it was slippery in '88 and '89 when I last went up. It's the dirt people drag up on the granite. Didn't stop us to take full Muir Trail Packs up and down that thing, and it worked just fince since we used this nifty idea to be safe:
this is a modern fancy version of what we used
in action - full harness, dual carabiners and full harness (which we mailed home from Tuolumne Meadows)
