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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 12, 2005 - 02:08am PT
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Here's a little (or not so little) .gif file that cycles through the pictures on the mantel... over and over...
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Sep 12, 2005 - 02:10am PT
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whoa, that's cool!
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Roger Breedlove
Trad climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Sep 12, 2005 - 08:37am PT
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Hey, Ed, what happened to the old rule of only moving one point of contact at a time?
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Sep 12, 2005 - 08:42am PT
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He just keeps climbing and falling. The climbing equivalent of the Energizer bunny.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2005 - 10:44am PT
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Glad this seems like some fun...
Roger, apparently all those rules we grew up with were repealed at some point...
... only move one point of contact,
... don't use your knees,
... the leader must not fall,
... take the 10 essentials...
I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
The only new rules I know
due to John Long: three pieces for an equalized anchor... and I like that one...
SuperTopo: if you see puffy white clouds in Tuolumne Meadows don't go up to exposed places...
I like that one too because you can often get on popular climbs in the morning before the thunderstorms... everyone with the ST guide is elsewhere...
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Sep 12, 2005 - 11:23am PT
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Ed, you got a whole francise here. Nutcracker action figures, Nutcracker keychains...
Roger, raise your hand when you see something familiar.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2005 - 12:14pm PT
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too much time on the airplane lately, not enough time climbing....
...I think I don't have anything else to add to the Nutcracker...
...next time up though I might just take a rack of nuts (for fun). My guess is that Robbins onsight solo'd the route but put some nuts in for show.
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 12, 2005 - 01:07pm PT
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Yo,
Now just just look at the guys in the bottom picture, they’ve got the right stuff! You can’t see all their right stuff anymore because we’re blind now by all this new fangled bullsh-it gear. If you ever meet Roger Yo you’re going to be shocked beyond anything you’d have ever dreamed.
He had the “right stuff” ……
And Ed, nice job on the moving sequence trick.....a useful idea.
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Sep 12, 2005 - 01:57pm PT
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Don't worry, Werner, Roger and I know each other pretty well even if we have yet to meet in the flesh. He knows the respect I have for him and he's constantly trying to deflect it. As soon as he quits being jetlagged he'll think up a good comeback. Roger not only had the real stuff but has it and he's itching for a big time comeback. You heard it here first.
PS: If those Aussies Dave and Geoff are lurking around the cache tell them Ryan said to get their asses up on the stone.
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Doug Hemken
climber
Madison, WI
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Sep 12, 2005 - 03:21pm PT
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Woof! Look at those boys crank out the laps! At the rate they're moving, they could beat Hans no contest.
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 12, 2005 - 03:28pm PT
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Yo
Aussies Dave and Geoff left for the Nose this morning at 6:00 am.
I gave them the keys to our battery think car and when I went to El Cap meadows this morning to bring back the kart they were up near the 1st pendulum point off of sickle ledge.
Best, Werner
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maculated
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Sep 12, 2005 - 03:37pm PT
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Oh man, THAT's all it is? I had this vision of exposure and scary. Pshaw. Next up, maculated climbs Nutcracker.
Sheesh.
And, because of her hubris, breaks her ankles.
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Mike Dahlquist
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Sep 12, 2005 - 03:46pm PT
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Ed-
Where are my royalties for the movie? I wasn't paid!
-Mike
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2005 - 04:01pm PT
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Hi Mike,
you hooked up with the wrong production company if you wanted to get rich... I sort of believe in the "open source" concept where the stuff is free as long as you don't make any money off of it directly...
...but think, you are the lapping the fearsome Nutcracker Mantel over and over and over... what a reputation!
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Roger Breedlove
Trad climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Sep 12, 2005 - 04:21pm PT
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Ed only showed the movie. This is the story. Apologies to Mike.
“Sisyphus is the son of the father of Robbins (the king of Modestos) and the mother of Robbins (confusing, isn't it?), and founder of RockCraft. He instituted, among others, The Really Bad Pun Games, and the Big Wall Games, played out every season since time immemorial.
“According to tradition he was sly and used to way-lay travelers and lecture them on proper nuts only protection. He betrayed the secrets of Pratt and TM and chained the god of death, WatchmeI’mFallinnnnnnnnnnnng, so the deceased could not reach the underworld. Werner himself intervened and Sisyphus was severely punished.
“In the realm of the Valley dead, he is forced to mantle a block of stone set against a steep slope close to a pile of horse dung, and tumbles back down when he reaches the top. Then the whole process starts again, lasting all eternity. His punishment has been depicted on many Greek vases, upon which the static scenes are seen to be moving as you twirl the vase.”
Interesting history, don't you think?
We ought to re-name the route "The Ground Hog's Day Concerto."
Hey, Ryan, where did you get that picture of me and Werner hanging with our groupies, just before our ascent of the Lower Glacier Spire? We wore way cool clothes, as you can see—the white pants and jacket were the precursors to the more informal painter pants of the 1960s. Werner used every one of those axes in his unique dry point, crack climbing style--I still have the scars. Anyone recongnize the guy on the balcony? Famous dude.
I have no idea what those other pictures depict. Are they climbing related? When did they color Goldline, blue, anyway?
(Pssssst, Werner is older than me. A real old dad if there ever was one.)
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Gene
climber
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Sep 12, 2005 - 04:46pm PT
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Hey Roger,
Is that John Muir on the far right of the photo? Did you climb with him too?
Go Twins!!!
Gene
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Texplorer
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Sep 12, 2005 - 05:55pm PT
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Year 2025
Climber 1: Hey, can you run that holograph of how to pull the mantle again from your Supertopo Implant. I can't seem to remember how this went.
Climber 2: Damn these kids, I remember back when we had to read topos off a crumpled piece of paper in your pocket.
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Roger Breedlove
Trad climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Sep 12, 2005 - 06:16pm PT
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Go, Twins? Phhhhhpht. Thumped by the ascendant Indians.
Muir was light, I tell you. 3rd class, only.
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Sep 12, 2005 - 06:27pm PT
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Yeah, Muir on the right, for sure. It goes (L to R): Wyatt Earp, Charles Manson, Robbins, unidentified, Werner, Ron Jeremy, Ulysses S. Grant, Fish, Muir. Actually, it's Whymper's posse. I love that photo. Werner's right, those cats are hardcore.
Werner, thanks for the update. I hope they send. I did the Trip with Geoff and know they're totally capable of the Nose.
Roger! Yeah, they have blue dye now. Lower Glacier Spire, haahaha! I think I first read about that in some geezer's obituary. When you say Robbins, King of Modesto, are you sure you don't mean Royal Rockwalker? With his sidekick, the five-foot shaggy Chewinard?
Ryan
Ummm, are you talking about baseball in a climbing forum?
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Chatsworth
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Sep 13, 2005 - 01:29am PT
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