I think Yosemite is a place that made me
totally fall in love with being outside
When I'm home and I'm reminiscing about
kind of most magical periods of my life
They almost all spent here in Yosemite
It's where I've learned to love the out doors
It's where I fall in love with my wife
It's where I came with my family
Even though I'm not from California
It's like where my heart is
You wanna climb out? Do you wanna do this?
Me?
Yes!
But you're gonna belay me?
Me?
No Tommy
Tommy can belay me
I'm gonna take Tommy to belay me
It's like ... you know
There's not enough tea in China, he said
Yeah so we're thinking about actually going down a pit
So we could ripple down and then we both go down
and we bring all of gear and stuff
And then we'd climb out just like you would
on a normal pitch I'll lead it
And then you would follow behind me and clean the gear
I'm down to do it - what's the jumar?
Where we practice the jumar? the ledge?
Let's actually practice it really quick right here to do
When you have to jumar, all you have to do
is unclip these from your harness
Put them on the rope and then you're like good to go
Jumar up a little bit, clip straight into a bolt
Take the jumar's off
So clip to pull off a quick-draw from my belt
Have you thought maybe your first attempt
going off the side of your house
Instead of a 3,000 feet!
There's a lot of question about the equipment
Yeah usually the way we do this is we'd find a place
to like mount the rope vertically and practice it
Yeah, yeah that seems reasonable
But it never works that way
My first jumar was here and go
You got this!
And then what do I wanna do?
And then put your hands here and
slowly bring your feet over the edge
There you go
OK. Everything's good
I'm gonna start rippling a little bit
Go for it
OK. Beautiful
It might be easier if you jumar this rope
And I'll jumar on the blue one
Boom! just like that. No problem
OK. I'm off the ledge
So you're gonna stop right there and
we're gonna throw down the end of the rope
And I'm gonna belay you over
this last little bit you're just gonna climb
Faith is ... Faith is a good figure eight not?
Coming off like that without knowing anything
Just being completely ignorant
Yeah you have to just trust us
That we like set it up for you
And I don't even f***ing you Tommy
You know you're a nice guy
But really at the end of the day ...
So I'll just grab the other end of this blue up here
And then just like mantle up over
I'm tied into a lot of gear right now
It was really the swing down ... I gotta say
Yeah. That was a good exposure
But I felt pretty good otherwise once I got into it
Once I moved and got into working it was great
And it felt fine, felt focused
Cool. Yeah you look great I mean ...
You just you know ... you look at the rock and the thing
Even looking down the exposure now
doesn't obviously feel the same
Although I'm not ready to swing out again