Post by Bill Z.Post by Patriot GamesPost by Bill Z.ROTFLMAO. BTW, why don't you too obviously self-styled macho
guys try to reach the top of the peak in the following picture?
The view from the top, as I know from first-hand experience, is
spectacular. Plus we got to do a lot of reading during a
nine-day storm.
<http://www.kupreanof.com/the_thumb.jpg>
Uh-oh! SOMEBODY just got CAUGHT LYING!!!
Nope. You just got caught lying. I've been to the top of it.
You can read an account of our climb in the American Alpine Journal,
Vol. XXII, No. 2, 1980, page 535 (Walt, who wrote the article, accidentally
mispelled my last name but it is phonetically OK and understandable).
You won't find it on-line - there is a partial copy but it does not
include the "Climbs and Expeditions" section where our account appears.
So you'll have to make a trip to the library to read it.
Its here:
http://americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1980/535_lower48_aaj1980.pdf
And here:
http://americanalpineclub.org/AAJO/pdfs/1980/519_alaska_aaj1980.pdf
Post by Bill Z.Post by Patriot GamesYour photograph comes from the Kupreanof Flying Service website, from
the page: http://www.kupreanof.com/devils_thumb_flying_tours.html
... yep - I provided a URL to something I found via a google search,
and did not claim it was a picture we took, which predated digital
cameras. The pictures you get while climbing it or while hiking
up the glacier don't give you a good idea of what the peak really
looks like, so I just used the first one I could find using google,
as it showed part of our route.
Sure........
Post by Bill Z.Post by Patriot GamesThe mountain peak in the photo is called Devils Thumb, in the Stikine
Icecap region of the Alaska-British Columbia border, near Petersburg,
Alaska.
Yes, I know.
Post by Patriot GamesClimbing history
"The first ascent of the Devils Thumb [1946] was a landmark in North
American mountaineering. Fred Beckey, along with Clifford Schmidtke,
and Bob Craig, climbed the East Ridge, a route that combined technical
difficulty equal to anything ever climbed on the continent to that
time with great remoteness and terrible weather conditions."
Yes, I know, and I've done a few climbs with Fred Beckey. We had
terrible weather as well - a 9 day storm. Of course, our gear was a lot
better than what Fred had available in 1946 - the technology had improved
considerably.
Post by Patriot GamesFrom "pusillanimous" to LIAR in just one day!
Bwahahahahahahahahah!!
What a fool you are! But thanks for showing how you jump to
conclusions and get everything wrong.
Well, Billy, you got some Splainin' to do:
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Bill Zaumen
Bill Zaumen is a Usenet troll who inhabits some of the rec.bicycles
hierarchy. He is harmless but tiresome.
Zaumen's usual modus operandi is as follows:
Make a clueless assertion (e.g. helmets good, psychlepaths good,
whatever)
When this is rebutted, accuse those rebutting of being zealots
One of Zaumen's most common tactics is to protest in tones of wounded
innocence that he was not the one being dogmatic. Yet, strangely, it
always seems to be those who cite evidence and show comprehensive
understanding of the subject who are "liars" and "zealots". Zaumen has
never been known to use qualifying terms or to couch his opinion as
anything other than immutable fact - a typical troll, in other words.
The thread where he argued with that other long-time rec.bicycles.*
troll Michael Vandeman was particularly amusing: the two are clearly
made for each other.
An amusing facet of Zaumen's strange internal world is the fact that
he spells his name backwards in his signature to foil spammers. I
don't think spammers use the sig lines, they use email addresses and
headers, but Zaumen thinks they use names from sig lines and ISPs from
headers and combine them to make email addresses. Well, maybe they do,
but nobody else seems to be worried about it.
The dictionary of Zaumenisms
Zaumen's idiocies are sufficiently repeatable that an abbreviated
dictionary of Zaumenisms has been drawn up:
Authoritative: Agreeing with Zaumen
Babble: Trouncing Zaumen's bogus arguments
Baseless: Supported by evidence, e.g. transcripts or cited studies
Content-free: Containing content Zaumen dislikes, esp. when Zaumen
feels the need to evade it in order to maintain his cherished
illusions
Garbage: Reasoned argument, generally with links
Idiocy: Proving that Zaumen is wrong
Ignored:
Zaumen response to inconvenient facts
Where a Zaumen assertion is so self-evidently risible as to be beyond
parody, one is said to have "ignored" it (and thuis, naturally, to
have accepted it as true) if one fails to dignify it with a full and
authoritative response.
Lie: Disagreeing with Zaumen
Misrepresentation: Any statement which disagrees with Zaumen's
interpretation, especially when based on more detailed knowledge
Obvious: That which is self-evidently false but fits with Zaumen's
cherished beliefs
On-Message: Consistency, especially when conflicting with Zaumen's
cherished beliefs
Peeve: Issue on which one disagrees with Zaumen
Rant: Disagreeing with Zaumen, citing evidence
Reasonable: Agreeing with Zaumen, especially when this also means
disagreeing with those who have any actual knowledge of the subject
Shameless: Daring to disagree with Zaumen
Snipped: Evaded by Zaumen, especially of inconvenient facts
Spin: Presenting facts in a way which conflicts with Zaumen's
cherished beliefs
Transference: Challenging Bill's behaviour
Troll: Refusing to let Zaumen get away with a bogus assertion
Untenable: A position is said to be untenable when it conflicts with
Zaumen's cherished beliefs to the extent that he cannot bear to see it
stated
Whining:
Poking fun at Zaumen's trolling;
Calling Zaumen on his double standards.
The Amazing Bell V1
The greatest example of Zaumen idiocy yet recorded is the argument
over the aerodynamic properties of helmets, which saw Zaumen using
studies stating that helmets are less aerodynamic than an unhelmeted
head to "prove" that his Bell V1 helmet was more aerodynamic than an
unhelmeted head.
This thread:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.bicycles.soc/browse_thread/thread/7c6a103b097e436c
...should tell you everything you need to know about this idiot and
why it's not worth arguing with him, other than for entertainment
value.
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Sure, you're a mountain climber, right, you bet.........
Bwahahahahahah!!