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TGT

Social climber
So Cal
Jun 24, 2007 - 12:05am PT
I bet it all exceeds the cost of adding a second line of
cables alongside the existing one.


Not after you get done with the EI report and 15 years of court fights with various "do gooder" organizations.

One more cable and doubling the width of the steps establishing an up and a down side would fix 90% of the problems.

There's still no accounting for stupidity. People are still going to die up there.
snoreta01

Boulder climber
east vinod nagar , delhi
Feb 27, 2009 - 06:54am PT
Hi friends

Myself Rocky! I am new here in this forum.
I just want to say hello to all. I am glad to be a member here.

Thanks
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Feb 27, 2009 - 11:18am PT
I have been down the cables twice.

Scary Stuff.


Juan
snoreta01

Boulder climber
east vinod nagar , delhi
Feb 28, 2009 - 05:35am PT
As a tourist i get a lot of information from the visit.
Rocky
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Feb 28, 2009 - 11:29am PT
"As shown in the book Death, Daring and Disaster, Search and Rescue in the National Parks, a sign on a trail to the edge of cliffs above Yosemite Valley at Glacier Point, 1924:

It is 3,000 feet to the Bottom
And no undertaker to meet you
TAKE NO CHANCES.
There is a difference
Between bravery and Just plain
ORDINARY FOOLISHNESS."

http://faculty.deanza.edu/donahuemary/fatal,nearfatalorclosecallincidents/accidentsincamping,backpacking,climbingandmountaineering
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Feb 28, 2009 - 04:16pm PT
Took my daughter Kali and her good buddy Maia, age 7, up to climb the cables in 1995. My first time back in many years and I was appalled at the hordes.

One person with a cardiac and the route would be a bowling alley gone wild. Bailed out and took the kids horseback riding the next day.

Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Feb 28, 2009 - 07:44pm PT
I took my wife up the cables a few years ago. We got a crack start so we were almost the first ones up. The hordes had arrived by the time we started down. I came close to pushing a couple of a-holes off. If you want to seriously degrade your opinion of people then doing the cables is a good exercise. If there ever is a next time, and I can't imagine why that would be, I'm taking a #10 hex on a long sling for crowd control.
Dapper Dan

climber
Menlo Park
Feb 28, 2009 - 10:07pm PT
What separates you from the hordes Reilly ? Just curious...
Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Feb 28, 2009 - 11:13pm PT
Dapper,
I was part of the horde but I took exception with the few individuals who thought they were above the mundane mores of common decency to the point of being a hazard to us of the horde content with an orderly procession.
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