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OldEric
Trad climber
Westboro, MA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 12:57pm PT
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At a bit of a crossroads. One girlfriend wanted to go to Woodstock and had it all figured out (tell her father we were just going for a day - originally they werre going to sell single day tickets as well as for all 3 days - and then conveniently not be able to get home) the other wanted to go climbing - well hiking actually but I thought it was climbing then.
So I went hiking but ended up marrying Woodstock girl. If life gave me some do-overs I know a couple of things I would do differently - not saying which....
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Aug 14, 2009 - 12:57pm PT
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Backpacking out of Bishop.
I had to bring my parents along, I was only 13
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 01:00pm PT
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Traversing from Cathedral Peak to Unicorn by way of Echo Peaks (but we bypassed the Cockscomb.) Took us all day.
John
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 14, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
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Long's Peak
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Aug 14, 2009 - 02:29pm PT
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I was 12. I was climbing the Flatirons. Gettin' high.
Great Pic Jaybro.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Aug 14, 2009 - 02:35pm PT
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Cooling in the fog of Berkeley, getting ready to tour Europe at the end of the fall quarter. Enjoying how crazy the whole Woodstock scene made our parents.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 14, 2009 - 02:40pm PT
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I was 7. That was the summer my best friend Jackie Bartos moved away, and also Timothy Walker moved a few weeks later. When Jackie moved, I was so sad... And when I found out Timothy was moving too, the feelings of loss overwhelmed me and I ran up to him, threw my arms around him, and cried "Ohhhhh, Timmothy!!!!"
My family still reminds me of this at least once per visit.
That was also the summer that my dad loaded the family into the station wagon for a Sunday drive where the sole objective was to "see the hippies in the park." Which we did. I remember they were sort of....draped.... over the various kid's playground equipment. On the monkey bars, swings, and sleeping on the teeter totters. Stoned, clearly. Even as a 2nd grader going into 3rd I could see that.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Aug 14, 2009 - 02:40pm PT
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Sweating my wee testes off, in a hell called Owatonna, Minnesota--daydreaming about returning to the birthplace in Montana.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Aug 14, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
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SCUBA diving in the Florida Keys until the most powerful storm of the 20th century headed my way.
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dave goodwin
climber
carson city, nv
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Aug 14, 2009 - 03:45pm PT
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Living in Haight-Ashbury with my mom, I was only a year old. We moved to Lake Tahoe in the beginning of September, been here ever since.
take care
dave
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Aug 14, 2009 - 03:49pm PT
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Swimming in the sack of my father... why do you ask? LOL
sorry but this thread suddenly brings back bad memories!!!
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Aug 14, 2009 - 04:29pm PT
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Near as the folks and I can recall, I was in the northwest corner of the Bob Marshall wilderness, catching trout in a little lake that is still as stunning today as it was then. Sunburst Lake. I was a wee lad on a big walk.
Bob
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville
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Aug 14, 2009 - 04:41pm PT
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Riding my Taco minibike everywhere.
Sliding down local dry grass hills on cardboard boxes.
Watching the nightly news every night hoping to see a shot of my oldest brother running around Vietnam somewhere and praying he wouldn't be on "the list" at the end of the program.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 04:42pm PT
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Growing up - summer before starting junior high.
Far from Woodstock - Enumclaw, WA.
Probably still jazzed about my "space flight" out of a tree on the afternoon before the moon landing in July.
Fortunately it was a soft "splashdown" into springy blackberry bushes.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 14, 2009 - 04:49pm PT
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Heading to Green Oaks Ranch with my climbing partner, to learn knot tying and other stuff.
He had the hip haul bag while I was stuck with this square suitcase...
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TomT
Trad climber
Aptos.
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Aug 14, 2009 - 04:58pm PT
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Doing my first climbs in Yosemite with Mark Rodell.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Porn, CA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 05:13pm PT
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Sounds like Fletcher and I are about the same age.
I was 7 also, and most likely on some fire lookout out of Darrington, Washington with my Mom. We did that for a few summers after we left my dad when I was 6.
Erik
Hank and Tami: funny stuff!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 14, 2009 - 05:18pm PT
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I may have been at YMCA summer camp - not sure. Or doing something with the scouts like hiking.
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Bill Hutchins
Trad climber
Maryland
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Aug 14, 2009 - 05:50pm PT
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Teaching summer school in Philadelpia and living in a very hot public housing project in North Philly.
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