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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 15, 2012 - 01:09am PT
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It's not parkour. It's not poseur. It's ... Crating!
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The exciting new sport of Crate Stacking is taking the world by storm. Both CMac and Sketchy Andy are rumoured to be secretly practicing it, at a secret bunker near Lake Tahoe.
Practitioners, when asked, said "This is way better than slacklining - and anyway, the line isn't slack, so what are they talking about? You sure as heck aren't going to see any of those clowns cratestacking leashless, or on the Lost Arrow. Crating is a sport for real men, and pretty soon we'll have uniforms and a TV contract. Plus crating is almost a homonym for cratering, and that could be real handy."
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Jun 15, 2012 - 01:38am PT
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I could see this turning into a crateastrophe...
Definitely gonna die.......
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jun 15, 2012 - 01:43am PT
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That's why you see bars across the fourth story windows in L.A.
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john hansen
climber
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Jun 15, 2012 - 01:50am PT
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I once built a house of card's 12 stories high,, it took me a whole summer of practice before my 8th grade year
Next I put a yard stick as a foundation to build the card house around and got up to over 20 stories high. You have to be very calm,,,
Even with the yard stick you still have to balance the cards and not cause the whole stack to collapse...
I think the rope is cheating,,,,,,,
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jun 15, 2012 - 02:10am PT
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humans have an amazing capacity to make up sh#t when they get bored. Crating, slack-lining, climbing, hell civilization itself is just a bulkhead against boredom.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2012 - 12:29pm PT
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They even made up cration science.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 15, 2012 - 01:16pm PT
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Jenga for athletes. Did anyone fast forward to see if they fell?
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Chef Wade
Trad climber
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:02pm PT
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After the crates fall and the guy is hanging by the rope you get to beat him with the crate stick, like a piņata. I think you win if you stack the crates so high that when they topple, you're too high up to get hit with the stick.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:04pm PT
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Looks like crate amounts of fun!
Edit: I also see those indoor wusses have pads. And what's with the rope? Real Men would free stack!
John
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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I'm looking forward to the first untethered crate-jump. Maybe if you stacked on top of the Lost Arrow?
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:48pm PT
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insert obligatory da Brim joke here.
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 15, 2012 - 06:42pm PT
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I'm going to make the first CFA on the top of El Cap. Hiring sherpas now to lug crates to the top. Alternately need 4000 ft of static rope for longest haul ever.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2012 - 07:48pm PT
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Maybe, just maybe, the Sherpas would be willing to use sleds to get the crates to the top. (Check with Ron A.) Whether the world is ready for someone crating and sledding at the same time, let alone off the top of El Cap, may be something else. Base-crating, a whole new twist!
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jun 15, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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Just wait till Alex takes this up. Like 200 crates stacked and no rope. But how does one get down?
Actually I think this is a spin off of an old Chinese circus act. But they use stacked chairs, then put the top one up on one leg, then do a one hand straight arm press to a hand stand on top of the whole pile.
Definitely defeats boredom.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2012 - 02:20am PT
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I wonder how crating would combine with highwire walking, say across Niagara Falls? Maybe some dairy company would sponsor, if it got its name on the crates?
And yes, decrating is easily as challenging as crating. When you get to the top, it's not even half over.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 16, 2012 - 02:30am PT
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Maybe combined with the milk challenge?
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