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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 2, 2009 - 05:00pm PT
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Own a piece of history and help fund the Yosemite Climbing Association!
Recently Peter Haan unearthed a fantastic illustration by Steve Gropp of a climber enjoying the benefits that the Hollow Flake on the Salathé has to offer. (The original link is posted below.) During the life of the thread it was decided the artwork would make a fantastic T-shirt illustration. Since I am a glutton for punishment, I took the lead and we are now ready to announce the 2009 Yosemite Climbing Association Benefit T-Shirt!
The short-attention span version.
Want to help the YCA? Send $25 to the address below before the end of March and get a cool shirt in April. Net proceeds benefit the Yosemite climbing Association.
For those more detailed oriented.
As I am anal retentive, I am laying out all the particulars in excruciating detail below. If any questions remain, please let me know and I will address them in a jiff.
1. The shirts will have Steve Gropp’s authorized artwork reprinted in three colors (approx. 12” high) on the back of the shirt. The YCA logo appears on the front left breast area approximately 3” high printed in one color.
2. Steve has fully authorized the use of his work for this project at no financial gain to him. So… Yeah to Steve!
3. Ken Yeager and the YCA are excited to be the beneficiary of this project so your funds are going to a cause we ALL care about.
4. The MEN’S shirt is 100% ORGANIC combed cotton jersey and is available in SM/M/LG/XL. There are three color choices (white/black/light blue) as shown below.
5. The WOMEN’S shirt is 100% ORGANIC combed cotton interlock (oooo… soft!) and is available in SM/M/LG/XL. There are three color choices (light blue/black/baby pink) as shown below.
6. Please note! The shirts are a “fitted cut” so if you like your shirts loose, order the next size up. If you have a killer bod and assets worthy of display then stick with your usual size. If you spend your days munchin’ on snacks and Macs then get on a different board!
7. The shirts are 100% ORGANIC COTTON and 100% PRINTED IN THE USA. Is organic cotton more expensive? Yes, a little, but do you care about violent and abusive child labor as practiced in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan where the vast majority of apparel cotton is produced? Okay, then that’s why I always use organic cotton. Oh, and it feels better, washes better, keeps pesticides out of the world’s drinking water and looks damn sexy!
8. Timeline… This is a fast-track project so you won’t be left wondering when you will get your shirt. I will take orders from today until March 31. All orders that are PAID FOR will be placed on April 2. The shirts will be delivered to you via Priority Mail before the end of April.
9. Costs… The cost of each shirt INCLUDES shipping. Repeat… the price of the shirt INCLUDES Priority Mail shipping and tracking. So, don’t start comparing the cost to a 50/50 polyester blend made in China POS shirt from Sears without shipping included. The 2009 Yosemite Climbing Association Benefit T-Shirt is $25 including shipping. Now, if you can group your orders and have them delivered to ONE ADDRESS then there is a cost savings as shown below:
One or two shirts
$25.00 including shipping
Three, four or five shirts
$24.00 including shipping
Six or more shirts
$23.00 including shipping
10. For each shirt the YCA will receive AT LEAST $5.00 This donation is based on a total order of 50-100 shirts. If the climbing community comes through with a huge order then the YCA will get even more, so… man up girls and boys! Order them for your wife, son, dog, lover, grandparents, Kwanza, Passover, to celebrate August 31, 2010, whatever!
11. Payment terms… I have decided to take a chance and only accept checks and money orders. Since PayPal/etc. will take almost 6% of the revenue it just doesn’t make sense to give them money when it should be going to the YCA. Every PAID order received will be immediately acknowledged with a personal e-mail. Any bounced checks will be immediately acknowledged with an e-mail also. If there is no resolution to this then I will post a nasty note on SuperTopo and the offender will have his bare knee forcibly jammed in Generator Crack while those pesky, smelly Yosemite ants will be poured over his body. Yeah, but can we trust some guy who hates plastic? I am a married father of five who has lived in the same house for a decade and I’m not going anywhere. You have my address so you can always come and drag ME to Generator! (Actually, no dragging will be needed.)
12. Okay, now you know more than enough to convince yourself that your closet needs dozens of these beauties. So, to order send a check for the proper amount to:
The Vershke Group
17821 Tamara
Lake Oswego
Oregon
97035
e-mail: simon (at) vershke (dot) com
Make sure to tell me:
How many MEN’S shirts you want
How many WOMEN’S shirts you want
Specify the COLOR choices for each shirt
Specify the SIZE choices for each shirt
MAILING ADDRESS in the United States
e-MAIL ADDRESS for confirmation
13. International orders… Do you live outside the United States? Don’t worry, we can figure something out! Contact me at the above e-mail and we’ll find the most economical solution.
Any more questions? Post 'em or write me. Now get those checkbooks out!
Fine print... I am going to be self-bumping this thread through March so we can maximize the funds for the YCA. Want to complain? Send an e-mail and request form: #(form number omitted for security purposes.)
Shirt styles and colors
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Steve Gropp's Hollow Flake artwork for BACK of shirt. Sized to approximately 12-inches high.
Yosemite Climbing Association logo for FRONT of shirt. Sized to approximately 3-inches high.
NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! THIS IS THE NEW LOGO WITH DESIGN CHANGES INCLUDED. THIS PICTURE WAS EDITED ON APRIL 24 TO INCLUDE THIS NEW LOGO!
Link to original thread.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=792679&msg=794120#msg794120
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scuffy b
climber
just below the San Andreas
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You move fast, Simon. Well, by some standards, anyway.
Anticipation. Whoo-Hoo.
They look great.
sm
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2009 - 05:09pm PT
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MH... Damn it all to hell!
I wrote this thing over the weekend spent hours proofing it and missed the date! Of course it is2009.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Ima bump dis one
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Hey Plastic,
What color is the printing on artwork. (or did I miss that?)
Zander
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Can I have the one on the left, filled please?
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2009 - 11:55pm PT
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Zander (and others who are wonderin'), no, you did not miss it I had just decided that I had written my limit of words for a non-political/religious thread on the ol' ST.
The YCA logo on the front will be printed in black (white on the black shirts) since that is the "color" that the YCA uses.
Steve's artwork will be screened as a three-color process: black, gray and white. This will assure the climber's eyes remain brilliant white and the duo-tone combination of gray & black will bring out the detail in the artwork rather than just using monochromatic black.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2009 - 11:34am PT
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I received an e-mail asking for a point of clarification...
This shirt is NOT the Facelift shirt. We are doing this shirt to benefit the YCA now... today... right away.
This means you can get this cool shirt now and later get a cool Facelift shirt when they are designed and become available. Just think... TWO DIFFERENT YCA shirts in one year! Your closet will be so happy!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Long story short for those that haven't read the link in Plastic's initial post: Steve Gropp got stuck pretty completely leading the Hollow Flake Pitch on the Salathe back in the later 1970's and his parter the extremely cool Steve Swenson had to follow through, climb over him, and then using mechanical advantage hauling techniques, was able after a couple of hours to extract him. Gropp went on to climb two other El Cap routes that year but was really blown out (as anyone would have been) by this "accident".
Getting stuck in offwidth and squeeze cracks is actually often a real possiblity. Werner and I even rescued a young climber in Secret Storm. If your feet aren't really that strong, your shoes not that rigid or you make that fatal little slip just at the wrong moment, it can happen to anyone.
Let's support Simon's venture here for YCA!! And by the way, he is an old friend of Barry Bates.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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I'm so psyched for this shirt!!!!
today BAT shirts should arrive too.
wooot!
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Jack Burns
climber
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i'm getting one. steve's artwork is awesome but the YCA logo is hilarious. i mean, wtf is going on there? leader's all "oh hay u guys looks at me i'm on top!" with the second at a stance of some sort getting ready to yank the leader off the summit.
i'm broke right now but next paycheck will have $25 earmarked for awesome hollow flake/tower murder-suicide t-shirt.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Over here! Hey! Someone teach me how to belay, fast!
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couchmaster
climber
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The most embarrassing part would be people tieing off your various body parts for pro as they climb over you:-)
Are these shirts cotton or polypro? (say poly pro please)
Sh#t, Cotton, but at least it's organic cotton and not the inorganic or synthetic cotton kind.....Good on you for doing this, I'll be in for 2 for passover. Checks in the mail as they say.....
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scuffy b
climber
just below the San Andreas
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The check is in the mail for real this time, not just
"as they say."
Being either sensible or obsessive, I've ordered spares, so I
can wear out the first one without feeling bad.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2009 - 10:19am PT
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Bumpo because the YCA belongs on page 1.
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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I'll take one.
Zander
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roy
Social climber
New Zealand -> Santa Barbara
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... and tell my partner to stop pulling on the damn rope.
I'm in for one. Cheers, Roy
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Ratagonia
Social climber
Mt Carmel, Utah
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Check to: The Vershke Group ?
or to YCA or ???
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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If we want to make a donation in addition the shirt purchase can we include that in the check, or will it be better to just send a second check direct to YCA?
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2009 - 05:28pm PT
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Now we're startig to get the intrest the YCA deserves.
Two notes to answer questions.
I am running this benefit through my company so make the checks out to THE VERSHKE GROUP.
tolman_paul... You could make your donation two ways.
1. Include it the shirt order and make ONE check out to The Vershke Group. Make sure you explain to me what is direct donation and what is shirt. I will confirm the plan with you as soon as I get the check.
2. You could send one check to me for the shirt and then go online to the YCA and make an online donation to them. This will incur about a 6% hit to them through Paypal or whatever but they get the money in a few days whereas they will get the shirt money in April. The choice is yours!
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