Vote - Should Skinner's bolts be removed?

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JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 15, 2005 - 04:37pm PT

Edit as you vote.

Yes 1
No 0
Russ Walling

Social climber
NOT FOR LOAN™ CC3
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:43pm PT
Who is Skinner?? Where are the bolts??
estwing

Trad climber
montreal
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:44pm PT
Hi Juan,
As someone who will likely never climb wet denim, why should I care if their are bolts on it? Will you ever climb it? If you do will it be free? I bet you would clip those bolts even if you where aiding the route. Why bother taking them out, just prove how hard you really are by skipping them. Then you can say "I am bolder than Mr. Skinner" (though I can't free 5.13).

yes 1
no 1

who really gives a sh*t anyway?
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2005 - 04:46pm PT
Please just vote, we really do not need the dumbass comments!
Ben Rumsen

Social climber
No Name City ( and it sure ain't pretty )
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:47pm PT
Yes 2
No 1

crotch

climber
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:47pm PT
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2005 - 04:48pm PT
You f*#king children!
Oregon Boy

Trad climber
OR
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:49pm PT
no.

Yes 2
No 2
Bilbo

Trad climber
Truckee
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:53pm PT
Juan, You really should let the Diebold voting machines do the counting, run by coiler.
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2005 - 04:54pm PT
Yes 984
No 2
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Dec 15, 2005 - 04:59pm PT
Jeff I don't think you have the credibilty to post a thread like this and the fact that you haven't linked "the vote" to the "Facts"

Here
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=128775&f=0&b=0#msg131078

and here

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=131067&f=0&b=0

just prove that this shouldn't be serious.

I encourage people to have fun and either don't post on this thread or mock it. if you have a considered opinion having read everyone's contribution, post it somewhere serious, like the threads linked.

If you don't have the time to read the threads, you should just move on with other things

Peace

karl
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2005 - 05:02pm PT
It could be very serious, we have a record of the vote, and the tabulation?

How is it different than any voting, most people do not spend hours weighing the facts!

If the name Skinner comes up I vote chop!

JDF
426

Sport climber
Roun' Chatt
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:09pm PT
Bilbo

Trad climber
Truckee
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:26pm PT
I just re-read Coiler's original post;

He plans to climb it soon and CHOP all 15 bolts, no need for a vote or an opinion.

He's keeping the valley BOLD.

This is an issue for the locals, everyone else needs to mind there own buisness. There are plenty of places to bolt-up sh#t, the Valley is not one of them.




'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:33pm PT
Yes.

Yes - 3
No - 2
pc

climber
Eastside
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:38pm PT
Do Canadians get to vote?
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:42pm PT
Bilbo says Coiler's going to chop all 15 bolts but is that true?

Supposedly only 5 bolts are near the original route, the rest on free variations, and we hear only 2 are within actual reach of the aid climbing. So while yur all votin, you might distinguish which bolts derserve to be chopped and why. Is it ethical to Rap Chop and why?

Keep in mind that Todd had the Fa's permission and that Ammon himself said that only one bolt was within easy reach of the original route. The bolt that would keep a free climber from decking on Ahwahnee ledge.

What Coilers decides to do or not do is differnent (maybe) from what the community decides. Just cause bolts come out doesn't mean they stay out unless we have some kind of meeting of the minds.

Peace

karl
Mr_T

Trad climber
Somewhere, CA
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:44pm PT
This reminds me of some advice a friend gave me after I had a run in with an a-hole surfer once at a total beginner area. The advice - "the a-hole was some old guy who used to be good, but is now past his time". Same deal here. WDD was once scary stuff. It's relatively easy now (I did the route 7 years ago). Sounds like it's gone free. The guy who's gonna chop it probably can't free it. He probably once climbed some hard stuff, but probably not any more. Can he repeat Skinner's route on free? Can he free something else and set a better standard?

Why free WDD? I don't know - there's better stuff to free out there. Why chop it? Is there a lack of A3/A4 in the Valley? Ego vs. Ego.

Be the better person and don't go chopping. It only makes a mess on the cliff and doesn't help the climbing community.
'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:48pm PT
This Hoser voted in the last US election. Clever, eh?

I guess you Merricans don't know how to count, huh?
pc

climber
Eastside
Dec 15, 2005 - 05:51pm PT
Prolly 'cause that "diebold" thing had a special exemption for W voting hosers, eh?

Me too, eh. But not the W part.

Perhaps we just cancelled each other out. WTF.

;)
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