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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Mar 23, 2010 - 12:46am PT
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Aaron's opinion. The dude knows more about hangin it out there, and climbing for a living, then most of us...excluding Werner. Which I believe is exactly what he is getting at in not so many words.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Mar 23, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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Alex is a rad dude.
In the middle of signing God knows how many posters, he stopped and talked to my Mom for fifteen minutes. She went alone to the red rock rendesvou to take some clinics and Alex took time out to tell her that he is really enjoying introducing HIS family to climbing.
Its a funny thing, but you can tell the true character of someone by how they treat people they have no reason to be nice to. The Hubers also had a beer with granny.
I never met Alex, but he is rad in my book. And I was in Zion when he soloed Moonlight. It was weird, you could FEEL it in camp - something was going on. Hard to exlpain.
And a big shout out to the man, Aaron Jones! What you been up to dude?? I had a blast reading your trip report last year about all those walls. Keep us posted brudda.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 23, 2010 - 12:53am PT
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" .... who is in control?"
We only have partial control ever.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Mar 23, 2010 - 09:57am PT
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Morning Tar (no "d" for me),
I don't think Ed intended his thread to be a troll, but the subject, his writing style, and his silence so far are as good as trolling gets.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 23, 2010 - 10:10am PT
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Of course he didn't.
I was just goofing off (but you knew that too).
And you're quite right on the second part!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Mar 23, 2010 - 11:49am PT
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Aaron's opinion. The dude knows more about hangin it out there, and climbing for a living, then most of us...excluding Werner. Which I believe is exactly what he is getting at in not so many words.
How would we know any of that with such an unintelligent post?
Beside that, many of us know plenty about "hangin it out there."
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Mar 23, 2010 - 12:30pm PT
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Well I guess you'd have to know Arron.
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squatch
Boulder climber
santa cruz, CA
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Mar 23, 2010 - 10:03pm PT
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Mar 23, 2010 - 10:21pm PT
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i consider my fate very time i climb. i re-evaluated my presence after the loss of my possessions resulting from a regional fire storm. "i" am here momentarily. let me set the tone and tenor of my existence as i see fit, without influence of yours.
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brett
climber
oregon
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Mar 24, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
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I'd venture that a free solo of the Nose is out of the question, at least for several generations.
The leap from Astroman to RNWF Half Dome took 20+ years and the leap from there to the Nose is considerably wider.
It is all but impossible to be solid on the Nose in the same way climbers were solid on Astroman even 25 years ago
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 24, 2010 - 07:28pm PT
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"You live by the sword, you die by the sword." Of course, the swordsman keep getting better.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 24, 2010 - 09:28pm PT
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Tell it Jim!
Straight, no chaser.
Elegant too.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 24, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
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"We are nothing without the work of others our predecessors, others our teachers, others our contemporaries. Even when, in the measure of our inadequacy and our fullness, new insight and new order are created, we are still nothing without others.
Yet we are more."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Reith Lecture, December 20, 1953
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Prod
Trad climber
Dodge Sprinter Dreaming
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:15pm PT
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Tar wrote.
Tell it Jim!
Straight, no chaser.
Elegant too.
About...
"You live by the sword, you die by the sword." Of course, the swordsman keep getting better.
Isn't this a chaser?
Of course, the swordsman keep getting better.
Prod.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:18pm PT
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Inspiration and warning, one word . . .
ICARUS
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pa
climber
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:46pm PT
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Beautiful quote, Mr. Hartouni. Thank you.
Reminds me of the greek methaphysical notion that "we are what we are because of what we can become".
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:49pm PT
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If you must, "Prod".
Jeebus.
Signed,
Your "Other"
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:59pm PT
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This guy .... Ed. Drummond?
Where the fuk did he go?
Hey man get your ass back in this thread and say something ......
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Mar 24, 2010 - 11:11pm PT
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No doubt Werner, that's what I was thinking.
Maybe he's just a pot stirrer...sp?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 24, 2010 - 11:20pm PT
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Let us not forget, the downfall of the Samurai was gunpowder.
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