Ethan Prinngle Onsights The Path for Second Trad Ascent
Posted by Summer on July 17, 2008
After showing the film about his headpointed trad route last night, Sonnie Trotter announced that three days ago Ethan Pringle onsighted The Path.
Sonnie put up The Path last year after chopping some old sport bolts. This was after Dave MacLeod provided inspiration with Rhapsody in Scotland. Sonnie couldn’t finish the second ascent on Rhapsody due to not-unheard-of rain problems - so he came home and sought a similar beast in his own backyard.
In The Path film, Sonnie waxes about the ever-changing limits of climbing on the cutting edge. One climber defines what’s possible with his blood, sweat, and flappers, but inevitably another climber will come along to adjust that definition. What Sonnie headpointed with considerable time and effort, Ethan onsighted in “a lot less time.”