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delendaest
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 4, 2010 - 11:05pm PT
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I've been wondering how such a high concentration of climbers from
BITD got together on this site? Why supertopo.com? I can't believe it's cause you're using the guide books. There has to be a story behind this...
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Wonder
climber
WA
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I googled Peter Minks
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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No comment...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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I just really miss the sixties.
And there are so many sixty-year-olds on this site that you just get all excited and can't stay away?
Actually, the real answer to the OP is much simpler. When you join the AARP they ask you about your favorite recreational activities, and if you happen to mention that you used to climb, they suggest that you visit a climbing website popular with other seniors -- supertopo.com
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Mason
Trad climber
Yay Area
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Better yet, how'd y'all figure out how to use the internets???
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say.... actually....
IT called us.... even as camp 4 called the climbers.... and as the rocks, did call, as well...
yep, supertopo called us.... as if an internet-part of an echo to the greatoutdoors (that had the first-and-formost powerful "voice")---and we responded... :)
*course, various different tones, and depths, etc, of the voice-trail, triggered each one here...
hmmmm, oh my.... does this make this the "call of the wild" :O
well, god bless, and welcome to supertopo...
:)
and:
*in honor of the climbers, here:
these quality folks, keep us here... :)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Yeah, what Neebee said. just go with it.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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I got tired of CascadeClimbers.com sprayfest and started looking for a cool new website for climbers.
Plus, I was moving out of the PNW and was looking for something more regionally appropriate.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Trolling on Rockclimbing .com was like shooting noobs in a barrel. I was looking for bigger fish to fry.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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"Actually, the real answer to the OP is much simpler. When you join the AARP they ask you about your favorite recreational activities, and if you happen to mention that you used to climb, they suggest that you visit a climbing website popular with other seniors -- supertopo.com"
Now, that's funny, David! Actually, though, I have been avoiding responding to their persistent invitations to join the ranks (I'm too young to be part of AARP, for cryin' out loud!), so I must have come in through another door. I can't even remember what that door was, now. Matter of fact, I can't seem to remember my name just now.
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Chateau Rico
Sport climber
Davis, CA
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I've been thinking and thinking, or at least trying to think, and I honestly can't remember! But I do know it makes me happy! Plus I met Chris one time at a crag, what a great guy!
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Well, I somewhat blame it on Ding !
As "justthemaid" said:
"Trolling on Rockclimbing .com was like..."
dingus:
Nov 8, 2007, 2:19 PM
By the way trundlebum - do you read the supertopo.com forum?
It'll be like a Homecoming for you (if you haven't)
DMT
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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i was chatting up a guy at a starbuck's, when he got word of skinner's accident in near real time. before he left to search up the details, he gave me the name of this site. so i watched with great sadness as the skinner thread quickly grew. i didn't look around at that time though.
later when we lost a montana buddy, and searched for news, this site came up as a link because mojedo had posted notice of his passing. that was when i looked around a bit and put a few things together to decode the avatars that were not obvious.
to tell the truth, as things continue to unfold, that process continues. it should be remembered we found each other when the real world was a comparative smidgeon, and we who post are a subset.
it's been great to make all the cyber-acquaintances and to learn the some of the other dimensions of folks that i assumed were hopelessly consumed
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I think, at least for me, neebee nailed it.
I really don't recall what first brought me to this site, but after lurking for a while I felt like I'd gotten back in touch with my roots. Being with people who could remember climbing with swamis, goldline, EBs; the time before cams. People who's training involved scouring Basic Rockcraft and Freedom of the Hills. Buy some basic gear and hit the rocks with naive bravado.
Climbing then was a time of relative innocence that I think is a shared experience.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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somebody wrote the url down on the bathroom wall at the east palo alto shootin gallery that i used to score my junk from,
the voodoo lounge, south of pulgas, east on bay,
john lee hooker use to hang there,
one bourbon, one scotch, one beer, one needle,
jabbed it right in his frickin eyeball, didn't have no veins left,
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, also:
even as a few others have mentioned, seeing 'the REAL deal' here, did help when the 'call of the wild came'----ss, i did see my brother's name here, among names of his friends, so that helped "seal" it as a good solid deal, for me...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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I came from rec.climbing. I guess it was about 2002. My friend Inez got me reading ST and I never went back. Then she retired from the genetics field, left California altogether and moved to affordable West Virginia. She is still there although with plenty of visits to Europe. A close friend of Al Stecks btw.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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I came here looking for Loomis who has now wander off somewhere.
I got hooked when I found out who else was here. Been here one year and made several new friends (including you) and reconnected with people I have seen in 20+ & 30 + years.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I was looking for information about a climb, and had just gotten higher-speed internet.
Maybe the question should be "What was your first post?" It would often say something about why people appeared here.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Some guy writing a guidebook to the Olympic Mts got my email from some
snitch in Seattle. He referred me to cascadeclimbers where I saw a link to
this nuthouse. Somehow this site seemed more appropriate to my greatly
diminished sensibilities.
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