General Climbing Discussion

Author	Havachatwithhexy...
HEX 1-Jun-2005 8:32:54 PM	----------------------------- Tav : >**clears throat and sings** "if I only had a wombat, how happy I would be. A wombat >really has some sexuality! Wombat's are the best, the best there'll ever be, if I had a >wombat, I'd go live in a tree. A climber or a wombat, which to pick for me? A climber >or a wombat for my sexuality???" Yep ... tough-call, Tav --- Cube-arse or a wombat ?... hehehe ... ------------------------------------
HEX 1-Jun-2005 8:39:59 PM	------------------------------ http://www.observedtrials.net/album/showphoto.php?photo=3206&size=big&sort=1&cat=500 M8iswhereitsat : >From the photos it appears to be limestone overlaying basalt, ... an interesting >combination... Itz ALL basalt ... you will notice the HEXagonal-cooled-columns of basalt at the bottom & the flow-stone-cooled-pillows of basalt at the top ... --------------------------------------
HEX 1-Jun-2005 8:58:52 PM	----------------------------- Eduardo Slabofvic 1/06/2005 >There will be free cheese and bikkies... OK, Eduardo --- as long as thatz not code for smeggma and bikies... :P ------------------------------
HEX 1-Jun-2005 9:06:29 PM	--------------------------- kezza 1/06/2005 >Hey Jac, It's always devastating to get injured. Keep the hopes afloat and you'll be >back in the swing of things in no time! >Good luck on the road of recovery, let's hope you're in the express lane and cranking >hard again in the near future... Ditto, jac:-)) However...lets spare a thought for poor-widdle-baby-face Nathan Brown, whose lower-leg was hanging-off at 90 degreez ...............VOMIT!!! :-{~} -------------------------------------------
Onsight 1-Jun-2005 10:16:32 PM	>When did Edward Frillypants delete all his posts? >A few weeks back. He is the second person to do this... Sounds like Eddy has fallen on his sword or something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yerrr-but... Has he deleted his posts on CragX too? Anyway Hex... now I wouldn't "out" your ID, even if I knew it, but if someone did I sure hope you wouldn't go and delete all your posts then? Please say it isn't so...
HEX 1-Jun-2005 11:17:09 PM	Don' blameitonna sunshaarrrn ! Don' blameitonna mooooonlaaarrrt !! Don blameitonna goodtaarrrm !!! Blame it on Neil... Topic Date User Why be Anonymous ??? Tuesday, 11 January 2005, nmonteith : >Edward Frillypants = Nick Clow ---------------------------------
HEX 1-Jun-2005 11:26:21 PM	" You blamin' me, HEX ??!! .............Yair you're blamin' me --- I'm sorry Nick !!! --- Come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacckkk !!! " ---------------------------
HEX 2-Jun-2005 12:18:11 AM	... & hereza nutha tragic loss ... '...Biskit Passes On By Rebecca Stokes A week ago, Biskit, the beloved climbing dog went missing in Gold Hill, Colorado and never returned. Her owner Tom Kelly of Ouray, Colorado was camping out; when she apparently jumped out of the truck and ran off into the forest. Kelly spent the next week combing the forest for Biskit, only to have a member of the search party find a few remains and her collar; she was the victim of a mountain lion. Biskit was known for her starring roles in Front Range Freaks and Return to Sender. In these films she scaled difficult walls with precision and demonstrated the leaping ability that only the rat terrier can possess. She was a bold and brave dog who inspired many in the climbing community, often because we wondered if we could climb as hard or as fast as she could...' ............................. On 6/12/2004 rhinckle wrote: > >Don at Kooyoora, near Bitumen Boulders. rhinckle --- Don you EVER blameitonna ... --------------------------------
HEX 2-Jun-2005 12:40:26 AM	-------------------------------------- Author Comment manacubus Lord of Chalk Posts: 2103 (1/6/05 2:26 pm) Reply ezSupporter Data loss - big ezboard problems Quote:On Tuesday May 31 ezboard's systems were the victim of a very precise and malicious internet attack. This attack resulted in the loss of a significant amount of current and historical board postings and interrupted services across all systems. For more information see this: p079.ezboard.com/fezboard...=504.topic I can only hope that all our data is restored. We've lost heaps of stuff. .................................................... admin Site Admin PostPosted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject: Upgrade Hi All, You may have noticed the Forum was down Sunday night through to Tuesday night. We were hit by a hacker, I have upgraded the sw to the latest release with all the enhanced security stuff. Nothing was lost... yeah deadpoint Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Batten down the cyber-hatches Mike , therez a maliciousMuhahahahahaaaaaaa on the loose ... hopefully hez not wearing phrillypanz... :P -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave C 2-Jun-2005 12:56:46 AM	On 1/06/2005 Onsight wrote: >>When did Edward Frillypants delete all his posts? All his posts are still there on the UKC forums but they don't allow you to delete them after a while anyway.
nmonteith 2-Jun-2005 8:24:37 AM	On 2/06/2005 HEX wrote: >Batten down the cyber-hatches Mike , therez a maliciousMuhahahahahaaaaaaa > on the loose ... hopefully hez not wearing phrillypanz... >:P This forum is backed up - so any data loss from hackers can be restored. There is actually copies of Kent/Frillypants posts still stored in backup!
IdratherbeclimbingM9 2-Jun-2005 9:33:30 AM	>This forum is backed up - so any data loss from hackers can be restored. There is actually copies of Kent/Frillypants posts still stored in backup! Both gentlemen contributed many very good posts, and I for one am sad to see them go. My hope is that Ed will continue to lurk and contribute under another name, a bit like Kent did/does? :)
HEX 2-Jun-2005 9:37:46 AM	------------------------------------ chris 2/06/2005 '...Most posters to chockstone are not making their livelihood out of climbing, and don't take climbing or posting all that seriously. The extreme position of setting all posts in stone is a bit tough for the more casual poster. Being able to delete posts is a big advantage when you see all the garbage you wrote after half a dozen beers at the Blackheath pub last night. I feel a big question the moderators have to ask themselves is "What audience is chockstone really aiming at?" If you're aiming at a "serious" website , then set all posts in stone, and you probably should also get rid of Hex and all his clones. But if it's still a bit of fun for the rest of us, then at least give us the option of correcting our sometimes foolish mistakes. Another option would be to have parts of the chat site open to corrections, and parts set in stone. I don't agree with setting posts in stone. I think we have to remember this is just a climbing website, we're not talking about world health here!...' nmonteith >Is setting in stone after 24hours acceptable Chris? That would give you time to sober up, >get rid of the hangover and delete whatever rubbish you have posted! ................... Some classic banter, preserved here as part of the morphing/warping/wafting Hexy-historionics ... -------------------------------- I think bolting is an issue that needs discussing, and is there some controversy about the grading of Swinging(17?) at Mount Arapiles ? ...
IdratherbeclimbingM9 2-Jun-2005 12:47:51 PM	>Itz ALL basalt ... & snakes! >Yair you're blamin' me Watch it H-T, ... else da mod/man will come around and tweakyerlightforya like in the photo !
Romfrantic 2-Jun-2005 3:34:05 PM	On 1/06/2005 HEX wrote: >He still hasn't climbed Everest , so the *Aus* record stands at 21...so >Sabu etal are still in with a chance ... but ya better qurank-up ya financing&stair-climbi >g cos Chrissy might be dodging crevasses at base-camp right now .................... >or high-jacking a Russian-rocket at some obscure central-asian-cosmodrome ...news! At 20 years of age, Danielle Fisher has become the youngest (American?) person to climb all the seven summits ( http://www.mounteverest.net/story/EverestsummitDanielle,20,youngestSevenSummitclimberJun22005.shtml )
HEX 2-Jun-2005 8:23:45 PM	EDWARD FRILLYPANTZ MEMORIAL POST ... ------------------------------------- Edward Frillypants 11/08/2004 >What the hell is wrong with me today? HEX 13/08/2004 >Edward--- your scattered, frag-ment-er-ed comments indicate that : >All your life, you've been waiting for ' The HEX ' >to bring a fairy-tale your way >You're living in a fan-ta-sea without meaning >Don't be afaid >It's OKaaaaaaaaaaaaay ! >Luv HEX & Anistasia... (UK-version)Edward Frillypants >Trad fundamentalist and self-appointed ethics pundit. I climb in the Blueys, Wolgan >Valley and at Point Perpendicular and enjoy Sydney's excellent bouldering. If you are >visiting Sydney then get hold of me if you want to go trad climbing or bouldering. ..................... Self-appointed ethics pundit, eh, Eddy ... something tells me that your flirtations with the Force that is The HEX, has swept you into the fan-ta-sea forever ... Ahhhhh... *Genius-self-awareness flickers&reflects on the surface of the pool of narcissis* Muhaha ! ... *Adrenalin&endophins start to surge thru brain* MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!! *Deep Breath* ... AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!! -----------------------------------------------------------------
HEX 2-Jun-2005 9:39:45 PM	Ah-hem ... phew ! ................ whatablast !!! ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ RK 2/06/2005 >Yes M8 and Romfrantic. I agree with you totally that the reasons for this tragedy are >unfathomable within our own cultural context...but in other cultural contexts the >concepts of "honour" and "shame" are totally different to ours...and very real. I lived >and worked and travelled in many parts of the world for many years and never came to >even vaguely understand the definitive and ultimate nature of "honour" in many non->Western cultures. >In it's own way, this is not all that different to Palestinian kids blowing themselves to >pieces on buses or Korean kids committing suicide because they fail their exams. >Failure is not an option. >I shake my head in sadness... C'mon you intellectual-midgets ... get real !! --- we are living in a global culture/village/blah/etc ... the ' honour ' thing is actually very strong in Australian-youth-culture, tho it tends to be a volitile mix of self,family,peer-group honour , not just ' family ' honour as youz seem to be narrowly-ignorantly convincing yourselfz,vsv 'other cultures' ... the ' hidden' , horrendous stats on youth sewerside in both rural&urban Aus' point to etc,etc,etc ... why shake your head in sadness, grass-hopper ? ... itz simple : '...Palestinian kids blowing themselves to pieces...', look forward to death the same way Aussies look forward to the week-end ... "CARN THE SAINTS !!!" --------------------------------
sabu 2-Jun-2005 10:37:11 PM	On 1/06/2005 HEX wrote: >On 1/06/2005 dalai wrote: >>They are possibly already too old. There was a young lad (16?) on one >>of the morning news shows... > >Yeah, that'd be 13y.o(2004),Chris Harris : > >'...The height of Christopher's ambition seems to know no bounds. His >most recent conquest is Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. His ultimate goal is >to be the youngest person to climb the seven summits, the tallest mountain >on each continent, including the highest in the world, Mt Everest, which >he hopes to climb next year. "My ultimate goal is to be the youngest person >in the world to climb the highest mountain on each continent. And also >to be the youngest person in the world to climb Mt Everest." >So where to next for this intrepid adventurer once he has tackled the >tallest of them all? >Out of this world ... to Mars, no less, where the tallest mountain reaches >21 kilometres into the Martian sky. This final frontier is the sort of >fantasy challenge Christopher Harris wants to take on some day...' >................... >He still hasn't climbed Everest , so the *Aus* record stands at 21...so >Sabu etal are still in with a chance ... but ya better qurank-up ya financing&stair-climbi >g cos Chrissy might be dodging crevasses at base-camp right now .................... >or high-jacking a Russian-rocket at some obscure central-asian-cosmodrome so that kid climbed Killi. at 13, or younger? my old friends from South Africa climbed the mountain in 2003 i think (i was very jelous!), they were 14 and 12 years old. when we were visisting last year they were packing for an attempt at Mt. Kenya (once again very jelous)!!!
RK 3-Jun-2005 8:38:23 AM	On 2/06/2005 HEX wrote: >C'mon you intellectual-midgets ... get real !! --- we are living in a >global culture/village/blah/etc ... the ' honour ' thing is actually very >strong in Australian-youth-culture C'mon Hex! No-one is suggesting there is no 'honour' thing in Oz culture....just that the equivalent in other cultures in basically unfathomable to us. Sure...we live in a global village, but don't make the mistake of thinking we are all thus the same and think the same. That's the warped parochial basis of US foreign policy since WW2! Don't get me started on that one!!!! Sure there are BIG problems in Oz. We could have a forum discussion on why one of the guys who introduced me to climbing killed himself or why my sister has had 3 attempts at doing the same. My point is I'm very aware of what the problems are here and aware of much of the pain and suffering associated with it. But global village or not, I cannot for the life of me see what pushes any family to pressure their kid to almost certain death on a mountain, or throws acid in the face of their daughter/sister because she looked at some guy! Totally unfathomable. Oh well. Back to work now. Love your column Hex.
Romfrantic 3-Jun-2005 8:50:56 AM	Phew Hexy, ...honour and its endless number of meanings and cultural contexts - not a black'n'white issue, but zillions of shades of grey. BTW, how'd ya know I'm short? ;-p

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