Salt Lake Slips - Big Cottonwood Canyon

Nice shaded area with some fun routes

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really, you gotta stop now. Or at least if you don't, and you continue to post here and utahclimbtards.com, prepare yourself for the ridicule you deserve.

You remind me of the guy i saw yesterday climbing a 5.8 w/ his girlfriend. He had about 12 shoulder length slings over his shoulder, hung at every bolt, and put locking carabiners on half of them(rather than qds). When I asked him if he wanted me to set up a top rope on the 5.9 next to him, he replied that he was just teaching his girlfriend how to climb and he had it under control.

Then again, he probably didn't go write up the experience and post it all over where people would mock him for his ignorance.

Enjoy the flame.

jesus price you don't own the wasatch

Great article, Erica. Keep up the awesome work.

Dudes, give her a break. What is the big deal? This is a much better article than the last one posted. The slips is a complete beginner area and it is written just fine for beginner climbers. We can't all be experts.

Erica, the only feedback I have for this article pertains to crossing the creek. You could have mentioned that this is extremely dangerous during high flow times. In the past few years at least two people have died trying to cross the creek.

Ben

brick75 wrote:Dudes, give her a break. What is the big deal?

I agree with brick75. The article is clean and informative and there isn't a damn thing wrong with climbing easier routes and reporting on them.

While you were crafting your jerky posts you two must have overlooked guideline #1... jerks.

I appreciate your post Erica and your directing my attention to a spot I didn't know of. I may take my girlfriend there this weekend, practice placing longer slings, use some new jargon and see if some "experts" are so bored they'll want to ridicule us.

brick75 wrote:The slips is a complete beginner area and it is written just fine for beginner climbers. We can't all be experts.

No, no, no. This idea is totally wrong. If you're going to write about something at a given level, it's critical that your own expertise is actually several levels higher. This applies to writing on any topic. Otherwise we end up with the blind leading the blind.

These 'columns' really need to stop. Maybe we should petition the examiner...

What are you guys afraid of, that all the unwashed masses will find your secret climbing spots like the slips?

Nice article, I like that its written for/from the perspective of a beginner instead of the usual jaded alpine hardman perspective. Good luck with your column Erica.

As for the creek, What Would Bear Grylls Do?

Ryan Lauck wrote: As for the creek, What Would Bear Grylls Do?

drown.

"Brian Fellow is not an accredited zoologist, nor does he hold an advanced degree in any of the environmental sciences. He is simply an enthusiastic young man with a sixth grade education and an abiding love for all of God's creatures. Share his love tonight on Brian Fellow's Safari Planet."

"EJ is not an experienced rock climber, nor does she do any research into the sport of rock climbing. She is simply an enthusiastic young woman with some sort of education (we assume) and a chance to make a buck writing an article about a sport she thinks she likes. Share her love tonight on Erica Jessop's article in the Examiner"

There's a reason the one on SNL is funny.

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Truly, Erica, every time you link your article on MP.com and it gets all sorts of controversy, you get more clicks. You should be grateful that "jerks" like me think your writing is ridiculous.

First of all the Slips is no secret. It's a popular crag with easy access (even now, just a short, pleasant walk over the top of Storm Mtn Island) and safe routes. It has already been thoroughly documented by experienced and articulate climbers (Ruckmans). It's base is well-worn. It doesn't need further "discovery" of any kind.

On one hand, there is nothing really wrong with Erica writing about her climbs. She clearly has the enthusiasm and naivete of a fledgling climber. On the other hand, if her "column" is meant to contribute to a body of knowledge about climbing, it falls far short. She introduces no new information. No useful photographs or topos. No description of how to find the approach trail. So, it's just pointless to act like this is a service to the climbing community. She should keep this info in a personal journal or blog. If the Examiner wants to publish it, whatever, it might be enlightening for the clueless, but please stop posting it here at MP, where the audience is climbers, and we visit to get new and relevant information.

Imagine if I went to a cooking website and enthusiastically posted recipes for toast and jam. That's sort of what she's doing, although her heart seems to be in the right place. Keep climbing Erica, but if you're gonna write about climbs, know your audience and be a scholar.

No such thing as bad publicity.

I am shocked, just shocked I tell you.

Here is a young, woman climber, and she is getting ridiculed!

Bravo. Not for the ridicule, but for not kissing the climbing vagina's ass because she is a chick and you want to get laid.

Back in the day, people would have been throwing their phone numbers, getting in line, offering to teach her and take her anywhere, all for just a looksy at that ass on toprope. But no more!

We have come a long way...

In regards to the article, we practically live on the front range. Get used to it, who cares.

You guys are jerks, IMO.

Erica, if you really want to increase the number of hits your article gets, you should make up a few fake personas here on MP and use them to blast and ridicule your articles. The meaner and angrier they sound, the more people will click on the link to your article.

if you just want to get clicks on your article you should put it in the for sale forum and say you have some brand new BD Cams for 20$ and link to your article saying the link has photos of the cams... youll get a few clicks

Jeff Stephens wrote:Imagine if I went to a cooking website and enthusiastically posted recipes for toast and jam.

Mmmmm. Toast and jam.

WOW, And I thought I was an asshole.

The more time I spend on mt proj, the more I hate it.

John J. Glime wrote:... but for not kissing the climbing vagina's ass because she is a chick and you want to get laid. B

wow.

mikewhite wrote: WOW, And I thought I was an asshole. The more time I spend on mt proj, the more I hate it.

Amen.

Tea wrote: wow.

Am recovering from an appendectomy... first day off the drugs...