tvashtarkatena Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) Amusing that you'd use a photo of a guy who has regular soloed (both up and down) 5.10... DUDE! IS THAT FOR REAL????? SOMEONE ACTUALLY SOLOED A 5.10???? IS THAT HUMANLY POSSIBLE??? HOW COME WE HAVEN'T READ ABOUT THIS IN THE NEWS????? And what will Chris, Tommy, Beth and all of the other BIG ROCK STARS think when they hear of this breakthrough? (My prediction: watch the competitiveness come out!!) P.S., Big-Talkin' Small Fry: Here's a picture of pope soling a little thing we like to call "Brass Balls" on Castle Rock, Leavenworth. No mattress....it was being "borrowed". Ah, the '80s. The hair, the chicks, the shirtlessness, the pina coladas. Edited July 17, 2009 by tvashtarkatena Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 were short-shorts more 80s or 70s? i can't remember. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Brass Balls must be located in Australia. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 BTW, I fuckin soloed Sitting Bull, and not in the '80s either. In the double zeros, or whatever the fuck they're called. Don't know where that is? Yeah, you wouldn't. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) And I wouldn't call Dwayner a one note song, cuz, like, he's posted the 'Brass Balls Event' about 400 times now. Edited July 17, 2009 by tvashtarkatena Quote
StevenSeagal Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 and the stuff he climbs even today will probably make us cry. That happens a lot on dirty, obscure, vegetated 5.6's; that shit gets in your eyes and all. Jake we had better steer clear of Index, not enough bolts and too many assholes at that place! Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 [video:youtube]RGkIfcyyNFQ Vermont is in my posse Quote
StevenSeagal Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Thanks for the invite. But do you really climb, or do you just run your mouth on cc.com all day? I see you don't have any trip reports and come to think of it, I've never seen your name associated with one. After a lifetime of service in the CIA, Special Forces, and various urban police departments, I'm just getting started climbing. I don't yet have a lot to report but I wouldn't report it anyway because I'm pretty low key about what I do. I would never, for example, tell anyone that my first roped lead was a 5.12d trad climb that I onsighted. Or that I soloed the north face of Latok 1 a few years back, I didn't tell anyone cause I didn't want to ruin the adventure for the next party. I also soloed Musashi before it was bolted but I don't talk about that. And besides, these days I rope solo that kind of stuff, not that I've ever fallen on it, but nobody's perfect and I suppose it could happen. Anyway I'm definitely interested in learning how to climb hard and I've you're the guy to talk to. Can you recommend some beginner hardman routes for me, ones that preferably have bolts not less than 12 feet apart? Also do you know any good photographers? I don't really have anything planned but sometimes the scenery behind my visage is really beautiful. Quote
tomtom Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Jake's Response: Thanks for the invite. But do you really climb, or do you just run your mouth on cc.com all day? I see you don't have any trip reports and come to think of it, I've never seen your name associated with one. Anyway, if you do wanna hook up....for climbing or maybe just to play some computer games, compare RAM and video cards and such.....that would be swell. But let's keep it private, OK? I'm pretty sure that if Pope catches us out at Index, he'll invite us to climb routes where we won't always have three bolts within reach at all times, and the stuff he climbs even today will probably make us cry. My average crew went sport climbing on Gorilla My Dreams last night. Good stuff! Gorilla My Dreams Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Jake's Response: Thanks for the invite. But do you really climb, or do you just run your mouth on cc.com all day? I see you don't have any trip reports and come to think of it, I've never seen your name associated with one. Anyway, if you do wanna hook up....for climbing or maybe just to play some computer games, compare RAM and video cards and such.....that would be swell. But let's keep it private, OK? I'm pretty sure that if Pope catches us out at Index, he'll invite us to climb routes where we won't always have three bolts within reach at all times, and the stuff he climbs even today will probably make us cry. My average crew went sport climbing on Gorilla My Dreams last night. Good stuff! Gorilla My Dreams Quote
Choada_Boy Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 "Yo Dawg! Take my picture! It's 5.10! No one will believe it!" Should be renamed resting_on_someone_elses_laurels_1981_to_2009.jpg Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Well I don't know about you Bug, but I'm inclined to spew advice, similar to the "Technicle" thread. I'm got a huge reservoir of sage advice that I can call on, and I mean that in the most modest and humble way possible. My suggestion is that the guy in the picture is clearly taking way too big of risks. 1. SAR will have to be called up if he slips. Alot of these SAR folks are volunteer. Do you think they have money coming out of their ears to pay for the gas money to come scrape his body off the rocks below? 2. What about possible climbers below? He is clearly endangering them. 3. What sort of example is being set here? Next thing you know, every 12-year old in the county is going to be going up there and trying to free solo this (without a rope!!!!) and getting themselves hurt or even worse.....killed. And all because this dufus had to go showing off. 4. That route could use a few more bolts, and it would be alot safer for the rest of the climbers who can't just fly up a 5.10. Quote
Choada_Boy Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 If only you could put bolts inside hand cracks. Life would be good. Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 above this, no slug backs, i'm rubber you're glue. Quote
Choada_Boy Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 "Look out Dawg! He's right behind you!" "Don't worry about me, Pope, just pull down on the sickness!! 5.10!" This is from Raindawg and Pope's last grave robbing expedition, where they battled the wicked Bolt Emperor and his Mummy. Notice the Queen Bolt, source of all social and moral decay. Quote
olyclimber Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 This is all described in one of the books from the TinTin series Quote
RuMR Posted July 18, 2009 Posted July 18, 2009 you two collectively equal dear kevbonehead's IQ... Quote
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