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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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So how far was Shultz's ride? It's hard to tell from the pics, foreshortening and all.
"Over the Edge," is that the film? Never heard of it. Anybody have any copies around?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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deuce4:
Well, of course we had all heard of Charlie Fowler jumping the Diving Board in Eldorado, a 80 footer by all accounts, somethime in the late 70's,
My recollection gives credit to Mike Munger for the Diving Board jump, done way before its time. Might have been more than 80 feet. But who was his partner?
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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There's a climber named Mike Munger?
Too funny.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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I thought Charlie Fowler and Mike Munger each jumped and that it was a full rope length. -maybe kinda like a fishing story.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Chicken Skinner,
Did you, or your friends, really drill a bolted anchor on the Captain just for this rope stunt?
How do you feel about that now?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Melissa:
There's a climber named Mike Munger?
Good climber, good guy. A few years later he climbed the Eiger Nordwand. Think he's still active around Boulder.
Digging into my archive of blackmail photos: Mike on Hallett Peak with the weather closing in, ca. 1971:
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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some Dano jump analysis posted here:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=207592&msg=262387#msg262387
The key here is to look at the distance our from the anchor verses the length of the jump. This is where Dano really pushed the science of rope jumping to new levels. He was a spatial master (even though his math wasn't the greatest).
An example of Dano's ability to visualize multi-dimensionally: once he designed a light box for building Jay Smith's rock climbing walls. Instead of figuring out all the angles and dimensions on paper, he built a cardboard box model and punched holes in it at key locations. Then he put a bright light in the box, put it in the exact center of Jay's gym. After turning the overhead lights out, where the light shone from the model gave him the marks to build the complex curves and angles of his design.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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cool name
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sandstone and sky
Trad climber
AK
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"There's a climber named Mike Munger?
Too funny."
You guys are showing your age if you haven't heard of Mike Munger.
Think that's a good one, how about Mugs Stump? He was well known around the same time.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Chiloe,
What a flashback, I haven't seen a waterbottle like that since the 70's.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Somehow the thought of a 30 year old waterbottle doesn't make me thirsty...
They always developed a leak at the base of one of the side ridges. Kids these days will never know the joy of a pack full of soggy clothes...
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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elcapfool...I always figgered you for a younger guy...too young to have memories of water bottles from the 70's anyway.
As for myself, I'm not that young, but am too young in my climbing (and probably not enough of a mountaineer) to have heard stories about Mike Munger. Unfortunately I only know of Mugs Stump as a figure of the past.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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It's a Peter Pan thing I guess. Or immaturity, depending on who you ask...
As I always say: it's not the years, it's the miles. (from Raiders of the lost Ark)
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Landgolier
climber
the flatness
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Hell, I bought bottles like that in '95 or so. Got sick of them leaking, got 3 quarts of gatorade for like $5, and used those until I piled up enough freebie nalgenes. Thinking of moving to siggs, I'm getting tired of drinking plastic.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Hell, I can remember when you could drink out of streams.
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Seems totally nuts, but for our El Cap adventures in early 1981, we filled all our bottles right out of the Merced at Devils Elbow. Yikes! Then by the end of that summer the first giardia warnings were posted in the Sierra.
Peter
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Elcapfool:
Hell, I can remember when you could drink out of streams.
Made me laugh out loud. In a rueful way.
My early days in the Rockies, I carried a collapsing cup to dip into the streams. For summits, you'd fill a quart bottle and mix in the Wylers. We probably had to watch out for 'dactyls.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Dec 11, 2006 - 06:13pm PT
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I haven't drunk out of a stream in months now, unless I did at
the start of November--can't recall exactly.
Seriously, in most of the Sierra the problems are highly
exaggerated.
Sorry about the discontinuity. I scrolled back a couple days
and saw this thread with a last posting listed as Dec 8.
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Calvin
Trad climber
CO
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Dec 18, 2006 - 12:26am PT
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I dont know how old this thread is, but i thought i would chime in and let you guys know about my team. I own a LLC called 'SINE Innovations'. 3 of my crew and I have been climbing and rope jumping for 6 years.
We build fairly complex rope jump systems, and have been to get 100 meters of freefall.
here are some pictures of our most recent set up.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006365&l=e1034&id=203002032
I am new to this forum, obviously. but if you want to talk to me, I would enjoy it.
I am also looking for more original notes from Dan Osmond. While i never had the pleasure of meeting him, and i think his systems are sketchy, i would like to share and gather information to furthur our systems.
we do not keep up to well in climbing, when we started BASE and Rope jumping, our priorities changed.
I also have films about out rope jumping history, if anyone is interested.
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