jghedge
climber
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Honnold did a 14c yesterday and redpoints 14 pretty regularly.
Think how solid you were in your prime, taco-standers, 3 number grades below your limit.
A lot of you were solid 11 climbers BITD - was 5.8 ropeless that big of a deal? I should hope not...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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"Be safe," the kiss of death? Excellent poem, but a tough mark. I'm with PH: in the abstract it could have been not so personal and as powerful as velvet.
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jstan
climber
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Mr. Drummond has manipulated us, egregiously.
But I suppose embarassment is a small price to pay for something like Roger's superb Monty Python bit.
It is an ill wind that blows no one any good.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Yeah, Joe... I wonder. Does the whole arrangement just ratchet up several notches, all things seeming the same --- 5.11 is the new 5.8??---or is there something much wilder going on, when the top grade goes from 5.11 to 5.15? It is hard to believe that 5.11 could seem like the 5.8 of 1972, but then again if you have watched 5.11 being dispatched by top climbers today, it really does look like the person is doing 5.8!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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wind is ill when it is still.
movement ignites search which leads to change,
and growth prevails.
for the youth not to stretch upheld and stagnant standards according to his neon dreams, a surrender to complacency must take place.
"stand still alex. curb your dreams. betray your path because of my fears."
pooey. let thrive that boy.
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donh
Social climber
los angeles,ca
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hi ed
i was thinking about your epic 'first ascent' of the statue of liberty.
did you summit? and if so, who topped out first you or stephen?
rip: Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt
thanks
don
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Find an old copy of I can't remember which issue of Ascent and read "Mirror Mirror" by Mr. Drummond. Fantastic stuff. i don't feel his comments were out of line...seemed like good advice to me. But Alex is the master of his own ship, sailing on an ocean I can't fathom.
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