Upper Yosemite Fall and
Lost Arrow Spire, 2001.05.31

about "Lost Arrow Spire (Tip)" route

• Route Scale: about 80 m in height / 3 pitches
  (a pitch means the rope scale, 50 meter max.)
• Grade (difficulty): 5.12b or 5.8/5.10a A2
  
• First Ascent: Fritz Lippmann, Jack Arnold, Anton Nelson, September 1946
• First Free Ascent: 1984
• How to get there: Rappel into the notch from the rim near Yosemite Point.
  Two ropes need to be fixed for the return to the rim.
• How to get back to the rim: Tyrolean Traverse (30 m aerial trip)
  Tow the free end of the fixed rope while climbing.
  Fix and make the rope bridge between the top of the Spire and the rim.
  (see "Rock Climbing: Yosemite Free Climbs", Don Reid)

Click each photo, for a larger view.

2001.05.31b
A climber has just reached the top.	top of the Lost Arrow Spire	900m rise from the valley floor
rappelling down into the "Notch (gap)"	spectacular ropeway	Toshie is leading the last pitch.
Looking down at the Village.	Upper Yosemite Fall trail	on the top of Lost Arrow