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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Jun 15, 2011 - 12:56am PT
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Thanks for being our cybereye on the Big Stone.
All the best to you, Tom de Bridge.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Jun 15, 2011 - 01:03am PT
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Hurrah, Tom!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Jun 15, 2011 - 01:05am PT
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Thanks Tom. It's been more than a few years since I've been to the Valley, but you've helped bring it a little closer.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jun 15, 2011 - 01:06am PT
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Is there an opening? If so I would like to apply. How is the pay?
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Josh Ulloa
Trad climber
Turlock, CA
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:05am PT
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Tom,
Thanks for sharing your words and images all these years. I've read every report, and still hope to meet you on the bridge and shake your hand.
Cheers!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:10am PT
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Tom, Thanks for the great service. Your photography is awesome. This has been my favorite web site ever.
Some smart gear company should pick this up and monetize it. Fish? Where's the FISH!?!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:22am PT
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thanks Tom. the el cap report will be missed. best to you.
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BMcC
Trad climber
Livermore
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:23am PT
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Tom,
Thanks for the wonderfully written reports and incredible pictures. Through your reports, I (like many other climbers and former climbers) have been able to relive the routes I've done and dream about others.
Best wishes for YOU and thanks again for all of your efforts over the years!
Bill
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silentone
Mountain climber
wisconsin
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:23am PT
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Thanks Tom for your great work. I learned alot about big wall climbing following your report. I am just a puke but for a few minutes you let me dream. Best to you and if you ever want to post up a pic you know where.
FACT ELCAP REPORT ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!111111111
S.O.
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JesseM
Social climber
Yosemite
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:25am PT
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Thanks for all of the reports Tom. It's been fun to read these last few years!
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:26am PT
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Your efforts will forever remain in history for all to enjoy and appreciate.
Thank you Tom.
Thank you.
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:36am PT
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Thanks for all the hard work Tom! It really means a lot to all of the climbing community and I know your reports have inspired many climbers to go out and achieve their dreams. Going to miss the report but it was great while it lasted!
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Johnny K.
climber
Southern,California
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Jun 15, 2011 - 02:47am PT
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Thank you a million Tom,as always!
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Jun 15, 2011 - 03:30am PT
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I got into the ElCap Report in September 2008. I had gotten a new gig at an office, in tourism, and had an odd schedule, so felt lucky one week to find a partner for the odd Tuesday-Thursday weekend I had acquired, willing to split gas. I drove my boyfriend-at-the-time-now-fiance, Vic's Subaru to the South Bay to meet my willing "partner" for the weekend, trunk full of Vic's gear, hoping to get a few pitches in. The drive to the Valley was highly entertaining. It seems I had gotten myself a self-proclaimed "monkey" partner, who had many tales to regale about El Cap and other Yosemite-related epics he had lived through. We arrived late, slept on the side of 140 right outside the park boundaries, woke up early early to drive in and have coffee in the meadow before meeting his friends in Camp Four. That morning, he showed me lots of cool features on El Cap--and named them!--over coffee in the meadow...he took the time to make sure I understood what I was looking at, and for the first time, I actually saw climbers on the wall. They WERE there.
When I got back to my home in the Bay after lots of pitches and the "weekend," I discovered the ElCap Report on SuperTopo (in my cubicle) and was able to follow the climbers I had seen on the wall from the meadow, with my own eyes, over coffee just a morning or two before.
Since then, from all over the world, I have really appreciated feeling more connected to the Valley through the ElCap Report. Thanks, Tom. You did a great thing.
PS: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=685364&msg=685480#msg685480
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=690935&msg=690981#msg690981
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Jun 15, 2011 - 03:40am PT
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Thanks Tom. The El Cap Report was pure awesomeness.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Jun 15, 2011 - 03:41am PT
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Thanks Tom, the El Cap report has been a really wonderful thing for those of us who are scattered around the world far from the valley. I hope your future projects go well. Thanks again!
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Jun 15, 2011 - 05:31am PT
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thanks Tom!
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
the pitch above you
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Jun 15, 2011 - 07:53am PT
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Thanks Tom!!!
All good things come to an end, and the previous day's ElCap report will be missed as part of my breakfast routine. Thanks for all the inspirational work you've put into this project.
-Bob
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Ben Emery
Trad climber
Australia via Bay Area via Australia...
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Jun 15, 2011 - 08:26am PT
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Thanks for all the reports and for the pics, Tom, both have been much appreciated.
Hope to thank you in person later this summer.
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JohnnyG
climber
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Jun 15, 2011 - 08:34am PT
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Tom - I don't want to read this last report because I don't want it to end.
Thank you so much for what you've done. I can't tell you stoked I have been to see your photos, read your posts, and basically get the skinny on the big stone when I can't hang at the bridge to see all the dramas that unfold up there.
Your report is the bomb-proof anchor for this wildly diverse batch of idiots. It's sad to see it dismantled. It was a sweet view. But I guess this means we are jugging up to the next belay. So, who's gonna take the sharp end and lead the next block?
-John
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