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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Feb 24, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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I remember that tree... my buddy certainly thought it was a good hold...
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Feb 24, 2010 - 10:09pm PT
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Can you imagine the horror, if you were hamming it up for that photo one second and sliding down the slab with the tree in your mitts the next?
I can visualize the suspended animation moment.
I totally sent post-tree weekend before last, and it sounds like the OP may have too, so Tommy is going to have to eat his heart out this time. ;-) (It was a 'what the?' moment when the tree didn't come into view when it was supposed to.)
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squatch
Boulder climber
santa cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2010 - 03:56am PT
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yeah we sent post-breakage.
although this time we did it all on nuts in honor of the first ascent.
adds some good spice.
we did dab the tree stump though.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2010 - 07:35am PT
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hey there all, say, ed,
very nice post, as to the tree, and to nature-growths, as well...
does seem perhaps the heavy snows made the last impact... trees around here, have had that trouble, too (but none to fall off rock-faces)... just only to fall as "boughs" from where they grew...
thanks for the shares, and the "end of an era" note...
lets folks like me, know more...
:)
edit: say, steelmonkey, very nice picture of the tree...
thanks so much...
:)
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fielgeit
climber
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Feb 25, 2010 - 06:48pm PT
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Nut Cracker Tree and the other god trees that have blessed our lives on Yosemite rock routes: find the relics of all and burn 'em at the top of Glacier Point and push the ashes / embers off the side of the cliff, like the old days and the firefall face light show.
Fielgeit
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Feb 25, 2010 - 08:32pm PT
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Several years back on the Taco Stand, somebody joked about putting up a plastic 'fallen log' on the Arches route. Actually, for future generations, a 'dodgy' plastic fallen tree/log on the Arches would give newbies a chance to see what it was like. Then again, it was scary, climbing across that log. Maybe not.
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