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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Jul 14, 2009 - 10:52am PT
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wow.....
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dfrost7
Social climber
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Jul 16, 2009 - 10:10pm PT
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What was that guy's name? I feel dumb 'cause I can't remember it.
Remember that guy who was the traveling gear store? Seeley? Seely?
Sumthin. You would be in Yosemite and see him, then he would pop up at Joshua Tree, it was like he was a franchise.
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Jul 16, 2009 - 10:54pm PT
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i bought a Manny, Moe and Jack shirt right off the back of that "seely" guy for fifty cent once.
That'd be Richard to you.
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dfrost7
Social climber
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Jul 16, 2009 - 11:13pm PT
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Dick Seely. Thanks. I remember him, I can see his face in my mind but could not remember his first name. He was like a magic elf. He probably helped out Santa the way he got around. Where is he these days?
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Jul 16, 2009 - 11:24pm PT
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He'll be sniffing up your tree any minute now....
He posts here as Dick Cilley
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 16, 2009 - 11:41pm PT
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Dick Cilley
He's a really cool cat. I really miss him around here.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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There is also a Yosemite magistrate court, and that is where John Bachar found himself a few years ago after stealing a toothbrush from a Curry Company store. There he was, pleading for five years’ probation or an onerous fine. But no way was the judge going to coddle a shoplifting Park Bum. Fifteen days in a halfway house in Riverside.
Weirdly symmetrical with current Valley Justice.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Sep 10, 2010 - 01:27am PT
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Yeah I thought that article was pretty out there..."Working his way up the crack karate chop by karate chop..." Hmmm...Still have a copy of it though...
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Sep 10, 2010 - 01:55am PT
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I gotta say that I read that at an impressionable age. I had been going to the valley in the summers, but had been hanging with the Colorado crowd.
When I read those lines from Russ and Dimitri, I wanted to sleep in the dirt for the rest of my life. All it took was that shot of a young Fish.
I think Russ might have had "Punk Joe" on his rack. That was like a G.I. Joe doll with the head pulled off and mounted on a stick.
A writer can't capture anything correctly it seems like. They usually have the story fit something that they had conceived in their mind previously as a pitch to an editor.
But the line about being 22 and retired, and not having to act like a nimrod cracked me up. Especially now that I am old, have a job, and act like a nimrod all day long. And am painfully aware of it. I don't even drink beer anymore!
Werner never left, so he probably has a hard time understanding how some could miss those days.
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Scott Cole
Trad climber
Sunny California
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Sep 10, 2010 - 04:28pm PT
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Trip was a poser, and the article sensationalized climbing, but Rolling Stone did buy party favors for everyone around while they were in the valley. Anyone who was there benfited from the free smoke,beers, and drinks in the MRB.
Even better was the article in Playgirl telling women where to find attractive young men for their devious purposes, anyone have a copy of that? If you have it, post it! Remember the babes in power suits buying drinks and dinners and trying to clean the bunch of us up?
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Sep 12, 2010 - 12:48am PT
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Yeah Rokjox you're right I guess it was the best way to get the message across...I think that I was just self-conscious that he was portraying me in that article that way...Kung POW!!:)
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Climbing content bump.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Oct 23, 2014 - 06:11pm PT
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bump
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Oct 24, 2014 - 11:34am PT
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From now on, when Werner posts something, I'll be thinking "there he goes again in his lisping didactic voice..." Nice thread to zombify, well done.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 24, 2014 - 04:27pm PT
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Who's holding the shot of long haired Russ, with the doll in a rope?
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Oct 24, 2014 - 06:07pm PT
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ahem.
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