do you want to know how to do
lesser-known lines in yosemite we'll
even show you how to do your mom in this
episode of how not to highline
[Music]
what do you think of your mom
well trina's been bouncing her all day
sterling's watching his mom
get on your mom
man when i come off your mom i get
emotional
your mom's a hard [ __ ] to tame
go out there you walk all over your mom
you bounce her real hard
oh
a lot of bush to get through to get to
your mom
she's a tricky [ __ ] to tame she can't
be settled down you know careful your
mom's gonna slap you in the butt i'm
about to go in your mom
what do you know safety first
dude your mom got me trembling she's
scary
dude thanks for taking pictures of me
and your mom so in case you haven't
figured it out yet your mom is one of
our newer highlines that we recently
established in yosemite and we're going
to show you how to rig your mom and five
other
lesser known high lines in yosemite and
by watching this 15 minute video it
could save you 15 or more of wasted time
on your next yosemite trip
that's a
insurance commercial joke if you're not
from around here now we already did a
video covering the classics lost
aerospire rostrum and taft point and the
rules and how to get around and how to
camp in our first yosemite beta video so
if you haven't seen that yet stop and go
watch that one first but i want to show
you six other highlights that you can do
to help alleviate some of the traffic
from our most popular areas so we don't
have more access issues from rigging the
same ones all the time so you can see
the beta for every line we're sharing in
this video and the other video on
slackademix.com under beta in my section
and these are very detailed beta reports
on where and how and how not to rig all
these lines
now your mom is a great alternative to
taft point it's out of the way from the
large crowds that are at half point it's
got a great view of upper yosemite falls
and pretty good view of el capitan it is
84 meters long which is about 33 meters
longer than the long classic line at
half point which is 170 feet or 51
meters so if you want something a little
bit longer out of the way it's only a
kilometer past tap point and tap point
is only two miles from the road and it's
a relatively easy flat ish hike
considering most hikes in yosemite are
pretty burly now technically you're not
far enough away from the road to legally
camp
just throwing that out there it just
happens to be a nice flat spot and no we
did not put that fire pit there now the
limitations of your mom is that you can
only do this line around six months out
of the year because the road is seasonal
it's on glacier point road and they
don't plow it throughout the winter and
they don't even open it till like late
may or june sometimes
so if you're out of season you're out of
luck when you see el capitan through the
trees
for the last time before the trail
veers off and you don't see it again
is where
you veer off the trail
and head over
to the anchor
hi katrina
now this is important once you get to
taft point you continue up the pohono
trail and if you go too far you'll end
up in the middle of the woods and you
won't see any of the cliff at all and if
you turn to go towards the cliff too
soon you'll just get to these other
crappy goalies that aren't really worth
highlining
so you come up on this goalie
a little bit of bushwhacking
and here is a beautiful spot
that
is flat
there's no
uh
visitors from the park that congregate
here it's kind of get to be by yourself
the highline
anchors are just right here
these are three fixie triplex bolts with
the m12 hangers from bolt products so
you can thread your rope directly into
there
yes that boulder is bomber
and it just goes to the tree right there
and it is about
five meters off level and 84 meters long
now drones are illegal there so we just
use tag lines thrown from both sides
and then i went down and tied them
together to be pulled up and that's how
we got the line across
okay so i walked down the goalie and it
ah it worked the goalie is pretty steep
feels a little sketchy
but um
i made it so
um i connected the two tag lines after
they threw it it's better to throw
more into the goalie than further out
because it dropped so quickly but you
can see here
that it's pretty steep now going up this
is a lot easier than
than than coming down it but if you
throw somewhere in here it's okay
but if you throw where the anchor is the
anchor is right here
especially if it's on the other side of
this tree you can see how it drops
but yeah you just connect uh two
separate tag lines after having them
thrown down and tie them together i'm
gonna head back up now okay i'm almost
back at the top
this is uh
i'm pretty steep
feels like a 412 b that was a climbing
joke in case you don't climb
so that was steep enough that i'm going
to when i go back take two climbing
ropes with me probably my eight
millimeter ropes nothing big it's not a
full repel i probably wouldn't even use
a harness or repel device it would just
be really nice to hang onto a rope when
you're going down some of that
loose stuff so you don't pull a rock
onto your foot while you're trying to
hang on so here is the 84 meter line
i am in the middle of it
one place you can throw the tagline off
is these rocks here
and then you would throw it
down
uh up into the goalie
um and then on this side
i believe
you can throw it
up here
or off of this rock
that tree is really nice tree
and
um our 10 meter rope wraps around it
twice easily so we have two ropes on
there for redundancy
and it's padded
we left a water bottle over there for if
we get thirsty
um the view
it's really scary holding my phone out
here but the view is pretty cool
um the capitan is slightly hidden behind
that but it depends on what angle you're
getting direct exposure is
is 100 meters
and obviously it just goes down really
steep after that so perceived is pretty
pretty exposed taft point for reference
is just right there yeah you just hike
about a kilometer past that
and come over into this goalie now for
our next line tunnel vision
it is in the literally in the first
tunnel
as you drive into the park via highway
120. it's a long tunnel and in the
middle of the long tunnels they have
these airways or escape routes i don't
know what they're for but if you're
driving through slowly and you look to
your right you'll see this lit up short
tunnel inside okay we just came out of
the tunnel
and you start hiking right here
and you park right here
to get
to the far side once you're at the top
you can access the other side and get
your tagline across via a fishing pole
is usually how we do it all of the bolts
and all of the beta is on
slackademics.com
this is a 120 foot or 35 ish meter line
it is open year around
it is great when it's hot out because
you can hang out in that little man
tunnel it's nice and cool in there all
the time now the winter it's kind of wet
and so are all the other rocks around it
but early spring when everything else is
closed it can be a nice option
now the next line is also open
year-round and it is at sierra point and
it's named the watcher
it is right at the beginning of the half
dome trail the verna falls nevada falls
and half dome trail are all the same
you just start at the beginning of the
trail head left up the cliff
and you can get to the top of the
watcher let's name the watcher because
you can watch the people at the bottom
that means you got to be pretty careful
not to drop rocks and other things
because there's people below you now
this one's challenging because it's
rigged all natural it doesn't need bolts
therefore there are no bolts but mitch
jacobs wrote a detailed beta report on
how they rigged this line all natural
now the watcher does have great views of
vernal falls and nevada falls
but to get to the other side it is a
little sketchy you will need ropes for
all of that and this does require quite
a few cams
there are trees on the other side that
you wrap they're not very big so you
have to wrap several things and then
this one's pretty unique because you
hold up the line with another tree at
the master point you can see all of this
on his beta report in detail and now for
the two lines that are in tuolumne
meadows there's icorn pinnacle which is
on cathedral peak and then there's
mathis crest now both these lines start
at the cathedral lakes trailhead
and i don't like to take the traditional
cathedral lake trail but to shoot off
left and do the climbing trail which
follows the river
and then i go up the descent for the
climbers on cathedral peak hop over the
lip and you're practically there at the
one side of the icorn pinnacle anchor
now to rig icon pinnacle you do have to
climb icorn pinnacle which is only a 5'4
it's pretty easy but it's really really
exposed and on the tension side the side
everybody's hanging out at you have a
few options
so we rigged it off of this one boulder
and another team rig it off of this
bigger boulder closer to the edge
now when you are on top of icorn
pinnacle do not use cams the little
boulder that sits in this bowl shape up
there
does not like cams we had our cams come
out when it shifted all you have to do
is scorpion a wrap wrap girth hitch
run ropes around rocks that's all you
have to do up there and uh don't tension
off of the bolts that are on top of
icorn pinnacle those are for climbers
they get a little sensitive about us
using their bolts so just wrap your
stuff and if you need to back up your
tails to those bolts in case you had a
major problem this is a beautiful line
but you do have to remember that you're
on top of a mountain there is often
thundershowers in the afternoon
sleeping on top of cathedral peak is not
necessarily legal nor is it logistically
easy considering there's no water and
very very few flat spots one option i
recommend is that you start very early
from the car go rig the line go enjoy
the line but take it down the same day
and then hike down to upper cathedral
lake not the lake in the photos but the
one just off to the left from there then
i recommend that you enjoy that lake the
next day mosey your way on over to the
base of mathis crest there is a flash
section if you go between the snow
melting and the end of the season there
is water up there
now if you miss that narrow season to
get water up there you can always go
down to the lake but
it's quite the hike that's what's so
nice about having a rest day is you can
take care of stuff like that now if
you're gonna go to mathis crest straight
from the car don't go down to the lake
you have like 400 feet of elevation loss
that's unnecessary all you have to do is
go around the cock's comb peak
and then you end up at that camping spot
i just showed you a lot quicker now i
cannot stress enough that logistics for
this line are very important
i like to arrive to tuolumne meadows
hike in there camp and then the next
morning wake up at like 2 3 a.m
get up there
by daylight and start the 5 7 climb on
the one side and the super easy climb on
the other
and then try to be done
by the time it starts raining i have
never
ever been up there
without an afternoon thunder shower not
that it's never nice weather but it's
common you don't really want to start
your day at
nine in the morning anyways you go up
the rock talus and you come up to what
the climbers are repelling and you gotta
go up it it's uh five six at the hardest
part i don't freesolo that kind of stuff
i don't climb often enough to do that
but this is all i take for a 200 foot
climb
now that only takes you to the notch so
then you have to climb a 5 7 on one side
which i like to be belayed on
some people have free soloed it before
but either way you got to take a rope up
there in order to use as your tagline
and the other side is like a 5'4d
that's another climbing joke for you by
the way it's not that hard there's
really no point in having the leader be
blade
but
if you are going to go up there and
there is a rope that you can fix to the
top it's sure nice to have something to
be connected to while you go up it
once you're up there that rope you went
up there with is your tagline and then
you just pull over your webbing once the
anchors are built because it takes two
ropes to repel back down to the rock
talus we use one rope fixed to the notch
so we have access down there and then
the other rope is our backup line so we
don't have to take much webbing with us
to build the anchors is pretty
straightforward you wrap things with
ropes and you pad them what you wrap and
how you wrap them is entirely up to you
on one side there is a horn that is
bomber and i chose to
lasso the big fin behind it as my backup
on the side that we all hang out at
there are lots of options of things to
wrap what i like to do is wrap four
individual things
individually and then equalize or bfk
that now you don't want any one of those
to fail because then everything shifts
or you're attached to a rock that's
falling down the mountain
but it is a redundant way of rigging all
natural now the classic line is 120 feet
or around 35 ish meters but if you want
to rig a 180 foot line or a 55-ish meter
you can just go across the fin on the
other side and rig it to the corner off
to the left so now do you want to know
how to rig the half dome line well
you're in luck because i made an entire
video about it about a year ago the link
to where you can get a permit to climb
half dome is in the description and in
the beta section on slackademix.com
and please please be careful to go up
those cables more people die going up
those cables than climbers do going up
the face
now i just pulled that fact out of my
ass
but i have heard of a lot more people
dying on those cables than i've ever
heard of people dying on the front the
steep side of half dome so please please
be careful and don't go up there in a
lightning storm anyways the quick
version on how to rig that line is you
wrap rocks in multiple places equalize
it on both sides
and that's it so check out the video if
you want to know what to wrap and how
much rope to take you can get it all
from there there you have it you have
six lines now that you can do to help
alleviate some of the traffic from our
more popular areas and some of which you
can do when the season is closed for all
the others if you want to share about
the lines in your area please message me
about making a beta video it makes it
easier for everyone who's traveling to
your area and remember that we always
make this look easier than it really is
to do any of these lines so when you get
there you're gonna have an epic
therefore you shouldn't highline
you