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billygoat
climber
3hrs to El Cap Meadow, 1.25hrs Pinns, 42min Castle
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Mar 13, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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I like the reference to Chongo:
"He had learned this extreme form of tightrope walking from a homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics."
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slobmonster
Trad climber
berkeley, ca
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Mar 13, 2008 - 09:50pm PT
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"like a less gaunt and reckless Keith Richards."
Ha!
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho
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Mar 13, 2008 - 10:48pm PT
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Dean is Soul...but, it's 'Potter", eh?
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Mar 14, 2008 - 10:23am PT
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Damn. I was hoping for the skwerl suit. Pretty cool, anyway.
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Mar 14, 2008 - 10:25am PT
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Captain..I was thinking the same thing. Wow all that BS in the videos about soul and it seems like the #1 thing on this guys mind is getting himself splashed across every newspaper / mag / website in the country regardless of impact on all other climbers.
I am not knocking him for being a media-whore, hell if he can get away with it by all means go, but don't turn around and act like some spiritual guru where it is all about soul and the rock.
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Gomp
climber
San Diego
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Mar 14, 2008 - 02:17pm PT
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bump
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James
climber
a porch in Chinese Camp
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Mar 14, 2008 - 02:58pm PT
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A well written, interesting article. It's nice to read more about Dean's obsession with flight. I can't forget the photo Fidelman took of Dean walking across the Cathedral Spires high line, one hand raising El Cap, the other crushing the left side of the granite wall. He looks like a bird, flapping his wings. I hope Dean becomes the raven he wants to be someday.
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Patrick Price
Sport climber
columbus
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:19pm PT
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I feel cheap for reading the whole artical.
But I sure got a good laugh for the day.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Mar 14, 2008 - 03:22pm PT
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The article is currently number 8 on the New York Time's list of most popular articles.
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ralph_teh_klimber
climber
ralph town
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Mar 14, 2008 - 04:34pm PT
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Most of these people engaged with falling will die just like Dan-o did....not really tragic.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Mar 14, 2008 - 04:44pm PT
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The article is well written. Seems like what he is doing is pretty dang dangerous. Sort of pointless too, but I guess climbing is no different in that regard. People do what they have to do I suppose.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Mar 14, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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I wonder who's idea it was to try to say he's only 180lbs?
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Mar 14, 2008 - 07:57pm PT
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It's a bizzare world where chongonation.com gets a link and Chongo is directly quoted on the subject of physics on the front page of the NY Times...but it sure did make me smile when I saw it.
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lucho
Gym climber
San Franpsycho
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Mar 15, 2008 - 12:34pm PT
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Potter is and will always be the man !!
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2008 - 12:54pm PT
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There's no way he's only 180 lbs.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Mar 15, 2008 - 05:09pm PT
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"Six years ago, in Yosemite National Park, he became the first person to free climb El Capitan and Half Dome together in less than 24 hours, meaning he used ropes only for protection in case he fell, climbing only with his hands and feet for a vertical mile."
oh yeah, forgot about that. Keep thinking FREE Nose and Regular in a day.
that hasn't been done yet, has it?
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2008 - 05:16pm PT
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No sir. Only two peeps have even done the Nose free in a day if I remember correctly.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Mar 15, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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The subcaption of the video is "The New Sport of Baselining." Is "baselining" (wearing a parachute while slacklining) really "a new sport"? Is it really a different sport from, or more adventurous then, slacklining untethered?
Some other prospective new sports:
pajamalining (wearing pajamas while slacklining)
beerlining (drinking beer while slacklining
gumlining (chewing gum while slacklining)
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2008 - 06:06pm PT
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It is certainly less risky than doing it untethered. The difference also seems to be that the idea is to get out there and then jump, which I was not expecting. I thought he had it on just in case he fell.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Mar 15, 2008 - 06:12pm PT
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Yeah, according to the narrator on the video he jumped to "test the system." Surprise, the parachute still worked.
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Mar 16, 2008 - 05:06am PT
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bump.... I like the video.
EDIT:
Dean is one hell of a climber and mountaineer. I believe that he has truly changed the standards set by the greats.
D.
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ha-ha
climber
location
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Mar 16, 2008 - 09:57am PT
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beerlining has definately been done. i seen it.
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WanderlustMD
Trad climber
Lanham MD
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Mar 16, 2008 - 10:23am PT
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Cool article.
He does what he does, can't really fault him for it. I bet if something bad would happen to him half the people who dissed him would turn around and reverently talk about what an important part of the community he was and how we should follow his example, not necessarily in his actions, but in living life to the fullest.
I admit sometimes the soul climber thing doesn't really add up, but he climbs harder than me so he can pretty much say whatever he wants.
My 2c.
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WanderlustMD
Trad climber
Lanham MD
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Mar 16, 2008 - 10:24am PT
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Hmmm, it's raining today. Maybe some beerlining is in order...
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nx
climber
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Mar 16, 2008 - 07:58pm PT
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Well, if you take an out of control fall are you going to be able to open the chute?
Jeeze, I think Dean is pretty cool but it's tough to please this crowd.
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Big Glenn
Trad climber
Australia
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Mar 26, 2008 - 04:31pm PT
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I think the guy is a legend and good on him for being so free spirt .
Why don't you other people that knock him or slander him get of the coach and do your own thing you lazy narrow minded f*#ks .
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2008 - 04:41pm PT
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Irony in this thread.
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Buggs
Trad climber
Eagle River, Alaska
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Mar 26, 2008 - 11:00pm PT
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He got a whole section in the Anchorage Daily News way up here. Face it he's cool, crazy, zen, hard core, famous, polite, weighs a certain amount of pounds, will eventually walk through that door awaiting us all, does what he wants to, and climbs like a mad man.
Okay in my book...
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Mikep_
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Mar 27, 2008 - 10:30am PT
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Would that "homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics" be Chongo?
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Mar 27, 2008 - 10:48am PT
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The biggest issue I see with it is once again climbing is associated with a much more riskier activity giving land managers the false impression that "all climbers" do crazy / stupid stuff and play up the risk aspect of our sport.
The Auburn SRA is closed to climbing due to rope jumping pre-Dano but with the same result. Kirk Arens, the expert at the time, made a fatal mistake in a place that *could've* been NorCals best sport climbing location. Instead, over 20 years later, we are still fighting to get access back as the park manager at the time made it illegal.
We are still trying to show that climbing and rope jumping are not the same activity and articles like this one don't help.
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WanderlustMD
Trad climber
DC Area (it's as bad as you've heard)
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Mar 27, 2008 - 11:00am PT
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Good point Roughster.
I think you're rght that actions sometimes have unforseen consequences. At the same time, I think sometimes land managers don't want to differentiate between climbing and other sports in terms of responsibility or risk. We can talk and show how different BASE, climbing and slacklining are until the cows come home, but land managers are going to lump them all into one category anyway at the end of the day because it's simpler and it covers their ass. That's all they care about.
In a way, even if Dean or whoever took pains to differentiate between the two activities (aside from the obvious inherent differences), it probably wouldn't help much. Some people just don't want to know.
Not saying it's right, but that's how it is. A mountain biker accidently jumped off a local crag recently here in Maryland and access is starting to be questions in terms of climbing. Go figure....
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