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monolith
climber
albany,ca
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Did they need some tools to take the cable apart?
Who would be carrying them if they did?
Or maybe you can just pull the stakes out and move the cable over.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Quick thinking attorney files HD Quick-release Cable Rescue Apparatus Patent (HDQCRAP). (no number yet, database only contains "granted" numbers).
Quick reacting, but slow thinking hiker requests refund of ticket price. The thrill is gone.
Much better video
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Prod
Trad climber
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I've never been on the cables. Was that as close as it looks to a "game over" for that guy?
Prod.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Holy cow look at that picture. It is almost as bad as Everest.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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People get paralyzed with fear on the cables route, and the line just creeps along at the speed of the slowest person. The one time I went up it, I bypassed the line and just ran up the slab alongside the cables. It's 4th class friction or maybe 5.1.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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In terms of raw quantity, it's much worse than Everest.
That was satire. Or sarcasm. Not sure which, but i thought it was funny.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Everest would have about a hundred tents ripped to shreds in the foreground.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Uh, Sherpas? I wonder if a donkey could make it up like at the Grand Canyon. Maybe a yak, they're more sure-footed I believe.
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Caught by small ledge.
hehe
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Blakey
Trad climber
Newcastle UK
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I'm surprised the domino video isn't cited by tinfoilers as evidence the twin towers were demolished.
Pretty cool though.
Steve
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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respectfully disagree with khanom, even tho this foto probably supports his argument
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Good thinking on the part of the rescuers.
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WBraun
climber
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khanom
Your photo is deceiving to the eye.
A woman shot down that area and went to the base,
She was dust and in pieces and I stuffed all the parts in the black bag ......
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WBraun
climber
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The woman kept going because it was wet and raining, a big contributing factor .....
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monolith
climber
albany,ca
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He's walking casually because he has hold of the cable.
A couple days before the cables went up this year, I hiked up to do the route with the cables down and see if I could do it without the cables. During my prep in the morning, I forgot to put the climbing shoes in the pack. Oh, well, I'll give it a try in the tennis shoes. After a few steps, I grabbed the cable. It was much steeper and slicker than I thought it would be.
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John M
climber
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Anyway I can't help but feel that the "rescuers" actions were questionable at best.
What is questionable about it? If they weren't climbers then they had no idea how safe or dangerous that slope is. I applaud them for taking action and not waiting for a rescue team which has happened in the past. I had no idea one could move the cables that far.
Remember one of the previous rescues people just stood around waiting for the helicopter. Werner suggested that they could have taken their pants off, tied them together, and made a rope long enough. There were a good 100 people or more standing around during that incident.
Right before that incident we had seen a video of a flash flood in a third world country. Someone was trapped and a bunch of people made a chain by linking arms and went and got the person. That was way more dangerous then this spot.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2012 - 08:59pm PT
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No tiene chele.
She's as bad as Everest, wink wink nudge nudge. She's a goer, then?
La chula hikers club meeting?
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Werner: Bugs is Out of Line.
Merry: What would Alex do?
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