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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 31, 2010 - 01:26pm PT
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Kind of sad about the "outing" of the Green River Towers in the latest Climbing.
I've been climbing there for over a quarter century. Why'd this guy Andrew Burr have to let the cat out of the bag?
Anybody know this guy? Does he post here?
Whats the point?
We have less and less of these wild unknown places to adventure in.
He apparently didn't even do his homework by talking to the most knowledgeable climbers about it.
(That wouldn't be Bjornstad).
Very sad.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Aug 31, 2010 - 01:29pm PT
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Ron, I haven't seen the latest Climbing, is it about the area I emailed you about? The Cobra and that group?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2010 - 02:33pm PT
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Yeah, Abbey Tower.
Old Cactus Ed is rolling over in his grave.
I feel sorry for climbers a century from now.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
Oakland
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Not to be a @ick, but now you're outing it on the interwebz? You realize the audience here is much greater than some crappy magazine that people actually have to pay for, right?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Actually, this is a discussion of Antoine de Saint Exupery's lyrical writings.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
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Yeah. Lyrical writings. Like that little b!tch, the Little Prince. Yo.
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atchafalaya
climber
Babylon
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You must have felt the same way when Lowe published articles on Zion, or was he in the club?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2010 - 05:55pm PT
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True Wes, but Jeff and I both addressed this dilemma.
Read his East of the Valley, West of the Gunks, or my article in the '85 AAJ.
This was early on, before seeing the results on the resource and learning.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Like Mighty I also noted the St Exupery reference but have yet to see the relevance
to one of the seminal works of western writing.
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jstan
climber
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Wise management is so rare it needs to be widely acknowledged where it is found.
Back in the early seventies the Mohonk Preserve asked that outlying outcrops in the Gunks not be included in guidebooks. And that the Shawangunks not be frequently featured in topical media. Their requests were met with cooperation.
Sometimes I think we are killing our lives and making them shallow with our concentration on single issues. Yesterday one poster was thinking of the Gunks only in terms of climbing. A very common response.
Yet the most magical experience I had in that place involved a midnight run on the carriage roads during a light rain. Even the trees seemed alive.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Ouch Ron!
Pot calling kettle alert??
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jstan
climber
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Survival.
If Ron is telling us he now thinks he would do things differently, does that mean his counsel should be rejected out of hand?
Perhaps this is precisely the counsel one should be more prepared to consider.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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No, I get it Jstan.
I'm joking, because I like Ron's stuff, always.
But I was also unaware of his sordid past in this regard, since he didn't come out with it in the OP. HA!!
I'm all for protecting areas as much as possible.
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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just go upstream from Lee's Ferry,
there some more stone for ya.
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jstan
climber
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Yeah. Joking is hard to read. I do it all the time.
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