DCramer Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Can anyone comment regarding how the "thrown object" hazard is this year compared to prior years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Anderson Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 This year, just like the last ten, I've never seen anything coming off the wall. Just the same, there's always some glass on the ground on the left hand side of the wall, and the car parts are still up on that ledge to the left of Tempichous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I talked a dude who said he was once shot at while aiding the golden arch. He said the shooter was from above. Â ____________________________________________ Also, shiny hangers with bullet impacts look weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwrts Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Jens- Was he actually "shot at" or were the bullits just fired from above him? Â I also have never seen stuff fly off but I have seen the remnants. Once Kat and I hiked up to the top via trails during a hard rain. we ran into some local hick boys 4x4ing and pounding buds down faster than they could think. The leader was absolutely amazed that we could hike up to the same spot in about an hour. He really had no idea humans were capable of such feats. I told him we could race to the bar and he just smiled. Really I think most anybody on top tossing sheit down or being roudy most likely is just as oblivious to the fact that people are scaling the cliffs and hiking below. A nice fence might be a good idea, set back from the wall but passable for the awe-lookers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Jens- Was he actually "shot at" or were the bullits just fired from above him? Â I also have never seen stuff fly off but I have seen the remnants. Once Kat and I hiked up to the top via trails during a hard rain. we ran into some local hick boys 4x4ing and pounding buds down faster than they could think. The leader was absolutely amazed that we could hike up to the same spot in about an hour. He really had no idea humans were capable of such feats. I told him we could race to the bar and he just smiled. Really I think most anybody on top tossing sheit down or being roudy most likely is just as oblivious to the fact that people are scaling the cliffs and hiking below. A nice fence might be a good idea, set back from the wall but passable for the awe-lookers... Â actually shot at. -richochets off the dihedral if I remember the story right. Â What about the mythical lost hot springs that are a one hour hike from the top of the upper wall? A 70's hardman described them to me when I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric8 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Haven't seen anyone toss anything but some one did base jumped over past me on DH/LA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I almost got pogged roping up for tempitchewus about 5 years ago. It started with a few softly floating empty beer cans. No biggie we thought till I heard something big cutting air and I dove to the base of the wall a second before a stump exploded where I was sitting. Needless to say we bailed. I had heard prior to that day that shit raining down accounted for the routes name but had got on it a couple times before without incident. Haven't had any trouble any where else up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashclimber Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 About a year ago several friends and I were walking back from Heart of the Country when we were stopped by a group of 7-8 people on quads. They asked us if we saw anything fall from the top of the upper wall. Then they asked how to get to the base of the upper wall. After a few probing questions they confessed one of their quads "lost its brakes" and went over the top of the upper wall. They wanted to retrieve as many parts as possible. One guy was pretty shaken up. He said he dove off the quad before it went over. Havent seen any falling quads since! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Yngve Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 The junk we saw yesterday looked pretty old. TomTom trundled a Snugtop down from an intermediate ledge to the trail and packed a piece of it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMR Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 i once saw a water bottle come screaming down off of upper town wall... Â whoops, my bad...make that lower town wall... Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikn Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Weekends have more hazard. On April 3rd 2004 (a Saturday) I had just gotten off Lamplighter/Heaven's Gate. We were just walking out when several objects fell around us, exploding like mortar fire. Terrified, we sought cover. Then we heard a bottle breaking from above, so we knew it was bubbas tossing stuff off. We had just started hiking out, so we were probably below or slightly right of HG. I now usually wear a helmet whenever I'm up there, even when walking out. Â There is a lot of junk further left. I packed out several fresh cans and other garbage. One item had a date from earlier this year on the packaging. I was there when TomTom was trundling the camper shell. Â I guess there is a trail that leads up there? Anyone know more about that trail? How popular is it? What kind of vehicles go there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 An old, marginally passable logging spur leads to within 50 or so of the top near Davis/Holland. This spur is off of upper Reiter Road which is the ORV capital of the known universe. The lands involved are a mix of DNR and State Parks with the actual top of the wall being, I'm fairly sure, the latter. For info, or for that matter to raise hell, you could chat with the rangers at Wallace Falls. The bulk of the ORV folks seem to be pretty much OK but there is an element that needs to get reined in now and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 ...and again and again and again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Too true. Â Some of the goings on up there in bubba-land are sick, sad, pathetic, whatever. A handful of pigs can make an awful mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drederek Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Would rerouting the road to go right to the edge of the cliff be any more dangerous than throwing crap off the top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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