Panel 18 -- Climbing GIFs
TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:
18/ Climbing GIFs
19/
20/ Weather
21/ Climbing glossary
22/ Song
23/
24/
25/
26/ Climbing Humor
27/ Legal issues
28/ Alternative ways to read rec.climbing
1/ DISCLAIMER
2/ Previous topics
3/ Beginner's (climbing) post
4/
5/ Access
6/
7/ References
8/
9/
10/
11/
12/ Ratings and grades
13/
14/ In memoriam
15/
16/
17/
Climbing GIFs Policy -- READ BEFORE GETTING IN TROUBLE
GIF: Graphic Interchange Format.
These are pictures which have been digitized and placed as files for
people to grab. These cause problems: technical and administrative.
1) DO NOT POST GIFs to the group.
a) Why?
i) Special groups exist for posting pictures for instance
alt.pictures.binaries, etc. (13 or more groups)
These groups are optional at some sites. If you
don't get them, maybe your work doesn't
want you to get them. Change work policies.
If you really want them, ask some one with access
to email them to you. See iv) before first.
ii) Some organizations/companies have expressed rules
about news and non-worked oriented groups. Sending
pictures gets those people in trouble if your article
should fill their file systems. This includes
people who do not even read the group.
iii) Some GIFs violate copyright laws. No comment about
where GIFs come from.
iv) Technical problems: GIFs tend to be BIG, not Terabytes
but big for networks. Underlying trans****t systems
occasionally have message limits like 1000 lines
or 100KB. Because of the diversity of mail,
news, and file transfer mechanisms, you can't
make a hard and fast rule. Someone might recompile
a number just for his host. A BIG message (GIF)
can cause thra****ng due to size or a noisy line
[computers trying mindlessly to get the GIF thru].
This is irksome. And it has gotten people in trouble.
2) Okay so what CAN I do?
If you are lucky, you might have anonymous FTP access. This is
interactive
file transfer. At this time it is largely unrestricted and costs nothing.
But in the future there might be tariffs. There is no expressed policy
so if the following machines move or drop from the net, this message might
mean nothing. You have to let the poster know. This is an automated
message.
3) How do I translate GIFs?
See the weekly comp.graphics FAQ for a location of the source code nearest
you.
4) Okay, okay, enough already with the BS; where are the GIFs?
Name: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/multimedia/images
Directory: graphics/gif
alphabetical subdirectories (i.e. j/jtree1) etc:
NOTE: There are more than the listing below, check the current index
files on the ftp server for more info, look for the keyword climb
[Tim is Tim Schneider, a reader/poster who wrote this]
blkrose.gif Tim on Black Rose (8), Paradise Forks, Arizona '91
crevass.gif jumping Cowlitz Glacier, Mt. Ranier, Wa****ngton
devils1.gif Catherine Destiville, El Matador (10b), Devil's Tower
elcap1.gif Nose shot of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA
goddard.gif Dale Goddard, Le Mission (8b), Bouix, France
grepon1.gif Tim summiting on the Petit Grepon '92
grepon3.gif View of Cathedral Spire/Petit Grepon from Sky Pond '92
jtree1.gif Rudy Hoffmeister, Ocean Of Doubt (13b), Wilderness of Rock,
JTree, CA
lazyday.gif Greg climbing Lazy Day (7) at Joshua Tree in '92
mace.gif Picture of The Mace (from rappel side), Sedona, AZ
pit1.gif Melissa, True Value (11), The Pit, Flagstaff, AZ
pit2.gif Tim Maloney, The Joker (12+), White Wall, The Pit,
Flagstaff, AZ
pit3.gif Steve Petro, Shake Dog Shake (12c), Nose Rock, The Pit,
Flagstaff, AZ
pit4.gif Diedre, Mr. Slate (10+), Swiss Tower ,The Pit, Flagstaff, AZ
rtrinity.gif Rob Fillmore on Right Trinity Crack (10), Overlook, Sedona,
Arizona '88
tbparty.gif Tim climbing Birthday Party (7), Upper East Wall, Pinnacle
Peak, AZ '90
thdston.gif Tim leading SW Corner (6+), The Headstone, Joshua Tree, CA
'91
tonebell.gif Allen Simis, Tone of a Bell (9), Superstition Mountains, AZ
tspect.gif Tim climbing Spectrum (7), Lost Bandana Wall, Phoenix, '90
vampire.gif Mike Law, Vampire Streak (19), Australia
yaniro2.gif Tony Yaniro, Calypso (13b), City Of Rocks, ID
zardoz.gif Greg climbing Zardoz (8) at Joshua Tree in '92
waugh1.gif Jim Waugh on Ma'adim (11c) at Windy Point, Mt. Lemmon
herb1.gif T.M. Herbert on 5.9 friction pitch, Salathe Wall, Sept-Oct,
1962
karakorm.gif Shot of the Karakorum Mountain Range
skinner11.gif Todd Skinner, Gunfighter (13b), Hueco, check out the hair
and the natural pro !!!!
kor1.gif Layton the Great, Gothic Pillar (V 5.10 A3), Black Canyon of
the Gunnison, CO
theedge.gif Darrell Hensel on The Edge (11b), Tahquitz Rock, California
karn1.gif from 1991 calendar - jim karn on ja'taime in eldo
banff1.gif " " " - barbara clemes on (12a), grotto cliff, banff,
canada
snow1.gif " " " - grand traverse, mt. ???, new zealand
hueco1.gif " " " - fiona lloyd on malice in bucketland (9+),
hueco tanks
devils2.gif " " " - dude on bloodbath (12a), devil's tower
robin3.gif " " " - robin e. on something at new river gorge
(11d)
sentinl2.gif snow shot of sentinel rock in yosemite.
ice2.gif Perri Arens, The Fang, Provo Canyon, UT
1) 'archie.au' (actually called plaza.(something).edu.au)
This site is a mirror of some of the files on 'wuarchive.wustl.edu'
2) 'katz.anu.edu.au' which is a collection of climbing related GIFs and
JPEGs
taken from 'wuarchive' and other sources.
Iapetus.Slac.Stanford.Edu - accessable via anon FTP. The wustl images
can be found in d:\pub\gifs\climbing; other climbing, mtn pics are
available in the std d:\pub\gifs
http://www.redpnt.com/redpnt/sharpend/
Additional sites might appear or disappear.
5) When? [We will see who gets this far.]
It is generally a courtesy to avoid ftp-ing GIFs during prime time hours
of a day. This means remote host time NOT local time. FTP on weekends
if you want to be safe (but then you have to give up a day of climbing).
Things are tough all over.
6) Why all this BS?
Running nets has many problems. You can guess the majority of GIFs aren't
climbing related. More of an *****c nature. Some of your fellow computer
users attempt subverting the world by pirating disk space and placing GIFs
on
open machines. This irks the owners of those machines who find themselves
popular all of a sudden. But that's another problem. Don't go dumping
climbing GIFs on other people's machines.
7) At such time that topo GIFs are placed, there is no indication that
such information is current, correct, or true.
Climbing is an extremely hazardous activity (see panel 1).
YOU USE A TOPO GIF AT YOUR OWN RISK (including the possibility of death).
A topo GIF in the hands of a non-climber is potentially as hazardous as a
loaded gun.
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