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joegoesup
Nov 12, 2003, 5:52 PM
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I see a calendar deal in you future Pete. STONE NUDE featuring Piton Pete
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bspisak
Nov 12, 2003, 6:21 PM
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I think THIS must be the one everyone is referring to.
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passthepitonspete
Nov 12, 2003, 6:24 PM
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It is big, isn't it?
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junnos
Nov 12, 2003, 6:33 PM
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Leave it to a Liberated Hippie to get upset about a picture like that.
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nefarius
Nov 12, 2003, 10:46 PM
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I guess I'll add my 2 cents here too...
I've met Pete MANY times. I've hung out on "the patio" with him. I've shared many a beer and pizza with him. Schlepped loads with him, gotten MBWT's (Mini Big Wall Tutorials) from him on particular systems and I even helped fix and haul loads for the "El Cap Keg Extravaganza". Being that I live a mere 2 hours from Yos, I climb there a great deal. This year, I've spent more time there than in years past, largely due to Pete.
Pete is an incredibly nice guy, and has an insane amount of knowledge. More importantly, he's WILLING, and even ANXIOUS, to share that knowledge with others. There are quite a few great wall climbers who contribute to this site... None, however, offer the same visibility and approachability as Pete. That's not to say that other great climbers are not incredibly fun to hang with and don't also have a great amount of knowledge. Pete WANTS to share. It's in everything he does. Every tutorial he writes or teaches. Every question he answers... I'm certain if you look around you will find there are a great number of climbers who are thankful to have someone with so much knowledge, who is also approachable and willing to help a newbie out. A great number more than those who apparently have issue with him.
Sure he toots his own horn often. (Hell, if you've ever been around Pete, you know he just plains toots often) We are all aware that he's flirtatious with women. He's often outspoken and certainly not shy. He's confident in his systems and himself. It's his quirkiness and personality that make him who he is and drive us all to pay him attention. I mean have you ever read his signature? OK, so it's changed today, but it normally reads something like, "The only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you."
We also are all aware of "the better way". Personally, I appreciate, respect and am even thankful that Pete challenges the systems used in our sport. He puts a lot of thought and time into wall climbing and the systems used and how they might be improved or made easier. Simply put, without that kind of thought all along the way, we'd not be up ANY of the walls we climb so frequently today. It's evolution. It's change. It's ingenuity. It's certainly not forcing you to "convert" to someone else's way, or even a "better way". It's simply an idea, a suggestion of something that may be easier for you or save a little heartache. It's "using the old noggin", as it were, and what separates us from the animals.
Sure, Pete frequently gets up at noon. He makes coffee and drinks beer while on the wall. He even brings his ghetto blaster. Often, there are days when he simply doesn't climb and is content to read a book and hang in his ledge all day. What, honestly, makes this wrong? He's simply being himself, while doing what he loves. And, better yet, he's having a damn good time while going about the whole thing.
We might as well face it. Pete is who he is. Accept it. But, while looking at that, we have to face our own contribution to that. We all enable him, and some would even call it support. I'm offering that support to him in this writing. We don't have to talk to him or about him. We don't have to read the many lines of information he shares with us. But, we do. And we do it for a reason. Maybe some different than others.
For me, I greatly appreciate his contributions to wall climbing through this site, his hours and hours of writing and in person. His systems have certainly made quite a few things insanely more comfortable for me, as well as for others. He has certainly helped many a climber on their way to their first wall, as well as helped others, a bit more experienced, find it a tad easier and more comfortable.
Basically what this all comes down to is that it's who he is. It's his own personal style. No one has any right to expect him to change who he is simply so that he can be on "your" big wall. Or any place, for that matter. Were he not so knowledgeable, outspoken, and successful in his ventures, and simply just another climber, doing all of these same things, we'd not be talking about him at all, let alone bashing him in a forum.
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nefarius
Nov 13, 2003, 12:52 AM
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I guess I'll add my 2 cents here too...
I've met Pete MANY times. I've hung out on "the patio" with him. I've shared many a beer and pizza with him. Schlepped loads with him, gotten MBWT's (Mini Big Wall Tutorials) from him on particular systems and I even helped fix and haul loads for the "El Cap Keg Extravaganza". Being that I live a mere 2 hours from Yos, I climb there a great deal. This year, I've spent more time there than in years past, largely due to Pete.
Pete is an incredibly nice guy, and has an insane amount of knowledge. More importantly, he's WILLING, and even ANXIOUS, to share that knowledge with others. There are quite a few great wall climbers who contribute to this site... None, however, offer the same visibility and approachability as Pete. That's not to say that other great climbers are not incredibly fun to hang with and don't also have a great amount of knowledge. Pete WANTS to share. It's in everything he does. Every tutorial he writes or teaches. Every question he answers... I'm certain if you look around you will find there are a great number of climbers who are thankful to have someone with so much knowledge, who is also approachable and willing to help a newbie out. A great number more than those who apparently have issue with him.
Sure he toots his own horn often. (Hell, if you've ever been around Pete, you know he just plains toots often) We are all aware that he's flirtatious with women. He's often outspoken and certainly not shy. He's confident in his systems and himself. It's his quirkiness and personality that make him who he is and drive us all to pay him attention. I mean have you ever read his signature? OK, so it's changed today, but it normally reads something like, "The only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you."
We also are all aware of "the better way". Personally, I appreciate, respect and am even thankful that Pete challenges the systems used in our sport. He puts a lot of thought and time into wall climbing and the systems used and how they might be improved or made easier. Simply put, without that kind of thought all along the way, we'd not be up ANY of the walls we climb so frequently today. It's evolution. It's change. It's ingenuity. It's certainly not forcing you to "convert" to someone else's way, or even a "better way". It's simply an idea, a suggestion of something that may be easier for you or save a little heartache. It's "using the old noggin", as it were, and what separates us from the animals.
Sure, Pete frequently gets up at noon. He makes coffee and drinks beer while on the wall. He even brings his ghetto blaster. Often, there are days when he simply doesn't climb and is content to read a book and hang in his ledge all day. What, honestly, makes this wrong? He's simply being himself, while doing what he loves. And, better yet, he's having a damn good time while going about the whole thing.
We might as well face it. Pete is who he is. Accept it. But, while looking at that, we have to face our own contribution to that. We all enable him, and some would even call it support. I'm offering that support to him in this writing. We don't have to talk to him or about him. We don't have to read the many lines of information he shares with us. But, we do. And we do it for a reason. Maybe some different than others.
For me, I greatly appreciate his contributions to wall climbing through this site, his hours and hours of writing and in person. His systems have certainly made quite a few things insanely more comfortable for me, as well as for others. He has certainly helped many a climber on their way to their first wall, as well as helped others, a bit more experienced, find it a tad easier and more comfortable.
Basically what this all comes down to is that it's who he is. It's his own personal style. No one has any right to expect him to change who he is simply so that he can be on "your" big wall. Or any place, for that matter. Were he not so knowledgeable, outspoken, and successful in his ventures, and simply just another climber, doing all of these same things, we'd not be talking about him at all, let alone bashing him in a forum.
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nefarius
Nov 13, 2003, 1:00 AM
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I guess I'll add my 2 cents here too...
I've met Pete MANY times. I've hung out on "the patio" with him. I've shared many a beer and pizza with him. Schlepped loads with him, gotten MBWT's (Mini Big Wall Tutorials) from him on particular systems and I even helped fix and haul loads for the "El Cap Keg Extravaganza". Being that I live a mere 2 hours from Yos, I climb there a great deal. This year, I've spent more time there than in years past, largely due to Pete.
Pete is an incredibly nice guy, and has an insane amount of knowledge. More importantly, he's WILLING, and even ANXIOUS, to share that knowledge with others. There are quite a few great wall climbers who contribute to this site... None, however, offer the same visibility and approachability as Pete. That's not to say that other great climbers are not incredibly fun to hang with and don't also have a great amount of knowledge. Pete WANTS to share. It's in everything he does. Every tutorial he writes or teaches. Every question he answers... I'm certain if you look around you will find there are a great number of climbers who are thankful to have someone with so much knowledge, who is also approachable and willing to help a newbie out. A great number more than those who apparently have issue with him.
Sure he toots his own horn often. (Hell, if you've ever been around Pete, you know he just plains toots often) We are all aware that he's flirtatious with women. He's often outspoken and certainly not shy. He's confident in his systems and himself. It's his quirkiness and personality that make him who he is and drive us all to pay him attention. I mean have you ever read his signature? OK, so it's changed today, but it normally reads something like, "The only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you."
We also are all aware of "the better way". Personally, I appreciate, respect and am even thankful that Pete challenges the systems used in our sport. He puts a lot of thought and time into wall climbing and the systems used and how they might be improved or made easier. Simply put, without that kind of thought all along the way, we'd not be up ANY of the walls we climb so frequently today. It's evolution. It's change. It's ingenuity. It's certainly not forcing you to "convert" to someone else's way, or even a "better way". It's simply an idea, a suggestion of something that may be easier for you or save a little heartache. It's "using the old noggin", as it were, and what separates us from the animals.
Sure, Pete frequently gets up at noon. He makes coffee and drinks beer while on the wall. He even brings his ghetto blaster. Often, there are days when he simply doesn't climb and is content to read a book and hang in his ledge all day. What, honestly, makes this wrong? He's simply being himself, while doing what he loves. And, better yet, he's having a damn good time while going about the whole thing.
We might as well face it. Pete is who he is. Accept it. But, while looking at that, we have to face our own contribution to that. We all enable him, and some would even call it support. I'm offering that support to him in this writing. We don't have to talk to him or about him. We don't have to read the many lines of information he shares with us. But, we do. And we do it for a reason. Maybe some different than others.
For me, I greatly appreciate his contributions to wall climbing through this site, his hours and hours of writing and in person. His systems have certainly made quite a few things insanely more comfortable for me, as well as for others. He has certainly helped many a climber on their way to their first wall, as well as helped others, a bit more experienced, find it a tad easier and more comfortable.
Basically what this all comes down to is that it's who he is. It's his own personal style. No one has any right to expect him to change who he is simply so that he can be on "your" big wall. Or any place, for that matter. Were he not so knowledgeable, outspoken, and successful in his ventures, and simply just another climber, doing all of these same things, we'd not be talking about him at all, let alone bashing him in a forum.
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epic_ed
Nov 18, 2003, 8:21 PM
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up2top moved this thread from Aid Climbing to RC.com Archives.
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