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Brian
climber
California
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What is it about the internet that brings out such negativism?!
Holy shit! I almost pissed myself laughing to read this on Supertopo! Fecking brilliant!
(Not knocking Jan, just the fact that the comment appears here, among so many OT threads so full of vitriol, ad hominem attacks, and so forth.)
Oh, God. Need to go rest. What a gutbuster...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Locker room spillover?
No, probably not.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Aurora Colorado
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Between attempts, climbers sand their fingers to remove the dead skin.
The author also says they have to wait for the skin to grow back. They are up on the portaledges growing finger skin now. No surprise, I guess, on a 3000 mile route.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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It was the last story on the NBC Nightly News and they actually got it right!
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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^^^
That's because Brokaw's a climber.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Between attempts, climbers sand their fingers to remove the dead skin.
The author also says they have to wait for the skin to grow back. They are up on the portaledges growing finger skin now. No surprise, I guess, on a 3000 mile route.
Really? That's hilarious. I haven't read the article yet but it is surprising that the NY Times has so many dubious items in an article. Not that hard to fact check...
Nub clenching
has got to be another one for the books...
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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They just were on NPR's all things considered. Phone interview from the wall. Undoubtedly available on the NPR website.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Just heard on the news that "they put their fingers in razor blade crevasses".
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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I'll be impressed when somebody actually frees El Cap without using sling belays!
Hey Ron, how come I never heard about your free ascent of El Cap? What route did you manage to free climb entirely from ledge to ledge?
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tinker b
climber
the commonwealth
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i heard the npr bit last night picking up my niece and nephew from day care. i had to turn it up loud to drown out their requests for kids music. my aunt texted me last night to see if i had heard about these two climbers, and don't i do that sort of thing?
in my response i guessed that maybe a hundred people had free climbed el cap. does anybody have a more accurate guess.
to put it in terms i thought she would understand, i told her tommy is our micheal jordan who is just a really nice person.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Hey Ron, how come I never heard about your free ascent of El Cap? What route did you manage to free climb entirely from ledge to ledge?
Weight for it.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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YA RON WHAT GIVES???
So much negativity! Quick, someone grab my hand and lock eyes with me quick lest the weight of the world snap my pencil neck!
;)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I don't have to free something to know what the word means.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
In What Time Zone Am I?
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This has been so educative in so many ways. All the varying reports and their language about what's going on....looking at Tom's pictures...being there and watching them just prior to the media frenzy.
Very exciting .... climbing, front and center, of everything right now!
Susan
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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I doubt this will get many more interested in climbing, kind of like how a space station launch doesn't make a zillion astrophysicists.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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^^^^maybe yes, maybe no.^^^^
Could start out with a lotta "wannabes" .... but then when the amount of work and training kicks in it will weed out the dreamers vs. the doers. Just as in my generation as Sputnik flew through the sky we all wanted to become scientists. Many followed through, a lot didn't.
Susan
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Yeah, it's hard enough already to swing a dead cat without hitting a noob.
This could lead to climbers impacting on the environment literally.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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I don't have to free something to know what the word means.
Those who can't do, teach.
Lol
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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And a few do both. (how many routes you put up solo?)
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