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PatKaufer
Trad climber
Laguna Hills, California
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Anyone know the name of the route they climbed?
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rnevius
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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Thanks Ryan. Good stuff.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Sorry, but that metal pier thing is lame.
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roadman
climber
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Cool! He's an amazing athlete, that's for sure.
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hb81
climber
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I found it kinda funny how he talks about feeling connected and one with nature and then has a 40ft metal plank attached to the side of a mountain just so he can jump off it. I'm sure he wouldn't chisel holds on a climbing route just to make it possible.
Makes you wonder if he really wanted to do it or if maybe the producers of the show had some influence there... you know, they've gone all this way and then they are missing the money shot... that kinda thing.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Thanks for posting that Ryan-pretty incredible.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Very incredible. Thanks.
I wonder if "The Butte" can be paraglided? Wonder if there could be a launch worked out.
Dean is the man.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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"the metal pier thing" which was discussed in the behind the scenes link I posted, was to clear the initial section of the face which was deemed too low of an angle to clear upon takeoff. The solution was to build a "plank" lower down, hence the fitting phrase, "walk the plank."
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RoryKuykendall
Mountain climber
California
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Thanks for posting the link. That was a pleasure to watch. Dean Potter is brilliant, but I thought the real star of the show was Mount Bute. What an absolutely stunning mountain.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Finally, heck I've been trying to find that since it aired.
Beautiful Dean.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Whoa, didn't catch it before, but Dean slips a bit on "wet rock"? at 10:53. Even more incredible is that a bit more than a minute was edited off of Dean's flight.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Jan 17, 2013 - 12:41am PT
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wow, that was really something special!
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The Wedge
Boulder climber
Santa Rosa & Bishop, CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:37am PT
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All pretty rad!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jan 17, 2013 - 09:15am PT
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Dean is the man. I have asked about him when I meet someone who knows him and they all say that he is super kind.
His type of flying is a little different from the proxy flyers. Dean tries for distance and time. Proxy flyers are into buzzing things on the ground or along a wall.
The problem is that after endless searching on the internet, there just aren't many walls with enough relief to approach his Eiger jump, which was the tallest BASE jump.
In the U.S. we have a few walls with good relief, but nothing like the Eiger. The Eiger is massive, and beneath it is a long slope leading away for miles. Now even higher walls above sea level have been done, but I'm not sure if anyone has broken his Eiger record for longest flight. The one in the NG show is close.
The suit technology is improving rapidly. What was hot sh#t 5 years ago is now second hand.
Regarding the diving board, it was the only way to do this wall. Europe has many jumps that have artificial diving boards to make them possible, and in his case it was totally removed when finished. I heard that the rigging was pretty wild.
Funny that his dog's name is "Whisper." When out checking out sailboats I bet that Whisper was the most common boat name. Definitely not the most common dog name.
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skywalker
climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:10pm PT
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Now I know base jumping El Cap is illegal. If he fell would that be illegal? Just sayin'. Badass!
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Al_Smith
climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:51pm PT
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Almost completely irrelevant, but for what it's worth, I've met and talked with Dean at length on numerous occasions in the Valley and elsewhere and he's one of the nicest dudes around. (...Even to slightly overweight, mediocre climbers like me!)
"Great visionaries have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Einstein
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orangesporanges
Social climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 03:30pm PT
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^Amazballs adventurer.
And then, I heard of how one of the most super nice guys I have met (a relatively pint-sized Alpinist and collegiate boxing champion from Estes) was provoked enough to near-go the knuckle with him once.
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