Contest Drawing : Cliff Hanger II

[Donner]

Yupper !! Cliff Hanger now has a tone control ( good ole treble adjustment ) and a new box look - your hanging from a cliff and looking up and what do you see ??? Sky blue




So this one is $499 (the blue one and will go to the person with the most interesting harrowing outdoor experience .....

Post your tales here and Ill pick one next week ...................... there could be a run of these so I may use this thread for subsequent selections if it isnt too far off

[cabo]

2 years ago a group of 3 friends and I went winter camping at a spot in Michoux State Park PA. Its actually a piece of private land in the middle of it that called Tumblin Run that your not really supposed camp overnite but a good few many people do. Everyone is respectful so it works out.
It also holds a old story about some famous robber who would stash his money up at the top of the peak, but that another story.

We go there a few time during the year as its about a 2-3 mile hike to the top. The entire time climbing a trail and rocks next to and up water falls , wading pools and moving water.. There is really only 1 or 2 technical spots which are close to the top, but it does get steep.

Once your at the top it’s a spectacular view of the mountains and valleys with many big rock croppings at the top to climb around on, a few natural sheltered caves too. One could spend the whole day eating wild blueberries and climbing different croppings.

It was below freezing for a few weeks and we knew all the falls would be frozen so we decided to go and do a 1 night excursion as its a pretty cool site.

Well it happen to start snowing that afternoon on the way there which made us a bit late getting started. By the time we were half way up we were all using headlamps as it was getting dark.

We were closing in on the top, where we could set up camp , when my one friend jumped from one rock to another and slipped.

He had severly hurt his ankle. We knew it was sorta bad when he was screaming f- bombs repeatedly and couldn’t get up, but thought it may just be a bad sprain or twist.

He managed to hobble and crawl about another 200yards and we set up his tent for him, gave him all the scotch, and passed out he went. There was no way to try and navigate him down in the dark.

We awake in the morning to our gimp being the first one up and screaming, ' hey you guys ready to go or what, Im in Pain'.

Then we knew how bad he was. We realized he couldn’t walk, much less hike down a steep slippery 2-3 mile hike. So we devised a stretcher, rigged him in it and down we go. Extremely slow, slippin and slidin. The hike down usually takes 30 min- 1hr rain or snow.
It took us over 6 hours to get him to the car. We even had 2 guys that were on the way up in the morning, stop and help us the whole way down. They were pretty stoked as they seemed into surviorman,man vs wild type stuff.

We took our friend to the hospital where they fitted him with a nice cast for his broken foot and we eventually ended a really long day.

The worse part is he got laid off from his job because he physically couldn’t do the work on one leg.

At least everyone is ok now and no real life or death situation, so we all laugh about it now. It was no Everest but very memorable.

Heres a shot from this years hike of one of the smaller falls at the top.

[thiscalltoarms]

I'm broke, but I'd love to hear this one. Question though- I remember Bjorn used a certain filter/envelope to match the EQ of the original Cliff to the the gain control- is that EQ circuit replaced by the Tone control, or is the tone control just for matching the treble content to the amp and the general EQ is still primarily an interaction of the filter/gain control.

or I could be completely confused. hmmmm.

[DocRock]

No, that's a really good question. Thanks for bringing that up!

[Donner]

I'm broke, but I'd love to hear this one. Question though- I remember Bjorn used a certain filter/envelope to match the EQ of the original Cliff to the the gain control- is that EQ circuit replaced by the Tone control, or is the tone control just for matching the treble content to the amp and the general EQ is still primarily an interaction of the filter/gain control.

or I could be completely confused. hmmmm.

Yes its a treble trim, speaker/amp matcher - on some rigs the original CH could be to 'hairy'
so this is a refinement/added versatility, but same basic CH sound. its very useful......

[thiscalltoarms]

hmmm, just when I thought I was done buying new things. maybe next time around. very cool though. I'm sure it will be a winner- when I tried the tourbox one I was blown away by its teeth, now with the ability dial it in a bit more with my amps, I bet that would be killer. *evil laugh*

[fugot]

hi all,

my recent bjf pedal acquisition brought me back to here after long while. My bjf board is a work in process, but that is another thread.

harrowing ordeal...

i grew up in mystic, ct. (that is harrowing enough). One time a friend had 2 tickets to go see frank zappa in saratoga performing arts center in saratoga ny (one of my 2 most favorite places to see a show-with redrocks the other). we drive the 4 hours to get to saratoga from ct.. We just make it too, which is when we realize the zappa show was the night before,....and tonights band was Jefferson Starship (we built this city).........haunts me to this day, that i missed zappa for starship......and , yes , we snuck into starship....jorma and jack were playing, c'mon now....... i fell dirty just telling the story...

[nibus]

Alrighty, I have a lot of outdoor stories, as I've lived in a lot of rural areas most of my life -

I have a story quite similar to Cabo's -

Back in high school my friends and I decided to go down a hike in Zion National Park in southern Utah. This particular hike is called "The Subway" and can be a nasty one, especially if you haven't gone through it before. It's about 6 miles long, but most of the terrain is extremely rugged and involves climbing down cliffs, swimming underwater, avoiding flash floods, and climbing a very steep terrain to get back out of the canyon the hike takes place in.

Well, at the time my friends and I were about 18 and my dad decided he had better come along "just in case" something happened.

We made it through the first 2 miles of the hike without a problem. But we eventually came upon some small waterfalls that you either need to have young legs or a rope to get down --

Well my dad didn't have young legs, and he jumped off a certain point, and fell down. I didn't think much of it and went over to help him up. Well he couldn't stand up - he said he hear something pop in his ankle/leg and immediately knew something was seriously wrong.

We hobbled a few feet and sat down to look at the damage. We couldn't tell if it was broken or not, but it was bad enough that he couldn't walk well. However, he had fortunately brought a roll of duct tape. So he taped the ankle as tightly has he could, we fashioned a walking stick, and continued on the journey.

The bad part was, we had 4 miles to go, and still had to climb a steep cliff to get out. I didn't think we would make it that night, so I went on ahead and eventually reached the end of the hike, reached our vehicle, and called the park rangers and our families. Sometimes helicopters are actually called in to pick up people who are injured on this hike.

So the rangers eventually showed up, and we began hiking back down into the canyon to see what the damage was. Well, we had only barely started when my dad and friends showed up after climbing the steep cliff. All in all, it had taken about 10 hours to get out.

The next day we got his ankle x-rayed - it was fractured from the ankle all the way up his shin. The doctor couldn't believe he had hiked 4 miles on such a bad break. I suppose the most ironic thing is that he came along to make sure nothing would happen to us... I think he learned a lesson from it!

Here are some pictures of the hike: (not my pictures)

[nichcope]

Living in New Hampshire for 4 years provided me with some good outdoor adventures, that's the most outdoorsy adventurous place I've ever lived. As far as harrowing goes, this one was probably one of the dumbest things that I've ever done........................ O.k. actually, it is the dumbest thing I've ever done.

So it's the middle of winter and me and a bunch of friends decide to go hiking through the woods to scout a spot to have a big camping party once spring time comes around. At this point of winter in NH, there are feet of snow on the ground, the kind where you walk on top of it for 20 steps and then your foot breaks through, then get back on top walk 20 more steps, repeat process. Anyways, we're a mile back in the woods now and walking over a frozen creek and I come up with a genius idea I bet if I stomp on the ice hard enough, I can break it. Well, I was right! Now I'm chest deep in water and a mile back in the woods and very fortunate that the water wasn't any deeper than that. So I get out of the water, soaking wet and colder than I've ever been in my entire life. Would've been great if the story ended there, but it didn't, unfortunately I'm still a mile back in the woods. My clothes were way way way too cold to wear, so I walked back to my friend's house in socks, boxers, and a t-shirt. Yes, that's really cold to do when it's significantly below freezing, but it was way worse in soaking wet pants, coat, and boots. So still breaking through the snow, this time bare legged other than socks and boxers. By the time I got back I was in some serious pain, think the coldest shower you've ever taken multiplied by 1,000. Couldn't even take a warm shower because the hot water made the cold me hurt too bad, so just wrapped myself in blankets for what felt like an eternity until I felt warmth return to my body again. No fun at all.

I know it's tempting, but please learn from my mistake, it is never a smart idea to see if you can break through the ice above water. Oh this story does have a good ending other than learning that valuable lesson. My friends instead of walking back with me, continued on their trek through the woods, found a great clearing in the woods to have the springtime camping party and when spring finally came around we had one hell of a bash!

[nichcope]

My other favorite New Hampshire harrowing outdoor story happened on a mountain. I love snowboarding and earlier on in my riding days, I was a bit more adventurous and liked to push my abilities to improve skills. This is not always such a good idea. It's the end of the day and the conditions are nice and icy. My legs are a little tired, since I've been riding all day, but I'm on this run and I see a great looking cliff to my left. I tell all my friends to stop and wait for me because I want to jump off the cliff. They say, are you sure you want to do that. I look at them dumbfounded, I mean why wouldn't I want to jump off of that cliff onto the icy slope below. So I take off my snowboard and hike up the slope and then go off the slope to climb to the top of this cliff and go far enough back so I can get some speed to get good air off it. I put my board back on and make sure they're all looking so they can admire the cliff jumping skills that I was about to display. Pick up some speed and jump off the edge and then.............................. well not exactly sure what happened next, but judging by my broken goggles, bloody swollen face, and what my friends told me, my landing was not exactly perfect.

That was the day that I stopped doing crazy things on a snowboard. Now I just stick to riding down the mountain and trying to never let large amounts of air get between my snowboard and the snow I tend to have much better judgment these days, but writing these last two stories is making me think that moving to New Orleans where I'm much farther away from ice was probably a smart idea