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okie
Trad climber
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Oct 14, 2011 - 10:21pm PT
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The third pitch of The Thief is the best, even better than the first, if it can be believed, and you have to do it anyway, otherwise "you never did it" as Werner would say.
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M. Volland
Trad climber
Grand Canyon
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Oct 14, 2011 - 10:37pm PT
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All Along the Watchtower - The story of a joker who believes he is being robbed, and a thief who thinks everything is a joke. Absolutely amazing!
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 03:09am PT
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Bob Locke said we had to get out there immediately to do the second ascents. So unless you guys did them twice in the first day or two, maybe we did. I think he led the Thief and I did the Joker. My memory is very vague, but the Thief seemed choice, well worth the approach by itself (and the picture looks great) and the Joker was very good, but with the approach would have more value paired with doing the Thief on the same trip.
I was stoked about the route names and the song went through my head that day. I used to play a cassette a lot that I made of Dylan’s version of All along the Watchtower from Before the Flood, followed by Hendrix’s.
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Oct 15, 2011 - 03:19am PT
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Stephen
I remember that very day!
Cheers!
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Stephen McCabe
Trad climber
near Santa Cruz, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 03:34am PT
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Hey Tom,
Good to hear from you.
cheers,
Stephen
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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This thread still lives, cool. I noticed that the video link I posted near the start of this thread is bad. Here is a link to the same video of climbing The Thief that I posted back then.
http://vimeo.com/7195955
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Oso Flaco
Gym climber
Atascadero, CA
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stoked to try this one this season!
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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That looks awesome!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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"The Thief" is a fun climb if a wee bit soft for the grade.
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WBraun
climber
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The thief is sooo killer.
How many times did we lead that thing with hexes before friends came out.
When friends came out we did not have to run it out anymore and we became pussies ......
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WBraun
climber
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Kevin!!!!
We'll need a helicopter to get our poor asses up there now a days ......
lol
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