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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 20, 2018 - 05:58pm PT
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Ever since my first multi-pitch route 50 years ago. Rusty Trifle at the Gunks with kletterschuhe, pins, and goldline. My leader was Bill Thompson. I nearly jumped off the rock when a blue-tail skink ran across my hand in a crack.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 20, 2018 - 06:06pm PT
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Oh, yeah? La Femme did some sendage here so she snagged the guide book.
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L
climber
A place where Blue is the new Black...
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Apr 20, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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Lol MH2.
Since a Gunks 5.2 is equivalent to a 5.6-5.10 anywhere else in the USA, I'd say "you still got it going on".
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2018 - 11:11am PT
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I am in awe, Reilly.
But I see that I could get that guide for $10 from Weiser Antiquarian Books. Sort of tells what Supertopo is about.
I also see that Bill Thompson may still be going about what he does.
Accurately rendering naturally occurring outdoor terrain requires a number of techniques that are very different from those involved in realistic rendering of indoor scenes. Prof. Thompson's work has included methods for constructing models of terrain features that combine image and elevation data to produce a model more detailed than would be possible with elevation data alone, plus methods for augmenting terrain models with correct vegetation and snow coverage.
But they left out WORMS. Another lost partner, Bryan Burdo, left me with a lasting impression of a storefront sign on the way to Index: WORMS, MAPS, AMMO.
(everything you need, but picture: on the trail you take out the map, set the worms next to it, and threaten to blow them to pieces if they don't take you to the treasure chest)
https://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Ethompson/trips/outdoors.html
https://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Ethompson/dedrivellize.pdf
https://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Ethompson/
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 21, 2018 - 01:45pm PT
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Yeah, the climbing permit from 1968, chronicling early adventures pushing into the stratosphere of 5.2 is pretty cool.
Also found some good stuff drilling into those Thompson links, like this little ditty:
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research:
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/joces/121/11/1771.full.pdf
Excerpt:
Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing
on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being
ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows
us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel
perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. Kind of like breaking into 5.2: it just makes you realize how much you don't know, and heightens the sense that there is an infinity in terms of what there is to know.
In the big picture, we are all merely 5.2 climbers and it will forever be!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2018 - 01:53pm PT
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Bill was a good mentor to me, climbing and otherwise. Looks like he still does that, too.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 21, 2018 - 03:07pm PT
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I was terrified on some 5.2 out in The Middle Kingdom: one piece, a tiny nut, that was it, and it was a long way below me. A friend says if you're not scared you're not climbing. I was climbing!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 21, 2018 - 03:47pm PT
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I took a complete n00b up a 5.2 at Josh. At the crux, not a word usually used with 5.2,
I’m like all WTF IS THIS? I had to yard the poor lass when I finally got up it. BVB agreed
that it was really 5.8.
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