Quest for the Golden Piton Award

Post by **Johnny** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:59 pm

It's a JUGGERNAUT I'm tellin' ya'!!!!

Post by **Gretchen** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:00 pm

And here I thought Johnny onlu climbed on the gear he pounded out on the anvil in his backyard!

Post by **Johnny** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:03 pm

After I realized hexes are no better than a slung water bottle, I stopped buying gear.

Post by **Steve** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:41 pm

I'm not sure the media interest is there until you actually win the GPA. Can you come up with some other 'interesting' angles that I migth be able to sell you story with?

Post by **rhino** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:45 pm

Steve all I am hearing from you is I am not willing to do what it takes to get my one year option.

Post by **Johnny** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:59 pm

Stevo, you know better. It's the media that creates the news! Think about Hans Florine. He's an okay climber, but until the media told us speed made a difference, he was a nobody. He didn't get the FA or the FFA of the Nose, he just climbed it with a stopwatch and no gear. Now that wouldn't have been news until the mags (with a Western bias, to be sure) needed to use their 37th cover shot of Yosemite and couldn't think of any reason we could care about it. BAM! They created news. Now they're riding on CONTROVERSY between warring factions. (note to self: we need a foil to create controversy with Team Safety).

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 7:52 pm

Hey Johnny, I climbed that thing last year.
Called it:
Night Thief 5.11a

Post by **Artsay** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 7:56 pm

Aw man! I thought that thing looked familiar!

Post by **Johnny** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:10 pm

SCIN, you really need to stay home more and take care of Artsay's needs. Too much skankin' isn't good for a relationship.

So what about the banner and flashing lights?

Post by **andy_lemon** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 6:49 am

Unless your Joe Kinder or Dave Graham I wouldn't plan on winning the golden piton in the East... Good luck with that however, Johnny. Sure would be great.

Andy