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errett
Social climber
Grumpy Ridge
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Aug 26, 2010 - 03:10pm PT
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The sunroom I built a couple years ago...
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errett
Social climber
Grumpy Ridge
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Aug 26, 2010 - 03:22pm PT
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A couple miles outside Estes Park, Colorado in the Big Thompson Canyon. Here's an old view from a crag across the street...
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Aug 26, 2010 - 05:38pm PT
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Errett, thats so cool. I'm totally jealous.I think alot more structures should be built on rocks & crags like the Hopi or Tibetans.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Aug 26, 2010 - 05:48pm PT
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A couple miles outside Estes Park, Colorado in the Big Thompson Canyon. Here's an old view from a crag across the street...
Hope you have some water-wings scattered about... just in case. BTW, cool deck. I'd have far more problems decending than ascending; ya know, after a few colds ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Thompson_River
EDIT: So where was the high water mark for the 1976 flood? Was it above your deck on top of the V2 boulder problem?
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errett
Social climber
Grumpy Ridge
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Aug 26, 2010 - 05:59pm PT
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"where was the high water mark for the 1976 flood?"
The Big Thomson flood came down the north fork of the river below Glen Haven, which flows into the main branch of the river at Drake. That's about 8 miles down river from me. All the death and destruction of the flood occurred from Drake and below. The upper main branch where I live didn't flood at all. My house was built in 1968 and the detached garage -- the orginal summer cabin on the property was built in the 30's. Still going strong.
Someday I'm going to build a treehouse on the upper end of my lot. You can see the Diamond from there. It's also about 200 feet above the river.
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Aug 26, 2010 - 08:55pm PT
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Gunkie, I lived in VA Beach for 14 years and made many Dawn Patrol missions to Cape Hatteras! Your right nothing like Hurricane Season!
Awesome board,
Thor
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Aug 26, 2010 - 09:58pm PT
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that is excellent, thor.
it must be nice to sleep nightly amonst the trees.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Aug 26, 2010 - 11:23pm PT
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Hip lines for days Wonder! Kinda symmetrical though eh? Have we skated together?
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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Fun and inspiring looking at what you are building.
Short story The company I ordered the foam shot crete work from can not deliver.
It took some time but the last order of material arrives friday and I will start building the panels to build the first SCIP house in Denver.
It may take some imagination to see a house out of the loads of foam and wire that will withstand an 8.3 earthquakes and 250 mile an hour winds.
Probably never be put to the test in Denver but the R40 walls and R80 roof will do just fine.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2010 - 11:21pm PT
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Cool! The first SCIP in Denver? hmmmm
My place in NM is 8 years old already.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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There is no artistry in my construction, nor is it epic in scale or wondrous to behold. On the other hand, it allows me to make epic beer. And that is worth something.
This is a 2 x 2 x 3 ft box, lined with some kind of Owens Corning insulation. It sits in my cold basement, and inside it my little tiny yeasts live at exactly the temperature they like (and different yeasts like different temperatures). The heating power is pretty sophisticated (a 40-watt bulb in a $2.95 base), as is the system I devised to ensure that the temp is the same in every part of the box (a $5 computer fan duct-taped into a 2-foot length of pvc tubing).
It looks like a reject from a fifth-grade woodworking competition, but it will maintain the temp of fifteen gallons of beer within 1 degree, indefinitely, while consuming almost no power. The only thing more sophisticated than bits of wood and styro is the controller. But even that is not exactly space-age technology.
And, like I said, you all may be orders of magnitude ahead of me in terms of your sophistication at building houses, and decks, and skateparks, but when you're done with the day's labor, I'm the guy that can offer you a beer.
Cheers
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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survival
I am going on what the Denver building Department said as for first in City of Denver not metro. hmm they could be wrong.
I know of a few in metro Denver, Lakewood & Avarada. Who designed yours and what system is yours? K, W,
Tri D, Green Sandwich, Met rock to name a few. I am sure you know the difference from sip to scip some do not.
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rich sims
Trad climber
co
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Sep 10, 2010 - 10:34pm PT
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This will be a house
This will be a house
This will be a house
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Sep 13, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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It's been a huge learning curve tying the two panels together. My dad was the master at building stairs and my respect for his ability has jumped up twenty fold!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Sep 13, 2010 - 12:33pm PT
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Sep 13, 2010 - 12:43pm PT
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eKat: Only when I'm really hungry!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Sep 13, 2010 - 02:13pm PT
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Ed-that is a really beautiful work of art and feat of engineering. Very cool!! And to have your great-grandmother's level on the job? Sweet!
It has the feel of something that'll some day in the WAY future be an archaeological find.
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Sherri
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 14, 2010 - 02:27am PT
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Wow, Ed! If it weren't so much hard work, I can imagine it being meditative, doing that sort of project. Just beautiful, even in all of it's stages of being built.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Sep 14, 2010 - 02:35am PT
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Ed, beautiful wall! When I lived in NH I once watched two guys in their 80's build what would become a 10'x150' drylaid wall with big rocks. They used two backhoes, one with a very small bucket and the other with a medium one. It was like watching a tango they were so smooth and in sync. Seemed like they were reading each other's minds as I didn't see them talk and I'm pretty sure they couldn't hear each other even if they tried to.
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