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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Give us a TR.
I know a hell of a lot of teams start up the Nose and then bail around El Cap Tower. So rapping El Cap is nothing new. I myself have rapped half of many El Cap routes!!!!
Have fun. Bring wrenches to scarf any fixed cams.
To do a righteous rap, you should do the Trip or something. That would be cool. I've down nailed but left a lot of gear doing it.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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If I had to listen to all this wanking about the horrors of climbing here I'd never have done anything.
All it takes is a good brain.
Do you have one?
Awesome.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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le_bruce: "I saw what must have been him loading up in a ranger's vehicle at the Meadow, and he looked pretty wasted and pretty bummed."
OP of THIS thread seems pretty articulate and informed. I kinda doubt he's the perp in the recent rescue/ arrest. Did anybody PM him yet?
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OR
Trad climber
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Aug 13, 2012 - 10:09pm PT
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Oh boy. Just read that . Awful
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 13, 2012 - 10:27pm PT
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Looks like him.
But his partner is the one who fuked up going off camp 5 the wrong way.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 13, 2012 - 10:35pm PT
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Here's s novel idea.....to maximize that sensational erotic feeling only provided by rappelling, find something you have to "climb" in order to get to the first rap anchor....pure ecstasy.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
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wow.. you guys called it..
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:07pm PT
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Well hmm. Too much cajones. Too little experience.
Gotta say. If you're gonna screw up learning (and don't tell me you didn't) Might as well go big .. and not die.
Truly an Epic Fail.. Better than any of mine.
Honestly I'm kinda impressed that any pair this unprepared had the balls for this.
Seriously.. How the hell did they get past looking up at it from the meadows...let alone hiking up and hopping over the edge.
Ballz
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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Chris Guglielmucci, 26 July 2012
If the trip works out I will post the pics for sure!
Amazing incident.
Then again,
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Better a magnificent failure than a mediocre success, lol!
Wow!
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:16pm PT
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They should be prosecuted.
Sh!t, there you go again.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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Ahh hell.. the SAR guys got a payday... I suppose the lighting made for an interesting callout.
Bailing idiots out is the name of the game in SAR.
If you take extra risk in a SAR it's on your own head. You have definitely been trained not to.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
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HFCS
Knott sure about being glorious at others expense is worthy of that quote.
Props to SAR folks once again-probably some head shaking went down.
cheers
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:24pm PT
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Oh hell give em a fine for being dummies and unprepared. But cmon endangering others? I guarantee those SAR kids are chomping at the bit to go on a callout on the CAP.. I would have been back in the day.
"Dude we got flown to the top and got paid to descend the nose and pick up a couple guys on the way..this life is too good.."
If YOSAR can't comfortably extract a couple yahoo's off the NOSE they need to be disbanded.
Which of course is not the case.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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I like ya Cragman .. seriously.. and look forward to climbing soon.
We just disagree here :)
Either that or too much beer for me tonight and i'll feel like a moron for posting tomorrow lol.
Bored tonight
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:30pm PT
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Knott sure about being glorious at others expense is worthy of that quote.
Yeah, that quote was half tongue in cheek, but it just shows how crazy adventures and the adventurous spirit (in ALL of us) can be sometimes. Is all.
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Peter Haan,
Back to topic: the notion that rappelling is anything other than a particularly deadly activity best avoided, is silly.
Wanting to be clear, could you rephrase this. Want to make sure idiom or figure of speech isn't interfering with my understanding of your compound sentence here. Either that, or I'm just tired after a hard day. But I'd like to be clear on your thought, if you're still about.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
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Werner encouraged them to do this.
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pc
climber
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Aug 13, 2012 - 11:38pm PT
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climbski, really? You invite a long list of things that can go wrong.
Another possible outcome...regulation. Soon we may have to pass a belay (and rappel) tests...
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