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Show Russell Jacobs 2 December 2009 RJ: Yeah, I mean it was a surprise to me. You know, it was other climbers that came to me and said, "Hey, Russ. You're, you know, you're in this magazine." MD: Um-hum. RJ: I'm going, "Wow." [Russell laughs] You know? It's not a big deal. I mean, it's, you know ... MD: Yeah, I mean, I'm even thinking of, uh, you know not even the publicity, but the climb itself. RJ: The climb itself... MD: What did you think about it when you were putting it up? Like, were you like, "This is really something special that we're doing right here?" I mean, is this a really cool climb? RJ: It didn't seem to be out of the norm too much. MD: Um-hum. RJ: It didn't seem to be something that was like, you know, way out there, you know, at the edge of the routes that had already been put up. But because of the parts to it, the middle pitch, called the Zion Curtain .. .it was actually given that name by who knows after, long after, the climb was established. And ... MD: The Zion Curtain? RJ: The Zion Curtain. And it's a flake. And so to get to it, you have to kind of.. .there's a bolt that I put in at the edge of this little ... a pedestal. And then, you kind of, you're given a little bit of slack and a little bit of tension, you sort of kind of run over and grab the bottom of the flake where it starts, where it comes detached from the wall itself. And 20 |
