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Climbing vids
« on: November 19, 2019, 06:04:58 am »
To kick this thread off here’s one with a nice nod back to the kurt and wolfgang era while fast forwarding to a bright spark
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWvFjUIt5k
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2019, 10:18:35 pm »
This one courtesy of a FB post by brian bermingham in honour of Wayne Merry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJ5qZTAQ18
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2019, 04:26:36 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjEf30FD7yo 

This is classic entertainment at it's finest.  Larry and Curly make me laugh my ass off i'm not sure what happened to Moe?  Maybe he was holding the camera? I can't tell you how many times I watched this just for the slapstick humor.  It's a masterpiece.
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2019, 12:06:29 pm »
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk,
nice blast from the past with the usual characters overacting their parts. :)
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2020, 07:06:20 pm »
It sounds like he says he aided part of it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_B9vzIHlOo
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2020, 09:20:01 am »
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2020, 06:40:50 pm »
If you are  into slab

Of the rock I asked for the moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgjoFv33kKk&feature=youtu.be
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2020, 09:16:49 pm »
So many people climbing "5.15" these days?  Would Wolfgang rated these routes 5.15?  I think that Alex Megos will do the first 5.16 some day.  What is the human limit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI8umX-UNLU
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2020, 06:55:56 pm »
Here is a fine video, on how we climb in the Great White North. Probably frostback is in it somewhere.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/how_to_climb_a_mountain/

(In fact, a 1954 National Film Board documentary, from the early days of television. Much of it filmed on Grouse Mountain, on the Vancouver's north shore. Lots of history in it, visible and implicit.)

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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2020, 09:04:45 pm »
1+ for the archive Vid very nice thanks.

And I will pass on the Neg trad of WF

About 20 to 21 minutes in crappy shoes and almost no pro accept an old style pin, crap rope and no harness hardcore LOL
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2020, 06:16:01 am »
So many people climbing "5.15" these days?  Would Wolfgang rated these routes 5.15?  I think that Alex Megos will do the first 5.16 some day.  What is the human limit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI8umX-UNLU

Some would say it's already been reached and that the rest is numbers gaming. I mean how does it get harder than requiring a one finger pull up?
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2020, 08:19:38 am »
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2020, 09:06:10 pm »
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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2020, 09:42:14 pm »
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2020, 09:47:00 pm »
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2020, 05:52:16 am »
Thanks for that BK, I had heard that story from Jim but some of those details were missing. Good interview, hard to watch. Fucking guy pounding filter-less coffin nails to the end. Incredible conviction, miss that guy.
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2020, 08:48:08 am »
Ya never knew when you would run into him at the Leap or in the valley.    We always shared beers with him when we would run into him at the end of the day.   It was always the high light of the trip.  I loved his stories and his advice on routes.  It's sad to think there will never be beers with the Bird at the center of the universe or at the leap parking lot.

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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #17 on: February 29, 2020, 07:27:33 pm »
I will never forget the day I was leading  one of the more advanced Ice routes at Lee Vining and a guy on the route to my right says to me "Hey you're looking pretty good over there!"  It was fucking Jeff Lowe! Made my day.  He was truly a nice guy.

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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2020, 09:01:35 pm »
I thought this was pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sQlP439ILI
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Re: Climbing vids
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2020, 11:12:20 am »
This just popped up...was that dude cool or what?

https://youtu.be/-tXr3jDI6-k
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