You should hold a contest to see who can hijack graniteclimbers threads the best. Take all of his threads/posts comments ect... and make them political....
We have no proof that mr anonymous is in fact a granite climber since he has refused all requests about identity or what he has climbed or who might vouch for his alleged skill level.
So until that happens, he's a zero with zero experience and zero partners.
graniteclimber has been posting (and contributing) here for more than six years, often on climbing threads. Overall it's pretty clear that he is a climber, although I've never met him/her, and don't know who she/he is. In any event, if he was (perish the thought!) a non-climber posting on a climbers' forum, isn't it a little late to be making an issue of it?
As climbers don't own El Capitan or Yosemite, graniteclimber is as free as any member of the public to express his views on the use and users of those places. His views may be better informed, the more of a climber that he is - at least with regard to purely climbing matters. But even if he's a non-climber who's never been to Yosemite, perhaps he has something to contribute.
That said, if GC has personal issues with regard to SS, we probably don't need to hear about them.
Enough of the dog-pile routine already.
As for conspiracy theory threads - at least one of which the administrators recently deleted, which says something - if you don't post them, I won't satirize them, or help others to do so.
Mighty, by reading his posts, I fully agree with you.
But I know who you are and what your background are, so I have a great deal of respect for you and what you have to say about all things climbing.
On the other hand I have a long time stoner friend who was one of the world's great climbing groupies, and an intellectual to boot. He could talk circles around most climbers but basically couldn't climb his way out of a paper bag, most especially if it included any leading, period.
Therefore, I took anything and every high minded sounding thing he had to say about badass climbing with MANY grains of salt.
So....granite holds little water with his shpoopi hate, just sayin'....
So is there a consensus? Suppose one with no information has observed fixed lines over a three month period. There seem to be three options.
1. No action
2. Inform Jesse of their presence
3. Remove them (all) and take them to Lost and Found
if it's el cap, option 1: do nothing. el cap is pretty public. it's a small place. if ropes have been there for 3 mos, jesse will already know about them.
obvious exceptions for attractive hazards like a fix with a bad anchor. or something that's ganking some other route. barring some shift in the consensus to the point that all fixing is eliminated, i can't see any support for someone jugging up and yanking tommy's ropes off the dawn project.
that said, it's pretty easy to project a bit into the future and see that there are going to be management issues involving fixing. some of those will overlap with other touchy questions, like the cables on half dome.
i like karl's suggestion that we fix free rider for minitraxing. i could drive out on weekends and tr the damn thing.
Kinda hafta agree with the heavy handed Braun on this one. Two guys who've called for heads in the recent past, not surprising they would experience a little backlash.
Let us know!