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Biggest/Nastiest whipper with no sad ending 23-Sep-2010 At 3:11:48 PM bl@ke

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Well, it was a December morning at the pines and I was lying in the dirt chilling when this American shoeless bum comes over and asks if I wanted a partner, I had just found myself one not so long ago so I decline. We get chatting anyway and Neils (the hippy dude) starts yaking about some bold routes he has been doing so I ask if he had done Loise Lane 24, he hasnt so we decide he shal onsight it later in the day. We both go our seperate ways for the day.
Later that afternoon Matt and I are sitting around camp waiting for Neils to show up. We wait for a while before deciding that he has chickened out. But then we spot him, Shirtless with a rattler tat on his rippling shoulders, We can imagine Black Sabbath playing as he walks in slow mo towards us. He then borrows some RP's off us and we make our way up to the climb.
Matt is on belay (better him than me I think to myself). Neils starts up well cruising it. He makes it look like a 12. Im sitting near Tarzan enjoying the show. He stops to place a number 2 offset brassy. He moves carefully up until he is about half hight at a flat top jug. He shakes out and get in 2 crappy wires.
The wires are worthless, he pumps out and quietly says "take take" as he drops off the wall. The 2 wires pull out like teeth out of a dead horses head. Matt jumps off the belay ledge to take up slack. The number 2 offset holds just as Neils smacks into the ledge. Woh! I say.
Neils only got a little bit of a grazing. He then climbs up, looks at the distorted nut that held him and then decides its time for quits.
But then a while later I read The Whipper section in Rock about his 50m whip in Tas. That would be right I said.