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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 24, 2018 - 02:42pm PT
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Working on it mostly driven by Eric Gabel right now.
Some of you reading this thread have gotten a page to go out and “test drive” and we’re incorporating past guidebook information.
Obviously we’d have liked to have finished this up earlier, but if you’ve ever contemplated writing a guide to a major climbing area with 90 years of “modern” climbing you are you can imagine the magnitude of the project.
No excuses, just working to finish. I don’t have many free hours because of it. But climbers climb, I’m on I-10 on my way back from “The Chise” after a week of climbing (in between the rain and wind).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 24, 2018 - 05:11pm PT
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We're waiting for your trip report on that! Ed!!
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Sep 25, 2018 - 11:29am PT
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Is it really any surprise these promised books from mega prolific posters never actually seem to happen?
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Sep 25, 2018 - 12:23pm PT
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The work is real, the binders are real. Many of us have benefitted from tiny sips of the work already. When it's done the book will be an amazing thing to have.
I am excited as hell for the book and I am aware the the book will not be published on your timeline or mine. Like you and like me, these fellas have lives to live, jobs to hold down, people to love, and rocks to climb.
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couchmaster
climber
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Give yourselves a timeline cutoff. Reach out to folks to get assistance if you need it. Editing in particular.
Good luck!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Is it really any surprise these promised books from mega prolific posters never actually seem to happen?
is it really any surprise that JLP makes snarky comments without any information at all about what's going on?
we were showing things around at FaceLift...
we are getting help with editing...
thanks for all your support.
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yosguns
climber
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The guidebook is real. The guidebook is really good. I'm excited! <3
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Northern California
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Bump for the comprehensive guide! We're all very much looking forward to it!
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Oct 25, 2018 - 03:23pm PT
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Kingtut: I know eh!!!
Jeez. All the people I ran into a couple weeks back in yosemite were just not going to climb until the new guidebook came out!
People from Chile, Canada, UK, Czech, etc.. all coming to Yosemite to climb but so disappointed that the only book around was Sloan’s guide, they just said “f*#k this select shit” and left
Right...
🙄
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Trashman
Trad climber
SLC
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Oct 25, 2018 - 04:02pm PT
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Amen Anita, remember a few months back when some poor soul was looking for opinions on which guide to get and the cool kids told him to wait for the “real” guide? Bet he wished he’d waited.
This guide sounds great, and I can’t wait to buy it, but pretending there are no adequate books on the market right now sounds like the kind of VC tribalism that everyone insists doesn’t exist anymore.
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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it is not funny anymore for me . I kind of lost sense of humor waiting for this book.
since 2012 I was thinking ok maybe one more year one more year. ..
Before: would I get this book before I retire from climbing?
now : would I survive before this book be available?
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Weston, you are cracking me up!
Too funny.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
Dec 4, 2018 - 05:00pm PT
it is not funny anymore for me . I kind of lost sense of humor waiting for this book.
since 2012 I was thinking ok maybe one more year one more year. ..
Before: would I get this book before I retire from climbing?
now : would I survive before this book be available?
I suspect the editors have to finish the plane crash book first.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Fear not, for I have touched the sacred tomes (yes plural). You'll get it when its ready - sometime between tomorrow and before Vitally is out to pasture.
It's really a thing of beauty...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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The real need is for a guidebook on how to deal with the Valley hang. Climbers from around the world pilgrimage to Yosemite much like the muslim faithful go to Mecca. Unfortunately, the Valley, vis a vis climbers, is not easy or hospitable. Frankly, it’s one of the worst climbing hangs in America. Some pointers for the uninitiated would be priceless...once there, set up and cozy, finding the climbs will be a piece of cake.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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The guests wont remember what time dinner was served, but they will remember the taste.
Best of luck with your endeavor.
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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if dinner served when guests die from hunger no one remember how well it was cooked
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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Alexey, hopefully the guidebook will be completed before you go out to pasture, but if it is not, you can at least feel good that you contributed both information about climbs and in previewing topos for the new book (which we've made available to you because of your interest and knowledge and abilities). That is a great legacy to provide to the younger generation of climbers.
I'd like to thank you here and now for your contributions in the event you don't live long enough to read the acknowledgements in the book..
Ed, as we are about the same age , it is good that you are writing this now, since acknowledgements in the book can be written by someone else - who will inherit from you all those precious sacred tomes
Woot , Woot
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briham89
Big Wall climber
santa cruz, ca
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Frankly, it’s one of the worst climbing hangs in America
Yep
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