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My youngest stepson (in the yellow hardhat) on his recent vacation.
This is on El Capitan in Yosemite...he's summitted 'El Cap' numerous times, each time a different route.
If you're not familiar with 'El Cap', it's a sheer vertical granite rock wall that rises nearly 3,600 feet above the valley floor.
Each climb takes several days to reach the summit. Nights are spent sleeping on/in a portaledge. Oh yeah, you have to pack everything with you on your climb including food, water, waste, etc.
I truly admire his successes.

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ocdart said:
My youngest stepson (in the yellow hardhat) on his recent vacation.
This is on El Capitan in Yosemite...he's summitted 'El Cap' numerous times, each time a different route.
If you're not familiar with 'El Cap', it's a sheer vertical granite rock wall that rises nearly 3,600 feet above the valley floor.
Each climb takes several days to reach the summit. Nights are spent sleeping on/in a portaledge. Oh yeah, you have to pack everything with you on your climb including food, water, waste, etc.
I truly admire his successes.

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Didn't someone just fall from El Cap? Like a couple-few weeks ago?
 
mopowers said:
Didn't someone just fall from El Cap? Like a couple-few weeks ago?
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@mopowers, yes, happened about 500 feet from my stepson while he was in the middle of his climb.

"On Oct. 1, the 23-year-old was climbing a route on El Capitan’s 3,000-foot granite wall known as the Sea of Dreams. While challenging, especially in wet weather, the route was likely in his comfort zone.
Miller had already finished the climb, according to a social media post by prolific Yosemite Photographer Tom Evans, when the bag he was hauling up the final pitch got stuck.
“So, he went down his lead line to clear it. His rope didn’t reach the bags location by many feet, but he seemed unaware of that fact,” Evans, who was one of many who witnessed the deadly accident, wrote. “On the way down, he rappelled off the end of the rope.”
Stopper knots tied to the end of the rope can prevent tragedies like the one Miller suffered, though many climbers, according to The Times, prefer to skip that step in favor of efficiency. A stopper knot can get snagged in rock cracks or trees, forcing climbers to slow down and expend more energy getting the knot unstuck.
“He was a young man, highly regarded among the best climbers here. I photographed him for many days on the climb and spoke with him earlier,” Evans wrote. “Yes we all know tie knots etc. … but this is not the moment to go into all of that… let’s just take this moment to remember a fine young man and save the lessons for another time… please??”
 
ocdart said:
My youngest stepson (in the yellow hardhat) on his recent vacation.
This is on El Capitan in Yosemite...he's summitted 'El Cap' numerous times, each time a different route.
If you're not familiar with 'El Cap', it's a sheer vertical granite rock wall that rises nearly 3,600 feet above the valley floor.
Each climb takes several days to reach the summit. Nights are spent sleeping on/in a portaledge. Oh yeah, you have to pack everything with you on your climb including food, water, waste, etc.
I truly admire his successes.

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Impressive! I tip my hat to him!

Ever since I watched “Free Solo” I’ve been fascinated by rock climbers, and vicariously repulsed by what they do (the heights, the danger, etc), and I have a high regard for their skills.

But it’s NOT for me, no way!!
 
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ocdart said:
@mopowers, yes, happened about 500 feet from my stepson while he was in the middle of his climb.

"On Oct. 1, the 23-year-old was climbing a route on El Capitan’s 3,000-foot granite wall known as the Sea of Dreams. While challenging, especially in wet weather, the route was likely in his comfort zone.
Miller had already finished the climb, according to a social media post by prolific Yosemite Photographer Tom Evans, when the bag he was hauling up the final pitch got stuck.
“So, he went down his lead line to clear it. His rope didn’t reach the bags location by many feet, but he seemed unaware of that fact,” Evans, who was one of many who witnessed the deadly accident, wrote. “On the way down, he rappelled off the end of the rope.”
Stopper knots tied to the end of the rope can prevent tragedies like the one Miller suffered, though many climbers, according to The Times, prefer to skip that step in favor of efficiency. A stopper knot can get snagged in rock cracks or trees, forcing climbers to slow down and expend more energy getting the knot unstuck.
“He was a young man, highly regarded among the best climbers here. I photographed him for many days on the climb and spoke with him earlier,” Evans wrote. “Yes we all know tie knots etc. … but this is not the moment to go into all of that… let’s just take this moment to remember a fine young man and save the lessons for another time… please??”
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Wow, that's crazy. Apparently he was streaming it too so there's a video. At least he left doing what he loved. Still way too young though.
 

Yunick13 said:
Runnin up under the suv, not so much
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Memories...
A million years ago my stepdad and I built a wooden-chassised coaster to run down the winding dead-end street in front of their place in our local SoCal mountains. The steering was via a rope wound around a steering shaft that moved the pivoting front axle from input from the steering wheel. Unfortunately, we wound the rope the wrong way around the shaft so when you steered left the axle actually pivoted to move the coaster to the right.
We were anxious to see how it ran so as soon as it was finished we pulled it to the top of the road and my stepdad made the first run. There were only three homes on our street and the other two were empty that weekend so we had the road to ourselves.
The initial run started easily enough since it was gravity-acceleration and fairly straight at the beginning. However, there were a couple of turns after you got going fairly well. As you headed down the road there was a hill to your right and a dropoff to your left and large pine trees through the woods. Evidently, my stepdad forgot about the reverse-steering and as he got closer to the left edge of the road he kept steering to the right, then panicked and steered sharply to the right. Yeah, that "right" turn caused him to actually go sharply left...and a sudden stop as he ran straight into a big ol' pine tree.
He only got bruised a bit.
We hauled the coaster back home and rewound the steering rope correctly.
We had a lot of weekend fun with that coaster and you sure got your exercise pulling that thing up to the top of the road before every run.
 
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ocdart said:
Memories...
A million years ago my stepdad and I built a wooden-chassised coaster to run down the windy dead-end street in front of their place in our local SoCal mountains. The steering was via a rope wound around a steering shaft that moved the pivoting front axle from input from the steering wheel. Unfortunately, we wound the rope the wrong way around the shaft so when you steered left the axle actually pivoted to move the coaster to the right.
We were anxious to see how it ran so as soon as it was finished we pulled it to the top of the road and my stepdad made the first run. There were only three homes on our street and the other two were empty that weekend so we had the road to ourselves.
The initial run started easily enough since it was gravity-acceleration and fairly straight at the beginning. However, there were a couple of turns after you got going fairly well. As you headed down the road there was a hill to your right and a dropoff to your left and large pine trees through the woods. Evidently, my stepdad forgot about the reverse-steering and as he got closer to the left edge of the road he kept steering to the right, then panicked and steered sharply to the right. Yeah, that "right" turn caused him to actually go sharply left...and a sudden stop as he ran straight into a big ol' pine tree.
He only got bruised a bit.
We hauled the coaster back home and rewound the steering rope correctly.
We had a lot of weekend fun with that coaster and you sure got your exercise pulling that thing up to the top of road before every run.
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:rofl:
 
JDMopar said:
Must have been Bubba Wallace. If it was.....it was probably the SUV's fault! :lol:
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Did you forget about Montoya running up under the jet dryer at Daytona, causing a massive fireball, under caution, none the less?
 
JDMopar said:
Yep....that was a long time ago! :thumbsup:
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I was watching, They normally would go to commercial close to the finish all the time. But on that they stayed on and made you watch till they put it out ! Had to listen to Darrel run his mouth for an hour. I remember...
 
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