ScottP

,so little time...

Duct tape, though useful, is temporary. Wire will stay on the job indefinately. As a young boy I used to venture out into the huge expanse of sagebrush surrounding my house. The older I got the further I ventured. One day, about the age of ten, I approached a high tension line tower I had spied in the distance from previous forays. Upon reaching the base of the tower, I found four coyotes and a bobcat hanging by the neck with bailing wire. As the years past and this macabre site became a familiar landmark, I witnessed the slow but steady disintegration of the carcasses to the point where there was little but a scattered pile of bones. One constant was the rusty wire coils, still the circumference of the dead beast's necks, swaying in the breeze.

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Any type, gauge or length of wire that will get the job done. Super Glue is highly overrated unless you want to glue flesh to flesh.

I have not gone above the top of the second pitch, so the following is purely conjecture... Looking at various pictures of the south buttress, it looks as though it would go up the forked dihedrals visible in the picture below, then left into the, curving dihedral to the south. From the top of that dihedral, it seems it would go up the slabs, or perhaps the other corner system up and left, ending somewhere above, and maybe south of, the BIg Tree. I am guessing it stays south of the Kone. Again, purely conjecture. Adventure climbing at it's finest. Whitelaw's guide says the FA was in 1979 which leads me to believe any bolts or pins above pitch two are probably nearly 40 years old, any excavated cracks are again filled with dirt and any 'logged' shrubbery is mature second growth. PM me if you need a partner.

The old (orange) Whitelaw/Brooks guide talks about another 5 pitches heading right that eventually ends above the Big Tree. PM Markmckillop. I believe he was in on the FA.

"In the night of March 9th 1945 320 B-29 (6 tons of bomb each) make a incendiary raid on Tokyo by dropping 1667 tons of bombs (more than Hambourg in Europe). At 0h15 the first two bombers were dropping their bombs following perpendiculary axes so that a giant fire cross appeared in the center of the city. With a 45km/h wind 33km square of the city are burned and 100 000 civilians die: boiled in their pool where they had taken refuge, asphixied or burned; and another 100 000 are injured. This raid cost only 14 B-29 to the Americans of which many were damaged by the ascendant wind due to the fire and which pitched things 2000m high. In the next week the raids continue on the 5 major cities: March 12th Nagoya, 286 bombers destroy 5km square; March 14th 2240 tons of bombs explode on Osaka and remove 14km square of the city; Kobe is reduced of 5km square on the 16th; Nagoya is visited by 300 B-29 on March 22nd which drop their 2000 tons of stock; May 29th Yokohama is destroyed at 85% by 460 bombers and Tokyo is not spared: from April 13th to May 26th 4 raids of about 400 bombers each will destroy some 60km square of the city. With the night raid, the american losses are reduced to 1.4%. So the raids continue in the following months. On June 17th the 5 major cities have lost 80% of their industrial potential. The only big city which is not bombed is Kyoto, for religious reasons. In June the medium cities (350 000 inhabitants), about 25 of them, are also targeted. From July 12th the targets are all cities of 100 000 inhabitants and more." I don't know about 3,000,000, but Allied carpet bombing of Japanese cities killed many, many people.

You can get onto Canary, pitch2 from the top of Old Gray Mare. From a gear belay on top of Old Gray Mare, just go right and up. Makes for a fine two pitch climb.

Or use the Beckey approach and get on it first every time.

It's from the 'Rock Hippy' thread...

You would know after about 5 seconds if yours was a second posting because dru would post a link to the original post with the icon and some condescending comment.

Titanically overinflated egos, both.

It was my wife's birthday on Saturday. We stayed at the house of some relatives in 11worth. In all honesty, I forgot there was an event happening that weekend. I think I talked to somebody who was part of your group at the Forest Land boulders, and I think one of the kids poked my son in the face with a stick during a "sword fight".

I'll say! And ScottP, WTF?! WhadidIdo?

Hammered my legs trail running, took my 5 and 7 year old rock climbing and enjoyed early fall conditions in the Icicle.

I vote for Patsy Stone

isn't this the dog they shot into outer space?

Consensus? We ain't got no consensus. We don't need no consensus. We don't have to show you any stinking consensus!"

Guide books!? We ain't got no guide books. We don't need no guide books! I don't recommend no stinking guide books!

Eye witness testimony of people who saw a plane hit the Pentagon. from here "Aydan Kizildrgli, an English language student who is a native of Turkey, saw the jetliner bank slightly then strike a western wall of the huge five-sided building that is the headquarters of the nation's military. 'There was a big boom,' he said. 'Everybody was in shock. I turned around to the car behind me and yelled "Did you see that?" Nobody could believe it.'" - "Bush Vows Retaliation for 'Evil Acts'." USA Today, 11 Sep 2001 "Frank Probst, an information management specialist for the Pentagon Renovation Program, left his office trailer near the Pentagon's south parking lot at 9:36 a.m. Sept. 11. Walking north beside Route 27, he suddenly saw a commercial airliner crest the hilltop Navy Annex. American Airlines Flight 77 reached him so fast and flew so low that Probst dropped to the ground, fearing he'd lose his head to its right engine." - "A Defiant Recovery." The Retired Officer Magazine, January 2002 "Omar Campo, a Salvadorean, was cutting the grass on the other side of the road when the plane flew over his head. 'It was a passenger plane. I think an American Airways plane,' Mr Campo said. 'I was cutting the grass and it came in screaming over my head. I felt the impact. The whole ground shook and the whole area was full of fire. I could never imagine I would see anything like that here.'" - "Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts." The Guardian, 12 Sep 2001 "Afework Hagos, a computer programmer, was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam near the Pentagon when the plane flew over. 'There was a huge screaming noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over. Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in.'" - "Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts." The Guardian, 12 Sep 2001 "Henry Ticknor, intern minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia, was driving to church that Tuesday morning when American Airlines Flight 77 came in fast and low over his car and struck the Pentagon. 'There was a puff of white smoke and then a huge billowing black cloud,' he said." - "Hell on Earth." UU World, Jan/Feb 20 "We were the only people, we think, who saw it live," Dan Creed said. He and two colleagues from Oracle software were stopped in a car near the Naval Annex, next to the Pentagon, when they saw the plane dive down and level off. "It was no more than 30 feet off the ground, and it was screaming. It was just screaming. It was nothing more than a guided missile at that point," Creed said. "I can still see the plane. I can still see it right now. It's just the most frightening thing in the world, going full speed, going full throttle, its wheels up," - Ahwatukee Foothill News Gary Bauer former Presidential candidate, "I looked at the woman sitting in the car next to me. She had this startled look on her face. We were all thinking the same thing. We looked out the front of our windows to try to see the plane, and it wasn?t until a few seconds later that we realized the jet was coming up behind us on that major highway. And it veered to the right into the Pentagon. The blast literally rocked all of our cars. It was an incredible moment." Massachusetts News Sean Boger, Air Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief - "I just looked up and I saw the big nose and the wings of the aircraft coming right at us and I just watched it hit the building," Air Traffic Controller and Pentagon tower chief Sean Boger said. "It exploded. I fell to the ground and covered my head. I could actually hear the metal going through the building." dcmilitary.com November 16, 2001 "The only way you could tell that an aircraft was inside was that we saw pieces of the nose gear. The devastation was horrific. It was obvious that some of the victims we found had no time to react. The distance the firefighters had to travel down corridors to reach the fires was a problem. With only a good 25 minutes of air in their SCBA bottles, to save air they left off their face pieces as they walked and took in a lot of smoke," Captain Defina said. Captain Defina was the shift commander [of an aircraft rescue firefighters crew.] NFPA Journal November 1, 2001

About 20 years ago I climbed Princely Ambitions using a rack of nuts and hexes. The flake section (below where the big block was) on the first pitch was in the sun when I placed the hexes. After I finished the pitch, the flake was in shade. My partner couldn't get the gear out. Being a beginner, I figured he just didn't know how. On rappel, I sweated and cursed, but the hexes wouldn't budge. It took a trip to the truck to get a hammer and a relead of the pitch to finally get my gear out of the flake. There was definately some change in crack dimension during my lead that day.

"Ted Nugent, then 17, formed the band when he moved to Chicago in the 60's. Nugent had heard of a Detroit Rolling Stones cover band called Amboy Dukes that had just broken up, and took the name for his new band. The Detroit Amboy Dukes had actually themselves stolen the name from a Brooklyn street gang of the same name (see Louis Buchalter). A book called The Amboy Dukes about gang lifestyle was also made. In interviews Ted Nugent said he has been given the book on many occasions but still hasn't gotten around to reading it. The Amboy Dukes released a number of albums with Mainstream Records. Having run their course with Mainstream Records, they signed with Polydor Records around 1970. At this time Amboy Dukes song titles would display such period flavor as "Why Is a Carrot More Orange Than an Orange" and "The Inexhaustible Quest for the Cosmic Cabbage"; the latter number was a multi-part epic that incorporated both Béla Bartók and The Beach Boys. The band quickly grew tired of Polydor Records and signed with Frank Zappa's DisCreet (Warner Brothers) label. They released two more albums and then broke up." From Wikipedia

How long did it take you Gary?

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