Trip Report
Lotus Flower Tower
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Wednesday May 16, 2012 10:58am
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Back in 1991 a gang of six of us from Texas went and climbed the Lotus Flower Tower.
As I have had a little time lately to apply some computer horsepower to the old archive, I give you this:
http://vimeo.com/42137136
Crump
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About the Author
Crump is a social climber from Lakewood, CO. |
Comments
philo
climber
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May 16, 2012 - 03:01pm PT
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Such a beautiful piece of landscape. Good on Y'all.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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May 16, 2012 - 03:12pm PT
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Wow...youngsters!
Happy B-day, Tracey!
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Crump
Social climber
Canyon Lake, Texas
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Author's Reply
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May 16, 2012 - 04:01pm PT
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Didn't you like her scene where she is putting on her pack?
Hubba hubba!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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May 16, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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Beautiful (and quite enticing) video. Good climbing and video both. Thanks much.
John
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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May 16, 2012 - 10:50pm PT
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Awesome looking route, a great time with friends,
What more could you ask for?
bump for the real deal y'all!
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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May 16, 2012 - 10:55pm PT
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dream tic right there man...dream i need to make happen, and soooooon...
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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May 16, 2012 - 11:18pm PT
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Too cool! Great video and music. Any chance you could list the artists and songs?
Erik
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 16, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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wonderful TR, thanks for putting it together and sharing it with us!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 16, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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I honestly liked the landscape, but the vimeo as it came into my rig was too herky-jerky, and it cut back to the start about halfway thru, about eight minutes in on the fixing party segment. But then things didn't turn out so hot at the Alamo, either.
Jim McCarthy has a TR from 2009 you should look at.
I hope you all thank your lucky lone stars you all got to go to the home of Yukon Jack.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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May 16, 2012 - 11:59pm PT
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Say, Big Pak, how about a "Where are they now?" epilogue.
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JMC
climber
the land of milk and honey
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May 17, 2012 - 12:37am PT
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Really cool, thanks. Enjoyed the footage of the trip in, and the view to the top at 10:40 must have been jizztastic in real life.
How is the climbing, worth the trip?
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cowpoke
climber
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May 17, 2012 - 07:09am PT
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Thanks for sharing this! I really loved it. The vibe really shines through, including in the retro soundtrack and the speeded up section of humping down the scree and across the tree...and then the fish. Further validation for this place being in my top five "must do." Super cool. And, I'll second the call for a "where are they now?"
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Crump
Social climber
Canyon Lake, Texas
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Author's Reply
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May 17, 2012 - 10:04am PT
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Thank you all for your kind feedback. One thing that was tough is that we lost half of our video footage due to a camera defect. The music was borrowed from:
Andreas Vollenwieder - The Fire Dance
BoDeans - Good Things
Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shotgun down the Avalanche
Steve Hillage - Wait
As to us these days...
David Head, King of El Paso, married to a former Miss El Paso, 2 kids, building highways as the big boss
Stevie Lowry - Surveyor in Fairbanks Alaska
Dr Mike Lewis - King of San Antonio, community leader, Brower Award winner, multiple terms on the American Alpine Club Board of Directors and Conservation Chair, married, 2 children and one grandson
Robert and Tracey Price, King and Queen of SLC, climbing hard and ruling the desert as the model couple we all wish we could be
and yes me, James Crump, old broken-down, fat has-been living on the glories of the past, selling enterprise software and solving strategic problems, sadly women have given up on me, so it is just me and my dogs.
I have a couple of other recent projects that I will post up.
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The Alpine
climber
The Sea
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May 17, 2012 - 11:02am PT
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Now that is one helluva retro gangbang! So many pastels...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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May 17, 2012 - 11:34am PT
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Thanks, Crump. 20 years.
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ddriver
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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May 17, 2012 - 11:36am PT
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Hell yeah its worth it.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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May 17, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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That was great! Thanks for the vicarious trip to something I dreamed of doing in my youth. How long was the trip Texas to Texas?
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Crump
Social climber
Canyon Lake, Texas
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Author's Reply
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May 17, 2012 - 05:31pm PT
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DDriver's memory might be better than mine, but I think we were there from drop off to pick up 23 days, and we were walking in after collecting Mike from his missed flight in less than 48 hours from Austin.
After that we team drove to Edmonton hit a hotel, went out for a massive steak dinner, and flew out the next day... So for me? 27 days? It was all I could fit with only 3 weeks off from the grind.
The descent was hairy in that it was blowing sleet, snow and hail on us for 24 hours chasing us from the sumit. The wall iced up a bit, but a team from France had set a nice rap descent... I was bitching about the bolts on the way up, but thanking them as we all got off alive.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jul 21, 2016 - 05:13pm PT
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Bump for a good climbing video...TFPU
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briham89
Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
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Jul 21, 2016 - 09:06pm PT
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Really cool!
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Jul 22, 2016 - 12:41pm PT
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I REALLY enjoyed this. Thank you.
BAd
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Jul 22, 2016 - 04:05pm PT
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Love the far away, get away feel, zest and companionship all along. Lo or rough tech feel of the filming fits with the wild sometimes brooding landscape. No need for slick here.
If this isn't what climbing can be at best, I don't know what is.
Tom Higgins
LongAgo
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stefano607518
Trad climber
italy/austria/switzerland
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Jul 26, 2016 - 12:32pm PT
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oh James,
thankf for this...
this as well as the bogaboos is one of my to do before to get 40.... just got a kiddo now ;-)
nice video and nice story
.....
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FBrewster
Trad climber
Foresta, CA
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:17pm PT
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This was great, thanks!!!
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