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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 9, 2010 - 08:48am PT
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I moved this post from Ed's wonderful Gunks Memoir thread because that thread is really devoted to climbing. Gunks climbing is wonderful, but for me the Gunks is much more than the climbing. These shots are just a taste; they are best viewed by clicking on them to make them full-screen.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Those are great pictures! Thanks for putting those up rgold.
DMT, I had a strange feeling a couple places up there too.
I think it's indian ghosts....
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Jim E
climber
away
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Tease!
Thanks, Richard.
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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Hey thanks for the post!
Love that place too...but I know what you mean about a vibe.
I think it's the woods, thick, deep, with ages of time wrapping around us as we pass through...
Lots of lives lived there with untold happenings.
Cheers,
DD
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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The Gunks is where I learned to love overhangs and roofs...
Cut loose and yeehaw!
Love those fall pics.
DD
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Great pics! I hold many fond memories of the Gunks, but unfortunately my pics are mostly crappy scans of deteriorating slides. Still, I will try to find some to link.
I was very fortunate to climb there most when Skytop was open. What a huge loss for the community that it is now off limit to the masses.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nice stuff!
Which one of you posted up those cool shots of the Mohonk Preserve a while back?
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howlostami
Trad climber
Southern Tier, NY
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Man I can't wait to do some chillin' on the GT ledge. Great pics! Bring on spring!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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thanks for the images all, it is a truly wonderful place...
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Nkane
Trad climber
New York, NY
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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A beautiful place. (But I don't miss summer's heat and humidity
there)!!!!
Spring and fall there close to being heaven!
Great photos, all!
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L
climber
Hangin' by a thread and lookin' for my wings
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Thanks R--those are some really beautiful photos. Loved the pumpkin patch! Great thread...keep 'em coming please!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Back to the top with Thee!!
Love those pictures.
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taorock
Trad climber
Okanogan, WA
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Love this thread! Wish I'd had a camera when I was there, but these sure bring back the memories.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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DMT:
I find upstate New York a hauntingly beautiful place, but at once there is a strange vibe there. An unseen menace, the gentle summer breeze, or a glimpse behind the fabric drapes of reality, I do not know.
Yeah, I get that too ... Sleepy Hollow and H.P. Lovecraft country.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Those Split Rock in winter photos are great. That was my stomping ground for a few months this last year and it was so cool, seeing the subtle differences within days and weeks. I knew I would miss winter though, and was a little sad about that.
As for "spirits," the first night I was staying in the cabin up there, I had a dream where a bunch of Trapps Hamlet type people from BITD "came round." Sort of just to say hello. One in particular was a youngish woman. Maybe just a dream, but it was sort of a cool experience.
I never really got any "bad" vibes" out there alone at night, none at all, actually. And I am sort of attuned. But the people who lived in that area worked hard; it was not a lush life, that's for sure. The natives probably had it lush - but they hadn't cut down the trees, tried to till rock-filled soil and run off all the animals. Of course, they ended up getting run off themselves...
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