Tom Evans - El Cap Pics APPRECIATION

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tahoe523

Trad climber

Station Wagon, USA

Jun 8, 2011 - 02:33pm PT

Tom provides a one of a kind perspective on climbing. Anywhere else in the world (or in the valley for that matter) we are left with typical camera angle A: from the climber looking down,

typical camera angle B: from the belayer looking up,

but never like atypical angle C: a snapshot 1000 feet below of two climbers taking photos of each other. Mind. Blown. My mom thanks you for the grey hairs she accumulated upon seeing your photos.

People pay big money to get action shots. A DVD from a photographer at a racetrack can run over $40 easily. Tom got a ton of equipment stolen a while ago. Pay your appreciation with not only posts, but with cold, hard paypal donations.

Thanks for holding down the fort, season after season. When forced to leave the valley, you are what methadone is to heroin addicts going through withdrawal.

Two spanish, one hungarian and an american are jumping back on the Salathe tomorrow and into a bar soon thereafter for a still undecided ethnic joke and beer that is not of the King Cobra variety. See ya from above. Hopefully, drier this time and in better style.

Cheers Tom!

Lambone

Ice climber

Ashland, Or

Jun 8, 2011 - 02:39pm PT

I donated!!!

'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber

like Ontario, Canada, eh?

Jun 8, 2011 - 03:30pm PT

So I was talking to Tom on the bridge the other day, and was commenting on how many page hits his El Cap reports get, how they had gone from around 700 reads per day on average a few years ago to sometimes 1500 or more these days, and yet how few people respond!

You know, it doesn't take a moment to log into McTopo and post a response to his El Cap Report. 1500 page reads yet only ten replies doesn't seem right.

I know Tom really appreciates you-all's responses, and it makes for more fun dialogues reading the posts.

So do us all a favour, and PLEASE RESPOND DAILY TO TOM'S POSTS!

Cheers,
heading for the bridge
Pete

Synchronicity

Trad climber

British Columbia, Canada

Sep 19, 2011 - 12:52am PT

Bump for the appreciation of Tom Evans who I've never met. Every day your photos on ECR move me in a way few things can. Cheers!

Mike Bolte

Trad climber

Planet Earth

Sep 19, 2011 - 01:40am PT

I see that I should have posted these here: September 18, 2011

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

May 27, 2013 - 06:14pm PT

Ya got yer Roper 4th Class and there's the traditional stuff.

Then there's the enviable ability to third class with aplomb the questions of the masses.

Good enough for gov't work, better than the masses deserve, and a truly noble thing to try.

And fun.

Studly

Trad climber

May 27, 2013 - 06:59pm PT

Love Tom's photos and daily description of the El Cap climbing. So cool.

Spanky

Social climber

boulder co

May 28, 2013 - 09:43am PT

Tom Thanks for the amazing pics, and even more thanks for being a great guy who really cares about this ridiculous sport and the people who come out to test themselves on the big stone.

See you at the bridge soon!