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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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check your spam folder. you might have mistyped your email address too.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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"Wheat grass enema"?
& inverts?
Well, bottoms up!
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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And it is definitely an awesome film.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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Ha Ha Jaybro!!
We were victimized once again by the WideFetish word filter. I typed "vegetarian"
Got us good on that one!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Ah yes! The "cloven hoof," "secret handshake," rob halford," "strenuous stretching in a leotard," affect, strikes again!
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Sonic
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Mine was instant. Probably the spam filter haha.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2012 - 11:17pm PT
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b u m
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hillbillyfire14
climber
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It's a shame the film doesn't bring pam into the story. Kind of ridiculous that she was told not to touch this climb while the brits were working it. At least the RR7 version had a short clip of her.
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Loose Rocks
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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I went old school and got the DVD in the mail. It arrived in less than 7 days. Fast shipping considering it came from the other side of the planet.
I liked the segments that described the back history prior to the trip. I liked that they discussed what led them to climb together, what spurred the quest for the wide cracks, and how they both first found out about the Century and their feelings about it. The details of the initial contact with Steve and how he found out about the crack and his work on it was a welcomed addition. You can get a sense of the history on it. The segment describing training and how militant they were about it was also a gem. The discussion on what drove them back to lead the CC without the pre-placed gear and how they felt about it was also great bit of the story. These sections were all definitely deeper that what was presented for RR7 as they should be. Exactly what I was expecting and what I wanted from the video.
I do wish that some of the RR7 commentary would have made the cut here. The segment in RR7 that had all the current notable players in the wide arena talking about “who the hell” and ending with “that kind of pissed me off”. Also the non-climbing sections during their travels in RR7 were better. I know that they probably wanted to avoid a rehash of the travel here since it was footage that was already used in RR7 but I felt that the commentary really should have made the cut here.
The main segment was mostly about the Century Crack. I get that it was the objective of the trip. I could understand why they would cut everything out from RR7 and leave it bare bones CC. It was meant to be a short. In this full feature I felt that they left out too much of the other stuff. I can understand that the producers wanted it to be about CC so in the main body of the video they glossed over the other stuff. This was very similar to RR7. They did give a couple of the notable climbs a tiny bit more time. I felt that it wasn’t enough. It probably would have fragmented the story too much if they gave those other climbs more time in the main body. There was however an opportunity to give it all back in the extras.
The main section was really good. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t more in the extras. That section could have been so much better. It might have been that I had already seen RR7 but I don’t think that was completely it.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Seen it, great stuff.
Thought I was seeing things when the film mentioned widefetish.com as a place for some of their inspiration.
I think it was one of the pieces in the Western Gold (or maybe it was ReelRock) DVD I got a week ago or so.
Those guys put the wide into their system and seemed to have accomplished everything they set out to.
Inspiring, to say the least.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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It's a shame the film doesn't bring pam into the story. Kind of ridiculous that she was told not to touch this climb while the brits were working it. At least the RR7 version had a short clip of her.
That true?
They were only working it for 24 hours.....
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chris alstrin
Trad climber
Colorado Springs, CO
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Dec 11, 2012 - 09:23am PT
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It's a shame the film doesn't bring pam into the story. Kind of ridiculous that she was told not to touch this climb while the brits were working it. At least the RR7 version had a short clip of her.
This is not true.
I'll chime in here. I made the film with Paul, Tom and Pete and was out shooting the boys on Century Crack during both ascents. Do you honestly think either of those two humble Brits would say, "this route is ours, you can't climb it"?
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 11, 2012 - 09:31am PT
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Just sounds like more Wyde Drama created by the usual gang of suspects ;-)
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Woody the Beaver
Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
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Dec 11, 2012 - 01:41pm PT
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Watched my son's copy last night. Hey, that was fun! A cheery and preposterous route, for sure -- great stuff. As a certified geezer, I appreciated the non-heinous music, too. I wondered too about what these cats do for a living, and appreciated the interview with Ms. Tom. So thanks, all. Looking down at the shoes from above reminded me of my first roped adventures in 1960 or so in Western Colorado, way out in the sticks. We had a broad sandstone blowout cave near the hopeless place where I grew up, and it had a crack/chimney that separated the front of the cave from the mother rock behind it, so you could straddle the crack and peer down 30 feet or so to the slope of damp sand that floored the cave. Seems like the topside expression of the crack was 50 feet long, maybe -- been a long time. Anyway, two friends and I -- all of us had heard of the antics of the Kor crowd hundreds of miles to the east -- were mad for the climbing scene of which we had no clue. So we bought a goldline rope from the Gerry catalog, tied one end to a shaky juniper, and took turns rappelling down through the widest part of the crack to the sand far below. Horrible! Freehanging body rappels on goldline! Nauseating spinning as the sawblade crawled over our bodies! Horrible! Seeing the Century crack movie reminded of that place, though I don't think our crack was quite so long. Maybe I should do a road trip to Colorado this spring and try hanging upside down by my size 13s.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 11, 2012 - 02:41pm PT
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Does that violate your restraining order, Moj?
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Dec 12, 2012 - 09:23am PT
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Hey Jaybro,
You listen too much to small brained folk who yank your chain--then believe them.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 12, 2012 - 10:03am PT
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I'll take that as a yes. You opened the door :)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 16, 2012 - 01:33pm PT
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Ed, I think you certainly finish out there with the big question.
What does one do after having "conquered the world"? Cry, as Alexander the Great had when he reached the end of the known vanquished world? Has the journey ended forever, has the Campbellian Seeker, now atoned, return home for good? "When the world is not enuff", what then?
When last we looked, our problem is partly for lack of resources, it seems at first blush. Can our heros, the Dynamic Duo, find more Hard or is there even any more of such climbing? Will Crusher come, etriers in hand, to the rescue again for his countrymen? Will Fran Crusher find other big offwidth out in the Cosmos with her special Geophysical Powers as a last ditch move to save Offwidth Humanity and Western Offwidth Civilization?
In all seriousness though, what does one do after such a tour?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 16, 2012 - 02:05pm PT
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There's plenty more out there....
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 16, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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In all seriousness though, what does one do after such a tour?
Have a few pints and find the next dragon to slay.
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