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Elcap76
Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 4, 2009 - 12:03am PT
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260481
I got it when I was a boy scout, back then the earth rotated anti-clockwise. Anyone out there have a lower number?
Dana
Jaybro - 1970 sounds about right....
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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ya got me, 268300 from 1970, I believe
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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My dad had one in the 2-3 digit range from the 1940s, but REI took it back and gave him a large one. It probably got re-issued to some bigwig?
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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I would have to check with my pop's, he joined in 1966. I remember visiting the Seattle store and thinking wow this is cool!
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DonC
climber
CA
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from the late 60's
104,xxx
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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eat your hearts out: 85,0xx
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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295432, 1971
My father's is something like 25,000.
My MEC number is 224.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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253xxx ... early 70s got it from my Dad.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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I got mine in 1979 and it's in the 900,000s.
Curt
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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THAT IS FUNNY TAMI.
thread drift.......
I just acquired a book by John Long that you do the illustrations on ........
if i send it to you with return postage paid, would you sign it for me ?
Best Gregg
KissAss Edit : Please
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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77xxx 1968 (I think)
One time at Indian Rock in the early 1970's, we got into this discussion and Jim Crooks produced an REI card with a three-digit number. He said his friends in Seattle teased him because he didn't join right away, so he had such a high number.
John
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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I first joined in 1969, but haven't used it since the mid-1980s. When I was home this past christmas I rejoined and they had no record of my previous membership, though they did have a Patrick Sawyer on their records. My new number is 1000XXXX.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.
Now if I *had* joined, I'd have a really low number now. Damn.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Well, what can I say? At least Stannard is still older than I---it has been a worry of mine recently that I was the only one aging, and maybe at some point John would actually be my junior. #32957 from 1963
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Tami if we added wiener measurements the all women on the board would be confused cause they would think that the line below was 6" long
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Mean while back at the Co-Op all the men are proving their worthiness by who has smallest member (number).
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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In the late 50's I got 13633. A guy I knew said his was easy to remember, the number of feet in a mile, 5280. I went up to Seattle a few years later REI was in a second floor walk up smaller than some people's living rooms.
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Jim Wilcox
Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
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"What a f*#kin embarrasing thread. Any chance you got yer weiner measurements to add to it ?"
If we do let's us millimeters. Sounds better
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Saltydog
climber
NC
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rei sucks, who cares. not that i never shop there, but i'm
about as proud of that as i am shopping at wally world.
putting honest people out of business since who knows when...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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10 centimeters Fatty?
Hahahahahha! You really left yourself wide open for that and I simply couldn't resist! Bwhahahahaaaa!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Comparing REI co-op numbers- a sure sign that the apocalypse is upon us.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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My NSS number is under 18,000.
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hlehmann
Trad climber
San Fernando Valley
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1,546,xxx... from the 80's. Makes me feel young compared to some of you.
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#310
Social climber
Telluride, CO
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In Berkley back in the 70's, it was a big issue in any divorce, who got the REI number membership and who got the food coop membership number...big status attached to having low membership numbers.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Apr 13, 2009 - 02:53pm PT
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Just thought I'd enter my contribution. I guess Erb got in ahead of me. Last time I walked into an REI the clerk looked at my card and commented on the smallness of my number - she was looking at my card: 25232
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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So what is Fred Beckey's number?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.
NSS 11741
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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What you want a small REI number and a big wiener number ? I'm confused...
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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My REI number is < 15000. My MEC number is much, much higher.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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"Apr 4, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
My NSS number is under 18,000."
Mine is four digits.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Feb 10, 2015 - 02:14am PT
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266851. My father's was under 20,000. We lived in Portland and every spring we'd make a family trip up to Seattle. Such anticipation. And that in an era when climbing gear didnt really change one year to the next. REI used to be cool... back before the MBAs took over and started running it like Sears.
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scaredycat
Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 07:42am PT
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This is pathetic, but I just ran across my Arcata Co-op (now the North Coast Co-op) card: 211! I don't know how that translates to the weiner-o-meter metrics, and at my age I don't really want to know.
I had an NSS card but I think it's long gone. Once when I renewed it after a lapse, they made a point that I could keep my old number.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Feb 10, 2015 - 07:56am PT
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I've avoided them successfully. REI has a place here but there is no need to go to the box store strip when we have everything we need downtown. I worked my way through college at little mountain stores so I am a bit biased. In the early 90's you couldn't get topos for Burst Rock area drawn on site when you visited an REI...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:09am PT
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My Seattle friend's dad had a number in the 90's! But he was Norwegian.
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two-shoes
Trad climber
Auberry, CA
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:27am PT
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642429 early 70's
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John Morton
climber
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:37am PT
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I'm 23370. REI, that's where I sent for those worthless soft iron pitons. Now the funky card is a good icebreaker when I flash it at the cashier.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Feb 10, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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Got me to wondering so I talked to my dad and his is 51K from the sixties. He remembers REI as a little shop on Pikes Place.
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Fletcher
Boulder climber
A very quiet place
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Feb 10, 2015 - 09:19am PT
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This is just like the trend for phones (prior to smartphones) for guys: one of the few areas where smaller is considered better. Ha ha!
How about employee numbers? I have been (and currently am) in the single digits for a few software/hardware companies. I'm not sure if that's been a blessing or a curse, if you know certain aspects of the software industry. :-)
I was employee 501 (just like the jeans!) for a company that took over another and turned it into one of the largest companies in the world now (software or otherwise).
Mostly I think these low digits mean two things: 1) yer just a number and 2) yer old! Ha ha!
Eric
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Feb 10, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
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I have no REI number.
Nor a weiner.
But when I adopted Lucas, one of the first comments someone made was "Wow, he's got a big weiner!"
Not going to get into a dog wiener measuring contest though.
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Feb 24, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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534236 about 1975
my weener index number is 29491
(height in inches x weight in pounds divided by actual weener length in inches) x (IQ divided by shoe size) = weener index
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crankster
Trad climber
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Feb 24, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
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600xxx. Berkeley 1977.
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rand0M aXiS
Trad climber
Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Feb 24, 2015 - 08:10pm PT
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294076
Mail order from Seattle in early 70s. No Berkeley store then, just Ski Hut, North Face and Sierra Designs. Then the Hare Krishna opened a temple next to North Face.....
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Feb 24, 2015 - 11:51pm PT
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from 1982.
more interestingly,
my email address from 1984 still works
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Feb 25, 2015 - 12:11am PT
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My dad's is 68XXX from the mid-60s. A couple of months ago I tried washing his REI McKinley down bag from the same era, but all the baffles blew out despite following all the precautions.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Feb 25, 2015 - 12:59am PT
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This is crazy, reading this thread and my old number came back to me 465104. Strange what the mind remembers. I recall how exciting it was to go to the store. Bought my first climbing rope (a static kernmantle for topropong) and some SMC biners, which i still have and are some of my favourites. And webbing and hexentrics and even Crack'n'ups.
Then the best was getting 10% back at the end of each year!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Feb 25, 2015 - 04:04am PT
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Mine is a 569,000 number
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