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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Killer story...Thanks!!!
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ghostfromthepast
Social climber
oakhurst ca
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it happened just like that :)
This was just before the final push for hall of mirrors, financed in small part by the "flatbed 10".
I love the story, never knew it was so significant in the Base jumping world. I wouldn't want to spoil it with my more humble recollections who knows what exactly happened that long ago.
Thanks, Chris
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Excellent History account, Thanks. Jumpers that want to fight climbers....Knott real smart...Climbers are about the last people to get into a brawl with.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 9, 2009 - 04:53pm PT
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'Eh Chris:
Thank you for taking the time to pop in and comment.
It crossed my mind that I should send you a copy first and get your OK before posting. I was apprehensive about mentioning you and Scott directly and that perhaps my memory of the events may have distorted somewhat over the decades.
it happened just like that :)
Your comment:
This was just before the final push for hall of mirrors...
Brought an instantaneous memory flash. You sitting on the tail gate of your (Dodge?) pick up with the home grown, wooden camper shell in the Apron parking lot. I came out of the trees one day to the sight/smell of you and Burke, on the tail gate macking on a 'Rotisserie chicken' from the general store. I recall being so hungry walking to the Curry shuttle stop and thinking. "Wow, now there is a rich, established, California climber. He has a pick up with camper, loaded with gear, man did you see that dude even had his own 12 volt, bit sharpening jig, that rocks. I wouldn't mind being able to mack on greasy chicken, cold beer and spud salad, right there on my tail gate at the base of the crag I am putting up routes on!"
Ahh the Daze, penny poor but culturally wealthy ;)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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My friend Simon - from Vancouver, in around 1980 - rescued a base jumper who got hung up somewhere on Dolt or El Cap Tower. Jumped, and I guess got too close in and got hung up. Anyway, they went up - at night, maybe - and got the guy down.
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Robb
Social climber
The Greeley Triangle
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Nov 26, 2009 - 12:32pm PT
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We were on Zodiac in October of 1980. It was at night during a full moon when several base jumpers did their thing off of the nose.We start to hear what sounds like the biggest air-ripping rock fall imaginable and are sucking into the wall for all we're worth when suddenly POP, and there's a chute floating off the nose!Pretty trippy to say the least.Soon, if I remember right there's two more. One of them somehow drifts back into the wall and gets stuck on some ledge.Shortly thereafter, there's a ton of yelling and commotion going on as some climbers went up and rescued the guy.The things you see in the ditch......
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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As I heard it, the stranded jumper was on Lay Lady Ledge, which is on the New Dawn,
not far below the El Cap Tower bivvy on the Nose.
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Typewriters and Ledges
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I'd hope the stranded jumper came at the ledge head on. I'd hate to think of hitting the wall above the back of the ledge and coming down on those boulders.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Great story. I sure would like to see Scott again sometime.
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