radical "mixed climbing", is this what its come to?
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jstan

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May 30, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
Mr. Brown probably set his two piton rule as a method of pushing the envelope as far as
possible that was set by the traditionalists of his time.

I, on the other hand, took flack for not climbing with a pack, as was customary for the Tetons. I
also set the requirement that my chances of injury had to be 2% or less. The hard work I had already put in to build a life, made any other decision absurd.

Each person has an idea of what they want to get out of their activity and their choices are
generally not made submissively. As I understand it the early history at Cloggy involved no
pitons. Whatever it was Joe was after, I think we may assume he got it.

It was a tough rule. A well known climber from the UK in that era that I have talked to,
specifically said he was adhering to the two pin rule and he took some really bad falls.

I suspect the rate of change has never been higher than it is now. When I go to Google news all manner of reports on climbing show up. Today I was finally given a button to hit so that this would stop.
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