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WBraun
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 6, 2007 - 11:28pm PT
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It's Time to cut loose .....
Some crappy photo of Death crack in some Tuolumne Meadows area.
Post up your cut loose shots ......
Edit; the guy belaying was called "The Food Man".
He could eat forever and ever and never got full.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Yay Werner - more photos like that. I agree, the site has been suffering a bit lately. Hopefully it'll get back to its normal cool self soon.
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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That' a Rockin' shot Werner!!! I'm gonna start a diggin'!!!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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WTF is that rope tied to?
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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my bitchen new sh*t from Grivel
now I need a helmet
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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aluminum
for alpine ice and snow climbing
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Ray,
They better be aluminum if you're going into the hills wearing those Crocs!
Good luck out there bro.
VLG
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Crocs are bomber...
no problem
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 12:03am PT
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What's that yellow sh'it on the bottom?
To keep the snow from balling up under them?
I almost died this spring because of the snow balling up under the crampons. I took fast ride and slammed into a tree luckily.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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the yellow sh*t, as you put it -laughing -
is indeed Grivel's patented antibott, w/ the rubber accordion for the center-bar, these babies are freakin' LIGHT
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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beauty...
tis in the eye of the beholder
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 12:10am PT
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Yeah those were the ones I used except I didn't have the yellow anti bot.
Make sure they're tight or they'll fall right off!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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they seem pretty tight - good advice for sure - I'm way into getting things dialed and testing all the gear out before hand, especially these days.
there's a lot of really safe easy glaciers and gully's in the Indian Peaks/RMNP - any luck I can get some fitness and have fun going up - not as boring as just hiking, good exercise.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 12:20am PT
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Hardman Knott
The rope is tied to the locker biner.
Hahahaha, you really thinks so?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Any relation to the "Bott Dots" that clack your teeth if you are drifting out of your lane in a car? Father of the transposable utility bump perhaps, even on a crampon?
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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yeah 510/511, I'm gonna practice a bit first, have not done self arrest or handled an axe in quite a while - there's a lot of moderate terrain out by Mt. Neva/Jasper in Indian Peaks. I'm old, tired and in the way so gotta go slow. It is really a great snow season in the Colorado Mountains...
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 12:30am PT
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Hahahaha LOL
Fuk if I know who took the shot Walter. I can't remember.
Maybe I need to eat more carrots?
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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The Real Blinny is fixin' to take photos of some folks cutting loose!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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that is a great shot
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Yup, a little jughauling to cheer y'all up. From Shawangunk Rock Climbing Richard Dumais 1985.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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snow pack last friday about 11,000ft
I tried to kick steps up closer but the snow was frozen solid
just above this wind @ about 20+ blowing pretty cold, hands - bye bye...
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Ammon
Big Wall climber
El Cap
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Well, this isn't exactly cutting loose... but, here's a few for you that John Dickey took while on Native Son last year.
Cheers & Enjoy!
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 12:47am PT
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Yeah, I know what you mean Ray.
Yikes! Ammon & Steve that's the spirit.
Keep em coming folks .....
Edit: Ammon I hope your ankle is healing.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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this picture accurately depicts my sad state of affairs
aged, over weight, fatigued from a 4am start but somehow still
smiling...
didn't need the snowshoes, everything was frozen
those are the gloves that didn't do sh*t - new Scarpa
boots went 9 miles out of the box and were perfect
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2007 - 01:15am PT
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Is that you Mike? With broken bone? This year? Yikes!
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Tangerine Dream 5.9, Mt. Lassen
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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I've been to those crags by Lassen, Chico - what a neat place
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Russ Clune's selection from Fifty Favorite Climbs Mark Kroese 2001. The caption reads "approaching the top of the spectacular Split Pillar (5.10b) on the Grand Wall". Big paws come in handy on this Squamish classic. Rich Wheater photo.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Werner
Why are you climbing and cross loading your biner on a lead line ?
This is dangerous, stop doing all these risky stuff.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Some cool seacliff craggin' earlier this week.
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Matt
Trad climber
places you shouldn't talk about in polite company
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not really cutting loose, but i think it's a cool shot
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snyd
Sport climber
Lexington, KY
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Name that dirtbag:
and no, it's not Eminem
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imnotclever
climber
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Am I the only one who sees gloves like Ammon's and thinks, "Hmm, 100 pitch gloves." ;)
(So for him that's, what, 2 days)
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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City of Rocks, last october
snowpack last week at 5500 feet, pity you can't go to 11,000 in the Olympics.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Matt - cool granite crack. What is it?
GO
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bobmarley
Trad climber
auburn, california
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pancake flake on the 1 day ascent of the nose:
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Nice everyone!
Not hanging out, but a little run out on Superpin...
and a little tired after a long day on the Salathe...
and a little guy...
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Cut Loose!?
I'll hopefully get some climbing shots rolling this afternoon....keep an eye out!
Cheers,
Tom
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Cutting loose - from the wayback machine!
Bouldering pad care of Curry Co. - thanx btw.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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More rippling old school power please!
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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More old skool bouldering....
"Last of the Mohicans", 5.12d, La Foradada, Spain. Bouldering pad out of frame...
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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I think JB's pics do in fact qualify as "cutting loose"
more than most of us will ever know
great shots John, thanks
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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The Forklift on Toxic
Didier on Cobra Crack
Bang Bang. Maxwell Silver Hasson on the Cutting Edge
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Ron Peers executing an L-Cross on the Olympic ring apparatus in TM rescue (circa '81).
He could do a perfect butterfly mount as well!
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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Here you go Raydog, another one of Tangerine Dream:
And a new route in Castle Crags:
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Ray,
For a real gram shaving/savings, try these Axis crampons from ULA in Logan, Utah:
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Glaidig
Trad climber
Menlo Park, CA
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Sam leads the third pitch traverse on Blown Away last weekend
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snyd
Sport climber
Lexington, KY
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My home crag
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Bachar,
you should bring a set of rings to Toulumne.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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James - wish I still had them. Even if I did, it takes a while to set the bar at the official Olympic height and the straps the right length. It was pretty cool though. Peers was a national ranked gymnast in college and he could do all kinds of stuff - in perfect form to boot!
The TM rescue site was fully equipped in those days. Then the rangers came...
Don Best on the rope ladder.
Don Welsh doing a thirty second fingertip front lever.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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thanks Chico - cool place
and
thanks marty(r) for:
" For a real gram shaving/savings, try these Axis crampons from ULA in Logan, Utah:"
those are neat, I could definitely see a use for them, especially in the local foothills when things glaze over -
what a fun crew here on the ST...
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Hell on earth wondering what I did to deserve it
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Acccckkkk! I just strained some muscle looking at those photos.
It just hardly seems possible people are that strong. Thanks for the photos!
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Could anyone bust an iron cross and front lever at the same time on the rings?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Pat Ament was able to do a hollow back lever as a gymnast. You start out face down, arms and legs straight with hands about a foot away from your hips palms down. Now press into a lever and full handstand ninety degrees away! Just lay down and try that one at home. LOL
More air! Chris Sharma on Alien. His fav from Fifty Favorite Climbs, Mark Kroese 2001. Jim Thornburg photo.
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Ammon
Big Wall climber
El Cap
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Wow, this thread is cutting loose, niiice... these guys are too.
Edit: Way to rattle the cage, Werner ;)
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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awesome pics guys! holy cow
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Great shots folks!
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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We are all weak. Once as a gymnast I was strong though. If only I were as disciplined as a climber as I was a gymnast....
If only I were an asian boy toy....
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Ho man this is an inspirational thread. This restores one's faith in the taco.
Off White-- what an unreal city of rocks photo. Beautiful.
These photos are awesome!
Let the political/bs/other off topic threads go down the drain....the topo still rips...
I've got to start dieting!
love to posters of wonder...
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Wild Bill
climber
Ca
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Arrrgh! Piana on Salathe
From Todd's website
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
real eyes realize real life
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blinny - thank you for sharing that sweet poem. mr. sharsmith truly was the rare mountain sage. it was a privilege meeting him and going on some of his nature talks in the meadows. he taught us to use all of our senses to understand the layers of the natural world. when he told us kids we could taste the onions growing wild in the meadows, it opened up a whole new world of discovery. we just thought he was the last word.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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When I was on the University of Colorado, in 1967, I learned for a short time the plange on the floor. Your body is stretched horizontal, about half a foot above the floor, held there by two straight arms extending in a diagonal down to the floor, with hands flat on the floor (somewhere near the upper thighs), fingers pointing out to the sides (away from body). This might be what Steve was calling a lever. I also learned a plange press into handstand. From the horizontal plange, you slowly raise your straight body into a handstand, without bending your arms at the elbow), but I only managed that a couple times. One spaghetti dinner was enough to make me too heavy to ever do it again. I worked out all the time with Big-8 champions, who could regularly do slow butterfly mounts on the rings, slow pulls into iron crosses, etc. Most were stronger than I was by a mile but couldn't climb as well. None of them could do my one-arm mantel on the two-inch wide ledge on a wall. One of the best gymnastics moves I ever did, and I never saw another person do it, though I'm sure others are capable, is the slow, pure muscle-up on the bar. I don't mean pulling up on the bar and going up and over. You have to go excruciatingly slow, with both arms going up and over (at that same excruciatingly slow speed) at exactly the same time. In other words you start with a slow-motion pullup, then pull the bar to your chest, crank a few inches higher, still keeping both hands and elbows exactly mirroring each other, then slowly press your body above the bar. I don't know how I ever learned that one. It was harder than a hollowback off the floor (which I could do solidly and slow, with no kick or quick first move to start). In the mornings I would get up and, before breakfast, do fifteen deep handstand pushups (i.e., get into a handstand -- away from the wall -- and press down, kissing the floor each time). Most of the time I would be happy to do five, but sometimes ten, without stopping, but once and maybe more than once I know I did fifteen. I wasn't as strong pulling as I was pushing, and the pulling strength is much more practical for climbing. Then in older age I hurt my shoulder just trying to put my hands on the floor and kick into a handstand... My daughter (who never saw the gymnastic stuff of yesteryear) was pretty unimpressed with me hurting myself trying to get into a handstand.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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haha-
pretty fun thread for a lark everybody, good going; 'speshly the gymnast stuff Oli, and I like those old shots JB, Peers, Lighting etc.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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One from the vault. The Shield back when it was a clean knife stroke. Seventh ascent Werner?
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Bachar shots are a glimpse of history...Pat writings are the same. Thanks to all that post here.
Later, Bob
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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FYI guys I am working at getting Steve Sutton's cell phone number.
I have it he is here in Colorado - he became a pilot and flies for a living these days.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 10:36am PT
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Steve
Me and Dale Bard did the 5th ascent of the Shield. Sutton and Pratt probably sometime before us.
Yeah we placed a lot of rurps and blades up there back then.
A few years later I did it again with Merry and there were huge square pin holes. One place where I originally place a rurp the pin hole was so big that a 1 1/2 pition went in there. LOL
Still one of the most awesome locations on El Cap.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I would like to get up on the Shield again to do it hammerless once and for all. Solid belay anchors and nothing to hit for miles. No excuse for not trying even if the stopwatch is ticking.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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More cutting loose from the 1978 GPIW catalog.
Somewhere in Baja. Dudley Chelton photo.
An unusual view of Separate Reality from below. Vern Clevenger photo.
Ron Kauk on Sky . Where is this route Werner, since you took the picture?
A shot from the days of beige. Pile made its appearence in 1977 and caught on like wildfire despite the earthtones.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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I used to think a lot of things that would seem strange to most today, such as if you had to wear gloves you were a sloppy climber. I mean none of the original hard men used gloves. You had to toughen your hands rather than protect them. You had to hammer carefully rather than whack a piton and take off a flap of skin. And if you had to tape your hands for cracks you didn't know how to hand jam (I went to Veedauvoo and climbed some really painful flesh cutting crystal handjams, just to see if I was right. That might have been around the time I got to thinking it was about time to retire). I used to think that helmets made you top heavy and were only of value in the mountains where there was a lot of rockfall. I used to think a simple swami around the waits was adequate for almost any climb, or even no more than a single loop of the climbing rope. Kamps and I did lots of climbs with no harness or swami, just a loop of the climbing rope. And I thought at least no one would ever use a harness on any sort of knee-size-or-beyond crack climb, as it would hinder movement and get caught inside, etc. Pratt and I did the Steck-Salathe in about 5 hours (maybe slightly less), in 1968, not even trying to go fast, just casually moving along, with a single strand of rope around each of our waist. Chuck bought about seven pieces of gear for protection. We had no lunch or water. There was a sense of freedom, without much gear. I remember leading the first pitch unprotected. He led the Wilson Overhang unprotected. We clipped one fixed pin on the crux third pitch. I recall we had a few pitons with us (we hadn't fully transitioned yet to nuts). I tried to place a bugaboo while starting to lead the slab pitch above the headwall, and my first hit with the hammer sent the piton flying down the wall. I went on without protection there, since I didn't want to lose another of Chuck's valuable pitons. He simply smiled at me. This is not an interesting story, but Pratt was so beautiful on rock, so smooth and elegant. I'll never forget looking up the last pitch and seeing him sitting there, pulling in the rope, watching me. Sun was overhead bright, no clouds, but rain was falling in a crystalling way, sparkling around him as though he finally had earned his celestial glory.
Tell me Werner, if anything is helping this site be less boring. Should I keep trying?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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This thread has some great stories. Maybe the title could do with a bit of work, though.
Yes, 1976 and the appearance of Helly Hansen pile sweaters and jackets. Designed for Icelandic fishermen or something, all of whom apparently had pot bellies.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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thanks for the nice prose Oli - I like reading your perceptions about the period and the people very much.
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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oli,
Nice stories about way back when. Your story of the steck-salathe describes to me what i strived for in climbing way back then.
thanks,
G
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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The caption reads "Chuck Pratt typically leading a crack in Yosemite without protection." In this case the 3D second pitch. From A History of Free Climbing in America by Pat Ament 2002. Ament photo.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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I just wrote a big post and it got deleted somehow. It will probably show up in some other thread, the Paris Hilton thread. Just thinking about being involved with her, without being aware of what I was doing I started wrapping myself in sandwich wrap from head to toe.
Anyway, yes Chuck Pratt was da man. That day, from that photo, he made me lead the crux 5.10 offwidth above. A lot of people lately, I see, do the first two pitches and say they've done Reed's Direct. I always thought the first two pitches were the warm up for the third pitch.
Right about where Chuck is in that photo, he stopped for a second, bonked a red ant, watched it fall, and said, "You shouldn't be allowed to climb that well."
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Yessiree, the third pitch is the meat of the Triple Direct. Nothing but some slim prayer of an RP in a crease when I lead it and solid 5.10. Full value.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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well, hey, the modern world has plenty of appropriate adventure to offer too!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Man does that ever look dangerous! No way you'd get me to accept that level of risk for mere aesthetics. LOL
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Where am dat shid, off? too funny.
I went through a period of soloing at V-woo in shoes, running shorts, no shirt or tape, but much chalk; Horns' mother, auto supply, the climb y punishment trio, bg crack, etc. concluded that it was lame and inappropriate. use what you need, state it, and don't worry if it's okay.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
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Off White
WTF is that guy doing? Hahahahaha LOL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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HE is workin' it hard. How about that shot of Ron on Sky, Werner?
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Sky has been on my hit list for decades.... lost some interest after I found out that you can't or shouldn't OW it, but lay it away like Ronbo..... I'd like to maybe go up there sometime and do the Yabo route Elephatiasis (sp?) as a two-fer..... probably have to dog the shiit out of both of them.
Did someone ask where it was??? On Elephant rock, up near the top on the left side (?)
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Come on, you guys, we're trying to make things less boring for Werner.
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John Moosie
climber
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Jeebus Oli, some of us are just mortals. haha... If we bleed too much, then we die.
And yes, keep up with the stories. They are great.
Perhaps if you use the back button on your computer you can find what you wrote and repost it.
Edit: I just realized that you wrote that about losing the post earlier today so using the back button might not work.
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 11:39pm PT
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Oh Pat
I ain't bored. I just went out to check on the Yosemite Falls. It's still falling straight down. Nothing changes ....
Now with all these theories nowadays you'd think it would go up instead? Like maybe on Tuesdays (when no ones lookin)?
Steve, Sky is on top of Elephant Rock. Far left side on the main face.
So Ray Jardine told me where. He didn't want to do it. His "Friends" (cams) back then didn't have the range for wide cracks.
I went there with Dale Bard to do the first ascent and sh'it in my pants when I saw it up close. Dale takes the lead and goes for it and takes a big whipper back to the belay. LOL
We then told Kauk that he's the man for this beast and he tamed it by lay backing it.
I think there were about 5 or 6 of us there that day.
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john hansen
climber
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Oli , your stories are great, please keep posting more.Any one of your stories is worth a hundred other's from all those non climbing post's.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 10, 2007 - 12:42pm PT
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"Let's throw a little meat at the crack," as Scott Baxter used to say. Thanks Werner.
More space cheese please.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jun 10, 2007 - 12:46pm PT
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absolutely wild pic
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jun 10, 2007 - 07:07pm PT
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Charlie Fowler and I did some sea-cliff soloing in the rain in our big warm coats and hats, while in Wales, where if you fell you'd drop into the ocean. I don't know what I was thinking. That was my chance, and I didn't take it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 12, 2007 - 01:28am PT
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A few more seacliff shots from Sea Cliff Climbing in Britain by John Cleare and Robin Collomb 1973. Joe Brown on the Spider's Web Craig Gogarth.
Frank Cannings and Pat Littlejohn opening up Liberator on the Great Zawn at Bosigran in 1970.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jun 12, 2007 - 03:30am PT
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Thank you, Steve, for those photo reminders of the good days. Some part of me, being half Irish and half English on my mother's side, always makes me feel I should have been there, that I missed something vital, that I belonged with Whillans and Brown and was born in the wrong place. When I went to England I never felt so at home, so in harmony with people and with the universe. I loved the gritstone and the wet rock of Wales. When I led the Left Wall of Cenotaph Corner, in rain, Charlie Fowler said I'd done a 5.12 lead. I actually didn't think at the time I was capable of 5.12, as I was years over the hill, but I attribute that burst of energy to the joy of being in some kind of spiritual home I had lost but now found. I felt so close to Jim Perrin, and when we stayed at his ghostly house in Wales I felt in a good way haunted by the spirits of that mysterious land... To visit and climb even briefly on those sea cliffs did something to my soul...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 17, 2007 - 04:16pm PT
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A few more seaside shots from the same source.
Joe Brown leading with Peter Crew on stance during the first ascent of the much sought after Rat Race on Gogarth's Main Wall.
The Flying Buttress, an easy classic on the West coast of the island of Lundy.
"The originator of stack climbing in the North of Scotland, Tom Patey, seen after climbing Am Buachaille- in the background."
"Tom Patey leading the final pitch on Am Buachaille, with Ian Clough below."
Post up some seaside shots folks from Mickey's Beach to Baja, the J Paul Pebble to the Malamute we got seacliffs.......
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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MAJOR LEAGUE FRIGGIN' BUMP!!!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Right on. I'll try to scan some earlier Cleare photos and post them on the Snowdonia thread tonight.
But that reminds me, this place needs a seacliff-climbing thread all its own.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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There you go, Knave. You have to put img at the beginning and end of the link with brackets around 'em. Look at the shortcut of the one I posted for ya.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Dec 11, 2007 - 03:18pm PT
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Some good stuff in this thread.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Dec 11, 2007 - 03:28pm PT
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Funny Tom, did you bump this because of the other sh#t going on right now that's "gayer tha AIDS"...too funny.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Dec 11, 2007 - 03:30pm PT
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I sure did.
better to bump quality content than add to the muck...
wish I was out climbing...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 11, 2007 - 05:15pm PT
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wish I was out climbing...
Amen to that!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Dec 11, 2007 - 05:56pm PT
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I just re-read this whole thread from start to finish...
Well worth it!
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scuffy b
climber
The deck above the 5
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Dec 11, 2007 - 06:32pm PT
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I just did as well. Well worth it indeed.
I was hanging out in the Valley one time (yes, it did actually
happen once in a while) when Dale reappeared after some absence.
How long, or where, no idea, but it seemed to be an event.
He acted like he'd been gone for ages, really needed to get back
in touch with his (recent) past. Among other things ("Let's go do
a Cookie day. We'll just do as many pitches as we possibly can do
in one day at the Cookie.") he started talking about Sky.
"I gotta go back and do that thing. As an offwidth. It's the only
offwidth that ever spit me out. It just spit me out.
I know it's obviously a lieback, but I want to do it offwidth."
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Apr 30, 2009 - 01:35pm PT
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you are responsible for the quality of content
please help clean out the choss
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 30, 2009 - 01:54pm PT
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Man, I'm easily trolled into those climate threads. Need a 12-step program. Need to go climbing
more too.
Hey, we've got a new puppy, I could post about that. I've never counted the pet, travel, photog
or lots of other climber-lifestyle stuff as being among the choss -- though I know, YMMV.
"Heaven is a place where all the dogs you ever had run up to you wagging their tails," a
friend said.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Apr 30, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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don't worry Chiloe, you're a quality poster...as are most
Just throwing out a reminder while digging up a buried thread...good stuff in this thread, even if some of the links have rotted away...
what happened to RAYDOG btw?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 30, 2009 - 02:27pm PT
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The Boulder crowd prolly knows.
Meanwhile, a lot of the Cali quality posters, plus outliers from everywhere else, had converged
on JTree for the weekend. Now they're dispersed again and free to start many threads.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Apr 30, 2009 - 02:32pm PT
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True, the JT stuff lately has been really good. Awesome to see such support for Roy too!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Apr 30, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
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I like Choss, just not their choss.
;)
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Apr 30, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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ok munge, we're gonna need another installment of the 'good choss'!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 30, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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Ha, thanks for the Pirate (beta) tip!
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scooter
climber
fist clamp
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Apr 30, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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""
Josh T. on the Fly or Die pitch Lost in America.
""
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Jake W. on new terrain at the Rowell Rocks
""
Pat W. on the Great Pumpkin
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Apr 30, 2009 - 03:03pm PT
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That pirate stuff is pretty funny, and those are good threads. Hell, the brother even added fresh pictures to his roadtrip thread, and it's gotten a whole 2 responses(one from me)...that's validating...
It's really just the 'other stuff' that's started (lately) knocking 'the good stuff' off the FP, if you respond to that sh!t, you just add to it. So I'd rather bump an 'oldie but a goodie'
EDIT: NOW WE"RE TALKING SCOOTER!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Apr 30, 2009 - 03:06pm PT
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Great photos guys! the crowd shouts MORE MORE MORE!!!!!
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Apr 30, 2009 - 03:20pm PT
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Apr 30, 2009 - 07:00pm PT
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TILT! (posted a few pages back).
Not that I don't usually feel a little tilted by the time I get to the top of this pitch....
Another on the theme of cutting loose, and a bit tilted. (The Cobra)
[If you can call aiding through the crux cutting loose...]
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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Apr 30, 2009 - 07:08pm PT
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YIKES!!!
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nutjob
climber
Berkeley, CA
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Apr 30, 2009 - 07:48pm PT
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One long shlong:
Natural solution-pocket or favorite Indian hang-out way back when?
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Mimi
climber
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Apr 30, 2009 - 09:02pm PT
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Caylor, I'd rather see a pic of you climbing, not your last bad date. LOL!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Apr 30, 2009 - 09:24pm PT
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Kerching, Mimi!!!!!
'specially since he's got a cutie of a wife!!!!!
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Apr 30, 2009 - 11:32pm PT
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Sorry to be a buzzkill boys, but in response to the original post, "This site is boring as sh'it right now", I would like to suggest that it is such cuz ST is a "closed shop". As an "outside" lurker for many years, I would say it is a very impressive and entertaining closed shop, but a closed shop nonetheless. The number of "regular" posters on ST who actively engage "non regular" posters in a positve manner is limited. Some would say that aside from the crazy political posters who are for the most part tolerated, too much of what occurs on ST could be classified as "stroking each others ego". God forbid that ST becomes the equivalent of Rockclimbing.com, i.e. RCNoob, but with this attitude comes a limit on divergent opinions, variety, and, in the end, BOREDOM!
For the record, I am not a member of RC.com, have never posted there, and have no interest in doing so. Just an observation.
Cracko
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Mimi
climber
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Apr 30, 2009 - 11:36pm PT
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It is a hostile environment but a 'real' one. Kinda like climbing.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Apr 30, 2009 - 11:42pm PT
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Tiny pic bump.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there curt~, say, those are nice climbing shots... great rock... that first shot, too, that werner used to start all this off with, was a nice shot too....
i dont have time now, to watch the pics unfold, so i can't share much else...
thanks for the share, guys...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say... WOW... skully, nice to see/hear you... are you back, or just visiting... :)
i feel like i am just visiting, as i have been busy trying to edit last bits of my books, and do the new one...
god bless, to you!
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Hank did you rip that off my facebook page? You know I don't want that circulating. What if my husband found out?
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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I met Dale Bard in the early 80’s in round valley everyone at the time was very living poor. I have yet to meet a climber or for that matter a man more fit than Dale.
Bruce.
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scuffy b
climber
Bad Brothers' Bait and Switch Shop
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Much as I wish I could, Cracko, I can't argue against your
points.
I guess we could all be more welcoming.
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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OK, OK.... I withdraw my concern. I was a little "pissy" at work this week with the Swine Flu hysteria, and felling sorry for myself. Carry on !!
Cracko
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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too much of what occurs on ST could be classified as "stroking each others ego"
Cracko, there may be some truth to that, but it is still a great forum.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Actually, DMT, I think all humans are tribal, whether they know it or admit ot (or Knott).
It's built in, eh?
Standard(no extra charge).
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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'Cause when I get that feelin',
I need sensimal heemin'.
Wookin po nub.
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MH2
climber
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Crappy picture?
Yes.
Cutting loose?
Not sure what he meant.
Werner in my head saying, "Get ON it."?
Ain't the Taco great?
And to bring in the Malemute :
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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Boredom is a state of mind, not a state of being - change your mind.
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MaxJ
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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The Pratt/Robinson on North Six Shooter
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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*BUMP*
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Vulva, Wyoming
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"you're gonna love my nuts"
That dude is GOLD!!!!1111666
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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testing 1 2 3
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dog," Can you help get this dude off my feet?"...........
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perswig
climber
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"Drop the chalupa."
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oh god, # 2 is FISHSOME!!!!!111111
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Nice cover, Russ!
Do you do Rumanian atheist?
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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The Taco's own HK and The Snyd
The Snyd on a V5 at Bliss South Tahoe, HK sloughin'
Doped up not roped up outside of Reno '83/'84 The Seams-510.a
UNR Crack? 5.8
Juniors 5.8
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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RIP Cave Rock!!!!!!!!!!!1111
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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"Boring? I'll change that."
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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a snakeskin thong can go a long way to curing "boring".
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jul 19, 2014 - 11:16am PT
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Bump for the communists
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 19, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
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So, Rev, does a bear sh!t in the woods?Bored...
...as sh!t.
Ask the Pope, dammit, I'm sleepin'!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 19, 2014 - 12:32pm PT
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I love you, Locker!
+10 for that keen observation, butty!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Jul 19, 2014 - 01:30pm PT
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Mouse wishes he could get those lungs to function more than ten feet off the ground!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 19, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
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"Boring is as boring does" - Forrest Rump
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MH2
climber
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Jul 19, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
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communists?
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Jul 19, 2014 - 01:50pm PT
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I apologize.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Jul 19, 2014 - 02:06pm PT
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If you are bored Check out the Platano trip. (I will be happy to take you down, as long as you can smile?)
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jul 19, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
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Not bored locker. I'm just a climber bumping some climbing threads. Then going to work.
Sorry.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jul 19, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 19, 2014 - 03:24pm PT
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sharperblue
Mountain climber
San Francisco, California
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Jul 19, 2014 - 03:25pm PT
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so boring around here this summer...nothing to do at all..
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go-B
climber
Cling to what is good!
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Jul 19, 2014 - 03:55pm PT
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 19, 2014 - 08:55pm PT
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MisterE
climber
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Jul 19, 2014 - 09:10pm PT
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Constant entertainment is a high road to ask from a bunch of dirtbag climbers...
just sayin'
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