ISO: stalwart soul to repeat Imago Invisibiliae on the SR

I’ve decided it’s time to validate my near-life experience with a fellow traveler.

In exchange for swapping leads on a thousand-foot 5.9+ / 5.10- with significant objective hazards, I am willing to make this experience worth your while in almost any way imaginable. Fama fortuna gloriamque. Preferably, intrinsic motivation for adding a full stop to four year’s worth of ellipses.

You being comfortable on Seen Ick Crews is all that I require. Shortfixing LRS with a Revo is how I might take my pitches.

Scoff as they may, they will never take from me what happened to my psyche when I fell. Jesus fvcking Christ on a dike sickle.

Pax Christi and may Harmony find you as she has me

FWDN
vox populi SGP; In absentia AXPW

Pyrgate Te Ex Inpheris

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/116215722/image-of-the-invisible

Blog post checks out, what an adventure! Here's hoping Ophelia will wait for you!

Davis Badger wrote: Blog post checks out, what an adventure! Here's hoping Ophelia will wait for you!

Thanks! The funny thing is that this was actually going to be my last ride with Ophelia, I was trading her to a friend for a bomber downhill bike. Not sure he’s going to want to make the trade now with how all scuffed up the plastic frame is ,.. I need to ride a steel frame anyways, there’s no excuse for subjecting carbon to that kind of treatment.

"A rope a rack, and the shirt on your back", is a Jimmy Dunn/Billy Westbay quote not Kor. I'm gravitating towards that area soon, and also work/volunteer with disabled children. Might be able to help out. Glad you made it out. Best wishes.

AND your wallet? Now I have a picture of someone rapping in with SCUBA gear...lol!

Good write up, movies didn't go for me. I'm afraid we are incompatible, dear.

Best, Helen

Old lady H wrote: AND your wallet? Now I have a picture of someone rapping in with SCUBA gear...lol!

Good write up, movies didn't go for me. I'm afraid we are incompatible, dear.

Best, Helen

Hmm, did you click the links? They open as popups as .mov files for me. The videos kind of make it for me... hard to capture the scope of the Black in a single snap.

Cue Captain Capraphobic Crankypants and the vinyl Mafia bitching about how the blog post is unreadable due to poor video quality.

The Crawford hippies found my wallet by the drum set. I was using it to muffle the snare. I originally thought that I had lost it when I took my pants off to dry them by the fire after fording the river.

It's cool you had an adventure.  It's less cool that your adventure resulted in you strewing your kit across a beautiful landscape.  Hopefully you're able to clean it up soon.

Amazing. I'm planning a solo bike/climb adventure due to this inspiring sufferfest. 

Fritz Nuffer wrote:

Hmm, did you click the links? They open as popups as .mov files for me. The videos kind of make it for me... hard to capture the scope of the Black in a single snap.

Cue Captain Capraphobic Crankypants and the vinyl Mafia bitching about how the blog post is unreadable due to poor video quality.

The Crawford hippies found my wallet by the drum set. I was using it to muffle the snare. I originally thought that I had lost it when I took my pants off to dry them by the fire after fording the river.

My phone is ancient, I'll try again later.

Lol! You wouldn't be the first to lose your wallet after taking off your pants...glad that wasn't the case!

I'm pondering that tiny spark. Light. Warmth. Perhaps life? We're given gifts...and lessons, in strange ways, sometimes.

Best, Helen

I can't open the link at work because it's banned. But I love that you are offering trad mentorships and somehow losing $2000 worth of equipment in the same week. 

Sounds like a great adventure. Now go get your bike and kit back for adventure #2!

Definitely a creative adventure and sounds like quite the sufferfest, well done.

But why wait till spring to pack all that out?

TLDR: The OP left a bunch of trash in a National Park, and nearly put SAR at risk, because of an ill conceived and poorly executed plan coupled with questionable judgement.

More highlights: The OP discloses the trip report to be more of a fictional tale, stating "NB: this trip report has been significantly altered at the request of my sponsors who do not condone some of the choices I was forced to make." This begs the question, what even more terrible things did he do to this canyon that his sponsors wouldn't let him write about?? And to a canyon he proclaims to love more than any other...

Fritz, do you know no good stewardship?! You summarize, "In retrospect, I’m really pleased with how the trip went." Granted it's hard to discern tone of voice, but this comes across as complacent and arrogant. Where's the list of things you could (should) have done better? Where's the good lesson at the end? Instead you misquote Kor implying something towards: end justifies the means and c'est la vie. I say poor form for spraying this tale as anything but an epic mistake in sound judgement. Good thing you at least had the skills to stay alive and get out, but the impacts on the canyon and climbing community had you not made it would have been detrimental; selfish indeed. Kindly go clean up the mess sooner than later.

Also since you seem to enjoy flaunting it, a podcaster who doesn't care about audio is like a photographer that doesn't care about resolution. Want to be a pro, use professional gear. Or stay the course of a smartphone photographer, I couldn't care less. Thanks for all the entertainment from your short comings!

The Taco has picked up on it:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/3155249/Epic-Black-Canyon-descent-ends-in-gear-yard-sale

Max Tepfer wrote: It's cool you had an adventure.  It's less cool that your adventure resulted in you strewing your kit across a beautiful landscape.  Hopefully you're able to clean it up soon.

Assumption false. If anybody can spot where I stashed my frame, wheelset and pack, I’ll buy you your vice of choice. The mountaineering axe unclipped itself somewhere between SOB and the top of Big Draw, but it’s black, so good luck.

Matthew Tangeman wrote: Definitely a creative adventure and sounds like quite the sufferfest, well done.

But why wait till spring to pack all that out?

That’s how I was feeling when I got back to the visitor center. I woke up this morning and was like dang, I miss her, gotta go mount a retrieval mission. Shan’t be long, darling.

Andy W wrote: TLDR: The OP left a bunch of trash in a National Park, and nearly put SAR at risk, because of an ill conceived and poorly executed plan coupled with questionable judgement.

More highlights: The OP discloses the trip report to be more of a fictional tale, stating "NB: this trip report has been significantly altered at the request of my sponsors who do not condone some of the choices I was forced to make." This begs the question, what even more terrible things did he do to this canyon that his sponsors wouldn't let him write about?? And to a canyon he proclaims to love more than any other...

Fritz, do you know no good stewardship?! You summarize, "In retrospect, I’m really pleased with how the trip went." Granted it's hard to discern tone of voice, but this comes across as complacent and arrogant. Where's the list of things you could (should) have done better? Where's the good lesson at the end? Instead you misquote Kor implying something towards: end justifies the means and c'est la vie. I say poor form for spraying this tale as anything but an epic mistake in sound judgement. Good thing you at least had the skills to stay alive and get out, but the impacts on the canyon and climbing community had you not made it would have been detrimental; selfish indeed. Kindly go clean up the mess sooner than later.

Also since you seem to enjoy flaunting it, a podcaster who doesn't care about audio is like a photographer that doesn't care about resolution. Want to be a pro, use professional gear. Or stay the course of a smartphone photographer, I couldn't care less. Thanks for all the entertainment from your short comings!

I may not much of an audiophile, but I do know the sound of butthurt when I hear it...

Marc801 C wrote: The Taco has picked up on it:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/3155249/Epic-Black-Canyon-descent-ends-in-gear-yard-sale

Hot damn, that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. I don’t have time to waste on two shitshow climbing communities, so feel free to screenshot this response and post it for me.

Now the real question is you should be asking, ye naysayers, is who can pick out a 1000 foot third class line that terminates at Painted Wall Overlook?

For my being my sixtieth day in the Black and my birthday to boot, I still maintain that it was a great trip, and it’s going to take a lot more bitching from Andy W et shitera to make me think otherwise.

one man's treasure is another man's trash

go pick it up yo

One man's garbage is another man person's good ungarbage.

So you fucked up and left a bunch of trash in a wilderness area and we’re suopsed to come together  and say “oh Fritz you’re so cool because you want to start a
Wilderness therapy program”?
What a shameless plug.