It’s good that I make it sound so good… or maybe not. Nope, haven’t actually clipped packs together. Have pushed two packs against the wall for a real climber to climb up on, and that worked pretty well. Extending that experience – more packs, more clipping, more people pushing => more ability to escape potholes. Woulda been a big help to bring someone small, OR someone quite tall, like…
I was thinking in the final narrows there was at least one un-tossable pot, maybe 2 or 3. (?) What would you do there without hooks? (or in your case, one hook)
Wow, lots of TofS bivy or near-bivy stories. I wonder how many brought on with help from the permit system?!
Lash all the packs together to make a raft, as solid as possible. Have everyone in the water steadying the raft and pushing it against the wall. Have the lightest person climb UP on the raft and go from there. Those blow-up dry bags become real useful for that.
There are long throws in the second narrows, and at least one where the far side is a slab, so it takes quite a bit of weight to counter balance on that one. The good news is that the climb outs are mostly also up a slab, so full weight is not required pulling on the Shots.
Bootboy
They saved me a long walk one night…
LNT
ratagonia
bump, just for fun!
John Diener
Cool, was thinking about the drybag-pack-raft concept as well. Sounds like you’ve put it to use before?
ratagonia
It’s good that I make it sound so good… or maybe not. Nope, haven’t actually clipped packs together. Have pushed two packs against the wall for a real climber to climb up on, and that worked pretty well. Extending that experience – more packs, more clipping, more people pushing => more ability to escape potholes. Woulda been a big help to bring someone small, OR someone quite tall, like…
T
John Diener
I was thinking in the final narrows there was at least one un-tossable pot, maybe 2 or 3. (?) What would you do there without hooks? (or in your case, one hook)
Wow, lots of TofS bivy or near-bivy stories. I wonder how many brought on with help from the permit system?!
-john
ratagonia
Lash all the packs together to make a raft, as solid as possible. Have everyone in the water steadying the raft and pushing it against the wall. Have the lightest person climb UP on the raft and go from there. Those blow-up dry bags become real useful for that.
There are long throws in the second narrows, and at least one where the far side is a slab, so it takes quite a bit of weight to counter balance on that one. The good news is that the climb outs are mostly also up a slab, so full weight is not required pulling on the Shots.
Tom