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hirigger
Big Wall climber
ventura
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 10, 2007 - 12:17am PT
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Yesterday Patagonia unceremoniously sh#t canned the rock climbing ambassadors...you know, the ones being touted as the soul of the sport in the new Yosemite spring catalog we all received last week. looks like they got their use out of them...
Ron kauk, Lynn Hill, Dean Potter, Steph Davis, Katie Brown and others-GONE.
Did you hear about Y.C.'s new book? it's called "Letting My People Go..."
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 10, 2007 - 12:22am PT
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Wow! Is this really true and not some sick troll?
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Loom
climber
The Whiteboard Jungle
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Mar 10, 2007 - 12:23am PT
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Could be both?
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Burns
Trad climber
Nowhere special
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Mar 10, 2007 - 12:26am PT
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I'm starting to think that Patagonia may have lost its way. The two patagonia retail stores I've seen are in the trendiest (and most expensive parts) of their respective cities: Georgetown in DC and LoDo in Denver. Nobody who is 'committed to the core' lives in or frequents any of these places. Of course, this doesn't mean that I'll be pitching my stinky old capilene...
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Mar 10, 2007 - 12:28am PT
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Always jobs at the Walmart.
JDF
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Mar 10, 2007 - 12:57am PT
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Probably a decision made months ago but not implemented until some of the heat dissipated.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 10, 2007 - 01:09am PT
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A quick check of the Patagonia site and I don't see any link to the ambassadors.
Did Yvon show their ass the door?
Like any situation like this, let's find out some facts and get different points of view.
Then lynch somebody....
or if we get worked up...everybody!
Best luck and freedom to everybody facing extra-sudden-dirtbag status. They're all bright enough to do fine.
Peace
Karl
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Mar 10, 2007 - 01:11am PT
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Still listed on the patagucci site. Click on "sports we do", then "rock climbing" then "abassadors". They're all still listed.
-Brian in SLC
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hirigger
Big Wall climber
ventura
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2007 - 01:23am PT
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It's for real...most of them have about a months notice, then they're outa here.
the surfers are staying on though...for now.
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Erik of Oakland
Gym climber
Oakland
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Mar 10, 2007 - 01:55am PT
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I'm ready to fill the void. My resume speaks for itself. [Patagonia people: you did get those photos of me sending the green-tape 5.11b at Mission Cliffs, right? I haven't yet received money from you guys, so I assume you haven't gotten to it yet. No prob.]
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 10, 2007 - 02:06am PT
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"and really down to earth people"
have you met any of these folks? particularly at a slc trade show? kauk, yeah. along with bachar, those guys should get fukkin' macarthur grants. but as for some of the others...SWOLE heads, and way too big fer their britches.
i'm jus' sayin', is all.
personally? i think the arches BS has finally come home to roost. as it should have months ago.
unless this is a realy good troll....
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Mar 10, 2007 - 02:08am PT
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Patagonia unceremoniously
um, is there supposed to be a ceremony? what, 21 gun salute or somethingz??
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Mar 10, 2007 - 03:08am PT
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I hope this is not true since it would be a sad gesture.
This specific program has merits for it promotes climbers to be environmentalist. Hopefully this continues in one form or another because climbers have been the reason many natural regions have been saved. Now that climbing is becoming more popular with the developments of gyms around the country, it could be used as a tool to improve environmental awareness.
I am crossing my fingers over this...
Anastasia
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jstan
climber
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Mar 10, 2007 - 05:10am PT
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delete repeat
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jstan
climber
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Mar 10, 2007 - 05:12am PT
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Delete repeat
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jstan
climber
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Mar 10, 2007 - 05:14am PT
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I thought the first Chouinard/Frost catalog with
its artwork was the most exceptional of all.
Why so? What that motif said was that
climbing celebrates a relationship between
the individual and something else. That
something else defined by each person.
Some relate to grand natural structures such
as those on which we climb. Others relate
more to the friends who help protect us from
danger. But still, climbing is a sometimes
incompletely defined relationship. When
we get away from that, I believe, climbing
does not raise us up as it must.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Mar 10, 2007 - 09:25am PT
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interesting move (if true)...by a rappeller
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 10, 2007 - 09:30am PT
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Well, JStan - that does bear repeating, but....(hahah).
I don't believe it, frankly. The post has all the hallmarks of a Big Fish Troll*(BFT). OP has no prior record. Posted at the start of a weekend; allowing two full days to simmer while anyone who might be able to answer the question is out of the office..... Site specific topic with nearly unlimited gossip/innuendo/ speculation potential.
A well done troll, for sure(thus, the BFT designation).
Lacking in account only one small detail, and that is - that there are those on the ST board who know some of those climbers, and can contact them for the skinny.
I suggest they don't do it! Let the suspense build and see what a mountain this post can make from the molehill of a two-lined post. Then, on Monday morning, someone can call the Patagonia office and pester up the phoneline chain until they get a definitve answer. That won't be me.
Anyway - since the Arches thing's been mentioned, here's my input....
* Big Fish Troll does not imply the source comes from the username of the same(unless, of course....then it's very clever)
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