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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Curmudgeon free? Nobody told me that. I don't belieive it.
How can a site full of old climbers be curmudgeon free?
Impossible.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona, Spain
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Thanks for the explanation. I like the idea of recording using video, since it gives you a lot more clues about what you actually did when you made some sounds. I record using a looping device, which is great for playing around, but is not great for remembering how I made the parts that sound good.
I really agree about good guitars. A guitar will stay with you for a long time, and you want to spend your time with a good one (or several).
Cheers!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dirt Daddy,
That's some pretty clean playing for a "Dirty" old man!
Thanks for putting that up.
-Tarbaby
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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It's great to have the old curmudgeon back posting on the taco. And even better to hear his absolutely fantsatic fretwork. Beautiful and impressive.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Well Dirt, we never much interacted here but I often found you entertaining, occasionally horrifying, seldom boring, and that's all to the good. As a fellow non believer, I really appreciate you keeping those gritty atheist principles down to the bitter end, I'll be in that trench too. I think your story also prompted me to follow through on that first colonoscopy just a few months after I turned 50 (and in case anyone wonders, I've got a clean sexy polyp free colon, whoo hoo). There's no more to this life than what we see and feel, but that's more than enough for me, sounds like for you too.
In my minds eye, you'll be conjuring a smirk as you exit the stage, and I hope you wring the last drop from what you've got left. Hell, I hope we all do.
best
Off White
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Yeah watch those opiate metabolite half lives. Vedauwoo lost it's most prominent climbing author when he od'd on demerol (?), prescribed for migraines, almost twenty years ago. I'm sure someone will correct me if I have some details off. I don't think we need to use the person's name.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Idaho Falls
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2009 - 10:58pm PT
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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That's a very nice photo! When/where was it taken?
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darod
Big Wall climber
South Side Billburg
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Dirt, those are some big ass tricams!! I think if i'd have to carry just one of those i'd have to climb at least 2 grades lower!!!
more photos please!!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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He's cranky, he'll cuss you out, he's Curt!!!
You can watch him play some sweet guitar... for a little while longer.
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murcy
climber
San Fran Cisco
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Dang, you're an expressive player, dirt. Thanks for the guitar tips and the inspiration.
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Glad you are feeling better Curt.
You - resting in the shade after the Laurel Knob death march.
Side note- Curt was so messed up he had to rest about every 100 feet Only took 4 hours, but he made it. His curmudgeonly powers prevailed.
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Mimi
climber
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Curt, there will always be the peonies. I know you recall the line from the movie Year of Living Dangerously; the scene by the Dutch plantation's pool when the doomed driver asks Guy to remember him having a drink poolside. By remembering him, he would continue to persist through time.
We'll be lauging if you're wrong about being worm dirt, Dirt. Hang in there, man, and enjoy your visit with that JelloGuy. God bless.
Good one, Jennie.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
here to eternity
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Just watched a few of those video clips... dang, for a grumpy guy there sure is some beautiful expression coming out of your heart. Thanks for sharing that.
Fletch
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Beautiful guitar ;...thank you...
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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I'm just stunned. what can I say? You guys are great.
I love you skip. Always will. Gear thief, haha.
THe Lowester and I had a great time, we really have a lot in common, a little too much in fact LOL. I'll be pating him a visit if some of my issues can be fixed. Utah is not very far from Idaho, I might get to meet the bad little mormon girl who tries to be good, or is it the other way areound? hehe. RRK kept us is stitches. we must get him to post his true story about the earnest angely plant.. god is that ever funny. Poetic justice and irony in action!
God I'd have a great life if I just were not dying from cancer.
The gear pic is at Palisades park, AL a COUNTY park that the people of blount conty are very rpoud of, and rightfully so.. totaly climber friendly, jsut no bolts, ever, but you can toprope evything there. superior bullet hared sandston (southern and almost metamrphic, lots of heat adn pressure in the past, NOT lieks the stuff out west at all, about 90 feet, from 5.4 to 5.12, and some BUT hard oldscholl stuff taht let y0ou appreciat thea 5.6, 7, 8 used to be HARD, once upon a time, before rating inflation.
I have led a charmed life in climbing. Althoguh people tried to get me to climb in the 70's teh 80s adn the 90s, I didn;t start til 2001, after cancer fthe first two times. I jsut lucked out, ahveing the right body, attitude and a little talent, adn I just kept meeting truly great clinbers ahd htting it off with them and alwasy had someoen to show me jsut what I needed to be better, and I studied a lot as well, and I loved it, adn thanks to who I met and climbed with I probably have more days and more time on new rock that most people ever get.
aHAHA people whoud l say, YOur gear looks too new, adn I'd say, my gear has been places you'll never see. adn it was jsut the truth.
It's really been likea fairy tale, as far a acllimbing goes. for boudlering ah had lee payne, adam henry, adn the great bob comrmany. FOr rope climbing I ahd arno, jeff noffsinger, shannon steg, jim corbet, jim Okel adn rrk and scot perkins. that's quite a collection of southern climbers.
To bad I got sick again, or I'd be clibming now, with steg, pirateing routes at LK, or adding to the routes at the BSF, like I had planned. What a dream, to go to the BSF with Jeff noffsinger ( fearless, great climber, wonderful person, THE guy for the BSF, and saw the box car roof for the first time and hes says, that's what we're getting on. Oh My GOD! hadn to learn to aid on taht climb, first aid ever was free hanging, with a ten minute explaination of how to do it, LOL. I went free as soon as I could couch rock with al fours, LOL and knew I HAATED aid, it is a last resort, but thank god for Yates shiled harness nad Yates wall ladders. John Yates ALWAYS talked to me and explained things, and I LOVE his products. HEll THe usba guys, when they were in business, sent me cool unavailable versioins of theyr incredible ti nuyt tool, best nut tool ever, and they even sent me a special pin htat was the ONLY thing that coudl protect the direct start of SUpergumbiewannabee, and then some motherfvcker stole it, and the direct is seriously dangerous , but at leaset the indirect is still OK and hell the roof is the best part anyqay. that's gotta be my favorit climb/fa, along with screwed, wich COrbett took 4 faalls atil he puled the gear adna really fewll on an RP, and then some idiot stole THat, after we left it out ofrespect, cause it totally saves his butt, one tiny brss nut between him and the ground and all that. and me with a fvcked up should had to lead though it finaly, it all wet and the halelujah hold esad FFULL of hard very slikc mud, and all the times y0u oare just hoping you get to that nice pocket, but that first teim, it's fvcking useless, haha, and I ahd to hang in some how and scoulp out three handfulls of slick wet clay to have a lod at all, good grief, but it as so much FUN, and NOBODY will ever have the gut crushig feelling of making the pocket and findint thaty it is worthless and they are about to go down, hahahha. But I didn't taht time.
Micahle crowder likes to say that an fa 5.6 is better than a 5.10 reapeat any day, and I adhere to that. cause it's true.
and free soloing onsight in trail shoes is stupid as hell but god I loved it.
I was born to climbl adn at leaste I got to do it wit GREAT people who bedame GREAT friends adn I'llalasy have that. jsut atered leate, and got cut short, too bad, but what a blindingly bright and concentratied adn damned near prefect if a little short short experience I was given.
Liie hte android sayssa in blade runner all these things will be gonewhen I die, but I guess it's OK cause at least I got to DO them and I am thankful for that, adn for the fantastic people I met.
It's been truly a blast and almost unbelieveable, like a movie or a fantasy come true. Only better than that cause it was real.
Long live adventure climbing. get on some new rock, it'll do you good. ahve as m8uch fun as possible, that'll do you good too. tell the asshols teo get lost, or ignore em, I wish ahd ahd ignored em more, haha. Some people jsut can't stand it when someoen else is ahveing too much fun. Kind of funny how that works.
god what a ramble.
thanks again for all teh support, it means something. it helps. SO happy someone else got the colonsocopy. I did a little good after all.
HEy tarbaby, I'm really sad we probably won't get to climb that hourglass thing. would hav Woudl have been great to meet and climb with you. same is true for a lot of st denizens. maybe hters' still an outside shot, if it works out, I'll be there. aboout half speed, after all teh surgery and missing parts, but I'll be there.
On the bright side, I wonder if missing 1/3 y0ur internal anatomy helps with climbing? it's goTta be lighter for sure!
I wish I had my girl back. and could be healthy.. but y0u know what they say, wish in one hand, shyte in the other, see which one fills up first hahahahha.
Man can I ever ramble. Hope you enjoyed it. I did.
More later. thanks for the real mail letters and the emails. it's nice. it helps. I really didn't realize how good most of the folks on st are, but they really are. thank you for that.
more later. thanks again. bye now.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Dirt - I enjoy your ramblings; always have. Keep 'em coming!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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HK I'm depending on you to carryt on teh curmudgely tradition when I'm gone. and DONT let your COG licesns expire.
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