El Capitan free climb attempt

[onebyone]

@ TallGrass I had quite a time trying to explain to few people how you can Free Climb something with Ropes. Still don't think they understand. lol

[polar]

EDIT: Look into Microsoft ICE, I am pretty sure it can handle this. Look at this page: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en- ... ?forum=ice" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Under New Structured Panorama:"Use this option if you shot a regular rectangular grid of photos using a robotic panoramic capture device (like the GigaPan devices) or a specially-designed panoramic tripod head. Structured panoramas require that your images can be assigned to the rows or columns of a rectangular grid simply by listing the files in order by name or by date. ICE can take advantage of this regular structure to process very large sets of images (hundreds or thousands of photos), since it doesn't have to look for feature matches between all pairs of images."

It turned out the first time I saved it, it didn't save all the images. Took me a few tries to get them all, it was a 57 x 58 grid, so 3306 images in total. I tried MS ICE, unfortunately, even the "New Structure Panorama" need the photos to overlap a little bit. Since these photos don't, MS ICE was only able to stitch all the photos around the border, and leave the middle blank... fortunately, reading some messages on the MS ICE support forum pointed me to a command line based image processor. Long story short, after working around the character limit on the Windows Command prompt, I was finally able to stitch all of the images together.

I've marked the route using my best guess based on the topo from Yosemitebigwall.com. I tried to upload it here, but of course the file is too big. It is quite impressive to see the line they climbed.

[ezabielski]

EDIT: Look into Microsoft ICE, I am pretty sure it can handle this. Look at this page: https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en- ... ?forum=ice" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Under New Structured Panorama:"Use this option if you shot a regular rectangular grid of photos using a robotic panoramic capture device (like the GigaPan devices) or a specially-designed panoramic tripod head. Structured panoramas require that your images can be assigned to the rows or columns of a rectangular grid simply by listing the files in order by name or by date. ICE can take advantage of this regular structure to process very large sets of images (hundreds or thousands of photos), since it doesn't have to look for feature matches between all pairs of images."

It turned out the first time I saved it, it didn't save all the images. Took me a few tries to get them all, it was a 57 x 58 grid, so 3306 images in total. I tried MS ICE, unfortunately, even the "New Structure Panorama" need the photos to overlap a little bit. Since these photos don't, MS ICE was only able to stitch all the photos around the border, and leave the middle blank... fortunately, reading some messages on the MS ICE support forum pointed me to a command line based image processor. Long story short, after working around the character limit on the Windows Command prompt, I was finally able to stitch all of the images together.

I've marked the route using my best guess based on the topo from Yosemitebigwall.com. I tried to upload it here, but of course the file is too big. It is quite impressive to see the line they climbed.

You could post a Dropbox link. If they are 256x256 that should be about 216MP?

[polar]

I uploaded it on MountainProject. It got downsized, but you can still see the route I marked somewhat.

http://www.mountainproject.com/images/7 ... 1421558787" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[USAKeller]

Black Diamond also did a little story on their climb with a little history behind it too: The Dawn Wall Goes Free