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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Nov 28, 2016 - 02:48pm PT
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Important dispatch from behind The Orange Curtain!
Craig Fry, garden party ready, pulling down at his Adams Street bridge glue-on climbing area:
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 28, 2016 - 02:59pm PT
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is there another stair case like that around Santa Monica?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2017 - 12:55pm PT
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Bump for buggerery.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2017 - 09:58pm PT
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Sheepshape and Skunksplat
Sheep dip for breakfast
Sheep dip for you
Sheep dip's my favorite
Flea free also too
My dogs roll in sheep sh#t
Sheep roll in it too
If you roll in that sheep sh#t
They'll always love you
My cats love them critters
Especially when dead
In the mornings I wake up
And find them in bed
O de dead skunk
O de pee yew
O de skunk's carcass
Go fetch, Pepe too
If you love dead varmints
And livestock manure
I'll know how to find you
By your nauseating allure
Sheep sh#t and cow dung
Dead skunks and fresh fur
It's always for breakfast
Of that we'll make sure
-sheepman
04/12/2017
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Buggerville
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Apr 14, 2017 - 07:19am PT
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Baa baa baa
Good to hear from you Bushman. Always enjoy the poems.
Thinking about Tobin on this Good Friday morning. Enjoy Easter with your family. Much Aloha from a real bugger : o )
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Buggerville
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Apr 14, 2017 - 07:27am PT
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BTW Recently spent time with the Rubber Maiden and the wife watching footage off beta from BITD. It was quite strange watching the young Creature amongst the herd. The Driver attempting to fire many times and Mari making it look like a cake walk...good times.
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Buggerville
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Apr 14, 2017 - 07:36am PT
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Aloha Friday! Enjoy the long weekend.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 16, 2017 - 03:25am PT
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? Hmm?
on a some what obscure thread about poodles,
the Reason for putting the word 'poodle' in the names' of climbs;
including
The Story!
( Flufffy -needs a leash , Fluffy Gone ! I told you so Fluffy needed a leash),
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2966425/What-the-hell-is-it-with-j-tree-and-poodles
That aside . . . .
Some pearls dropped that need to be here :
bvb,
Social climber
flagstaff arizona,, Apr 16, 2017 - 01:52am PT
Yeah Randy, the social and cultural landscape that flourished in Josh from the early 70's to the mid-80's was an apex of SoCal climbing culture -- it was striking and vibrant in every respect, from the the striking level of boldness and vision and creativity and expertise in the climbing and bouldering, to the barely-in-control party scene that hummed during the week and then wildly spiked on the weekends, and the sheer scope and complexity of the loosely interwoven tribes and clans and cliques that taken together represented an astonishing concentration of climbing talent -- somebody should write a book, because it was a brief, intense, and truly unique flash that came and went so fast that it took some scenesters years to figure out that the bloom had fallen from the flower. I'm just now getting some perspective, given that 30 years or so have passed by the by. It was definately a one-time event, and if you were there you should consider yourself lucky. It was like a private Burning Man for climbers that lasted for ten straight years. Not bad for a sandbox full of chossy pebbles and blobs of petrified oatmeal.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 16, 2017 - 09:29am PT
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Amen Brother
It was the Golden Years
Abundant FAa, abundant friends and over the top fun and memories
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 12, 2017 - 01:40pm PT
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^^^ That photo of the Wolfe guide brought back so many memories I went to amazon and ordered one used. I threw my Wolfe guide away when Vogel's purple guide came out. Won't be the same as mine, but what the hey.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 12, 2017 - 04:26pm PT
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Sewelly say:
I was the first Bugger to garner media attention
You were a Joe Boy. Anything more is aspirational and revisionist.
Plus, we all know that is a picture of Ron Fawcett. A good pic though, and a personal favorite!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 02:19pm PT
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Wow. Hello everyone! I watched free solo yesterday, saw john bachar had died back in '09 and looked around the memorial page. Got a bit nostalgic and found this thread. Not sure anyone will see it of course but shout outs to my high school era friends! Moonie, Fish, Driver, Veee, Eeee, Sewellymon, and more I'm sure.
So they named some boulders after me huh? I think Mr. Rubbernutz may have mentioned it sometime back but I'm unsure. My memory comes and goes and have been diagnosed with a rare condition that has early onset Alzheimer's as a possiblity so I got that to look foraward to!
If anybody is wondering I am married to my second wife for 19 years now and we have 2 beautiful daughters aged 11 & 16. Moved to Australia in 2003 and absolutely love it here. I do not climb anymore but I also don't drink anymore. Not that the two are related, well they were for me way back when, heh.
I may have to dig out some old photos and the flatbed scanner and share them here, we'll see. It's been a trip seeing and reading in here so I'll give back if I can.
Cheers,
Manx
Edit: Dave Evans..... Just saw Washoe and more memories came flooding back. I have had the pleasure of seeing his relatives work a herd of real sheep here and I always think of your great dog. Cheers mate!
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 04:33pm PT
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Holy crap, some things never change! The sh#t talking, lmao. I just paused after the first 400 posts here and come back to the end to set some folks straight! I only dropped you one time Muss at Taquitz(sp)! But I did cop an earful from Doug about a crappy belay stance he thought I had on some climb we did out of Mammoth one time. I was bomber, he never fell so it didn't get tested anyway. And what's this Kentucky stuff? 400 lbs?! Postcards? I lived in Virginia for a spell after my first marriage broke up. Whenever I'm in LA I try to look folks up, I never hated anyone!
And Jeff, those little shacks in the canyon were the pits! I remember"wallpapering" over holes in the wall with the funny section of the newspaper. Also a favourite budget gift wrap choice of mine at the time.
I will find photos eventually but it's still early and everyone is asleep. No doubt I will stumble across more wrongs to be righted as well. But seriously, it's great to see this. I look forward to reading on.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 29, 2019 - 05:08pm PT
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^^^^
Yeah, unreal huh? Those guys are still trying to hang all that sh#t talking onto me... I was the quiet one... Craig Fry was the trouble maker and major sh#t talker.
Somewhere Roy talks about the incident over on Suicide... he fessed to feeding you pipeloads while I whipped... It was a long one!
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 08:37pm PT
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Random pic of Russ from bitd. That is Taquitz in the background I think??? This was most likely before I dropped him. And while I have apologized many times in the past I will do so again now because even though I maintain it only happened once, that is once too many. Sorry Russ, glad I didn't kill you. :-D
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 08:53pm PT
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Russ and I took a couple of days, hiked to some lake a few hours from the main camping in Tuolumne, did some fishing and mingled with the locals. Come to think of it, this is a different bear from a different time but we did run into a bear on that brief trip so I'll leave the pics up. As I recall we spent some considerable time up in trees watching the bear make it's way around the lake as light faded. Russ was armed with firecrackers that were later used on a pesky marmot. The bear never did bother us again and when asked later by a ranger hiking up as we were heading down if we heard any gun shots earlier we of course said no sir.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 29, 2019 - 09:01pm PT
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Hahaha! So good! Bravo Manxy
That fish is a monster! Could feed a family of 8!
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