Gumbyisms

Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:07 pm

Hey Horatio, I've missed your rapier wit.

You feeling all left out. Well tuck it back in and go back into the closet.

Post by **Steve** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:42 pm

Hey sparky it might take more than two of us, that thing is huge. I'm starting to think this would be a really good idea. We could pry that thing loose and it would roll down the hill making a new trail up to Fortress. I bet it would be wide enough to drive cars up there, then HF wouldn't have to walk so far back to his truck to change his underroos after peeing himself on American Crack. We could have a couple of people block the road when the boulder was coming down so we don't kill anybody. I'm not about kiling anybody, just making a new trail. I bet that thing weighs 20 tons! maybe we could just have Woodhippie pick it up and move it. Hy if we put it in the river it could dam it up and we would just ahve to take a boat to the crags. That'd be fun.

Post by **SCIN** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:54 pm

Steve, it was just a bit of rockfall from dropping one of those big grapefruit juice bottles filled with water. It caused a bit of an avalanche. I yelled "rock" and that was it. I guess I should've yelled "rock! Rock! Rock!"

Post by **merrick** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 4:54 pm

I saw a huge block, maybe 500 pounds, get knocked off above american face once. that was frickin scary. it took out a bunch of trees. luckily there were a ton of people screaming rock and everybody at the base was able to ger out of the way.

Post by **sparky** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 6:07 pm

steve i should be able to get a hold of some blasting caps that would make this job a lot easier and more productive.

Post by **andy_lemon** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 10:21 pm

Apparently you guys didn't read the article in Rock & Ice about the climbing area out west were nobody uses chalk? Well one guy used chalk and when he was on the 2nd pitch of a route the locals tried to drop a huge boulder on his ass. When they pushed it over the ledge it took a bounce on the side of the cliff and a chunk of the cliff came tumbling down along with the locals and the chalk using climber...

Rock...!!! errr.. cliff!

Post by JR » Fri Nov 15, 2002 7:13 pm

Andy, I don't ever want to hear that story again.

Post by JR » Wed Nov 20, 2002 7:45 pm

Can someone start this thread over? I thought it was going to be about gumbyisms, but it turned out to be a thread about pushing rocks off all the 5.5's at fortress........Hey wait a minute. Forget it this will do just fine.