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Stuck red camalot on Passages at T-wall

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By BirminghamBen
From Birmingham, AL
Oct 7, 2009
Post climb snack...<br /><br />If you were wondering, the guy is Strappo (could be my long lost brother according to one of my climbing partners), a famous British climber and madman. <br /><br />The photo was taken in the Yosemite Lodge parking lot in 1982. Russ Walling took the photo. Strappo provided the bread.....

Ben F wrote:
Why would anyone be using cams on Passages? What a nice climb, though.


Cause everyone I know that owns hexes keeps them at home...aaaaahahahaaaaa....damned old timers...just kidding. Don't shoot me.

Rick Blair wrote:
Life will go smoother if you always offer beer............


Word...and that's just what I need...more beer.

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By Tits McGee
From Boulder, CO
Oct 7, 2009
How I Send

saxfiend wrote:
I doubt any of you guys taking cheap shots at the OP from west of the Mississippi could have done any better. JL


That's why we take cheap shots from way out here JL...

Having grown up in the south and learned to lead trad there, T-Wall is very familiar to me - I never took a cheap shot any of the kind people who tried to clean the cam, just at the short, vague and somewhat ungracious tone of the OP - It seemed much like several other pleas from people getting gear stuck, leaving it and then asking for it back...

Glad this thread turned itself around - no harsh feelings, hope the cam comes out.


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By Paul Barnes
From Gainesville, Georgia
Oct 7, 2009
I love Tallulah Gorge

Y'all can take all the cheap shots ya want as long as ya offer up some floor space and a tour if some of us rednecks ever decide to venture outside of God's Country. I hear you'uns got some pretty good craggin out that way too...;)

We may need an interpreter though. You know we speak fluent Appalachian American round these parts, right?

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By Bob Packwood
From Longtucky, CO
Oct 7, 2009

Paul Barnes wrote:
You know we speak fluent Appalachian American round these parts, right?


Celebrate diversity, bro!

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By Crag Dweller
From Denver, CO
Oct 7, 2009
My navigator keeps me from getting lost

Tits McGee wrote:
No offense to anyone - Maybe if the OP provided such details, he would have gotten a bit more slack - but he was vague and kinda short - email carries no tone - so how were we supposed to know he was a "NICE GUY" - he is just one of many people posting about how there gear got stuck, but still want it back... T wall gets light all day - the wall "breathes" I find that cleaning gear later in the day may help remove it...or really early when the metal lobes of the cam are cool - I worked on a friend's stuck piece on TR to the point of exhaustion and found out that some one easily removed it while we were still climbing that day...


Maybe if everyone gave benefit of the doubt and assumed the OP was a normal, nice guy who climbs just like the rest of us; the tone of these discussions within our community would be, well, more communal.

Why should posters be required to go into full detail? Do the details of the story make his request more or less valid?

It's not as though the OP claimed someone would've been wrong to booty the piece. He just asked for it back. What's the harm in that?

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By saxfiend
Administrator
From Atlanta, GA
Oct 7, 2009
Relaxing at the P1 belay of Fruit Loops at Rumbling Bald.

Rick Blair wrote:
You have to admit, the OPs original comment was a little....... demanding. Life will go smoother if you always offer beer............

Agreed, a gracious request and/or an offer of beer always helps.

Tits McGee wrote:
Glad this thread turned itself around - no harsh feelings, hope the cam comes out.

Same here!

JL

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