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Wack
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Dazevue
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 25, 2009 - 12:11am PT
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If the pending health care program was populated by zealots like Miles it would be a great success. In warrior cultures they say a man can be measured by his enemies. The stories of Lober toolings are legion yet for those from Castle Rock he is a slacker. Miles taught us that we needed to respect the law. These lessons paid off in the show, Yosemite. By exercising the bare minimum of caution there were no issues, just as it was at Castle Rock. In two decades of climbing at CR I never got tooled by Miles. He was damn close a couple of times but we skated.
Climbing at CR won't be the same without Supertool. There will never be another Miles (Thank God).
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Jul 25, 2009 - 12:14am PT
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Those that would club you down like a baby seal are legion.
Keep your guard up. Stealth is an ancient practice, and a great idea.
Shhh.
I like toast. Is it rye? I like rye.
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hooblie
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Jul 25, 2009 - 12:16am PT
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wack i salute your spirit of equanimity, or whatever it is that you have.
can't say that i knew miles. i did have a run in there back in roughly '86. my partner went off to climb in china, i was down from alaska without a vehicle. he put me in charge of his dog, it came with a vw van that we had hybridized with another, one registered, one not. it was roughly a 50/50 proposition so in our mind the papers went with the one that we put on the road, that wasn't the one that came with the vin tag.
well i had a leash for the dog, used it faithfully till the return to the parking lot, where when the dog recognized the van she got really excited and i released her to sprint right to the van and sit expectantly. wrong idea. 75 dollar ticket. plus about an hour tied up on the radio with wyoming searches and boondogle about the plates, vin. but, i pointed out, the engine id matched!. it was just too much for the poor guy but if the other end (wyoming) would have responded in time, i would have been cooked for a felony as i understand it.
luckily, some kids pulled in with a cracked windshield and he had been stalled out for long enough so he cut me loose and i drove away as he was writing up the windshield. those poor kids were really deflated, and i have no doubt that guy would have swung from violation to infraction like tarzan moved though the jungle
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Jul 25, 2009 - 12:45am PT
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Miles is gone?
Good riddance!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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I missed this thread. I have been the victim of several toolings by Sir Standish. And yeah, in a way, I'm gonna miss the guy.
Today as I sip a 9:30am beer, prepping to do Sandstone Battle later today in Miles' domain, I raise a toast to the SOB that made my trips there 'interesting'.
Cheers Miles!!!
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/534356/Tooled_at_Castle_Rock
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Miles is an effing riot. I have had dinner with him a zillion years ago and also was briefly on a CR committee with him and others (notably, Lady Diana Princess of Seabright). Totally unique character and not at all OCD, just almost entirely so.
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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I think that there must be some sort of penis envy among a few LEO types. They didn't make it through the black helicopter selection course and spend their lives all bent out of shape.
And then there are the rest. Just doing, or trying to do, a good job.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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in a decade of playin around up there i only had to deal with him once. it was after some guys in a car hit and ran a motorcyclist. we didnt see the actual hit and run, but saw the subsequent chase. i gave him some 411 that evening and then again a few days later over the phone.
pretty amazing being that i was always up there smokin cigs, weed and drinking bottled beer.
always had a knack for staying out of trouble tho.
knocking on wood
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sween345
climber
back east
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Oh, that Miles Standish.
What's in a name?
Captain Myles Standish (pronounced /ˈmaɪlz ˈstændɪʃ/; c. 1584 – October 3, 1656), (sometimes spelled Miles Standish) was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. Arriving on the Mayflower, he worked on colonial defense. On February 17, 1621, he was appointed the first commander of Plymouth Colony. Later, he served as Plymouth's representative in England, and served as assistant governor and as the colony's treasurer. He was also one of the founders of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts (named after his ancestral seat at Duxbury Woods, Chorley) in 1632.[citation needed]
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