Corona Arch Swing

David Bolanos wrote:... Of course. That's why my Mountain Project profile shows that I have...

Poor judgement to raise that point, kid. Boissal looks to have been on here since 2006 (and, as such, I'm guessing was prob on climbingmoab.com before then). So, yeah, he's contributed in that time. You've been on here less than a month and are already getting called out for spraying. Not a good start.

David Bolanos wrote: I did it to experience it myself. I'm posting about it to encourage others to try it.

Yeah, save it before someone else goes out and doesn't have Thad to check his figure eight for him.

Look kid. People have been swinging on rope swings for centuries. Please take your "yippie mom, I did a rope swing" to the yippie mom I did a rope swing blog post twitter please validate my huge accomplishment dot nobody cares website.

That's weird. I could have sworn I posted on the forum called "Trip Reports-Your stories, epics, and adventures." What kind of stuff am I suppose to post here if not about my adventure? Did I ever say I was the first one to do this? Why do you post pictures. No one cares. People have been climbing for hundreds of years.

After seeing the subject of this thread I was interested to read it, partly because of the unfortunate events of this past year and partly because of my own personal investment recreating and "enjoying" Corona Arch.

David B, from your original post, it would seem from your lack of use of specific technical language "the traverse way" and your "two friends who have only climbed once before" that it would be only fair to assume that you are fairly new to climbing and rigging technical systems. This is fine as we were all new at one point or another.

There are quite a few folks who contrary to Guideline #1 have given you a hard time about what you wrote rather than explain why this bothers them so much.

When major incidents occur such as the death of Kyle Stocking at Corona Arch this past March; fox13now.com/2013/03/25/one…
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what tends to happen (in addition to the tragedy) is that climbers (or in this case rope swingers) in general get a bunch of negative press that effects everyone poorly. Limited access issues sometimes arise and in some cases guiding business suffer and public recreation opportunities suffer.

With guiding access to Corona Arch already revoked (to my latest knowledge), it seems to me only a matter of time until the next tragic accident and the bolted anchors are pulled.

With access in jeopardy, and your seemingly inexperienced post, people are quick to pounce on you as the reason for all that is wrong with climbing and why the public view climbers as irresponsible and dangerous.

That being said, my advice is this: Keep being stoked! It only gets better... provided you don't kill yourself accidentally... Seek qualified instruction, be it from a guide, peer mentor, books or other sources. I recommend Rock Climbing Mastering Basic Skills by Craig Lluben or Mountaineering Freedom of the Hills to start.

Critics and know-it-alls, it's much easier to hurl shame and blame at the "noob" than it is to take the responsibility that comes with your knowledge and actually teach something that will help someone else. Not one link or mention of anything helpful to keeping David B. alive was posted out of two pages of junk. Lame.

Thanks if you got this far. Time for bed.

Speaking of irony, the video of this arch swing gets a million hits on YouTube, then 2 people die, but Nooblet gets $hit for spraying here.

Lesson: don't post videos + no spray= less chance of death and/or closures.

In short, go do your thing with your homies and keep it off the interwebz. Not everything has to be goproed and posted to make it real.

Kevin knows what's up.

The forums here are mostly filled with assholes just sitting at their desks, waiting for something to attack with their infinite and infallible climbing wisdom. It's pretty sad when someone stoked on having a good time out there posts to this climbing community site only to get slayed by such people.

Way to welcome someone new MP. What a bunch of elitist bullshit -- The exception being Kevin's post.

Glad you had a good time David. I too dig rope jumping. Perhaps I'm allowed to though as I have been on MP for some arbitrary length of time...

Have fun out there.

You all "your a bunch of assholes" talkers are missing the point. Those bolts are going to be taken down (for swinging and rappelling). It's just a matter of time.

JLP wrote:MP.com has become especially effective at driving off experienced posters over the past few years.

Agreed. I'm one of them.

JLP wrote: OMG - sorry, no, you are not.

Ahhh yes, the Internet has spoken. Thanks for clearing that up.

JLP wrote: MP.com has become especially effective at driving off experienced posters over the past few years.

The whole tone and feel of this place has changed drastically since its climbingboulder days. We used to have quite a lot of old timers and such offering some solid advice. I think the final death knell was Bob D packing up and going home.

From a mediocre but somewhat prolific climber's perspective, I miss reading what used to be the norm around here.

Merlin wrote: The whole tone and feel of this place has changed drastically since its climbingboulder days. We used to have quite a lot of old timers and such offering some solid advice. I think the final death knell was Bob D packing up and going home. From a mediocre but somewhat prolific climber's perspective, I miss reading what used to be the norm around here.

Bob D and Ken Cangi bitching at each other all day long about nothing?? Fuck that....

Merlin wrote: The whole tone and feel of this place has changed drastically since its climbingboulder days.

+1

Glenn Schuler wrote: Bob D and Ken Cangi bitching at each other all day long about nothing?? Fuck that....

Come on :)

That was funny if you never participated. Didn't someone hack KCs website and post male porn on it as a result? Sure, there was silliness but at least it was a good time waster for boring work days.

I'll take solid climbers flaming each other openly over anonymous posters spewing bile at each other.