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winglessangel
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thirsty? open your bottle here!!
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j_ung
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winglessangel
Jun 20, 2007, 9:11 PM
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j_ung wrote: <alien image>
AHHAAHHAHAHAAHAH
the best, I mean, the worst
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coastal_climber
Jun 20, 2007, 9:21 PM
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winglessangel wrote: j_ung wrote: <alien image> AHHAAHHAHAHAAHAH the best, I mean, the worst
Uhhh, now your going to get it...
>Cam
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medicus
Jun 20, 2007, 9:36 PM
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Brilliant! I started laughing so loudly that I got odd stares from the family.
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el_layclimber
Jun 20, 2007, 9:55 PM
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Jesus, Aliens is finished, aren't they? Never mind the lawsuit, when your gear gets more laughs than a rusted-out bottle opener as bolt hanger, you may as well start filing for bankruptcy.
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the_climber
Jun 20, 2007, 9:59 PM
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File for bankruptcy... if their "timely responce" to things is any indication, well... I would susspect they'll get right on that...
In a year or ten.
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pjdf
Jun 21, 2007, 12:06 AM
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j_ung wrote: [image]http://www.mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/cams/images/cch_Aliens.jpg[/image]
TROPHY!!!
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tallmark515
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LOL! Clever!
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j_ung
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Thanks, thanks... I'm here all week. Shows at 7 and 11. Try the veat.
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winglessangel
Jun 21, 2007, 2:03 PM
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el_layclimber wrote: Jesus, Aliens is finished, aren't they? Never mind the lawsuit, when your gear gets more laughs than a rusted-out bottle opener as bolt hanger, you may as well start filing for bankruptcy.
Those bottle openers were placed in the 60's or 70's.
There are 3 of them, people say that the FA party ran out of bolts and used what they had.
but there are regular bolts after them and the big question is would they take THREE bottle openers to the wall? So I think they planned it out.
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el_layclimber
Jun 21, 2007, 2:56 PM
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I've read that Fred Beckey used to buy old silk ties at thrift stores to use for aid. I would poop my pants if I were a few pitches up an A2 and came upon a ratty argyle tie.
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j_ung
Jun 21, 2007, 2:58 PM
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winglessangel wrote: el_layclimber wrote: Jesus, Aliens is finished, aren't they? Never mind the lawsuit, when your gear gets more laughs than a rusted-out bottle opener as bolt hanger, you may as well start filing for bankruptcy. Those bottle openers were placed in the 60's or 70's. There are 3 of them, people say that the FA party ran out of bolts and used what they had. but there are regular bolts after them and the big question is would they take THREE bottle openers to the wall? So I think they planned it out.
Are there stances at the bottle openers but not at the other bolts? If so, I have a theory. 
(I also have a more serious theory, namely that the route is rap bolted... er... rap openered.)
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winglessangel
Jun 21, 2007, 3:45 PM
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el_layclimber wrote: I've read that Fred Beckey used to buy old silk ties at thrift stores to use for aid. I would poop my pants if I were a few pitches up an A2 and came upon a ratty argyle tie.
Ohh, you don't wanna get me started on how Brazilians would climb back in the 60's/70's (and even 80's)
I wasn't born back then, but what I've heard...
everything was homemade, the safest thing they used was harness made out of seat belts.
just picture, 3rd world country before the globalization boom where very few people even knew what rock climbing was. For most people climbing was just alpine like they saw on movies, with crampons and piolet.
In fact first ROCK climbers around here would attach nails to the bottom of there shoes!!!
to add.
A. P. Faria, local old school climber, once wrote an article to Climbing magazine telling all about. They didn't publish because the didn't believe it.
(This post was edited by winglessangel on Jun 21, 2007, 3:48 PM)
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TradEddie
Jun 21, 2007, 5:24 PM
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Can anyone tell me what that third pic from the bottom of J_ung’s post is, the one that looks like a super thick old style aluminum pull tab? I clipped something exactly like that just for giggles once, placed my own piece, climbed 10 ft and fell, pulled my own gear but the ring held! Low FF fall, but for something placed 30 years earlier for an aid FA, not too shabby at all.
TE
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knieveltech
Jun 21, 2007, 8:36 PM
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winglessangel wrote: thirsty? open your bottle here!! [image]http://www.niclevicz.com.br/images/fotos/foto_6_299_3g.jpg[/image]
Incredible! All hangers should be designed with similar features. Where is that??
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winglessangel
Jun 22, 2007, 12:19 PM
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Rio de Janerio,
Pão de Açucar (Sugar Loaf)
North face
the route is either Íbis or Contra Pino. Not sure cause I didn't climb there, I got the picture because the topic was on a local forum a while ago.
That is why I can't answer J_ung's post as well.
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svilnit
Jun 22, 2007, 1:17 PM
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reno wrote: richardvg03 wrote: ever find it? Yep. Pretty nasty looking, too.
Thanks Reno... just bought a bike yesterday. Feeling good about it now! That, and I was eating lunch while reading this.
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reno
Jun 22, 2007, 4:31 PM
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svilnit wrote: reno wrote: richardvg03 wrote: ever find it? Yep. Pretty nasty looking, too. Thanks Reno... just bought a bike yesterday. Feeling good about it now! That, and I was eating lunch while reading this.
Well, motorcycles can be safe.... as long as you don't get on the highway going the wrong direction, drunk, at oh-dark-thirty.
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robbovius
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svilnit wrote: reno wrote: richardvg03 wrote: ever find it? Yep. Pretty nasty looking, too. Thanks Reno... just bought a bike yesterday. Feeling good about it now! That, and I was eating lunch while reading this.
what are you upset about? it's not YOUR arm...
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tradmanclimbs
Jun 22, 2007, 5:23 PM
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This tat was at the top of a pretty knarly WI4+ M4 ish Ice climb. I installed a bolted belay there last winter. hope the local morons dont chop it in favor of the dead bushes and old rotton Cord.....
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altelis
Jun 22, 2007, 8:10 PM
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ya, i've done a fair amount of ice in maine and nh and, well, thats a pretty common practice----though most of the time the cord and bush (usually shrubbery/tree) are a little beefier.....
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shrug7
Jun 22, 2007, 8:29 PM
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knieveltech wrote: winglessangel wrote: thirsty? open your bottle here!! [image]http://www.niclevicz.com.br/images/fotos/foto_6_299_3g.jpg[/image] Incredible! All hangers should be designed with similar features. Where is that??
Why not just use a cleaning tool? 
though you can open a bottle with a modern day anchor..just not recommended...
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knieveltech
Jun 22, 2007, 10:38 PM
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shrug7 wrote: knieveltech wrote: winglessangel wrote: thirsty? open your bottle here!! [image]http://www.niclevicz.com.br/images/fotos/foto_6_299_3g.jpg[/image] Incredible! All hangers should be designed with similar features. Where is that?? Why not just use a cleaning tool? though you can open a bottle with a modern day anchor..just not recommended...
The cleaning tool is an outstanding idea, but what if you drop it? Also, what if you're on a sport route? There's at least two highly plausible scenarios where having a bottle opener hanger would potentially be critical to the success of the mission. This is serious stuff man.
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