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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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