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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 23, 2014 - 11:38pm PT
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MisterE
climber
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Jan 23, 2014 - 11:42pm PT
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Brandon - reminds me of framing days in Sun River in the winter.
We had a 50-gallon barrel of scrap to warm the tools and smoked bad Mexican brown all winter long to ease the pain.
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splitter
Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Jan 24, 2014 - 12:01am PT
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^ exactly. pounded nails in the sub zeros in carson city, markleevile and mammoth. and the one hundred and sixteens in vegas, big pine and los banos. bunk weed was a mainstay. chasing the dragon and riding the choo choo temporarily comforted others. winters can be hell. summers a friggin bitch. getting through sum days were hairier than nailing an A5 pitch.
edit: 'riding the choo choo'- construction on the eastside was slow one summer. word had it that the westside (fresno, shaver lake, etc) was expanding. so i headed over and got a job in fresno with this framing crew doing condos from the slab up. we would meet the superintendent at a 7/11 on the outskirts of town at four in the morning. then b-line it for los banos. get there about an hour or so later and work until sunset. the crew was primarily made up of bikers and they worked non stop like bats outta hell. they passed on mid-morning break. then, when it looked like they weren't gonna stop for lunch (they didn't) i asked one guy what was going on. he says, "drink some water." i had a two gallon water jug and said i had been. he says, "drink some of our water." so i did. in about half an hour i was going mach ten like an amtrak train. i think i lasted about a week before i decided i had to bail from that job. crazy 1%'ers. crazy times.
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DM88T
climber
San Juan Bautista, CA
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Jan 24, 2014 - 01:22am PT
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oops, I thought this was the shoe topic.
Good one Merced
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jan 24, 2014 - 09:44am PT
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Medusa selfie
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 24, 2014 - 02:37pm PT
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Gratuitous self timer selfie.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 24, 2014 - 05:03pm PT
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Pull-out selfie!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jan 24, 2014 - 09:05pm PT
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early bird selfie!
not as cold as canada!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 25, 2014 - 12:37am PT
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MisterE
climber
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Jan 25, 2014 - 12:50am PT
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Great story, Splitter! I always found the dry-wallers were the crank guys...
Something tells me Norwegian is not a real blonde...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 26, 2014 - 01:19am PT
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Jan 26, 2014 - 04:12am PT
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 26, 2014 - 12:10pm PT
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Splitter...Did you ever work with Animal Art...? Then there was the framing crew in Lancaster led by this guy called Billy Jack...The guy ate nails for lunch..
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2014 - 07:20am PT
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airplane selfies, wut
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Jan 29, 2014 - 04:19pm PT
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Inside the wreck of a WW2 German destroyer.
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MisterE
climber
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Jan 29, 2014 - 04:52pm PT
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salad
Big Wall climber
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Jan 29, 2014 - 05:13pm PT
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would rather be here
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labrat
Trad climber
Auburn, CA
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Jan 29, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Jan 30, 2014 - 06:08am PT
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random patch just to f*#k with the
chronic structure of our developed society,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2014 - 07:24am PT
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four shame and i give u the finger, dickle-fated foreigner,hide thyself from looneys crying lip glory loss all alone on the beach or in the wood--book of the danish crow, fourth row
's cool, though a little sparse like a mis-managed clear-cut,
we got rained
did u get snowed
upon
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i hesitate to puncuate,,,
the finger you did n'ot rate,
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