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Mimi
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Sep 11, 2011 - 01:22am PT
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Just to show you guys that I care. Here's something I threw together just for the sake of detailed illumination. The official Wings of Steel Calendar/Timeline for May-July 1982 taken directly from the Book of Dik, wherein all hath been revealed. The x-rated version can't be posted here. LOL!
Ten feet per hour seems to be the inspired norm.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Sep 11, 2011 - 01:26am PT
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Sep 11, 2011 - 02:00am PT
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Mimi's calendar of the ascent is clearly wrong. It doesn't include any of the parts where they danced on their portahammocks, singing "We're lumberjacks, and we're not so bad". Plus bible study, wanking, and other activities.
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Mimi
climber
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Sep 11, 2011 - 02:02am PT
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Anders, see above. The x-rated version can't be viewed here. You'd love it. I think.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sep 11, 2011 - 02:07am PT
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Just to show you guys that I care.
And as we can see, you care quite a bit.
Jaybro asked Richard Jensen what the climb meant for him. We've all seen his response. Your obfuscation is laughable. Mimi, given how important this is to you, what did Wings of Steel mean for you? What significance and meaning, arguments aside, does the climb hold for you, personally?
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Sep 11, 2011 - 10:38am PT
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mimis calendar would have been like this:
Mon - bitch at other guys i dont know because they are losers and never climb their route because i c&nt
Tues - help SG with his jockstrap and tell him what a god he is while bitchin about WOS boys.
Wed - provide considerate postings on ST with a few hail Steve's and f*ck WOS thrown in for good measure
Thurs - heckle WOS boys because yesterday was "hump" day and didnt get off
Fri - play with my gear, see Thurs.
Sat - sh#t on seventh day adventists holy day, f*#k those guys.
Sun - get a latte and try and make up for a bad humday. if that doesnt work, bitch about WOS on ST about a reoute i never did cuz i c%nt.
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kaitb
Big Wall climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 06:10pm PT
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For all those who have asking - the article of our second ascent of Wings of Steel will be published in Rock and Ice magazine. This will be available to read in approximately 4 weeks!
Thanks goes out to everyone who has provided support around this climb. Ammon and I both hope you all will enjoy it!
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 06:51pm PT
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the article of our second ascent of Wings of Steel will be published in Rock and Ice magazine. This will be available to read in approximately 4 weeks!
Looking forward to it, Kait. Congrats again on the video funding!
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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worth a watch/rewatch depending
The hand gesture when Jensen tells Grossman "You know all you need to get up Wings of Steel if you have the sack" gets me every time.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Sep 12, 2011 - 07:26pm PT
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Wings Of ButtHurt
Wings Of Repetition
Wings Of Drama
Wings Of WGAF?
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 12, 2011 - 07:27pm PT
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Da Dweeb, the only hand gestures I notice is you cupping the ballz of the "One month to climb 2 pitches" crew.
For an errand-boy, you sure do seem invested in this whole sordid affair...and oddly in possession of some 9 year old girl's stash of pony-anime.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 07:43pm PT
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you sure do seem invested in this whole sordid affair...
Oh, and I am. As I have said several times, Mark Smith is my former teacher, a good friend, and has been a very positive influence throughout my life. I want to see him exonerated from the villain label he's had for the past several decades, and I am very happy to see that's generally the way things have worked out.
and oddly in possession of some 9 year old girl's stash of pony-anime.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 12, 2011 - 09:11pm PT
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Dweeberino- Your fairy fractures are widening...revealing a very pink interior. LOL
And no GnomeBoy once the game is back on?!?
The evil woodland creatures have abducted him and tossed him in above one of those giant Disney waterfalls deep in the forest. Not sure if our hero is wooden or plastique but it might make a difference...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 12, 2011 - 09:17pm PT
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There has got to be some windowpane floating around here.
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Sep 12, 2011 - 09:42pm PT
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the most bizarre thing about this thread is the hate and emotion that SG and Mimi have for the FA crew for a route they have never tried nearly 3 decades ago. one must wonder why?
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OR
Trad climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 10:00pm PT
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Who was Warren J. Harding? How does he fit into all of this?
Do you actually climb?
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 10:15pm PT
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Your obfuscation is laughable, Steve -
NOW you're getting the hang of it!
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Sep 12, 2011 - 10:33pm PT
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MH, too much info.
Waaaay too much!!!!!!
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Mimi
climber
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Sep 12, 2011 - 10:36pm PT
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Chicken-eye, you may as well stop wondering. Your utter cluelessness and lack of reading comprehension skills precede you. You're simply a waste of post space.
Dweeber, your self-proclaimed bias and stupidity about climbing begs a question. Have you asked your mentor, Skid, how often he used the drill to get a hook to stay in place so he could stand on it? He made the comment on the ST way back that there are lots of enhancements.
The Book of Dik describes how Bwana left the Valley to handle one of his first lawsuits, this one against his employer for firing him (sound familiar?), and left Skid to re-establish P1 and P2 after the woeful chopping incident.
Bwana wrote in the Book that: Another hook and another. Some needed a little modification. Mark took the tip of the drill and leveled an edge out to better hold the hook. Or rather, to hold it at all.
This is the key question. How many times did they do this? Based on the Book, postings on the ST, their own website, their obvious lack of relevant experience and skills, the preposterous gear assortment that was supported by their pitiful interactions with the 'locals,' and the inordinate amount of time needed to ascend 9 pitches, lead many of us to believe that WOS was a total botch job; a heavily drilled half-height variation that was ascended using countless drilled hook placements.
You can attack me all you like, but I didn't start this controversy, they did.
Now that you're their new groundman, would you mind asking your pals if they provided this topo and gear list to Don Reid for the 1993 Big Walls Guide.
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