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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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I'll check out your site.
some other pics of Jim that need work but can possibly be salvaged by someone good with PS are at RRK's.
Others may be with Tommy Howard, Lee Carter, and those guys.
I hope Shannon has still got the negatives from the BSF trip, cause I KNOW a few of those can be fixed.
Somewhere in an email from Jim during his last days, we went back over the names of those new routes at the BSF.
I'm glad you have stuff about Jim on your site. his death at an early age (under 50, TONS of great climbs left in him) was a huge loss to climbing and to humanity, cause he was one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
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Ezra
Trad climber
WA, NC
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Great Picks Every one,
Jim Okel sounded like quite a guy, what disease did he have?
I think it was Tom Howard who also gets credit for Dopey duck and just about every other classic cimb in Linville Gorge.
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slabhappy
Trad climber
Forest City NC
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North Carolina is such a great place to practice the art of climbing. Those pics have got me salivating. Great work Alpine. More please.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Now we're talkin!
Great use of bandwidth and super neato thread.
Supertopo needs a set of passively activated nu rulz:
If'n a great picture laden climbing area thread like this
doesn't show up at healthy interval,
the whole thing goes plonk! and shutz d-
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... untill some fab climbing stuff reactivates the cyberspace-flywheel and all the lights go back on and the music resumes.
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JAK
climber
Central NC
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Sean,
I'm 99% sure we've met. I climb at Tumblebee's regularly, actually just started working there. Thought your name looked familiar.
Small world.
Regards,
John Andrews
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Okel had throat cancer.
He was indeed quite a guy.
And it is true, that is nothing worth climbing in North Carolina, or anywhere else in the south for that matter.
Think, Deliverance. Hope you don't have a purdy mouth.
Yankee go home, LOL!
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Rankin
climber
Bishop, CA
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Hat's off to the late great Jim Okel, a true pioneer in North Carolina climbing. My favorite Jim Okel routes:
Harpoon and K.B. Capers at Ship Rock, Help Mr. Wizard at Shortoff. He first climbed these routes twenty-five years ago...amazing. I cut my teeth on these ultra classics.
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foster
climber
nc
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rankin - yeah, masburns is pretty close to the river below the NC wall. jolly green giant is on the other side of the gorge. that first pitch of pansie wall goes at 5.11...i haven't been on any of the harder upper pitches. i don't recall there being very many bolts on the first.
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Jay
Trad climber
Fort Mill, SC
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Yes NC climbing is good. Can't wait for Laurel Knob! Rumbling Bald has the best quality rock I've ever touched. It has the friction and edges of granite but the feel of Styrofoam; comfy, yet bullet proof. In fact all the quartzite and granite I've touched in the state is excellent (accept for Poplar Tent Rd boulders in Concord, but that doesn’t count).
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Just so everyone knows, there is no good rock in the southeast, let alone in north carolina.
And there's billions of rednecks.
And shotguns.
And smokers.
And fat people.
Chris, what about neo-cons? Neo-liberals? If there are, then in that case I’m staying away
EDIT
Jager, you mean, if I am approaching any NC cliffs I run the risk of being sodomized? No thanks, I thought that only happened on canoe trips.
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Rankin
climber
Bishop, CA
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Poplar Tent is better rock than the Buttermilks, but pretty similar climbing. Shocker I know. I wouldn't worry about NC becoming overrun with climbers from the West. Zero percent chance of that happening. Maybe less.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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NOt NC, but the BSF, Stegg is the blue dot, Okel is the red one, on Under the Big Top,, P2. Called under the big top cause hhen Stegg n I did it it was raining, but we didn't get wet once we were of the ground. BTW, P1 is just the access to the money pitch, P2. One fellow remarked that the rock was not all that great, and that's true in spots of P1, but P2 is immaculate. And very very hard, LOL! Pic taken from the O & W Bridge.
Jim's last climbing trip, with one of his old partners, Shannon Stegg-- two of the original Decatur Killers, together again!
Best thing I ever did in climbing was to get these two together after years of seperation. It all happened as if guided by fate, and I don't believe in that stuff, haha!
Okel and I were heading to the fork for the Sink o'de Mayo fest, Jeff Noffsinger presiding as the main Fork Lord, Stegg calls up looking for a partner for the weekend, I say, come to the fork with us, so he meets us there.
Every trip should be like that one.
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Thomas
Trad climber
The Tilted World
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It is the climbing in NC that keeps me in the southeast!
I mean no disrespect to the incredible climbing in Chattanooga and elsewhere in our region, but there is an wild energy to NC climbing that is, well, unparralleled.
Come explore!
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Old&InTheWay
Trad climber
NC
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Private Property (with owners permission)
North Face of Rumbling Bald
North face of Rumbling Bald
ShipRock (Grandfather Mtn)
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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Slab Runouts from Hell and do we ever like it that way!
Imgagine 5.9+ through 5.11 slab with bolts that are spaced, oh, well, let's see, where are the bolts????
I never did really understand the concept of bringing a rope on many of these routes....
Purple Daz...Stoner
OR...Whitesides
Face Value/Fleet Feet...Stoner
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JAK
climber
Central NC
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Oh God yeah, Stone Mountain has insane runouts. 30, 40 foot+ runouts on blank slabs in some places.
For those of you who aren't familiar, Stone Mountain is famous for it's "running belay", wherein the runouts are so long that as soon as the belay hears "take!" or "falling!" they take off sprinting away from the base of the climb in hopes of taking up enough slack to prevent groundfall.
It's nuts, but damn good slab climbing.
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Ultrabiker
Ice climber
Eastside
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30-40'???? Dude, those are the well protected routes!!! Just about every route left of and including "Yankee Go Home" avg's 60-80 foot RO's, many have only one bolt per Pitch and avg 5.10. What is really enjoyable to watch, is the folks lining up for the only two Crack Climbs on the Wall! There are never any lines for the Classic "Real" routes!!!!!
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JAK
climber
Central NC
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Yeah I haven't gone anywhere near those yet. Something about a a runout longer than most whippers...just not ready for that headgame yet.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Is that the north face of Looking Glass?
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