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superbum
Trad climber
Idaho, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 20, 2008 - 09:16pm PT
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Just got a call from my buddy today who's down in El Chalten. He said he had to WAIT IN LINE to climb Cerro Torre! There were 7 other people on the mountain the same day he was and they all summited! There was even a solo ascent (West Face) and a naked guy (my buddy's partner!) on the summit that day.
Hmmm.
A little reading for the motivated:
http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/cerro_torre_todo_natural/
http://colinhaley.blogspot.com/ (look for Monday December 15th)
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superbum
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2008 - 03:52am PT
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wow...you guys respond to anything with punctuation. Why not this one? Thought it could prompt heaps of sweet discourse...oh well. enjoy your cobras.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
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Dec 25, 2008 - 04:02am PT
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" you guys respond to anything with fermentation " (just kidding) The naked stuff Lame tho .
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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Dec 25, 2008 - 04:29am PT
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where is patagonia ? i think it might be in Palo alto
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Michelle
Trad climber
El Frickin' Paso
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Dec 25, 2008 - 09:57am PT
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dan, there's a outlet store in reno too
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Dec 25, 2008 - 11:36am PT
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Part of the problem is your timing....Posted on Saturday(12/20) at 9pm, and the bump on xmas day.... Next time, headline your thread with something like "Cerro Torre gets cable set up like Half Dome!" or something inflammatory....
Thanks for the links; interesting reading. Last year there was a slideshow in New Paltz from a guy(I'm forgetting his name - this is awful) who had been to Patagonia several times over something like 20 years. His slideshow focused on, not only the adventure, but the changes he's seen. As you noted how clearly things were changing, so had he. He had "Then/Now" photos that were quite - well....wow. a river crossing then was by portage, and now it was a ghastly cement two-lane bridge. The towns which had been tiny and quaint were now equipped with traffic lights. Tiny, barely there, trails with nobody on them were now trammeled into submission with multiple groups trekking next to each other - things like that.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 25, 2008 - 11:37am PT
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Well apparently there is going to be a new one in the Valley too.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Dec 25, 2008 - 01:14pm PT
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I just started working with a young man who grew up in Patagonia and has climbed Fitz Roy. Can't wait to learn more. I don't even know his name yet.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 25, 2008 - 01:20pm PT
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"Has climbed Fitzroy", hmm.
Gotta watch out for those argentines. My father moved to Buenos Aires in '35.
When we were growing up he told us he used to be a gaucho.
RIIIIIIIIGHT! Gauchos in BA!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 25, 2008 - 01:35pm PT
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If we can remember to be climbers in our next lives, climate change is going to be great for Baffin, Pakistan and Patagonia walls.
Already seems safer from horrible weather in Patagonia
Peace
Karl
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superbum
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2008 - 02:54am PT
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Yea Spindrift!!!
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adam d
climber
CA
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Dec 26, 2008 - 11:59am PT
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With this year marking the end of free camping in El Chalten with the closing of Madsen, lots of new paved roads, lots of new businesses, the "Valleyification" is under way. I wonder what all those Argentines who tented in Madsen while working in town are doing for a place to live now? For just about totally unregulated camping in town it seemed to work really well.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Dec 26, 2008 - 12:40pm PT
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I climbed there once but the pizza just wasn't nearly as good.
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