Routes that I could in my 5.11 max skills on a really good day could only look at in awe.
Dude you were rad
In 1972, he and another climber, Gary Bocarde, established the Shield, which became perhaps the most famous route up El Capitan. That same year, he made the first recorded ascent of the overhanging southeast face of the El Capitan wall, doing it solo, and named the route the Zodiac. In 1973, he scaled the southeast face again by a different route with different challenges, calling it Tangerine Trip, and by the summer of 1974 had established two other paths, Mescalito and Grape Race.
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Charlie-Porter-climber-who-reshaped-El-Capitan-5322956.php
Dude you were rad
In 1972, he and another climber, Gary Bocarde, established the Shield, which became perhaps the most famous route up El Capitan. That same year, he made the first recorded ascent of the overhanging southeast face of the El Capitan wall, doing it solo, and named the route the Zodiac. In 1973, he scaled the southeast face again by a different route with different challenges, calling it Tangerine Trip, and by the summer of 1974 had established two other paths, Mescalito and Grape Race.
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Charlie-Porter-climber-who-reshaped-El-Capitan-5322956.php
