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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 16, 2015 at 6:41 pm
(March 13, 2015 at 7:24 pm)whateverist Wrote: Yeah, I know. Going for the pun more than anything else here. Have you ever thumbed through that magazine or flyer called "Climbing accidents of the Yosemite"? It is pretty disquieting to read about all the times seasoned climbers will clip onto the wrong line and begin a rappel down a climb only to find themselves hooked into nothing of any consequence and falling to their doom.

Oh yeah, there is actually a book called 'Death in Yosemite' which covers every death that happened there. You realize way more people have died from stoves exploding or they tripped on a trail and tumbled off a waterfall than from climbing. The worst one was a little boy who got stomped to death by a deer after his dad gave him cheetos to feed the deer for a photo.

Note: Bears have never killed a single person in Yosemite.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 16, 2015 at 6:46 pm
I'm sure the number that die in car accidents coming or leaving Yosemite is also a much bigger number. But when you read about the climbing deaths you don't get a lot of reassurance that it is only the incompetent that perish.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm
(March 16, 2015 at 6:46 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm sure the number that die in car accidents coming or leaving Yosemite is also a much bigger number. But when you read about the climbing deaths you don't get a lot of reassurance that it is only the incompetent that perish.

I actually knew someone who died in Yosemite climbing (from rock fall). I would never say that climbing is a safe sport. I would only say that it can be a totally safe sport. On that note I'm off to scrounge up a climbing partner and do some very safe sport climbing here in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 16, 2015 at 10:28 pm
(March 16, 2015 at 7:25 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(March 16, 2015 at 6:46 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm sure the number that die in car accidents coming or leaving Yosemite is also a much bigger number. But when you read about the climbing deaths you don't get a lot of reassurance that it is only the incompetent that perish.

I actually knew someone who died in Yosemite climbing (from rock fall). I would never say that climbing is a safe sport. I would only say that it can be a totally safe sport. On that note I'm off to scrounge up a climbing partner and do some very safe sport climbing here in the Blue Mountains of Australia.

Dude, post pics, start a thread -- that would be great! Have fun and be safe.

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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 17, 2015 at 2:37 am
The only climb I've done in Yosemite valley, not counting climbing up the notch to swim in the pools above Bridalveil Falls, is Royal Arches .. and I followed that one. Loved it and always liked scrambling around on rocks and in caves. Of course it is dangerous but that isn't a reason to avoid it, if you're sure you understand what you're doing and what you're capable of. Enjoy yourself.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 27, 2015 at 5:58 am
I'm in South Central Pennsylvania. I'm an hour from Baltimore and 35 minutes from Harrisburg. I'll be down in Daytona from April 24th to the 30th. If anyone is interested in meeting up.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 27, 2015 at 7:13 am
...I'm still in Poland, if anyone wants to come by :p
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 27, 2015 at 10:10 am
(March 6, 2015 at 11:19 pm)whateverist Wrote: Watch your back, mate. Pretty much anything you don't throw on the barbie is likely to bite you, sting you and/or kill you.
And not necessarily in that order, either.
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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 27, 2015 at 10:13 am
(March 27, 2015 at 10:10 am)Tonus Wrote:
(March 6, 2015 at 11:19 pm)whateverist Wrote: Watch your back, mate. Pretty much anything you don't throw on the barbie is likely to bite you, sting you and/or kill you.
And not necessarily in that order, either.

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RE: AF Get-Togethers
March 27, 2015 at 11:43 am
Looking like my trip to SoCal will shape up to be 6 June to 13 June, if anyone's interested.

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