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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2007 - 07:42pm PT
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I probably didn't punctuate it very well. It's for real though. Blow Brothers do port-a-potties and septic tank sucking and their slogan is right on the sides of their trucks. "We're #1 in the #2 business"
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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Sep 14, 2007 - 07:56pm PT
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... I smell thread drift.
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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2007 - 08:00pm PT
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Sorry TB.
digging...
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
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bler
Boulder climber
Alamo, CA
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Sep 14, 2007 - 08:01pm PT
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Top of Snowshed...
Yosemite highball...
guess you can't leech bandwith offa' blogger.com ;)
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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2007 - 08:05pm PT
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I know I've posted this one somewhere before. It's climbing related for sure.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 14, 2007 - 08:12pm PT
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Screaming Yellow Zonkers!
I want that one bad; that picture makes it look fierce.
I love the solid color ropes.
I think Chiloe has a blue one from you, in the low 9 mm category.
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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2007 - 08:16pm PT
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Nearly 30 years of climbing in New England and I had never gone to do SYZ. It was worth the wait. Not a great angle, the photo doesn't do it justice; hard to do while belaying that one.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 15, 2007 - 12:00pm PT
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Another classic John Cleare photo, from Rock Climbers in Action in Snowdonia (Smythe & Cleare, 1966). For anyone who missed that thread -- if you come across a copy of this vintage book for sale, it's brilliant and the first of its kind.
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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2007 - 01:50pm PT
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Chiloe, Post that picture of the wooden pro, please.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 15, 2007 - 03:44pm PT
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Here ya go. These are wood nuts that Dave Rearick made, and George Hurley led on, the day in 1973 when that team made the first all-wood ascent of Twister on Twin Owls. The recommended pro for this climb nowadays, sez MountainProject.com:
1 set small to medium nuts. Single set of SLCDs from green Alien to hand sized. 2 #3 Camalot, 1 #4 Camalot, 2 #5 Camalot, 1 #3 Big Bro
Incidentally the picture above was shot at the same time as the one below, which I posted awhile back as the "worst historical photo ever." Nobody could identify the climbers when I posted it (how could they!), although we had several inspired guesses. Anyways, left to right they are Dave Rearick, George Hurley, Tom Kaufman, Betsy Herbst, Joe Herbst, and Deborah ?
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wootles
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2007 - 11:52pm PT
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bump for the WOOD.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
concord, california
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Sep 16, 2007 - 12:21am PT
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Crest Jewel
Sascha leading Crying Time
Traveler Buttress
East Buttress, Mt Whitney (courtesy Bill McConachie)
East Buttress, El Cap
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Sep 16, 2007 - 08:04pm PT
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South Seas Today September 16, 2007 Pronghorn 5.9? Unnamed?
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Indianclimber
climber
Las Vegas
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Sep 16, 2007 - 10:53pm PT
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Got a chance to rope solo at Red Rock this weekend
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emac
climber
New Hampshire
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Sep 17, 2007 - 10:05am PT
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From City of Rocks:
As far as I am concerned, the one of the best 12a climbs in the U.S... Great White Behemoth at Tensleep, WY:
You NE folks may recognize this face of Heather fame... Rick F. on Bullet the New Sky 12b at the NRG:
Bring on winter! Lake Willoughby VT (wootles photo):
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Sep 17, 2007 - 12:57pm PT
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Bring on winter!
I could still use some autumn...but nothing's guaranteed...
(December 06)
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 18, 2007 - 03:04am PT
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A big loop from Montucky to Napa to Seattle and back landed us today at Donner Summit climbing with a past Santa Barbara partner.
realmojede on the fine Cali stone after some coaxing.
edit: checked the OTHER site for the name: Composure (5.6)--and a damn fine one, according to the wiff.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 18, 2007 - 04:22am PT
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Crowley--see edit.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Sep 18, 2007 - 10:14am PT
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Sep 18, 2007 - 11:37am PT
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Who are the climbers, Tom, and what are they on ?
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