth and I haddnt even pulled the crux moves yet, so I got over myself, romped up the slab and enjoyed the thoughly interesting and creative climbing to the belay. My heros journey complete I could now take a backseat and admire my partner funk her way to glory up the remaining rock. The gigantic egg dome splintered with a delicate crack, arcing in uncomfortable bends to the summy. Oh and dont get me started on the "descent" This route will steam roll you back in time, 3 stars.

Should've worn my big boy pants

Excellent day spent scoping out what the second pyramid has to offer!

Had a lot of fun on this one. 1st pitch a bit thin on gear but manageable, 2nd pitch way more comfortable (at least if one follows the flake instead of going straight up ) Takes a lot of small gear.

Finally got used to slab climbing. Awesome arch, used a lot of gear and extenders.

Amazing climb, but scary on lead. I should probably have been lower at the crux. At least I brought enough gear.

Beautiful climb in a great location.

Did it for the booty! Not a bad route

IDK if it was this route or an undescribed one. Left-trending crack that starts halfway up Buzzard Bait. Really fun climbing

Not bad for a short little trad climb

Exciting, 5 bolts, bring a 2 Camelot for a pod near the top. Nut belay in a flake

Incredible climbing reminiscent of Watchtower Crack. Don't be intimidated by the offwidth.

Was sick watching Kyle's inspiring lead of Verglas.

Good beginner intro to girra

Absolute mega classic, super daunting line but we just had to back ourselves. Probably one of the coolest lines I've ever done and stoked to tick it off. Climbing this feels like dancing, very technical and precise. Pretty much spent the last week and a half at girra, initially hating slab, now loving it. Started on Roukes Rift, ended on this, what a trip. Onto the next adventure classic.

Solid climb. Unique start up the sloping slab of granite, felt like Spiderman!

done in two pitches, I lead first, issy lead second

classic slab

What a line. I lead the first pitch, awesome movement with creative nests between stances. Dan lead the second first time leading since breaking his ankle months ago. Amazing job and held himself together really well. very hard to clean. Bring a rock or a even a little hammer to hit out the nut placements they just bite into the granite.

Classic! I thought i was getting lucky with some easy booty when starting this climb when i saw what appeared to be #6 cam stuck in the starting offwidth crack.. turns out it was a dead eagles skeleton! Boy was i surprised that i couldn't clip it! This was such a unique and fun classic adventure climb. Ran out the start by 15m on easy slab to a #6 then #5 placement. Did the route in 1 pitch on an 80m rope, the route is more like 55m in length.

Very run out at times. I need to get quicker at placing gear. Linked both pitches. Took the slab on the last section rather than the crack - lots of lichen, no gear, prob would follow the crack next time.

Fun way to wrap up a couple of days of climbing!

Does it involve an offwidth behind a cute lil freestanding flake and then you climb down a chimney on the other side? That’s what I did anyway, it was fun.

Fantastic climbing 1st pitch is very manageable with a 4-5-6. There is 100% a eagle in the crack. 2nd pitch traverse is awesome. A classic in my books

Set up a belay about 15m off the ground on easy slab. From there linked both pitches to the top. Anchor above the loose flakes in crack left. Easy solo to the summit from there. Really nice climbing.

after the daunting initial blank slab great fun with clean classy moves and sufficient protection

Nice slab to the summit - spacious gear first pitch, crux thin seem 35-40mts! Second pitch was nice laybacking 40mts to top of flake, easy slab 100mts to the summit! Look forward to getting Scimitar next trip out with a little more smaller gear

This line caught my eye on the walk back from doing Roarke's Rift. Located on the wall facing the 1st pyramid just to the right of a large boulder. Would be interested in more info including name and FA if anyone has details.

Absolutely loved it! Makes me keen to go to yosemite one day.

I led the first, Blake the second by headtorch. Took us a whole day of procrastination to ball up and tackle this intimidating line. After much emotion, some grit, cold winds and modern head-torches, we topped out. What a line. Right up there with the best I've done.

I did the first pitch, Blake did the second. Another Girra classic. Choice as, bru.

I really enjoyed this, but would have enjoyed it more if I weren't wearing one decent slab shoes, and a brand new aggressive sport/boulder shoe. What fantastic climbing, though, with gear just spaced to make it engaging. Oh yeah, I did the most horrific and gut-wrenching move that I've ever experienced on this route ... ask me in person if you're interested.

Bloody awesome route. Fantastic protection down low. No protection above halfway but very easy climbing. Best done as a single pitch with a solo lead finish. Upper half can be protected with a single 6 cam if you want. Good natural anchor at top. Classic high quality route.

Scary stuff trying to run it out on small gear to get to the crack. Just managed to keep my head and commit to it. Set up anchor at second good vegetated ledge with loose flake in the crack.