Alpinist 8

[olyclimber]

I got Alpinist 8 in the mail today. @)#($)#@$*@# USPS mangled it!!! Did they hire that gorilla from the luggage commercials or what?

[Chriznitch]

[backcountrydog]

mine is all hashed up too. this happened w/ an earlier issue and i reported it to there 'damaged mag' dept. they said a bunch of wa. subscribers were reporting it. they gladly sent me another. im going to do the same thing this time. for 13 bucks it shouldnt arrive ripped.

[Alpinfox]

Hey Oly or BCD,

 

I will give ya a few bux or a fer yer ripped copy.

 

Please pm.

 

[Alasdair]

Mine arrived in great shape only to be placed on my front doorstep in the rain. Now I have full color wet toilet paper.

[Dr_Crash]

Mine came with a damaged spine too I don't know what's happening with USPS here! I called Alpinist and they'll resend one (they also offered to extend my subscription by one issue and let me buy 8 in a store; maybe that would have been safer, and definitely faster).

 

My damaged copy of 8, for someone who doesn't mind, is reserved to someone who will acoompany me on some easy rock summits (like the Tooth or Chair Peak or something like that) in the next month so I can get my Mountaineers Basic Climbing course equivalency.

 

drC

[Jedi]

All mine have made it to the east coast in good shape but I am anxious when I first pull it out of the mail box. Hoping it is a good shape.

Nice article on Artic Rage. The topo makes my palms sweat.

[Dru]

I bought my copy of Alpinist 8 yesterday

 

The featured "mountain" is The Titan, a Colorado mud pile. What next, Columbia Boulder? der Toof?

 

Steve Seats

The rest of it came across as a little bit same-old. All the interesting stuff seemed to be a few months late and/or a few months out-of-date. The only thing that really interested me was Yuji's article on trying to onsight El Nino. All that preparation (5 years!) and then he blows it on the 4th pitch.

[billcoe]

Mine came via partner hand del mail......... Best price possible.

 

Unusual though, I thought last mo. copy of rock and Ice was better. So, partner has R and I, I have 8. yeahhhhhh! great price.

[slothrop]

I got sick of reading whole paragraphs like this in Yuji Hirayama's article:

And then I onsighted the 11a pitch.

Awesome photos, though.

 

I haven't read a single one of Steve Seats' stories all the way through. is right.

[Dru]

Yeah the Yuji article did seem to contain some chestbeating (blah blah no one but me could do this, blah blah) but the overall tale of the buildup to the failure was pretty interesting... and also interesting he couldn't do the girly moves Lynn Hill or Beth Rodden could do, and figures it's harder to onsight a 13 on El Cap than to redpoint a 14d...