God no! Dan would avoid us stinky high school boys like the plague we were anytime we wandered into the Boulder Mountaineer to shoplift. Actually now that I think about it maybe he did us a favor by ignoring us as I still have that "free" set of hexes.
I seem to remember the guy belaying was a tourist visiting Colorado, and he had big ass mountaineering boots on. We taught him to belay so I could take photos of Chuck stealing Achey's "project." (stealing for no good reason has become a theme of this post) I have no idea who was first to free this thing though and in the end who gives a rat's ass.