You could put free education and livable wages on one side and then endless drug violence and corruption on the other and see if that helps anyone make it over.
Greg D wrote: Are there mega gyms and tricked out sprinters south of the border where latte sipping, binie wearing climbers are getting wicked strong, just so they can cross the border?
Carolina wrote: You could put free education and livable wages on one side and then endless drug violence and corruption on the other and see if that helps anyone make it over.
There is free education in Mexico. There is excessive drug violence and corporate/political corruption in the US. I dunno bout where you live, but there sure as shit ain’t no livable wage where I’m from...
“We have, I guess you could say, world-class mountain climbers. We got climbers,” Trump said beside a newly finished section of the barrier in Otay Mesa, California, which tops heights of 30 feet. “We had 20 mountain climbers. That’s all they do—they love to climb mountains. They can have it. Me, I don’t want to climb mountains. But they’re very good, and some of them were champions. And we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb.” The climber test, Trump boasted, is proof that “this wall can’t be climbed.” The problem? The country’s top climbers have no idea what the hell Trump is talking about. “That’s preposterous,” said Maya Madere, a sophomore at Stanford University who is the fifth-ranked woman boulderer in the nation. “Trump is full of shit as usual.” “I have never heard of any climbers ever being recruited to try and climb a border wall,” said Jesse Grupper, who won the gold medal in the men’s sport lead category of this year’s USA Climbing Sport & Speed Open National Championships. “I absolutely have not heard of anyone testing sections of border wall,” said Kyra Condie, who currently ranks second among the nation’s women boulderers and is considered a serious contender for the U.S. team when the sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo next year. “It would even be hard to find any of us willing to do anything to help Trump and his efforts in any way.” “Definitely no well-recognized U.S. climbers have taken part in something like that,” said Ross Fulkerson, a seven-time member of the U.S. national team who is currently ranked third in the country. “I haven’t heard of any climbers ever helping out with testing.” Speaking to the nation’s top-ranked climbing athletes, past climbing and bouldering champions, and sports associations, The Daily Beast sought clues to the identity of any climber who might have participated in such a test. Not a single person in the tight-knit community of world-class climbers had heard a single word about any border wall experiment. “I don’t think actual pro climbers have tested a border barrier ever, unless it was made in secret,” said Jakob Schubert, a world champion and World Cup-winning lead climber. “It would be weird that nobody in our community would have talked about it.” “We live in strange times,” said Marc Norman, CEO of USA Climbing, the sport’s national governing body. “I am not aware of any of our athletes being contracted to do such work. Ironically, I have heard rumors of climbers being contracted by zoos to test animal enclosures, but that is about all.”
So yeah, anybody has any ideas who those "20 mountain climbers" were?
amarius wrote: From here So yeah, anybody has any ideas who those "20 mountain climbers" were?
I saw Sarah Huckabee Sanders halfway up the Moonlight Buttress and she reported hitting the hangboard pretty hard with all her current free time... so that's one.
The distance between the square steel tube bollards is about 3.5 inches. Why "about"? Seems in some of the sections the welders weren't too accurate. You can actually see the variations in spacing in some of the photos without having to measure. There are many different legacy designs used (google "border wall"). The one we are building is replicated off the design now being installed along the southern borderthat Trump bragged about being unclimbable in his press conference visit last week.
An interesting tidbit: According to the 2012 International Residential Code, iron posts on stairs must be placed close enough together so that a sphere measuring 4 3/8 inches in diameter is unable to pass through. This is to keep babies from sticking their heads through and choking. Wonder if this was taken into account when the designers drew up plans.
4 inches is the maximum opening allowed in prison/correctional facilities per DOC standards. That has been determined the largest opening you can have without someone squeezing through. I design prisons for my day job.
Putting the finishing touches on. It will be ready for the Comp on October 11 and 12. The event will be held in a meadow adjacent to Muir Valley in the Red River Gorge region of Eastern KY. This is on the same weekend as the RRGCC's Rocktoberfest. (Not an official part of Rocktoberfest nor sponsored by that organization.) Details will be forthcoming when we finalize details and comp rules.
We're coming up with rules and categories for the Border Wall Climbing Comp to be held October 11 and 12 in the Red River Gorge. We have a rope-and-ladder category and one for free climbing with an ice axe type tool. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cole T
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I would suspect the media would be all over this if you did a press release.
Can’t recall if this idea was mentioned, assuming a crossing from Mexico into the USA (which may not be a valid assumption depending on future events): Step 1: Toss a rope over the wall from the Mexican side to the USA side. For hurling ease, maybe use a lightweight tag line with a weight on the end for this. Step 2: Use a long stick with hook to reach through the wall to the USA side to grab the end of the rope (or tag line) which is now on the ground on the USA side. Step 3: Pull the end of the rope or tag line back through the slats to the Mexican side. If using a tag line, pull on the tag line (attached to your climbing rope) until the climbing rope is over the wall. Step 4: Anchor the end of the climbing rope you have just retrieved from the USA side as well as the end of the climbing rope hanging down the Mexican side of the wall. Step 5: Jug up the rope on the Mexican side. Step 6: Rap down the rope on the USA side. (Optionally, the first one to jug up to the top could afix a pre-made rope ladder to the top of the wall—one for each side of the wall, come to think of it. This would facilitate the speed and ease of subsequent crossings.) Caution: Be sure to designate a lookout person during the operation to warn of the approach of any snakes or alligators, assuming you are carrying out said operation anywhere near a water-filled “moot”. EDIT: Possible way to anchor both ropes at the base of the wall: giant friction hitches in the posts themselves using slings.
Sprague... we were both typing snakes and alligators at the same time, I think. ; )
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