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martygarrison
Trad climber
atlanta
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Jan 31, 2008 - 03:05pm PT
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I am really wondering what there wives think!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2008 - 03:19pm PT
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Peggy, Gary's wife who gets to hear what is going on came out last night and said, "I hear a whole lotta moaning out here!" spyork has the best vocalizations...
Peggy has also called us the "offwidth halfwits" I respect here characterization...
...as for my wife Debbie, she just shook her head at Gary's holiday party when we were out there taking a lap... but she also isn't very sympathetic when I come home complaining about shoulders, knees and the like.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 31, 2008 - 06:00pm PT
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I believe that there is space and materiel at TRIUMF in Vancouver to build a very fine OW machine. As Ed may be making more trips here, perhaps he and I can work something out, and get in some training. There are a few nice OWs at Squamish, too, and it should not be necessary to drive 5.10OW all the way here just to attempt them.
TRIUMF = Tri University Meson Facility, which does research and makes medical isotopes. Ed and I will simply say that we're large, slow-moving mesons, and the our OW is a special sort of ultra low speed collider. No one has ever actually seen a meson, so they can't prove it's not true.
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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Jan 31, 2008 - 06:12pm PT
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Don't forget the gluons!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2009 - 04:11pm PT
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A climbing thread with minimal appeal, limited interest and almost no future... Offwidth!
Last night, the few, the proud, the serene converged on the Soquel version of the crack. Both scuffy and Steve McCabe did four laps.. astounding! I managed a couple of partial ascents, but the point wasn't to shine as these stalwarts did, but rather just to see what kind of body I have. The determination: good to go to the next level. My back problems are resolving and I'm going to save what I have for the ultimate blowout next week in some location with a bunch of other wide aficionados.... a gathering of the tribe such as it is, for a glorious time.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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We'll be fine Ed... I HAVE PILLS!!!!!!1111666
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I'm wearin' my WIDE t-shirt today!!!!
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scuffy b
climber
4 to 8
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My back feels better after the session than it did before.
I think I only did 3, though, notwithstanding the imperfect
appearance of my elbow this morning.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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You guys climb it with Pride!
Wish I coulda, woulda been there!
However, we got quite the thing, simmering for that coming event. My inversion cuffs are getting a stern workout in anticipation.
Is there a season that starts with, 'He is risen' and ends @ Burningman?
at this point I take my motto from the words of the prophet, Jim Carroll;
"It ain't hip to sink that Low,
Unless,
you're gonna pull a resurrection!"
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Edit;
Girlie kneepads, from Boulder, ordered; it is, SO, on!
Good thing it looks like we have a ropegun or two!
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scuffy b
climber
4 to 8
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I have all kinda custom rope lengths now, too!!!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Yo!- the gals in Colorado go nuts for guy's who "go wide." Y'all should plan a road trip.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Ahab with a 6 inch cam! why in the early 70's we.......
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2009 - 05:40pm PT
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donini... tell us a story about [url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/climbing/RCiY/page_25.pdf"]Basketcase[/url]
...this is a "holy grail" climb for the Widers...
[ed's a dofus edit] yes scuffy_b... he did
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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with waders...
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scuffy b
climber
4 to 8
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Ed, I think he already did that, in the big monster thread.
TM said it was hands and fingers, they had knifeblades...
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Jaybro: Training is not fair. You all are a buncha cheaters.
BAWC = Bay Area Wide CHEATERS.
I don't have any inversion boots (not that I didn't scout E-bay, but $70 is more than I wanna pay, I need like a $25 pair). So at least I have an excuse to fail ("flat not good enough" having been exhausted as an excuse by now.)
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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training is aid... unless you count back spasms as Isometrics. If that's the case, I should be in killer shape!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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If you train, it's never on-sight! may have to give my class a quiz and go out for something.....
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