Grand Teton climb
February 8th, 2010 | 
Author: This video takes about three minutes to watch. The climb depicted, up the Upper Exum Ridge of the Grand Teton, and down the Owen Spalding route, took about 340 times that. We moseyed up that mountain, socializing, dawdling, detouring, and snacking the entire way. Basically, I’m convinced that climbing the Grand Teton is the second most enjoyable thing you can do while breathing hard. BTW, the climber in the video who says “Shwing!” is Ken Jern, who, several years ago, slipped on ice (right where he’s standing in the vid) and tumbled about 50 feet down the pitch below him, breaking several ribs. “It made for an interesting, painful day,” he recalled with a smile. The song, “Simple Life,” is from Jason Spooner.
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this is great watching this video. i rememberd every pitch of this climb. i climb the os route this past summer when i was 13 and it took us 6 hours from the hut. did you do a day climb?
Depends on what you’re looking for and your comfort/experience level. This mountain has several dozen routes to the summit. the “easiest” and least technical of which is rated 5.2 and can safely be done with a single rope and 3-5 pieces of protection, but it has considerable exposure . A new route just went up on the north face rated 5.12 b which requires 2 full days of climbing. Everything in between can be found on the mountain to suite anyones taste.
someday I’ll need a couple of guys like you two, when I am dead and cremated. want my ashes dropped on top of Grand Teton…
…y’all got kids learning to climb???
I recently came back from there in a school trip
Love the Tetons. beautiful place. i have it as my bg on my channel
someone help me! What gear is needed for this climb? also what is the difficulty throughout? any details would help please! Thanks!
what info can you give me on the gear needed and the difficultly of the route. im interested in doing this in the summer but need all the info i can get! Help anyone?
This was a killer time to climb.
Two things. Weather and the Black Face. If you can handle both of them your fine. The black face is pretty fuckin intense though!
Great video. Were you going for the speed record?
it depends on what your definition of “easy” is.
Great video…I just can’t thank you enough:)
that looks like a relativly easy mountain to climb? am I right?
Look Mom! No Ropes!
Enjoyed the video.
Nice shots. You guys got a late start. What time did you leave the trailhead? Total time round trip. Kudos for the free ascent
wow
Awesome! Suzy