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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 30, 2011 - 08:06pm PT
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Which is your choice as the best climbing town in America? Or maybe you have another idea.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:07pm PT
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Reno or Asheville.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:09pm PT
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Salt Lake City
I never thought I'd say that......
Reno. That one was easy, Reno rocks!
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:16pm PT
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Telluride. Close to IC, and the Towers, and close to Ouray.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:40pm PT
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Just don't get a Saab alternator replaced there!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:44pm PT
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Bishop is a little too city too.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:45pm PT
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best climbing town in America?
what does "climbing" mean here?
as a boulderer i'd take flag over anywhere in na. maybe even over bleau. props to the locals for not letting it get pimped like bishop.
for mountains, now that you can put plastic in the basement to stay in shape during the wet season, i'd still take b'ham. biggest downsides'd be the airport and the bushwacking, but the north cascades still has really wild places. and there's genuinely good food.
if i were a comp climber, boulder.
if i were a skier, or a mormon, salt lake.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:55pm PT
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Got earthquake insurance?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2011 - 08:58pm PT
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Now for the real business,
Moorcroft or Hulet?
I'd go Hulet. closer to the blackhills and the tower.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jan 30, 2011 - 09:19pm PT
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Jaybro-
Nah, Douglas has both of them beat; it's equally far to the DT, Vedauwoo, Fremont Canyon, Sweetw#ter Rocks, and Needles, RMNP, and Boulder are farther still....
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
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I wondered if you'd speak up on that one, Broke.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 30, 2011 - 09:35pm PT
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But Wyoming has the highest suicide rate in the USA.
Does it have that many people from Sweden?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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I know that there is a strong anti-Boulder bias on ST and I admit that i moved from Boulder to Ouray 7 years ago but, everything considered, I think it's the best climbing town in the States.
Yeah, it's too precious for words and about as whitebread as you can get, but there are some great people there and the proximity to awesome climbing is unrivaled.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jan 30, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Donini-
I'd have to agree. More climbs accessible than anywhere else. Flatirons, Eldo, Boulder Canyon, RMNP, etc.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 30, 2011 - 10:16pm PT
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I vote Boulder----given a gun to my head.
I moved from Idaho to a 100% Mormon neighborhood in the southern subburbs of SLC in 1983.
Too dumb, to consider demographics: I moved up close to the start of the “ski canyons.”
Despite my being comfortable with Mormon culture: I soon discovered Non-Mormon Fritz & wife were black people in a “whitie” neighborhood.
The highway traffic was disturbing, but then came the smog.
Only by going to the mountains could you escape months of winter-time smog.
I escaped back to Idaho the next year.
It is a great place, but it needs 2 million less people to be livable for me.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Jan 30, 2011 - 10:23pm PT
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If not Boulder, then Gunnison.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Jan 30, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
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omg is this 4 real??
boulder the BEST climbing in US?
as a dedicated internet follower, i was pretty sure it was the WORST!
I dunno:
on one hand, climbing here has always seemed pretty good at least to your humble hacker,
on other, maybe there's a reason why when u go to a good climbing area within 1000 miles, 1/2 the people are from boulder.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 30, 2011 - 11:07pm PT
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Donini--It'll sure be Boulder if you show up and do a slide show
there. . .SOON!!!!!!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jan 30, 2011 - 11:41pm PT
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having only ever visited, I'd probably take Boulder over SLC if forced to live in those places.
Otherwise, going with Sunny Slopes. Just need some folks to move out first so I can move in.
That Barstow idea, not so far fetched, except for summers.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Jan 30, 2011 - 11:52pm PT
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You don't want to hear this: Los Angeles is the best climbing city. Not too far from Yosemite and Joshua Tree, plenty of Sierra climbs plus lots of miscellaneous climbing.
Plus the food here is really good.
I could go on but I know you don't want to hear it.
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