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WBraun
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Feb 25, 2017 - 07:05pm PT
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Loved that video John and shows the evolution of your diverse interesting life.
I really liked the part where you are the school teacher.
And not only being just some one trick pony ........
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nah000
climber
no/w/here
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Feb 26, 2017 - 07:46am PT
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i'm also guessing the corners are continuos curved pipe and the connections are at the centre of the straight lengths of pipe and consist of smaller diameter pipe slipping into shortish sections of larger diameter pipe. gets rid of the heavy block corners and at the same time the smaller pipe slipping into a larger pipe negates the need for spreader bars.
if correct, it is a simplistically and beautifully elegant solution as all design should be on at least some level.
regardless, lookin' forward to the big reveal of all the innovations...
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Feb 26, 2017 - 08:14am PT
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I'm not an engineer.
I'll never use a portaledge.
But what a cool thread!
I remember reading articles about your wall climbs ( a long time ago!!).
Best of luck to you!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Feb 26, 2017 - 10:14am PT
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Great interview!
All the best!
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2017 - 02:24am PT
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Hi Werner--No, haven't seen that stuff. A polymer of some sort. There are a lot of strong fibres being created today. I'm suspicious though that they don't give more technical details. Though perhaps I go overboard in that regard! ;)
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 27, 2017 - 07:55am PT
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I was suspicious too.
The stuff is not UV resistant. It deteriorates in the sun.
It has some cool uses for it.
It will be expensive? They are saying one dollar per foot ......
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2017 - 08:47am PT
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Yup. My concern too is resistance to UV in the sun.
Typically I flag my ledge from the bottom of the wall to the top. And on a south facing crag like El Cap, that's a lot of photons!
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Feb 27, 2017 - 07:28pm PT
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Typically I flag my ledge from the bottom of the wall to the top. And on a south facing crag like El Cap, that's a lot of photons!
Hey, what about a solar collector fly? Then you could watch netflixs and run a 12v icechest😜
Or, for shitz and giggles. Why the need for a ledge haulbag. Maybe jus a slot in the pig. Or if it's getting flagged anyway, how about the ledge "haulbag/container" multi use as a pooptube? After summit toast'sss.... go bury the shite and stow the ledge😘
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2017 - 02:30am PT
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Kickstarter for the new D4 Portaledge going live 12pm Noon Yosemite Time, Feb 28. (That's 7am, March 1 Hobart, Tasmania time). Keep posted at http://facebook.com/bigwallgear for Kickstarter link.
Cheers
John Middendorf
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2017 - 01:04pm PT
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Live link here! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188459201/the-d4-portaledge
Sold the first three before I could even send the link out!? How did that happen? Then another 5 in the next 5 minutes. You guys are keen--we will make some good ones for you, and get them to early backers first, probably well before September.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 28, 2017 - 05:13pm PT
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Cool.
At present, 14 of the next 25 (for 9/2017 delivery) for $975 are sold.
After the remaining 11 are sold, then it's $1,140 for 2018 delivery.
I still use one of your A5 haulbags, bought back in the 80s!
I haven't done a wall with a portaledge in awhile; just the walls with built in ledges these days.... :-)
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John Mac
Trad climber
Breckenridge, CO
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19,878 as of this morning ... 26K is the target.
I was hoping they would have a t shirt up for sale...
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WBraun
climber
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Go Deucey Go Deucey Go Deucey Go Go Go ........
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2017 - 01:08pm PT
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20 ledges sold the first day! Really appreciate everyone's support. We will be working hard to ensure the best ledge to everyone. Really fun to be back in design, working on the haulsack details this morning... And tinkering with the superlight Single version and MiniMe ledge as well as another half dozen or so D4 Double prototypes going out to big wall product testers in the next couple months...
Only 8 left for our 2017 batch--they are going quick! Production on the Kickstarter batch planned to begin in April.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2017 - 01:16pm PT
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Really psyched how compact everything folds up--this is the ledge, the fly (and fly pole), all in about a 12" x 33" x 6" pack. Really easy to carry around and put into a pack or haulbag. No more wondering what haulbag the fly is in! All deploys very readily.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Holy crap, dude - you never told me ^^ THAT!! ^^
Bloody brilliant, mate.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Lookin good man. Fun to see it all come together. You left one thing out though. Get back to the drawing board mate!
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