On 3/11/2010 widewetandslippery wrote:
>probaly should be in the climbers who ride thread but....
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE
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Hmm.
That vid seems to be sped up from about 4:30 into it, not that he wasn't going fast enough already...
I freaked a bit whenever I saw the tail-lights or blinkers go off on the upcoming traffic he was approaching...
I do not condone riding that way, but am now a little tolerant of getting caught in between lanes/oncoming traffic; ... as I recently found myself overtaking a slowish vehicle on a long straight with good visibility and appropriate road markings for my action, ... when an oncoming vehicle appeared out of a hidden dip.
I changed my mind about overtaking, and started braking, ... but then found myself in a braking contest with the vehicle I was overtaking(!), as it decided to let me get ahead of it...
~> End result was I split the gap with the oncoming car as we were three abreast.
The dopler effect of the sound of the horn receding of the oncoming car as it passed me still haunts me...
Sonnie's an awesome trad climber. I recall vague details about a ground fall incident he was involved in years ago in the Virgin River Gorge. The leader was lowered off the end of the rope (that had been cut short) from a ways out and the belayer caught him in outstretched arms "like a baby" on a jagged limestone slab "that was designed to surely maim or kill a person"; bruised, they both walked away. Can't remember who was who though...
On 13/11/2010 singersmith wrote:
>Sonnie's an awesome trad climber. I recall vague details about a ground
>fall incident he was involved in years ago in the Virgin River Gorge.
>The leader was lowered off the end of the rope (that had been cut short)
>from a ways out and the belayer caught him in outstretched arms "like a
>baby" on a jagged limestone slab "that was designed to surely maim or kill
>a person"; bruised, they both walked away. Can't remember who was who
>though...
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>Cool preview of Leo's new El Cap route:
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>http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=58828
Does anybody else get the shits when editors/producers ruin a perfectly good video/movie with over editing? All the jerky shaky camera work and the the inverting of the image lessens what was a good bit of footage. I dont mind the camera work being jerky when that's how it has to be but deliberately doing so just pisses me off.