roboboy Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 Mounties beehive activity: What's the guy in the white shirt doing ? Quote
olyclimber Posted April 24, 2006 Posted April 24, 2006 A bit fuzzy, but here are few photos from this weekend: Quote
parapluie Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I know it is fun to make fun of all of the larger climbing groups in the area, especially The Mountaineers, but I just found out recently that they helped with the rescue out at R&D this past Sunday...So, this just goes to show that all the training they do does come in handy. Quote
G-spotter Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 And if the victim was a Mountie too, then that's almost like recycling Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 So, this just goes to show that all the training they do does come in handy. Yeah all those sick bouldering skillz they cultivate translate really well to high-angle rescue. The phat 5.5 group gangbang toprope sessions I'm sure were money in administering first responder aid and promptly evacuating the injured climber. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Someone should calculate the accident ratio of CC.com posters v. Mountaineers. My back of the enevelope calculations shows the Mounties falling behind. They'd better get busy. Quote
G-spotter Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Peter, your analysis ignores the fact that Mountaineers are also cc.com posters. This has a significant effect on the statistics. I will stop by just pointing it out and leave Gary Yngve to do the math, and CBS to publish the results. Quote
archenemy Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Peter, your analysis ignores the fact that Mountaineers are also cc.com posters. This has a significant effect on the statistics. I will stop by just pointing it out and leave Gary Yngve to do the math, and CBS to publish the results. I'd like to be the one to mock them after all their hard work. Maybe I can label myself as a "Senior Manager" or something important-sounding. Quote
Peter_Puget Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Dru - my calculations are based on the concept of "general community perception." For example: CBS while a well known Mounty is even better known in the general climbing community as "that chemistry guy on cc.com." Using the standard of "GCP" he is considered a CC.comer. While the Mounties get slagged on cc.com several friends of mine have asked me about the appearently high accident rate of cc.comers. I too have wondered about it. I believe it is partially an artifact of the web. Quote
mattp Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I think you'd have to wait and classify CBS until after he gets involved in an accident. If he is on The Tooth with an intermediate climbing party of Mountaineers, it would be a mounty accident. If he were there with his buddy Peter Puget, it'd be a cc.com misadventure. It does seem like we are having lots of accidents but it may be, as you hint, that we simply talk about them more on cc.com than we might have, say, ten years ago. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 You are all referring to cc.com as if it is a community or a club or something like the mounties. Its a frigging website. Its not like people list it in their affiliations in the AAJ, like the AAC or the KTK. Quote
archenemy Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 It does seem like we are having lots of accidents but it may be, as you hint, that we simply talk about them more on cc.com than we might have, say, ten years ago. Or maybe it's because cc.com wasn't around ten years ago. Quote
catbirdseat Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 You are all referring to cc.com as if it is a community or a club or something like the mounties. Its a frigging website. Its not like people list it in their affiliations in the AAJ, like the AAC or the KTK. When people start meeting each other through this site and go climbing together, as we do at Exit 38, then it starts to become more than just a website and more like a club. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 Do you call the message board in the HUB at UW a club too? Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 Whatever, yourself. I thought this was a decent discussion, but apparently not worthy of your time. Quote
archenemy Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Kinda makes me want to join a club and beat you over the head with it. Quote
G-spotter Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I think cc.com is more of a cult than a club. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 Kinda makes me want to join a club and beat you over the head with it. They wouldn't let you join. Quote
DirtyHarry Posted April 27, 2006 Author Posted April 27, 2006 I think cc.com is more of a cult than a club. I think its more like a "gentleman's club." Quote
archenemy Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I think you've smoked yourself retarded if you believe there are any gentlemen here. Quote
G-spotter Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 I think you've smoked yourself retarded if you believe there are any gentlemen here. Just cause I promised I'd be gentle doesn't mean I will be Quote
mattp Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 That was exactly the point, Archy. Ten years ago, we didn't have cc.com and few of us chatted on a daily basis the way many of us do now. Quote
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