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Gene
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Apr 27, 2013 - 10:16pm PT
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It's only a short lived gesture by the OP. The icon has been replaced on the altar. Just a minor footnote in our history, soon to be forgotten.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Apr 27, 2013 - 10:20pm PT
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Well put Gene
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Apr 28, 2013 - 12:39am PT
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It's only a short lived gesture by the OP He did this under the cloak of darkness (night) knowing that he'd catch flak for it in front of everybody in the light of day. It's not too farfetched that next time it will be with a sledge and chisel to erase the route or something.
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Apr 28, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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Who is "james" next to Bachar or Kauk?
this is his only claim to fame except falling off of north overhang in JT and living to tell about it!!
What has he done of note in the climbing world?? I haven't heard about it but am waiting to hear of it!!
Bachar and Kauk are THE HEROES for alot of us...at least for myself...I always dreamed of doing what they did...what I did do was much less but it was the best memories I have....
MUCH LOVE to all the climbing community!!
Go DONINI on the NIAD!!!!
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Apr 28, 2013 - 12:53am PT
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^YES!!
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:01am PT
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Oy vey what a shitstorm. I tend to agree with the who do you think you are crowd.
Last year I had a bit of an epic removal from the base of New Dawn due to a medical issue. I bitched so much at the hospital that they ended up tossing me in an ambulance and dumping me in the C4 parking lot at like 3AM.
The next morning I was wandering around generally feeling like sh#t, and I happened to walk around Columbia and to the base of Lightning. I knew it was there, of course, but hadn't bothered to go look at it.
Seeing that bolt, and knowing the history behind it, absolutely floored me. And seeing it made my head clear, and made me realize how much this sport means to me. And I knew right then that even though I had gotten my ass kicked, I was still going to climb, and that everything was going to be ok.
I really don't think you have the slightest idea what that drawing means to some people. And I don't think you had the slightest right to choose to erase it.
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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:12am PT
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Spray paint.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:18am PT
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I like James
He's a good guy.
Besides the lightning bolt got washed off naturally one winter anyways by Mother Nature herself.
I watched it happen in real time.
So ...... Blah blah blah blah.
You get the idea ....... :-)
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wannabeen
climber
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:55am PT
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I see James also chipped the "sika reinforced" hold off ML... doing the goid work
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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Apr 28, 2013 - 09:52am PT
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That fall off of Intersection Rock REALLY messed him up!
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Prod
Trad climber
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Apr 28, 2013 - 10:58am PT
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Ed H, called this an Iconoclastic Act. Seems a little more like the act of a pechulant child craving attention.
Prod.
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orle
climber
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:18pm PT
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Or a pechulant child with a Moses-complex craving attention, Prod.
And Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he became angry. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, and ground it to powder.
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said: 'Whoso is on the LORD's side, let him come unto me.'
~Exodus 32:20
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 28, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
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James is probably a christian.
The religious are always so self-righteous.
I heard through the grapevine that there's a bounty on him now.
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Some Random Guy
climber
Under a Little Pink Umbrella
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Apr 28, 2013 - 06:28pm PT
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^^^ how much?
maybe i can enlist the services of the chief to track him down...
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Apr 28, 2013 - 07:07pm PT
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george jones dies,
then the rock,
two white lightening deaths in the same week,
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Apr 28, 2013 - 09:44pm PT
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Troll. It worked.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 28, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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I like James
He's a good guy.
Yes, but Werner, you also believe that the Boston bombing was a Hollywood TV set, and in nine headed elephant Gods and stuff, so we have trouble taking your word for it....
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Apr 28, 2013 - 09:52pm PT
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Ya? Maybe.. It would be possible with photoshop. Anyone have an updated image? That would solve the question..
I would never dream of erasing something so historic myself. Even the nps seems to like it as they haven't sent a ranger to scrub the offending marks off over the last 30 years.
Will this be what brings their focus on the subject??
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Apr 28, 2013 - 09:54pm PT
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Haha. That made me smile Bruce.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Apr 28, 2013 - 10:09pm PT
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A possible NPS perspective is that C4 is a vernacular cultural landscape and the bolt is a significant and identifiable part of that landscape. Jus' sayin. The only thing we know is that the OP did it when he would not risk confrontation, then blogged about it, then went to sites like supertopo to provide links to the blog. Massively lame no matter how you cut it.
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!