Royal Arches Area! updated: 09/30/03

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Royal Arches route - Car to Car times(solo)

-0:52:26 ~ Cedar Wright May 2000

-0:57 ~ Dean Potter. Fall 98

-0:57:04 ~ Kevin Thaw. 99

-0:58:10 ~ Hans Florine. August 2001

-1:01:30 ~ Hans Florine. September 2000 (right of Original chimney start)

-1:01:35 ~ Damian Benegas. June 2000

-1:01:55 ~ Hans Florine. October 99 (right of original chimney start)

-1:02:05 ~ Hans Florine. August 2001

-1:03:15 ~ Hans. May 2000. (left)

-1:04 ~ Cedar Wright. 99

-1:06:30 ~ Hans Florine. September 99 (left of original chimney start)

-1:11 ~ Hans. May 2000.(left)

-1:12 ~ Brian Biega. Sept 2000.

-1:20 ~ Jason "singer" Smith. 99

-1:20 ~ Kevin Thaw. 99

-1:30 aprox ~ Miles Smart. 99

- 1:39 ~ Brian Biega. November 2001

- 2:06 ~ Scott Allen. September 1980

TEAM times: (time on route only)

-57:40 ~John Black and Bill Wright.. June 24, 2000:

-1:08:00 ~ John Black and Bill Wright. 92. then they hoofed it up to Crest Jewel on North Dome did that while getting rained on . made it car to car in under 8.5 hours.,

-1:15:00 on route ~ 2:19 CTC Steve Edwards and Hans Florine June 2000.

-1:22:00 on route ~ Jacqueline Adams and Hans Florine. May 2000.

Doulbe trouble:

-3:30:00 CTC doing the RA twice! Brian Biega.

Linkups:

*Snake Dike & Royal Arches combo, May 27, 2002 Brian Biega

• Total Time 6hrs 30min 4sec

• Section/Total Time or Split Time

• 39.58.23/39.58.23 Car-Top of Vernal (Car parked at road closure/day use parking)

• 1.08.57/1.48.56 Top of Vernal-Base of Climb

• 56.37.80/2.45.33 Base of Climb-Summit

• 14.04.87/2.59.38 Summit-Bottom of Stairs (This is where you can go skiiers left to the reg. route or right back to lost lake)

• 24.22.96/3.24.07 Bottom of Stairs-Lost Lake (I guess this section took much longer than I remember, oh well)

• 25.42.48/3.49.44 Lost Lake-Top of Vernal

• 22.23.16/4.12.07 Top of Vernal-Car *CTC 4.12.07 Snake Dike Only

• 15.50.92/4.27.58 Drive-Rest (15.50.92 time of only resting, drinking & driving, etc. (drink more water, drop pack, change socks, etc.))

• 50.48.59/5.18.46 Car-Top of Arches (Car/Awahnahee)

• 1.11.17/6.30.04 Top of Arches-Car *CTC,  Drive, CTC 6.30.04 both routes total time

name: Aron Stockhausen            route: Snake Dyke and Royal Arches           time: 13 hrs 20 mins

Comments: Free Solo linkup of 2 of the best and most soloed Yosemite Valley 5.7s. Really great day, posting this not really as a record, but more in the hopes that someone more hardcore will shatter my time. My time is car to car with a 1 hour break between climbs for lunch and driving. Did Royal Arches first. August 2003

 

 

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