Post Dawn Wall Predictions

Because you haven’t heard enough about the Dawn Wall in the past three weeks...

Here are some of my post free-climb FA predictions:

• Adam Ondra will book a flight to California ASAP to try to onsight the Dawn Wall.
• Young children named Tommy will all have climbing gym birthday parties.
• The average person will still get free-climbing and free-soloing mixed up. They will remain ignorant that bouldering exists.
• General gym attendance will increase for a month. Only a few will go more than once.
• The Dawn Wall will see increased traffic.
• Tommy Caldwell will begin searching out his next seven year project after his month in Patagonia with his wife,  Fitz, and Alex Honnold.
• The average climber will be inspired, but otherwise unaffected besides perhaps being asked by non-climbers if they too plan to try the Dawn Wall on their next long weekend.
• Kevin Jorgeson will incorporate skin strengthening exercises into training for subsequent projects.
• The general media will still not understand climbing lingo the next time something like this is broadcast.
• Fitz will be crushing routes long before kindergarden (this would have happened whether or not Tommy sent the Dawn Wall). His first ascent of El Cap will be climbing (not hiking) from the ground up.