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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Mar 22, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
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Being from Idaho AND Los Angeles I found it rather "off-putting" to come out of the Idaho wilderness after climbing Mt Borah last summer and arrive at the Ketchum city limits dirty, tired and in need of dinner and a place to stay. It felt like I had arrived in Beverly Hills. (A place I frequently visit just a few miles from my home.)
Even after truely horrible food in Challis, Idaho, I just could not bring myself to stop and went straight on through to Hailey, Idaho where I found a decent Mexican cafe and a good cheap hotel by the airport.
I'm sure Ketchum is great and I'd like to go there for a ski trip some time. I've got plenty of plastic to pay the rates and all. It was just too much culture shock on that day.
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John M
climber
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Mar 22, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
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I'm glad you brought up the yuppiedom done to these small towns Skully, I was reading the lists and thinking the same thing.
Since many of our favorite areas are now overrun by yuppies living their dream, what are the great small towns that average folks could still live in? Ones without a starbucks, but with a good mexican restaurant, or a good cafe, decent property prices and great wilderness nearby? I would love to see a thread on this.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2014 - 01:33pm PT
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Spider: Although much of what Ketchum has become bothers me, I'm still real fond of the Pioneer Saloon and steakhouse, which is a Ketchum icon. Best Prime Rib on earth, & when I so rarely visit, the bosses call me Mr. Brooks. Only bar/steakhouse in existance where management remembers my name.
Mouse! The Leadville! Ketchum's first coffee house! The photo dates from around 1968 and I know/knew 7 of the people in it. You'll meet one this summer at COR.
Mouse! I did consider using I'll be totally immersed in Canine Excrement! My hometown is a top 15 small town! but, it wouldn't fit in the Title space.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Mar 22, 2014 - 03:57pm PT
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Fritz - Duh, I should have called you.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Mar 23, 2014 - 10:30am PT
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I spent a week in Sun Valley in January, '97. The skiing was the best I've found in the US (Cran-Sierre was a little better).
What can you say, things change. Life tends to happen while you are making other plans.
I remember some of the freedoms I had in the '70s that sure as hell wouldn't fly today.
Anyway, back in '97 I took off one of the days from skiing and Greg, Bill and I went shooting automatic weapons with some of the locals in Hailey. To get out of the ten degree cold we all hung in a van while one person would shoot. Then he'd bring the now hot rifle back into the van, so that between the body heat, farts, and lightly smoking weapons we could easily take our gloves off to reload clips without needing to run the engine.
We had a blast for hours, and at one point the conversation turned to a relatively recent local property owner named Bruce Willis, who had gotten into trouble with the tree huggers for moving some rocks in a stream bed.
You could hear the resentment in their tone even though they didn't like the tree huggers involved.
hell, they've even forgot what sheep are for.
Is there something ewe should tell angela?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2014 - 11:13am PT
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Mouse! Always a small world in Idaho. Heidi was raised on a farm north of Caldwell, but doesn't remember any Shaws.
Also a small world that we both know Connie Maricich.
Connie was quite the interesting and fahionable lady. Several of us young climbers had secret crushes on her in the early 70's.
Ron! Another old climbing buddy, Mark Sheehan, was living in Hailey in the 1990's, and had a big love for legal machine guns. He worked for the Sheriff's Dept at that time.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Mar 23, 2014 - 11:28am PT
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Cops have all the good guns.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 22, 2014 - 07:30pm PT
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Rather amazed to back into this from an Idaho climbing blogsite today.
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Sun Valley Beer can, produced in Pocatello, Idaho, likely in the 1930's or early 1940's. One sold on E-Bay Feb 2014 for $160.00 + $6.00 shipping-----empty.
Even the old empties from the area are expensive!
eBay item number: 291079718922
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Apr 22, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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That's a beauty Fritz....
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 23, 2014 - 10:15am PT
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Bruce, per comments upthread dipped in sheepshit didn't fit in the thread title area.
I learned: "Well, I'll be dipped in dogshit!" from a climber friend, Avery Tichner, back in the late 1970's. Some on ST still remember Avery, who was quite the character and a very good climber.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 19, 2019 - 06:54pm PT
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I would not go there
Doesn't even have a phone booth
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2019 - 07:09pm PT
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Ketchum continues to attract folks who have the money to live there. They enjoyed a big snowfall in Feb. this year, & the friends I still have in the area are mostly sick of being arse-deep in snow.
I can't claim to be a Ketchum local, since my parents moved there from Twin Falls Idaho when I was an infant.
Here's a photo, I found this winter, of my father getting me used to cold water in Boulder Creek, a few miles north of Ketchum.
The early exposure must have worked, since I have been good with playing in cold water since then. I remember my mother talking about what a good baby & toddler I was to take fishing, since "he never tried to drown himself."
Fritz & Heidi on a very low water Middle Fork Salmon trip in 2002.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Mar 20, 2019 - 10:03am PT
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my father getting me used to cold water in Boulder Creek
LOL!!! Us mountain lovers owe a lot to our dear old dads, I’ll never forget mine strapping me, totally exhausted onto his waist belt for a forced march out of a wilderness fishing trip. A good subject for a thread.
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