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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Gene! LOL!!!!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Here is what has happened, Pilgrims. The damn flake DID detach, but slid down to Texas Flake with an unanchored guy riding it down while sitting on top; his party was still attached to the anchors above and one was way below, starting the King Swing. Take a look. This has to be the most amazing experience ever in rock climbing for all four of these climbers!! Shot this morning!!
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Gene
climber
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Peter,
Thanks for the photographic evidence. Appreciated.
This means we have to rename the King Swing since the original version has gone south, right? Any suggestions?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Absolutely, Gene. And people probably STILL won't believe this and are plain stuck on the April Fool's Day business. Yawn. This is a huge-A deal!!
Now we can see there was virtually nothing holding the flake on the wall, too. What? Velcro? Amazing.
Imagine the ride down for the unanchored guy. It looks from here he is thoroughly blown out and can hardly hang on any more.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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I can still see their rope attached to the Boot Flake! They better not take it off belay!
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Gene
climber
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Do you see his sh#t streaks on the former Boot Flake to his right and below? He must have let go when the flake let go. OMG!
PowerBar diet?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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I have been predicting this for four decades. We are going to have to thru-bolt the sucker all the way from Hetch-Hetchy now; we can't have this take place ever again. Getting in back in place prior to thru-bolting: I don't know. Since they won't let us stage a crane on the rim there, maybe successive air pods and blocks??? Any ideas, crew?
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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El Cap's giving Texas the boot!
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:20am PT
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And Half Dome exploded this morning!!!
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:25am PT
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Big rockfall right behind Camp 4 yesterday afternoon.
I could see the granite dust from the sar cache yard.
This is NOT bullsh!t either ......
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Gene
climber
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It's-that-day bump!
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MAD BOLTER
Trad climber
CARLSBAD,NM
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OBVIOUSLY AN APRIL-FOOL'S-DAY ITEM. IT WAS 12 YRS AGO THAT THIS STUFF WAS POSTED.
EVERYBODY WHO HAS BEEN IN THE VALLEY HAS SEEN THE "BOOT" SINCE THEN.
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MAD BOLTER
Trad climber
CARLSBAD,NM
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WHO KEEPS REPLACING IT ON FOOL'S DAY EACH YEAR?
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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I woulda bumped it but someone beat me to it this morning.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Warren has risen and the Merced River is flowing with wine.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Haven't those crag administrators heard of shoe goo?
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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shoe goee? pssh. simple super glue works wonders. fact.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Knott again??????
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