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Prod
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Aug 30, 2011 - 07:56pm PT
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Don't be so quick to toss out your unknowns... you may miss them when they're gone.
DMT
What you talking about Willis?
Prod.
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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Aug 30, 2011 - 08:36pm PT
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Donini said:
"One last comment before I vacate this thread. . . (for good)"
Isn't that how astronauts poop?
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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Aug 30, 2011 - 08:46pm PT
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@DMT: Just spewed Dogfish Head 60" IPA out my nose.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Aug 30, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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Hey Duecy, no disrespect meant.
Lessee, what did I say? “Maybe Richard and Mark owe some thanks to the likes of Dimitri and Grossman and Middendorf and the whole “Valley Christian” elitist attitude that Richard complains of.”
I was referring to what Jensen had complained about upthread, and using his words. Sorry if I was not very clear.
Here’s the quote, from upthread:
“.... Oh, final note, I haven't called our critics "Heathen." Ironically, I continue to call them this generation's "Valley Christians." Self-policing indeed! It is to laugh.”
But now you got me wondering just how many bolts would be needed for a bolt ladder the whole way? How high can one reach and hammer on that slab? Six feet from the last bolt? It's been years since I was at the base. It's less than vertical, but maybe not by much.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Aug 30, 2011 - 10:29pm PT
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Been wondering that myself. Just how many feet up is the slab?
Hang on a tic, I bet that's somewhere in the book...
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Hummerchine
Trad climber
East Wenatchee, WA
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Aug 30, 2011 - 11:21pm PT
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Hey Jim Donini! I've met you a number of times over the years, most recently at Indian Creek. You have always been super cool and super happy; and I completely agree with your last (and final) post!
Your posts are way tame to much of what is posted on this thread!!!!!!!!!!!
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Aug 31, 2011 - 12:23am PT
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Aye. I'm sorry you had such a negative experience here, Jim.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Aug 31, 2011 - 09:01am PT
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All right. I found it. Page 66 of Wings of Steel. "The slab was 1,200 feet high." I assume that's as the raven flies. So hang on - divide by 175 and I come out with 6.85, so Deuce, I believe that would be one bolt approximately every 7 feet in that scenario.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2011 - 10:05am PT
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All right. I found it. Page 66 of Wings of Steel. "The slab was 1,200 feet high." I assume that's as the raven flies. So hang on - divide by 175 and I come out with 6.85, so Deuce, I believe that would be one bolt approximately every 7 feet in that scenario.
I'd say that's about right. Even a 5'9 midget like myself could top step on a slab and drill a hole (barely!) every 6'10. And if I had a Cliffhanger bolt gun, I could probably dyno a bit further and pop one in.
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Floyd Hayes
Trad climber
Hidden Valley Lake, CA
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Aug 31, 2011 - 02:33pm PT
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After first reading it shortly after it was published, I read the book again a few days ago. The account of the big storm mentioned that three parties were rescued from El Cap. If they were so incompetent as a few of you insist, why didn't they need to be rescued? I remember that storm dumping a foot of snow on a group of us backpacking in Tuolumne.
Unfortunately an error crept into the book and Richard's recent account: the "swallows" were mostly White-throated Swifts with a few Black Swifts mixed in.
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Prod
Trad climber
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Aug 31, 2011 - 03:11pm PT
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Where did all of the Drama go?
SG and Mimi vs. FA's
Coz vs. Donini
Piton vs. Anyone with a gun
Meaty vs. Meaty.
I think Jaybro ruined this thread with his inquiry about what the climbing was like. Damn you Jaybro
Prod.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Aug 31, 2011 - 07:11pm PT
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Hankster -
Well played!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 31, 2011 - 07:34pm PT
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This thread is drifting in either irrelevance or relevance, I don't know which.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Aug 31, 2011 - 09:34pm PT
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Unfortunately an error crept into the book and Richard's recent account: the "swallows" were mostly White-throated Swifts with a few Black Swifts mixed in
-knott to mention a few Mud Falcons...
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 31, 2011 - 10:20pm PT
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Max and I topped out on the South Face of Mt Watkns in late fall of 1979. We shook hands and that was pretty much the last time we ever climbed in Yosemite together. We weren't around in the Valley during the slander and bad feeling years of the early 80s.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Bump. Want a reason? How's about because.
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gimmeslack
Trad climber
VA
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Well, I just now noted that the movie folks have gathered their $5k. It sounds like the story will be told.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
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Well, I just now noted that the movie folks have gathered their $5k. It sounds like the story will be told.
What story?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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[I posted this on the censorship thread when i thought this one was nuked, I think it belongs here, though]
I found myself on the horns of a delemma this morning. I was awoken by a loud banging. My initial response was to roll over and return toy unsettling dreams.
My wife however had other ideas. She insisted I investigate what was going on downstairs.
I got up out of bed and ran my fingers through my dreads. Unstable on my suddenly numerous, tiny legs, I pulled on my custom Joe boxer™ smiley face boxers.
Palming my james bond limited addition Barrera, complete with my Barney fife single round, I descended the stairs...
To be dumbfounded with the scene below!
At one widow a bearded man with an amish style hat was attempting to high step an aider hanging from a Leeper, narrow point, hook on the slab of my windowsill. Trailing a hemp rope across the floor of my chalet. My eyes followed the rope only to find another Intruder, wearing only a T shirt that proclaimed "fukness forever" straddling the rope where it ran over my Marcus Garvey prayer rug!
What's worse he was squatting, appearing to take a dump! He had a porkchop held to his face.
Both men looked at me and with one voiced, "don't just stand there, shoot him!"
What to do? Having only the one bullet. I aimed alternately at the hooker and the pooper. I knew I only had a brief window of time in which to act.
What would solomon do?
Channeling my inner cowboy, ninja, bear I decided in the blink of an eye, on decisive action......
To be continued........]
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