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ghand
Sport climber
Golden,Colorado
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Sep 24, 2007 - 09:48pm PT
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June 1970: in a few hours while rappelling we were caught in a hail/lightning storm.
June 1971: I am in red. I was supposed to be at my graduation from U of Minn.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Sep 24, 2007 - 10:13pm PT
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Sweet Ghand! That's awesome that The Village People climb too! I did not know that.
Jaybro..I thought the same thing after I posted that pic, I believe we started the international "Climb as a Pirate Day!" in '98.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Sep 24, 2007 - 10:43pm PT
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Oct 28, 2006
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Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
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Sep 24, 2007 - 11:45pm PT
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Climbing at the Tower used to be highly regulated.
The "No Climbing Above This Point" sign was erected by the Park Service on the approach to the Durrance.
Certain Wyomingites helped the sign make its way to the summit.
The summit is also a good place to observe that the state's population of cottonwood trees, which depends on occasional flooding to sprout its seeds, is now overly "mature."
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Sep 24, 2007 - 11:50pm PT
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Nice thread, nice photos.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 25, 2007 - 12:43am PT
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I Can See For Miles
I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Beacuse all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say
That you still want me
Well, that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah
The Devil's Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Beacuse all the while
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
and miles and miles and miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Sep 25, 2007 - 01:12am PT
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Oh man Munge...you caught me off-guard, tire and loopy, but I wrote a poem about the Tower one trip a few summers ago, so here it is for high cheese value:
Bosom of the Gods
The Tower of the Devil,
It stands erect and steadfast
Protuding right above mother earth's navel
Like an aroused nipple thrusting towards
The mouths of the gods
At night from my campsight,
As I sit pondering my senescence
The full moon appears on the horizon
Illuminating it with its light
As I sit and stare and envision my ascent
I see the crack that before me lies
I instantly see how life is a crack in disguise
The night grows long, the light fades from my eyes
Sleep comes over me with little resistance,
And I dream, I dream of her until sunrise.
Freud would love this one!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 25, 2007 - 02:15am PT
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27 posts and no handstand photo... I think it's on the back of an "NA Climber," ah, to align my library with my scanner..
Larry, you must have a photo for this thread.
Moscow Jason, I'm not even going to conjecture why you two were up there with your harnesses off.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 25, 2007 - 09:18am PT
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Somebody with time on their hands could put photos in chrono order to chart the wearing-down of that "No climbing above this point" sign.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sep 25, 2007 - 05:42pm PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Sep 25, 2007 - 06:16pm PT
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Reminds me of Richard Dreyfus' compulsions in Close Encounters.
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Chazbro
Social climber
Gillette, Wyoming
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Sep 25, 2007 - 10:15pm PT
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Great shots! That shot of Chris and i from 1983 brings it back jaybro... We did Belle Fourche Buttress as I recall.... let's see what I can find in the slide collection ....
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 25, 2007 - 10:15pm PT
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rad drawing jaybro!
lug, heh. we write strange things on strange trips.
cheers,
M
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shogun
Trad climber
MSP, MN
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Sep 26, 2007 - 12:34am PT
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 26, 2007 - 01:22am PT
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Now we're talkin!!!
Shogun: that is superb.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Sep 26, 2007 - 10:10am PT
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Shogun's sho got style! Nice threesome!
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shogun
Trad climber
Saint Paul, MN
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Sep 28, 2007 - 07:25pm PT
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 28, 2007 - 08:45pm PT
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Ha Ha!
This picture is an homage to Frazetta:
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Sep 28, 2007 - 09:46pm PT
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I've never been there, but I did have this shot from my magazine collection.
Michael
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