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mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 17, 2013 - 10:37am PT
Trip reposrts X Photos / posts =ST Ratio

7x1479/2482=4.17











































What this means, hell I don't know. It could be spiritually enilightening.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2013 - 10:40am PT
This thread needs photos.
this just in

climber
north fork
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:48am PT
1.1152. Sh#t have to recalculate with this new post.

Edited update: 697x3/1876=1.114605544
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:34am PT
Including this post:



1.176



And i'm comfortable with this number, whatever it means :-)
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:35am PT
Mike,

Some of us don't post trip reports because our photos are horrible, or we forget to take photos because we're having too much fun, or our butts look too big in the few photos we did take, or whatever. ;-)

Posting TRs isn't the criteria you should be judging...reading and acknowledging TRs is.

You, Micronut, Ed, Dingus, Fritz, Mr.E and a few others put up superb TRs and I love reading them. A lot of peeps love reading them. Giving us a .000317 ratio cause we can't write TRs is just not fair.

;-)

PS. Would you like a TR of me hauling the trash to the street through 8 inches of snow...down a 45 degree-black-iced driveway? Yer guaranteed to laugh...
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:38am PT
I'd like to see your trash hauling tr there L, it would kick ass compared to a lot of content around here guaranteed.



And if it's anything like that Halloween story u told us awhile back it would probably be hilarious too!
nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:43am PT
.186

that's a pretty heavy weight to TRs
i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:52am PT
boo. mine is skewed heavily since some of my posts link to trip reports posted on my blog and many of my pictures are uploaded elsewhere and inserted here.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2267658&msg=2268286#msg2268286
thebravecowboy

Social climber
Colorado Plateau
Dec 17, 2013 - 12:02pm PT
all those tranny/sheep photos really help me to keep my quotient high.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2013 - 12:44pm PT
I would take any trip report from you L. I only have 7 TRs and two or three were written by my son so you can devide my number by two, but Jack's may be skyrocketing.

And for the sake of getting a number(don't want zeros in the numerater) I think those with no TR or photos should put in a +1 so the new ST ratio = (TR+1)x(photo+1)/number of posts.

No meaning derived from this, not that anyone should care what I think, but much research may be devoted to this at which point conclusions may be drawn.
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Dec 17, 2013 - 12:44pm PT
4trs + 2 live tr's (which should be worth more since they are so much work)+ 1888 pics (most of then on flickr) / 3718= 3.05 A large majority of my posts are on topic as well.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2013 - 12:46pm PT
Hmmm what a nice "big" number you have Big Mike. The research has begun.

Mostly on topic: Duly Noted
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:05pm PT
ST ratio = 0.34
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:07pm PT
Not as fat as yours Mike! Looks like i need to write up my yos tr's! ;) (i've been meaning to anyways..)
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:12pm PT
Way too many posts, but 29 trip reports, even though some of them aren't awesome, and 3,900 photos.

I think I'm doing alright.....maybe.

Somebody please figure it out for me!
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:16pm PT
Bruce! 8.24! Wow! Best yet!
nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:17pm PT
survival: 8.24

edit: I think my .186 is the "Best" yet ;)

Although Lynne with No Tr's comes in at and nicely rounded 0.
this just in

climber
north fork
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:18pm PT
113100/13725= See above two posts you lazy bastard Bruce
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
Zero.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
Math makes my head hurt. But I loves me some good pictures of the great outdoors!!


































































































this just in

climber
north fork
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:23pm PT
Post five more pics to your above post if you want to keep that ratio up. Actually five and a quarter pics.

Well played.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
Who's to say high numbers are best. Still collecting data the research hasn't been done yet.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 17, 2013 - 01:33pm PT
12.9-ish, but I'm resigning, un-like Cardoza, if I don't get some cookies in the mail soon.

Why aren't OP's important to this question?

I think it's time for a new thread proliferation bitch thread.

Why this question, anyway? Is this to see if post numbers should be lowered based on some silly statistic that doesn't mean dick? I mean sh#t?

That we should be f*#king LIMITED!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????

Just kidding, it's interesting.

Whatever the ramifications.





L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:05pm PT
For MikeM and RyanD: Just uppin' the ratio, boyz!

Garbage Can Peak

My friends and I had been talking about doing Garbage Can Peak for almost two decades. But every time the time was right for me, the time was wrong for all of them. And the excuses just got more ludicrous as time went by (root canals, weddings, divorces, pedicures, you get the idea). Until finally one day recently, “The heck with them,” I thought, “I’ll solo the thing!”

You’ve probably heard of Garbage Can Peak. Also known as The Widow Maker. It’s located in the Hudson River Valley some 40 miles northwest of New York City. It’s a burly peak with a deadly approach and an even deadlier walk-off. A mountain that’s claimed more lives than the bus rides through Denali.

But what the hell…I wasn’t getting any younger and if life wasn’t an adventure, life turned into a dribbling daytime soap full of posts by Jludes and Nemesis and Zinger. I went to the closet and started laying out my gear.

Arctic Antifreeze gloves by Seirus. I’d used these puppies to outride frostbite on the chilly slopes of the Santa Monica mountains on many a summer’s morn.


Keen Mountain Berm boots. Notice the height of the boot and calf-hugging fine leather (for avalanche conditions in Los Angeles).


Notice the side zipper that keeps you from lacing and lacing and pulling your hair out and lacing and etc…


Notice the enormous toebox and lug soles that make your feet look twice their size, like Alley Oop.


Black cashmere scarf with black cat hair (you’d be surprised how warm the addition of cat hair is).


Lola Down Parka. Kept me toasty during my trip to Joshua Tree one December.


Lola Down Parka with Black Cat. Warmest thing on the planet…if you can only get it on.


Maui Jim shades. Made for the tropics, but stellar for shielding eyes from NY snow blindness.


My gear was finally assembled. With an eager hand, I zipped up my parka


pulled on my gloves, wrapped up my neck, zipped up my boots, took my boots off, put on my jeans, took my parka off, put on my sweater, put my parka back on, pulled my boots back on, placed my shades on my eyes with a jaunty tilt, and snapped this pre-climb shot. Man, was I stoked!


I stepped into the garage and looked at the approach to Garbage Can Peak. My Laird 12.1 SUP, like a worn memento of some forgotten age, pointed the direction.


There was the base of the route. There lay the beginning of the heinous first pitch. I shuttered.


Gingerly, I placed one Keen’s Mountainwoman Bermbuster boot in the hardpack, balanced myself, and found a solid stance from which to look around.


The scenery was breathtaking. The first pitch ambled along the driveway to snowy bushes and chunks of granite buried in white frozen froth.


Looking to my left, I saw an extension of Garbage Can Peak that might one day be attempted—but not today.


Today my focus was on one thing and one thing only:


See that tiny black dot waaaaaaay down that berm-covered snowfield? That unreachable dot is it: Garbage Can Peak. That was my goal today. My only goal. To reach it…and return. Alive. I moved from the base and stepped into the abyss.


Driving snow pelted my face and started to freeze on my Seirac gloves.


I took another (possibly final) happy photo, this time of my teeth chattering and lips turning blue. It was cold as hell out and my camera finger was beginning to freeze, too.


I started down the steep icefield, inching my way along the first pitch.


Snow piled high in berms threatened to conceal my route; I kept my eyes peeled for the myriad of dangers I knew were accompanying my descent.


The first crux: if I missed the bend at the top of the drive, I’d careen into a giant split oak and knock myself out, fall into the snow and freeze to death. This was dicey. I moved verrrrrrry slowly.


Made it past the tree-chute but now faced the second pitch and the major crux of the entire route: a hairpin turn on a 35 degree slope on snow-covered black ice. Lots of cars had failed this delicate move and found a home in the bog below. If I missed the turn, I fall into the snow and freeze to death. I placed each boot ever so gently…


Eyeing the carnivorous berms as I stepped by them, I knew that if I got stuck in one I'd fall over in the snow and freeze to death.


A quick glance at the peak gave me a breath of hope


and I snapped another photo just to document the way my lips had frozen to my teeth and I couldn't stop smiling even though this was hideous and I was terrified and freezing to death


and then I started to slide sideways, out of control!


Luckily, I self-arrested on the Belgium Blocks hidden beneath the snow, reoriented myself, and pushed on towards the summit.


The final pitch was a strenuous cross-over from the right side of the drive to the left…a sketchy, balancy tapdance…


that landed me right at the summit! Would you look at those slopers!


Success! Garbage Can Peak was mine! I took a quick peek inside, and cursed the garbagemen who never seemed able to get that final piece of trash out of the can. Buggers.


The summit victory celebration was over, but the dreaded return still remained! It looked a looooooooooooong way back up there. I was cold. I was tired. The light was beginning to fade...god I hoped I could back it back before dark!


I stared at all those slipping sliding footsteps leading to where I now stood.


My stomach got that queasy feeling. Fear. Pure and simple: fear. But there was no way around it…I had to go back up. I put the lid on the can and made my best gear placement of the day.


I could see the path I’d have to follow…my footprints stood out like bloody holes in the snow.


It was a loooooooooooooooooong way up there…did I already say that?


Trusting my gear, I put my head down, dug my Mountainwoman boots into the snowpack, and heaved with all my might. The can moved. I stumbled forward, and heaved harder. Thus it was that me and that monster garbage can fought our way back up the snowfield-black-ice driveway, panting and cursing the whole time…until, bloody, worn and frozen, we reached the top of the second pitch.


I could see the end of the route. I looked back at the way I’d come, my footprints and that thing’s wheels cutting deep grooves in the snow.


It was a long way. Longer than I’d ever dreamed, and harder than I ever suspected. I stood there panting and sweating. The monster just sat there…patiently…waiting for me to give up.


And I almost did. I almost quit. I didn’t have what it took. I was a pansy. A poser. A citified weekend warrior who couldn’t handle the hard stuff. I felt my shoulders sagging, my grip loosening and my back bending. I was done. Beat. Garbage Can Peak had won…


And then I looked up at the trees. And the thought came to me: “What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.” Leafless and barren against the snowy gray sky, the trees had a way of dealing with the harshness of winter. They looked dead…but they weren’t. And that thought made me look at the garbage can in a completely different way.


It looked a little forlorn now, sitting there getting buried in snow halfway up the drive. It didn’t look intimidating at all. I glanced at the front yard, not 20 feet away.


And then I did something I never thought I could do: I switched my pro from the right hand (my strong hand) to the left.


Suddenly I was filled with fire and energy and laughter! I dragged that giant garbage can across the last bit of snow-covered driveway to the opening of the garage with what felt like the strength of 10 women, plus 2!


Garbage Can Peak hadn’t killed me! I placed a foot on the dry garage floor.


It had only made me stronger!


I parked the snowy Monster in his home in the garage


and placed a foot atop my partner in keeping life a walk on the wild side.


Garbage Can Peak. I summited, and I survived. Wouldn’t want to do it again too soon. Maybe next week…maybe not. Right now a hot mug of soup and a leather sofa were calling my name. I’ll think about my next life-threatening adventure tomorrow. Maybe getting the mail...


L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
Woohoo! Can't wait!
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:29pm PT
L-zilla, Queen of the Snow!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:31pm PT
What an Epic! You were so, channeling Lara from Dr Zhivago!
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:32pm PT
L!!

Thank you for humoring us with your dangerous, & spine-tingling journey.

I appreciated the story & photos, since I make a similar weekly journey and have suffered grief on my own epic, on more than one occasion.

I toast with my first Tom & Jerry holiday drink I've enjoyed in many a year. A little mix, a little rum, and a lot of nutmeg in my old ski-team mug.
Best Wishes to all for the Solstice!

Oh!! my ratio. Gotta be high, but below Mouse's, Survival's, & DMT's.

Photos are the key to making ST posts fun!
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:33pm PT
But mine was faux fur, Jay. Faux fur. ;-)


Cheers Fritz! Yum!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
L,

That was so Fritz! You got it. Cold.

Did you not find the summit register?

That hand-switch was awesome!

Lynne, you likely know that in England a "linn" is the same as our "beach."

So, everybody, PLEASE spell the lady's name with care.

--A gentleman climber
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:37pm PT
I have never heard of such a thing, so of course I looked it up.

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L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:41pm PT
LOL Mouse! Dicey stuff, those hand-switches.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:45pm PT

Trad is Rad

Trad climber
San Luis Obispo California
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:47pm PT
The calculation of those numbers would calculate to determine amount of spraying being done.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:53pm PT
I have nothing to prove.


Here's a pic!

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:55pm PT
Can you prove it's you in the picture? Though you did not say it was you in the picture it is implied, silly billy goat.


Good ratio, as in HDLs
TRs x Photos posted / Positive posts


Bad ratio, as in LDLs
TRs x Photos posted / Negative (spraying) posts
Lynne Leichtfuss

Sport climber
moving thru
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:55pm PT
L, you are amazing! Wonderful, wonderful picture story. Great to have you back! Happy Holidays and Cheers, lynnie.
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
Very nice L! Thanks! What a mission!! ;)
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
drljefe, lets not make light of a some serious research. Many highly regarded universities will be in major competition for this data.

L, two observations on that awesome TR. You have the cleanest can I have seen a while and you should probably find some crampons for those boots if you are taking on such a serious climb.

zbrown you are obviously going for a Phst
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:15pm PT
I have heaps of tr's but none of them are in the tr tab.
I never migrated them and would rather have them on the board.
Plus I hate(strong word) scrolling through a zillion posts and photos on one single page.
(Ahem survival).
I'm never duking it out on political or religious threads, and I'm mostly a drive by poster on ot threads.
I guess I did have something to prove.


Here's a pic!

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
calculated off of my profile page:

94*17/15850 = 0.10

but if I search for topics that I started that were Trip Reports there are 48

also, most of the images I link here are from my home web page, and that count is 2605

so my "actual" ST ratio is: (94+2605)*(94+17)/15850 = 11.

L for the win... (though I'm waiting for DMT's, good luck buddy!)

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:53pm PT
Right on beardbros.
Open invitation.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
.588
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Dec 18, 2013 - 12:04am PT
L


That was mega, cheers! Lol

All kinds of type 2 fun can be found around the house ;-)



But what the hell…I wasn’t getting any younger and if life wasn’t an adventure, life turned into a dribbling daytime soap full of posts by Jludes and Nemesis and Zinger. I went to the closet and started laying out my gear.


Classic stuff!
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 09:49am PT
Very good point stzzo. I am sure you have done lots of great stuff.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 18, 2013 - 09:58am PT
Wow, I can't believe I got the rare Jefe slam.....
Here's some OT pics for you bitch.



















Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Dec 18, 2013 - 10:45am PT
OK. I did the math in the cold sober light of morning, coffee in hand.

I won't carp or whine, since I think my ST ratio is pretty fine.

8.48

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 11:05am PT
Ok you guys got me inspired. I think I might just comment on a political thread and then I am going to insult someone. After all just because I don't constantly spray my political beliefs doesn't mean they don't exist.
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:15am PT
"...and then I'm going to insult someone."


Hey Mike--pick me!!!

Just tell me how big my arse looked in my TR. That'll do it.

;-)
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:26am PT
No, no, a thousand times! She has mucous on her hand! No self-respecting clean climber uses mucous! Yuch!
i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:38am PT
mucous is aid, no?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:43am PT
H-yuck!
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 11:47am PT
L, thanks, it was huge......




































I am sure it was just the puffy coat. I guess I am just not very good at this insulting thing.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:48am PT
Luvya survival.


mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2013 - 11:50am PT
No one will get out of there alive.
Blakey

Trad climber
Sierra Vista
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:53am PT

10X640/375 = 17.06

Which means?

Steve
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 18, 2013 - 11:57am PT
BITE ME JEFE!!!


































































































































































survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 18, 2013 - 12:04pm PT
**HEY JEFE, SHUT THE F*#K UP!!!**















drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Dec 18, 2013 - 01:52pm PT
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:01pm PT
Umm... I don't host the majority of my photo's here :(

I have 11 trip reports though!

This one is one of my favorites

This one people seem to like

This one is mostly text

sharing is caring!
GDavis

Social climber
SOL CAL
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:07pm PT
I think the ratio is best if simple, TR to Post ratio. That way someone with 100 butt plugs as photos doesn't seem like a bigger contributor than they are ;D

In that case I'm like 500 posts per TR. Oops...
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:10pm PT
Ok Jefe, that Bud picture was a LOL moment, no shit!

Keep it up GDavis!
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:31pm PT
Oooooowwwwwww! That was good, Mike. Thanks!

(And yes, it was a puffy coat. Fat-butt insults don't actually bother me. I was just tryin' to help ya out, know what I mean?)

Keep practicing...you'll get there. ;-)
Barbarian

climber
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:33pm PT
can I post TRs detailing my daily commute? If so, I'm gonna raise the bar for everyone else. If not, well....
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Dec 18, 2013 - 02:49pm PT
Mine's like 2.5 - whatever that means. It's actually a bit skewed since a bunch of my TR's were posted before the separation into it's own category, so I have no easy way to track down the exact #.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 18, 2013 - 03:15pm PT
(And yes, it was a puffy coat. Fat-butt insults don't actually bother me. I was just tryin' to help ya out, know what I mean?)


That's nice, but I'm waiting to see more of the "filling". Break out the bikini TR!!
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Dec 18, 2013 - 07:16pm PT
Just because you don't host it here, doesn't mean you haven't posted it here. I signed up for flickr exclusively to post photos here. The gallery is so horrible here, you can't even scroll through it.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Dec 20, 2013 - 06:06pm PT
Trying to calculate which comes first, the Ph.D. or the Phst on the way to the swollen archive.

"The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone".




Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Dec 20, 2013 - 09:47pm PT
got the tombstone blues there, eh z?
Mike Bolte

Trad climber
Planet Earth
Dec 20, 2013 - 09:57pm PT
L, that was awesome, perfect, fluffy, epic and, and, and.... I'm at a loss for words. That never happens in the real world
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Dec 20, 2013 - 10:45pm PT
You got it Dr. Hartouni.

Interestingly enough, the website says the lyric is actually "innocence" rather than "innocent".

However since Innocent was the Pope of The Holy Roman Catholic Church (well, technically there were thirteen or so, excluding the Antipope Innocent III), I'm sticking with innocent.

Number theoretically, I'm gonna have to go with Pope Innocent I since he is also a Saint (not to be confused with Saint Stephen, of course - wherever he goes the people all complain).

"Can you answer? Yes I can,
but what would be the answer to the answer man?"
looks easy from here

climber
Ben Lomond, CA
Dec 21, 2013 - 02:09am PT
0x10/96=0

Boo hoo.
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Dec 21, 2013 - 08:43am PT
"I'm at a loss for words. That never happens in the real world."

LOL Mike...that's funny!

Have a great holiday...take lots of photos and post some next year, will you?

More whales! ;-)

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