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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 9, 2010 - 12:24am PT
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I turned down a potential $20,000 sponsorship because they wanted to promote bottled water. They were disappointed. I feel promoting bottled water is encouraging the wrong message. A lot of what we clean up is empty plastic water bottles. This will make it harder to finance the Facetift(Don't worry I will find the funds). I hope you feel the same and agree with me for holding my ground.
Thanks,
Ken
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Yay!!!! for KEN!!!!!
Sad, but a man of wisdom.
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dustonian
climber
RRG
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tough choice for sure, but I feel ya Ken. Good move.
Dustin
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Mason
Trad climber
Yay Area
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There should be a 'like' button for the taco.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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it would have been harder if Miller Lite, Coors, or Budweiser had offered a sponsorship...
...you did the right thing!
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Ken, I totally agree with your decision.....
ps..I love my facelift klean kanteen..thanks.
edit: Ken, any chance of getting Mother Hips again?
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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I wish more people could accept their message over money. Good on ya!
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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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Good for you Ken! It was the right decision :)
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Ken: A great "long-run" decision.
Congrats for doing a good thing!
Rather than a complete ban on plastic bottles, I think there needs to be economic incentives to not use them.
Plastic throw-away bottles need to have deposit fees on them: just like returnable glass bottles.
I'm all for very-high deposit fees on plastic bottles.
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Good choice Ken.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Bottled water sucks.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Good decision, Ken - let's stick with the Klean Kanteen reusable bottles and that approach, like the YCA ones we got last year.
Mine is holding up fine.
Erik
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Slam Dunk!good choice, Ken.
now if only I can find my clean canteen...
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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two thumbs up.
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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2 thumbs up
edit: lota thumbs around here
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ol' chicken skinner, say... stand true to your self and for the park... i am with you, in prayers, too...
that is what canteens are for... say, old time folks, got by that way... we can too... :)
oh, a good thermos, too, will hold water... and these items, as costly, will surely be taken HOME where they belong, after a good hike, etc...
:)
praying for funds, now...
:)
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Well done Ken!
They'll be thinking about that for a while.
See you in September
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Well I guess I need to be schooled by the 21 posters on this thread on the evils of bottled H20. In my two years of Facelift I've pro picked up maybe 4 empty water bottles. Mostly what I pick up are cigarette butts, and like fattrad and another poster said....juice straws and plastic bread closures...and alot of cellophane.
I buy a case of 1.5 liter bottles and reuse them over and over by filling them with Brita filtered H20 until the bottles are no longer usable. Then I recycle them.
We have horrible H2o here in the Valley Center area. So what else would I do ?
Why is bottled H20 wrong ? lynne
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CynthiaL
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Good for you!
I work for the Park Service. At some meetings plastic water bottles are forbidden - only refillable! I'm currently attending training where there is a cooler full of those awful disposable things. Definitely not something we should be encouraging. (fortunately most people have their own bottle, except some of those travelling)
I, too, will pray for other sponsorship...
Lynne, buy a nalgene to fill with your Brita water, that's what I do!
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