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A-Train
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 4, 2014 - 07:33pm PT
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So? Help me out. What is the easiest way to get to the Space Station.
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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I always found that a couple of beers helped !!
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Climb the...oh, wait - are you stoned enough?
;)
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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All you have to do is go to the Big Horn Mating Grotto, and then take the third corridor on the left and...
Oh. Wait. Getting to the Big Horn Mating Grotto is harder than getting to the Space Station.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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This falls into the category of "if you have to ask, you probably should not go up there."
Next question that's coming is how to find and get through the Chasm of Doom. That question is easy to answer. Late at night, no headlamps, and plenty of beers consumed before hand around the campfire after a night of lies.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Anyone do the "Psycho Path" with Psycho Ken (Black)? I followed him one night--and lived to tell the tale. Don't think I could find it now if I tried. RIP Psycho.
BAd
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Bad Climber
climber
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Fo' reelz, Klaus. That be the original rock goddess. Kneel before her!
BAd
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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That be the original rock goddess.
Hard to argue that one!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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The things that wake me !?!
Things that take me back
That I could have done
And did
That I should not have
Can never take it back
The whole hole thing
And
The hole whole thing
That what happens to us
Happens to us
Not that there is any thing
Wrong with that
We will all not be
And that is that
Kenny Black
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Well I do love the quirky feature and it can be very pun ey
although This was not .... picture it ,it was Josh hot, We were in lust for shade...
Her
holy crap in the hole bat man
Me
Na ohway
Her
crap in the hole eek batman
Me
Crap in the hole reek Bat Girl
Me
Retch with flem (no chunks not vomit)
Her
Wow,
vomit and crap,
we gonna have to come back with kitty litter
Me
So I did not propose
We did clean
the portal,
The Cosmic Pod
Space Station
Cleaned that jeet
up and left a note
Do not sh...t IN Here any where you as hole ....
Said the note
Way back ,
if any one had asked,
back then I would have told ya
I would have said ...
But all these years later,
Now ...
who shat where and when ..?
I hope it was a satisfying elimination
that you choose to share
She got un needed insight into what
My changing diapers would be like
I have always wondered
What did you think
I would not remember
You were a jerk,fink
Waited years to say it
Your shipoopy stinks
Some where a secret shitter smirks,
his years of peeing in the corner
instead of off the brink
Just to make a stink
has been immortalized
Written for those here
To read but not yet in ink
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Years ago I was sleeping in the "B" loop near the Space Station and I heard a drunk guy fall out. It was the sound of his down jacket accelerating on granite and his scream that woke me. I think he had fallen asleep up there.
It was around midnight and a I could hear some folks asking "what the hell was that?"
They figured it out real quick when they heard him moaning and crying out "help me, I'm dying."
It took a while to get an ambulance there.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dee eee
I was there that night, (fall '82?) I was awoken by the sound of his pelvis cracking. I do remember distinctly "help me I'm dieing"
Guy was from asuza. We treated him for shock, his buddy (also inebriated) moved everybody back, " give him room to breath" then shared a cigarette with him.
Earlier in the day ( he was drunk Way before noon) he had said he had broke. Both ankles there the year before.
The next day a ranger told us he had a broken pelvis and "internal injuries"
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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1. Drive your (moms) Subaru from Humboldt State to Park blvd
2. Leave car in a site you've reserved for spring break. Do not take didgeridoo with you.
3. Follow the scent of shitty weed and self-serving irony to the land of the 99%'ers
Questions?
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Some call the Hobbit Hole Space Station #2. I've also heard the descent cave on the Blob called that.
It is all so confusing unless you are drunk and stoned, then it all makes sense again.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Space station #9 was always a personal favorite. Great place to smoke dope on a windy day. And the Hobbit Hole was referred to as SS #2 loooong before I heard it called the Hobbit Hole. 1974? What the f*#k is a Hobbit?!
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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And the Hobbit Hole was referred to as SS #2 loooong before I heard it called the Hobbit Hole. 1974?
BVB nails it.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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What the f*#k is a Hobbit?!
They have feet like this
But with more hair on top
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Hair can't grow on those feet Wendell.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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He's more troll or dwarf than hobbit
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Oct 10, 2014 - 01:24pm PT
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I think it was '79 or so when I drove out to Josh and spend winter break. One night somebody took a few of us around HVCG and showed us the Hobbit Hole.
Then we walked over to Real Hidden Valley and followed him through this narrow chasm in the boulders. It got kind of tight going through there, but you come out the other side on the belay ledge at the top of the first pitch of some route or other.
Lotsa beer that night. I have no idea what that one was called.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 10, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
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Next question that's coming is how to find and get through the Chasm of Doom. That question is easy to answer. Late at night, no headlamps, and plenty of beers consumed before hand around the campfire after a night of lies.
Ha ha. One new years eve (1984 maybe?) a troop of about 20 of us wandered through that sans lights at midnight.
BASE, this is probably the one you are referring to.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Oct 10, 2014 - 02:33pm PT
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For full value in the Chasm you need to do The Oven as well.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Oct 10, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
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This particular chasm turned into a squeeze chimney which you traversed along. There was a horizontal crack for you to shuffle your feet along, so it was very safe and easy.
Cool, though. Quartz now has some burrowing in the boulderfields going on.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 10, 2014 - 03:23pm PT
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^^ Sounds similar BASE104 but it was 30 years and a couple of beers ago. I just remember a lot of traversing through horizontal paths that seemed to have exposure at times.
edit: It was literally pitch black that night; every thing was by feel. The hand & foot holding kept things moving.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Oct 10, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
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Met a guy the other day who said they had 31 ppl in the space station @ Josh.
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covelocos
Trad climber
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Oct 11, 2014 - 10:53am PT
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Current record for The Space Station is 40 (or was it 41... Dave?)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 11, 2014 - 08:36pm PT
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
Ogden, Utah
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Oct 12, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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You can climb straight up an it's much faster and easier, IMO. Just a 5.9 move that you don't want to blow.
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Oct 12, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
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A cold one in the Space Station is the best way to end a day in Josh!
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 12, 2014 - 08:28pm PT
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Thanks for making history Warbler, and sharing it !
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 12, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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Sweet story warbler
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Cool pics Pud, I'll bet Mike and Mari have only been up there about 1000 times...
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Next question that's coming is how to find and get through the Chasm of Doom. That question is easy to answer. Late at night, no headlamps, and plenty of beers consumed before hand around the campfire after a night of lies.
Ha ha. One new years eve (1984 maybe?) a troop of about 20 of us wandered through that sans lights at midnight.
hahah. Sounds awful familiar and about the right time frame. I might have been in that troop. Wonder if I could find that again all these years later.
Planning on being back there back for this new years. Gonna be fun.
Great story, Warbler!
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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A memorable New Years Eve occurred when the vigilant rangers permitted the NyE party below the Space Station. The festivities began with beautiful topless dancing girls spotlighted in the Space Station followed by the MC zip lining to make a grand entrance in the party zone. Unfortunately the MC got stuck in mid zip line. He was rescued and a night of outlandish debauchery ensued.
If you went to pee in the dark outside the party zone a ranger immediately put a flashlight on you and threatened your well being.
Never the less a fun time was had by all.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Many good memories over the years from the Space Station with some bros who absolutely disappeared and have not seen in years: Eric Held, Bob Cox, Bob Critchfield, Andre Olibri (who I hear is still around, just not climbing)). Fortunately, not a single mishap, despite ample opportunity for it. Like Pud's picture, time to start sharing the experience with my own posse of little rock punks.
BTW, when did people start leaving crap inside?
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Apr 28, 2018 - 10:50am PT
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Next question that's coming is how to find and get through the Chasm of Doom. That question is easy to answer. Late at night, no headlamps, and plenty of beers consumed before hand around the campfire after a night of lies.
Classic! That's the way it happened! Good times I barely remember.......
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Apr 28, 2018 - 12:10pm PT
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Me too!!!
Winter Spring 1990. I got the full night tour way before I was ready. Whoever led it managed the headspace like a true magician. Night group free soloing to the Space Station at the end of a long mystical feel through the Chasm, up and down and over who knows what....
"Put your foot here" says the wizard standing below me in Space. "Climb around and in."
"There you go"
Formative.
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