Pre-order the new Yosemite Guidebook!
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Yo Gang! |
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Damn, downgrade city! The book looks great though. Nice work Erik |
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Erik, are you going to have an online version (E-Book) available for download? |
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Does it come with instructions for added your very own mid-pitch anchors to classic climbs? Limbing trees in a national park for fun and profit? |
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Hi Guys! |
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Moof wrote:Does it come with instructions for added your very own mid-pitch anchors to classic climbs? Limbing trees in a national park for fun and profit? Seriously, think twice about rewarding an admitted retrobolter.Give it a break. Erik Sloan has done so much for the climbing community. What have you done? I can't stand people hating on someone who is actually OUT THERE doing something to develop the sport we love. Guide books are incredibly important and take a huge amount of effort in order to come to fruition. |
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Sam Keller wrote: Give it a break. Erik Sloan has done so much for the climbing community. What have you done? I can't stand people hating on someone who is actually OUT THERE doing something to develop the sport we love. Guide books are incredibly important and take a huge amount of effort in order to come to fruition.His response to people asking about new bolts added to the middle of a pitch: "I added that belay. It's for practice aid climbing. If you remove the bolts, I will add them back. " I have refrained from adding mid pitch anchors on well established climbs. That is what I have done for the community. |
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Sam, we can live in a world where we recognize , even commend an individual for the good they do , and still call them out when they make stupid choices in regards to a resource that we all share . You don't need to have done an equal amount of good things as the individual, to have license to call them out on the dumb things they do . |
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Yo Gang! |
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Pre-ordered! Can't wait~ |
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Erik Sloan wrote:Moof and Vincent: Yes climbing ethics are difficult and can suck you into a continual conversation in which you might, or might not, agree with other climbers.Adding bolts for a free attempt are in the gray area. Adding mid-pitch aid practice bolts are indefensible. Aggressive removal of tree limbs in a national park without authorization is illegal. What you did to the Great Slab Route with a bolt ladder around 2 whole pitches is ugly and indefensible (and you left tat at the bottom anchor). The aggressive crow bar cleaning of the Pitch 7 mid-way ledge on Mideast Crisis was well beyond what was needed or justified. |
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Got my order in, always need more books for the shelf and the stoke. |
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Thanks Gang! |
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Bump! |
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Thanks to everyone who has preordered! |
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"Adding mid-pitch aid practice bolts are indefensible. Aggressive removal of tree limbs in a national park without authorization is illegal. What you did to the Great Slab Route with a bolt ladder around 2 whole pitches is ugly and indefensible (and you left tat at the bottom anchor). The aggressive crow bar cleaning of the Pitch 7 mid-way ledge on Mideast Crisis was well beyond what was needed or justified." |
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Hi Novak! |
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a free climbing guidebook from someone who doesn't do much free climbing and threatens bolt wars, not to mention threatening climbers' access to Yosemite by breaking rules of the park... yeah that's definitely something I'd want to spend my hard earned money on. |
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Yo Gang, |
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Erik, |
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There are some blatantly false statements being made here,... |