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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 2, 2007 - 11:54pm PT
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Yup, It’s That Time of Year Once Again:
A Time When the Tuff Get Going, Ever Upward,
And the Slackers Flop into the Flatirons…
…too many slabby faces and sunny summits to list, but you get the picture.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2007 - 11:57pm PT
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‘Ole Tim Stich and Turdbuster head out at o’noon thirty tehday,
Fixin’ to rack up and conquistador us some fine, useless, low angle grovels.
This here purty slabfest specimen is called Satan’s Slab, but we walked on past:
Our goal was fixed on the Hilbilly Rock, dead center,
Then onto the Amoeboid, just behind the Hillbilly and out of view,
And thence onward, upward to the Hippo Head, seen gracing the skyline, top center:
Tim, topping out on the Hillbilly Rock:
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2007 - 11:58pm PT
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From the Summit of Hillbilly Rock,
We cud see straight way out onto the sterling flanks of the Amoeboid:
This’n shows me,
A draggin’ the rope up the Amoeboid’s “Buckets”:
And here we have Stich,
Also draggin’ the rope up them buckits:
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 12:00am PT
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Lastly,
Stich toppin’ ‘er out on the Hippo Head:
…With a view down from the summit,
Looking back on to the road leading to the sandstone building complex of NCAR, where we started out:
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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that's a swell post, thanks - those flatirons go on and on and...
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Tarbaby, you bring me back to "Sweet home...Ala......."Boulder.
-JelloWishesHeWasThere
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WBraun
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The best shot is looking out into Kansas.
Nice flat land. Screw the mountains. It's too rough and cold.
Friday nights it's softball baseball.
Cruz main street saturday nights. Oh what a blast.
Grow corn and vegetables all week.
Now that's the life.
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Ed Hartouni
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Livermore, CA
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nice and easy guys... hey what was in those packs? hope you had a good celebration on top!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 12:19am PT
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Gerry Roach, author of the Flatirons Guide, was once asked what his favorite mountain was...
Much to the questioner's surprise, he said: "Green Mountain".
Green mountain is the central mass in the first panaorama at thread top. Roach has climbed an incredible number of mountains, something like every named peak over 12,000' feet in Colorado, huffed up peaks the world over, Everest...
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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The most fun I've ever had is climbing around the backsides of various of the flatirons.
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girasolgrl
Trad climber
Colorado Springs, CO
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Okay, so who'd like to give me the Flatiron tour? Nice pics, Stich! I think I know what is in that bag....
;-)
GG
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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That looks like a lot of fun. Fjell rangling, as it's called in Norway.
Alternative alliterative appellations:
Flipflapflopping in the Flatirons.
Filibustering in the Flatirons.
Finagling in the Flatirons.
Fiddling in the Flatirons.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 12:27am PT
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Raydog
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Boulder Colorado
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the climbing looks cool, it's the hike that's out of the question!
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 12:36am PT
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 12:47am PT
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Raydog
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Boulder Colorado
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very cool indeed Roy, thanks
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 01:08am PT
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Flying in the Flatirons.
Flourishing in the Flatirons.
Flugelhorning in the Flatirons.
Flatfooting in the Flatirons.
Floculating in the Flatirons.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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I wonder what Werner's spell check will make of flugelhorning and floculating?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2007 - 01:13am PT
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A floozy florest was flushing in a flurry of flushing flora up in the florid Flatirons...
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