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23h:50mins
Greg Murphy, Peter Coward, Steve Schneider
Oct 1996

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  • Sep 29, 2009 2 days -- Roger Putnam, Mark Grundon
    Very grassy, but a cool location. Timbuktu is one of the coolest spots on El Cap.
  • Sep 1996 4 days -- Erik Sloan, John All
    We climbed during a heatwave, with 100 degree temps. On the third day John got heat exhaustion bad, and I struggled to get him coherent forcing him to drink all but a liter of our water supply. The next day we tried to make it to Thanksgiving before the Sun hit us at noon. We ended up on a ledge just below Thanksgiving, and made a shade with our rainfly, drank the salty water from our canned salmon. That night I led up to Thanksgiving and we traversed over and met up with some Lurking Fear climbers. They happily traded us two liters of water for a couple 24 oz Shlitz malt liquor cans we were lugging around. How cruel it had felt to have something water-like, beer, and not be able to drink it. After drinking the water and sharing a can of fruit cocktail that we felt better enough to try sharing a beer, but instantly felt sick and ended up pouring it out. Adventure!

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23h:50mins
Greg Murphy, Peter Coward, Steve Schneider
Oct 1996 (first one day ascent)

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2. 29hours Aischan Rupp, Rolando Garibotti Sep 1994
3. 51h:30mins Hans Florine, Dan Dunkle Nov 2001

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Erik Sloan is an Alaskan native, who lived and worked in Yosemite from 2002-2012, and has been bigwall climbing there since 1994. Erik has climbed El Cap over 80 times. He is the co-author of Supertopo’s Yosemite BigWalls 2nd edition, and the author of a community website for Wawona climbing: wawona.yosemitebigwall.com. Erik is currently working on a new, more comprehensive book project that will replace the now out-of-print Yosemite Climbs: BigWalls by George Meyers and Don Reid.