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Reeotch
Trad climber
Kayenta, AZ
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I remember we found this cool mausoleum in the Arcata cemetery. Hewn granite blocks, about 20' tall and 30 feet wide on each side. It was a killer pump, not very positive.
One day I got caught by the undertaker in mid-traverse: "What in THEEEE HELLLL are you doing up there?!!!! People are interred here . . ."
I'm sure it is still there in the cemetary at the top of the hill near the high school in Arcata CA. I think it was the Miner mausoleum . . .
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waulrat
Big Wall climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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I climbed that bridge a few years ago in the middle of winter, the holds had icicles on them. Cool place, its in Friberg Switzerland, which is also a cool little town.
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Gene
climber
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Cpt0bvi0u5,
NICE!!!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Crashpads are for pussies. Why when I was a lad, we used to lieback with no crash pads. Summit or plummet, dude. Finger locks or pine box. Hand jam or body slam.
I've got a pig with your name on it next week, if you catch my Drift.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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The Library Roof at Evergreen State College. This thing actually had a bolt on it, for leading. Ropeless it was committing and scary.
(Off White photo, 2/8/1980)
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Dec 15, 2012 - 01:56am PT
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here is me doing a random act of buildering.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2012 - 02:05am PT
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pyro, where's your mask?!
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dcaunt
Trad climber
Chico, CA
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Dec 15, 2012 - 10:54am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2012 - 11:11am PT
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Jan 22, 2013 - 06:59pm PT
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Cool thread - I'll dig up more stuff as time allows! Bellingham in the 90s. I don't know the history of this wall but it reminds me of the Star Trek Quarterdeck.
Boise in the 70s
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Jan 22, 2013 - 07:01pm PT
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Whow! I deleted an entire thread! Now there is one.
I saw the UW red Square post. I climbed that chimney back in the 80s when Lynn Hill was doing a slide show nearby. I must have done it after the beer! I remember it being very wide - like toe and too wide to use my rear but I could use the sacrum area and ended up with a bit of a blister there. Would have been pretty serious to hit the deck there! When I got to the top I stayed in the chimney. It would have been a serious undertaking to climb out the top and then try to get back in! I have not done too much free-soloing but that would have to count as a free-solo.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jan 23, 2013 - 12:11am PT
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Dave, is that the retaining wall by the railroad tracks somewhere off Foothill (or something like that)? Cool memories of old glue ups, I always wondered if any of those epoxied holds stayed up.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Jan 23, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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Not really a building...but "dam" that's kind of cool!!!!
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Dam - that dam looks fun. That bridge is beyond amazing! This overpass wall in Soda Springs, Idaho from 1987 is the closest I have to that. It was about 200 feet long though!
I just remembered I DO have a dam shot. This is the Piru Dam spillway about 1968.
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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Sorry -- No pic's , but a whole lot of Fry's food stores in AZ have exquisite 12a/b finger frying 40 foot plus walls at the back of their stores. We would lay matresses down and go for the top... fun for all ...
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bearbnz
Trad climber
East Side, California
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Once inside, they bouldered up to the tank location
And made it to the top floor
On the the same trip, bouldering some charcoal kilns near Ely, NV
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