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Chippychopperone
Social climber
SLC, UT
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 6, 2014 - 11:45pm PT
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Check out the routes and the dates this guy has been completing. Very busy!
click on his routes section and look at the topos.
Anybody know what Jim does for a job? I would like to have that schedule. Perhaps he is old enough to be "retired?"
http://mountainproject.com/u/jim-beyer//108688803
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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I would like to have that schedule.
November to March off? It's called "move to Moab and work in the service industry". Your wife and children probably won't dig the scant resources during the winter months but you'll be soloing A4+ first ascents in the Fisher Towers and blowing off all that domestically-acquired angst.
Win/win?
edit: They should make a sitcom about Jim Beyer having to enter the service industry after some unfortunate financial choices. Lots of comedic opportunities with Jim unable adapt to the nuances of serfdom. Every episode ends with Jim learning a valuable life lesson. Sitcom is entitled Jim Beyer Will Take Your Order Now.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Free Gaza looks dope
wuhtz a "coassck whip"?
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Rivet hanger
Trad climber
Barcelona
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Let's see how many time takes Jensen to give his "opinion"...
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Jim lives in his own world and does his own thing--unlike the rest of us lemmings.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I try to craft sandstone routes for many people to enjoy for a long time.
Then there is Beyer,..
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Wait, is he like Pelut's belay slave?
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Typewriters and Ledges
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More like Pelut's dark force mentor.
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Hey before this becomes a slagfest on a guy that is probably not going to defend himself on ST, those that actually repeat Beyer's routes often report high-quality and difficult climbing. Yeah, he marches to the beat of his own drum, but don't we still admire that quality in the climbing community?
Piton Ron, comparing your obvious, often easy trade routes to Beyer's abstract, generally difficult routes is kinda an apple to oranges thing; don't you think. I've done some of yours, and enjoyed them, and have done a Beyer route or two and enjoyed those also. I was one of the many you refer to, but I've heard some comment that your routes are pretty pedestrian (relatively speaking). Seems like you should embrace other attitudes about putting up routes other than your own.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Jim is a Baddass and a Madman, the stuff of Legends. . .df
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Chippychopperone
Social climber
SLC, UT
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2014 - 05:26pm PT
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I remember trying the start to Savage master and being blown away by the difficulty. Since this day, I have made it a habit to eyeball Beyer routes while in the desert en route to easier and safer climbs. His route on Independence Monument looks really hard. The wankers away route in Arches looked horrific after climbing the easier route to the left. Whether one likes his style or personality, you gotta tip your hat off to the guy for going up scary faces where it is hard to imaging passage.
I am surprised to see he is this active at his age. I'm not sure how old the dude is, but I've climbed routes in Zion that he climbed in the 70's.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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wbw,
apples and oranges is too similar to apply.
More like apples and anti-apples.
Beyer crafts routes intended to be harder (to impossible) to repeat with temporary quarter inch drilled holes which are then blown out or filled with mud or, worse, both.
While his routes are difficult that matters little to me. What does matter is the lack of conservation ethic. It is wholly unjustified by "difficulty".
And before you remind me of my so regrettably pedestrian routes, you should bear in mind that I've put in time on the sharp end of serious aid climbs BITD, so I have walked the talk my friend.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I am very disturbed that Jim chopped and destroyed rivets and bolts on Warren Harding's Wall of Early Morning Light. The route is now unrepeatable, and I would have loved to have climbed it.
Jim - why did you do this?
Thanks,
Pete
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WBraun
climber
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Jim - why did you do this?
He didn't want you to do the climb?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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What if I try the climb, and fall because the bolts are broken, and you have to rescue me, Werner?
And why are you a duck?
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j-tree
Big Wall climber
Typewriters and Ledges
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a SMOKING duck.
a very different beast indeed.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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beyer don't care if he lives or dies
certainly don't care what you think of his route -- whether its "ghey" or "hardcore" or "hella dope" or "prancer freeway"
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