Chris McNamara
SuperTopo staff member
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Great Magic Mushroom Trip Report Here
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Chris McNamara
SuperTopo staff member
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Here is a link to first ascent history of magic mushroom el capitan
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Chris McNamara
SuperTopo staff member
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here is a great thread Sunkist vs. Magic Mushroom vs. Mescalito?
and another great thread Horse Chute, Horse Play, or Magic Mushroom
my opinion: horse chute is a good route. magic mushroom is a classic. go classic.
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HoustonWallRat
Big Wall climber
TX
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I'm planning on starting up the shroom a week from today and wanted to see if I could get some input from other supertopo members. This may take a second to explain and since this is my first supertopo post I apologize ahead of time if this is an inappropriate place to post this kind of thing or if I ramble on a bit. About 6-7 years ago I spent 2 summers in Yosemite with the express purpose of climbing el cap and have done little wall climbing since. I did SF of the column, leaning tower, lurking fear, zodiac, Muir and the Nose. For each of these climbs I was with an inexperienced partner (some trad following but solid rope handling, cleaning) so I led all the pithces, set up belays/bivies, etc. Since then I have done some A2-3 aiding in north conway NH (Prow, Mordor Wall)as well as at Looking Glass in North Carolina (Glass Menagerie, Invisible Airwaves) and spent my spring break in Zion getting up Moonlight Buttress, Touchstone Wall, and Spaceshot. The first question is what would be the better route to rope solo on el cap. Mescalito, Shield, or Magic Mushroom. I keep reading about people spending 2+ weeks on mescalito and I only have about 12 days to work with. Shield looks incredible but I would not look forward to hauling on FreeBlast. So I'm trying to figure out which one of those routes would be the best choice for a soloist. I'd much prefer doing some spicy aid to getting strung out on some free climbing while soloing too. Also saw the previous post on this site saying Magic Mushroom is MUCH harder than the supertopo suggests. Comments? Thanks for your help!
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Chris McNamara
SuperTopo staff member
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Here are some free ratings for Magic Mushroom from Tommy Caldwell.
Pitch numbers are from the SuperTopo Big Walls Book - http://www.supertopo.com/bigwalls/yosemite/bigwalls.html
Tommy freed the first 4 pitches of the muir wall to start.
6 - 13b
9 - 12a
10 - 13a
12 - 12a
13 - 12c
14 - 5.10
on 15 you climb to the top of a pinnacle then up and right on two bolts (13b) into Fligh of Albatross. The next pitch is 5.11c. Then you cut left on a 5.11 runout and loose pitch to belay 18 of Magic Mushroom.
19 - 12c
20 - 13c
21 - 13d
22 - 14a
23 - 11a
24 - 13c
25 - 13a go straight up on Jolly Rodger? (instead of doing pendulums to Chickenhead Ledge)
26 - 5.11
27 - 14a
28 - 13a - traverse way left. kinda runout
29 - 5.8 awesome knobs
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Magic Mushroom was free climbed using variations by Tommy Caldwell and Justen Sjong in May 2008. Six bolts were added to protect variations on p6 and p27 (3 bolts on each). For aid climbing, please ignore the bolts or clip them as pro, and do the route as clean as possible. More details on the free ascent at: http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/caldwell_and_sjong_free_el_capitans_magic_mushroom/
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Philippe Batoux
Mountain climber
Annecy France
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We climbed Magic Mushroom mid may.
We were really surprised to find 2 bolts in the second A3 pitch, this decrease the interest of the route and the difficulty of the pitch.
Nevertheless the route is nice and long, the difficlties are homogene.
We didn't use any heads, rurps just a few birdbeaks. we climb clean most of the route using less than 12 pins.
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