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Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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I dunno, having climbed a bit on both Ely limestone and Rifle "slimestone", it's kind of a toss up....JMO
Better meal deals at the Owl Club, tho...but no perch + bass fishing down the road...
"Rifle's one of the few places you can break a hold or two and still say 'what a great route'"-some prancer, paraphrased...
7 pm show style edit: I do love a good "TRON" reference...
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abisharat
climber
CO
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ah, come on James ... it couldn't have been THAT bad. Besides, look at the great, festering post you got out of it ... isn't that the REAL reason we all go climbing nowadays anyway? To rip on people on the Internet as soon as we take our harnesses off?
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Cuckawalla
Trad climber
Grand Junction, CO
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hah nothing like sport climbing in rifle. I hate that place
--Jesse
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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You gotta be 'up' for rifle. a weird place with weird climbs, you definitely don't go there for the serenity you might go somewhere else, for. But I've had some very good times there. I didn't take to it at first, but later I knew I'd always have a good day when I went there.
I've always wondered about all that rock around Ely, though.
Contemplative style edit.
This may be my favorite of James' works.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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Great post James. I've never been to Rifle but there are other places with a similar vibe. I'll take the quiet desperation of a hard thin route on Hammer Dome any day.
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 3, 2007 - 04:26pm PT
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Andrew,
That's pretty much how it works.
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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Nice James. That piece had FLAVA. You don't have a rig, so what's your excuse for not having a digital camera? Your words paint an excellent picture, but I'd like to see what the mind creating this colorful written perspective would choose to capture with a lens.
PS, mate--UCSC grad myself. Avoided living in a redwood stump by remodeling a garden shack in a friend's backyard near the river. We have an expression here in western Colo.: paying rent is like buying a dead horse. And paying rent in RastaCruz these days is like buying a dead team of Budweiser Clydesdales.
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Great writing! Seems like you could get published.
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