(Moved from other forum)
Well, to explain to all interested, here's the story:
Team Safety has found a crack that won't really help us in getting the Golden Piton Award that we were obviously shafted out of this past year. (Rhino's theorizes it's due to the Western bias of the magazines, or maybe just a publicity problem).
Anyway, the crack is up for a bidding war between you and SCIN. An agent of yours started with the first bid of $15 which could be paid in cash or trinkets. I offered the next bid to SCIN and he agreed to $20 in cash or putting a banner on the top of the BBS with a nomination of Team Safety for the 2003 Golden Piton Award.
Team Safety isn't sure which would be a better strategy in getting the GPA at this point. It may just need a photo of us hanging off of homemade gear that looks like it should be used for some teenager's braces. Or, if it's a matter of publicity, we just need our name out there. Since the BBS is international (it is the WWW), that may be our ticket. At any rate, we're looking for a shoe-in situation for the GPA and whatever we can get from this route is critical to our success.
SCIN wanted to see a photo of the route, but obviously, until we get serious about bidding, such information can't be revealed yet. I can tell you that it's wide, has an overhang with a flare like the top pitch of The Quest tilted over. Then more wide stuff, then an offwidth overhang at the top that is more like a roof. It's probably about 100 feet tall. Doesn't look rotten, and has a bit of lichen--not clean, but not funk either.
Quest for the Golden Piton Award
Well, the stakes are getting higher now. Team Safety met at an undisclosed location with BatGuano and he became the first bidder to see digital photos of the route. As he could only view them on the camera monitor, they were difficult to get much detail out of, but he instantly said, "Whatever you want man! Circleheads, leadheads, deadheads..." Team Safety Intelligence crews are trying to decipher what those words mean, but anyway, $25 bucks worth of gear and some other undisclosed commitments from Guanoboy means that the bidding is now back to SCIN.
We'll try to get the pix on the board if I can enlist some co-workers to download the camera files.
We'll try to get the pix on the board if I can enlist some co-workers to download the camera files.
As a side note, Team Safety went out and bled all weekend. Here's an excerpt from a conversation between team members recorded by one of Red River Climbing's field correspondents:
"I think this Golden Piton strategy... [garbled]... is like a juggernaut."
"Shock and Awe, baby!"
"I used that little mono that looks like a shrew's vagina."
"How come every piece of gear we own has blood all over it?"
"I think this Golden Piton strategy... [garbled]... is like a juggernaut."
"Shock and Awe, baby!"
"I used that little mono that looks like a shrew's vagina."
"How come every piece of gear we own has blood all over it?"
Shoot, THAT amount of money you mentioned SCIN just received in the mail FOR FREE from a kind and generous guy who donated it because he appreciated the work SCIN's done with the site.
I have an idea! Why don't you just GIVE the dang thing to SCIN as a thank you? That sure would be reeaaal nice of you, Johnny. But who am I to try to make up your mind for you? I'm just the biased girlfriend, the only one who sees all the time, money, and dedication SCIN puts into this site if just for the love of climbing at the RRG and to give enjoyment to the climbing community.
So...is any of this working?
I have an idea! Why don't you just GIVE the dang thing to SCIN as a thank you? That sure would be reeaaal nice of you, Johnny. But who am I to try to make up your mind for you? I'm just the biased girlfriend, the only one who sees all the time, money, and dedication SCIN puts into this site if just for the love of climbing at the RRG and to give enjoyment to the climbing community.
So...is any of this working?
Wow, Team Safety gettin' worked on from the emotional plea angle. This could be difficult. May have to call in some "handlers" to deal with this.
Artsay, perhaps we need to be working on a side deal. Set up a meeting and we'll talk about YOUR needs. You know, what can Team Safety do for you? Imagine when we get the Golden Piton Award what can happen for you if you are positioned right? I'm tellin' ya, this thing is a JUGGERNAUT!
Artsay, perhaps we need to be working on a side deal. Set up a meeting and we'll talk about YOUR needs. You know, what can Team Safety do for you? Imagine when we get the Golden Piton Award what can happen for you if you are positioned right? I'm tellin' ya, this thing is a JUGGERNAUT!
Ummm, Artsay, I think the bribery should stay between the three immediately involved parties. I will refrain myself from any further comments concerning whether the talented, determined, and clever minded batguano or the also talented yet over-burdented with projects, SCIN should be awarded the rights to the as formentioned crack. 
Hey Johnny lets work out a option on said route. Kinda like the RRGCC did on the Murray property. I'm in no way shape or form ready to tackle this awesome route, but I feel that in a year I might be better positioned physically and financially to step up to the table and make an offer Team Safety can't refuse. Let's talk.
I see they are still lopping off mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Electricity isn't cheap.
