Alex Honnold

I mean, but you're just constantly thinking about those things as a climber.

It depends.

So for the hardest parts, I memorized, like for sure, memorized every aspect of it.

But that's only the hardest part.

So that's maybe like a third of the route.

And then for the easiest third, and some of it is actually quite easy.

Some of it's like even a non-climber could climb small sections of the wall.

Like there are parts that are quite easy here and there.

You know, it's like not the bulk.

But so for the easy parts, you just know that you can do it and you don't have to stress it.

And then the medium part is kind of like the remaining third of the wall.

you sort of remember kind of like you said, motifs, like you might know the hardest part and you just kind of know that it's going to be fine, but you don't have to memorize it per se.

But certainly I knew the route very, very well.

You know, you just, you just know all the things that you have to know.

Yeah, but not as much as you might think because like I was only climbing it in shade.

Like in the springtime, that whole...

West side of the wall stays in the shade until 11 or noon-ish in the morning.

So you go at four in the morning and then you have sort of eight hours of solid shade.

So normally the temperature and the conditions feel relatively stable and you spend the whole season working on it.

So you kind of know that tomorrow is going to feel the same as it did today, roughly, you know, and so it's all within a relatively narrow band, particularly in the spring, which is why I did it in the springtime.