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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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bump, because its better than politics.
Either way you do it, I hope you post it so we can read it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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If you like any of the material that I wrote for Strassman's How to Climb Big Walls, I would love to help out or contribute...as long as you don't poke out my third eye! LOL
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Put a hat on it...
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Chris, if you want feedback on the really important stuff, then don't post a half-baked preliminary version, which will waste your readers' efforts on stuff you could easily have fixed yourself.
Post a fairly advanced draft once, take comments, and then move on---don't post the corrected version. The good folks at SuperT can, and will, argue their positions forever. You, presumably, have somewhat less than that amount of time.
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Rgold is right: post one version, use or ignore the comments, and move on. Things can be iterated to death here. But deuce4 is not: walls are not a good place to start, for those who have never climbed before. Don't need that kind of chapter. Anyone that should be in the readership of such a book ought to be competent with multipitch climbing. What's useful is highlighting what's different from Grade III-IV climbing that the reader is already good at. Plus aid of course. Don't shy away from expressing gear preferences; too many instructionals say it's all good, use whatever you prefer. Most climbers don't have that kind of budget. True, you need a variety of hooks and such, but not so for other gear categories. A useful wall book would tell you, are hybrids really that much better than C3s (or the opposite, as some say), big wall ladders much better or just different than old school etriers, and so on. Also, for wall maneuvers more than any other realm of climbing, really good graphics are critical. I'd get your illustrator in the mix early. My 2c.
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pissed
Trad climber
Lake Placid NY and Scranton PA
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Mr. McNamara,
I can't wait for you to be finished, I will definitely buy a copy. About time someone with (some) sanity puts out a big wall book that I actually stand a chance of understanding.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I think it would be excellent content for the site and you'll get food for thought. Good for everybody. You might lose out on a few sales from folks who read it online.
Peace
Karl
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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How about something informative and well written about aid soloing. I see this brought up frequently - people wanting information about soloing and being told the same thing all the time - Currently, there's really nothing out there. I remember finding vague information before my first solo and really learned trial-by-fire, which was fine for me.
Just a thought...
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Some good suggestions.
Personally, I think you need to refine it a bit before sharing because, as someone noted earlier, you may get a ton of responses to content you've already committed to changing.
Still, having said that, some of the comments you receive may help direct or change the course of the book.
Good luck.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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"aid climbing is neither"
Boo. Hiss.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I suppose weakwrist climbs sans shoes, rope and clothing, but I would rather not see for myself.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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"Munge - the entire Somali telecoms project I'm working on is predicated on it being a paradoxical instance of development 'without state'. So yes, utterly preposterous according to conventional wisdom (making you conventionally wise)."
Kupa, not for nothing and this won't sound sexy at all but wouldn't we rather say "A treatise on non-conventional development"
Abstract me bro. Hook a forum up.
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drsmonkey
Trad climber
A hole
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Apr 15, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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If you don't think it would be giving away too much, how about making a pdf for just the "Master Checklist" available for people who buy the hard copy to print instead of photocopying from the book?
DRS
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