SuperTopo Forum to shut-down June 1, 2019

Starting June 1st, the text of past Forum posts will remain available as an archive. Regrettably, images will no longer be displayed for Forum posts. Trip Reports and Route Beta will remain displaying as they do today with both images and text.

You can continue to post using your existing accounts for the next few weeks, but effective June 1st, the site will strictly become a read-only archive.

Thank you all for making this Forum something special over the last 18 years. Like many of you, I am sad to see it go.

Sincerely,

Chris McNamara
Founder
SuperTopo

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Something important is being thrown away because they didn't figure out how to make money at it.

Something important is being thrown away because they didn't figure out how to make money at it.

He actually did, through gear reviews, something that started here in this forum and has since moved to other sites RJ manages currently - and according to CMac's enormocast interview - they're making money.

What about approaching the American Alpine Club, and/or Alpinist Magazine, and/or similar, to get support to keep the entire archive- WITH photos- available? And/or continuing the forum?

Thank you for hosting SUPERTOPO Forum for 18 Years. When it started it was a tool better than email for rock climbers to connect on good subjects. However all the digital platforms have been taken over by trolls obsessed with their own hateful views. Like a party, that gets too noisy late at night, its time to shut it down.

Whoever would sue you because some jackass posted something offensive is a full blown jerk. America has always been sue happy, and it has affected many sports. Europe doesn't have the problem to this degree. I don't know why.

I will say thanks to Chris for starting and maintaining the forum...it’s been fun and i have met quite a few interesting people I otherwise wouldn’t have met.
I have to say, however, that I remain suspicious concerning the real reasons for shutting down the forum.

I sure as sh#t won't miss the snarky exhibitionists, the fully tripped out acid freaks and the negative know-it-alls.

They come, they go. Life goes on.

johntp, I did start a SuperTopo Campfire on FB.

Perhaps the demise of this forum represents the end of the old, eccentric, anarchistic activities variously lumped under the term "climbing." Miscreants, ne'er-do-wells, vagabonds and scalawags, but of course there were probably many fine people as well....
Climbing has finally made it through a prolonged and painful adolescence, emerging with enthusiastic respectability along with a surge of technical advancement, as it ventures onto the Olympic arena. The first doping scandals have already emerged - how ironic, when certain generations of climbers looked with suspicion on anyone who did not partake.
As surfing bifurcated into parallel but distinct paths, competitions and huge wave riding garnered attention, but lifelong diehards still just kept doing their thing in zen reflection mode.
Climbing will abide, perhaps with the momentary blaze of Olympic fervor generating a new crop of insanely talented youngsters, but that may be a blessing in disguise, as the classics will remain, with less attention paid to them. Savor the moves.

You can continue to post using your existing accounts for the next few weeks, but effective June 1st, the site will strictly become a read-only archive.

Kicked the habit some years ago but Supertopo was a huge part of my life for many many years

Two weeks to wrap up what mind is.

Get busy, boys!

Mtnyoung

I’m going to miss the rest of your epic hike with the daughters.

Where else is it posted?

May 18, 2019 - 05:17pm PT
After reading the entire thread on Tobin Sorensen, I thought about how just one thread like that can be better than an entire biography of the person, because through the lens of friends and family, you get a feel for an amazing life and a wonderfully inspired person, and what he contributed to climbing. These are the things that I found unique about this Forum. Some the threads are just really good.

Also, special thanks to Jim Herson for sharing his amazing journey of raising a climbing family. .........not to mention occasional posts from Golden Age icons such as Wayne Merry and John Gill.............

So thank you so much for hosting this site as long as you did. It is indeed unique on the worldwide web

Want to thank Chris, RJ, Mike, Hardman and others for creating this place for all of us.

As was written somewhere by someone, this place was as much about a time as it was anything.

They were just waiting for Licky to finish his plane crash book.

someone should put together an email list

May 22, 2019 - 12:29pm PT
Happie, I really like the look of your new forum set up!

I am more inclined to sign up on this as opposed to an fb group.

my first post was to this thread about how I had soloed it [Lost Arrow Chimneys]

ST is not found on the way back machine currently, I doubt a text only version will exist.

joined climber's taco salad but strugglin' to post pics of new route stoke....halp?

Zeta is a marque of automobile which was produced in Australia from 1963 to 1965 by South Australian manufacturing company Lightburn & Co. An established manufacturer of cement mixers and washing machines, Lightburn and Co. built the cars in its factory in the Adelaide suburb of Camden Park.

Zeta Sedan - 2 door sedan – Villiers Engineering 324cc – 4 speed manual
Zeta Sports roadster – ZF Sachs 493cc – 4 speed manual
4 speed, two cycle engine - but no reverse gear, as such.
Reverse was selected by stopping the engine, turning the start switch in the opposite direction which started the engine in the opposite direction - ergo, 4 reverse gears.