I will be in SoCal around the second week of June. We should meet up in Santa Monica or something.

And if there's anyone headed to Austin, let me know, I'll be happy to have a beer and a chat.

Subscribing to this thread.

Kitty and I are off to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on Sunday morning. I don't expect any of you to be in the area though.

(March 6, 2015 at 11:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: True story: I was free-solo (ropeless) rock climbing in Yosemite national park on what was a very easy route for me and was on the very last segment (with a 1500 foot fall underneath me.) Well lo and behold it was wet. At this point I could climb down the whole thing or do a few easy moves on wet rock to get to the end of the climb. I committed to the moves and slipped and started sliding down the rock face to my certain death. Out of desperation (or rather instinct) I put my foot out and stopped myself on a ledge maybe the width of a couple of fingers that was coated in pine needles. By all accounts it shouldn't have even stopped my fall. I stepped from there to the end of the climb and walked down the trail. Now I had a friend who was also soloing the route in front of me, he watched me slip and was certain that he was about to watch me hurdle off the cliff to my death. In a weird way this experience has always given me a false sense of invincibility.

You just explained why I don't go rock climbing.

I climbed a rock wall once in a rock climbing gym and I was like two moves from the top of the wall and I slipped and fell off - the rope caught me but I thought I was going to die. :p

Free-solo rock climbing is insanity to me.


I'll be in New York City June 4th-12th. Just puttin' it out there.

(March 10, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I'll be in New York City June 4th-12th. Just puttin' it out there.

Weird! I might be there at that time too! It would be fun if two people from the west coast happened to meet up in NY.

So yeah, we need to have a get together at Andale's in Puerto Vallarta next year. That is, if you bitches can hang with Kitty and CD.

PS: this is a halfway hammered CD posting on kitty's phone. Yeah I stole it.

(March 12, 2015 at 10:43 pm)Kitty Galore Wrote: So yeah, we need to have a get together at Andale's in Puerto Vallarta next year. That is, if you bitches can hang with Kitty and CD.

PS: this is a halfway hammered CD posting on kitty's phone. Yeah I stole it.

Believe it or not, I kind of thought so. Well maybe next year I'll look for you there. Is this a yearly trip as it seems? I'm collecting my gold watch in June.

Wonder if we could get like a group rate at a hotel or something?

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Andale's might be good and all, but I can't afford to drive to Puerto Vallarta even if it's for some good Osso Bucco...

serotype omg yes!!!

I second serotype!

(March 10, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:

(March 6, 2015 at 11:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: True story: I was free-solo (ropeless) rock climbing in Yosemite national park on what was a very easy route for me and was on the very last segment (with a 1500 foot fall underneath me.) Well lo and behold it was wet. At this point I could climb down the whole thing or do a few easy moves on wet rock to get to the end of the climb. I committed to the moves and slipped and started sliding down the rock face to my certain death. Out of desperation (or rather instinct) I put my foot out and stopped myself on a ledge maybe the width of a couple of fingers that was coated in pine needles. By all accounts it shouldn't have even stopped my fall. I stepped from there to the end of the climb and walked down the trail. Now I had a friend who was also soloing the route in front of me, he watched me slip and was certain that he was about to watch me hurdle off the cliff to my death. In a weird way this experience has always given me a false sense of invincibility.

You just explained why I don't go rock climbing.

I climbed a rock wall once in a rock climbing gym and I was like two moves from the top of the wall and I slipped and fell off - the rope caught me but I thought I was going to die. :p

Free-solo rock climbing is insanity to me.


I'll be in New York City June 4th-12th. Just puttin' it out there.

Rock climbing can be a totally safe sport. Lots of people just toprope, where the rope is pre-set up above them at all times. This basically eliminates all danger. Even your normal climbing is 99% safe. What I was doing was stupid, not because of the free soloing (which was at a grade so mellow that it would be silly for me to rope up on it) but because I failed to check conditions first. I would say that most rock climbing is pretty safe.

Oh yeah, I'm also reiterating that I am in Australia right now, so any Australian Atheist Forum people, I would be interested in maybe meeting up.