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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Mar 20, 2013 - 03:56pm PT
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I didn't spend as much time in the parking lot as the locals...
Anyone remember the Rangers on a full blown stake out looking for a BASE jumper back in the mid eighties? They were stopping anyone who even remotely fit the description and knew that he had spent the night in the SAR site.
Yeah, that was a close one. They were in plain clothes all over the place yacking to each other on the radio. Fortunately I was able to hear it all.
What was weird was we didn't even jump anything the night before. They wanted this one guy in a bad way.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 20, 2013 - 04:26pm PT
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"Stakeout" doesn't even begin to cover it!
Shelly and I were asleep in the PleasureDome™ way out in the North 40, Upper Pines or something, when the Rangers came knocking very early one morning to grill us on the whereabouts of a particular jumper. (Jonathan RIP).
Apparently TeamStakeout™ thought we knew something. Following a jump from Glacier Point, they were making their interrogation rounds in Camp Four where Little Sue innocently told them straight away exactly where we might be found! Not like we were hiding out or on the lamb or anything … just not so easy to find … after they left we about died laughing that Sue spilled the beans on our whereabouts so easily.
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FTOR
Sport climber
CA
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Mar 20, 2013 - 04:56pm PT
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not sure this was the same event but a base jumper put it out there that he was going off the lost arrow, then jumped ypb while all eyes were on the tip. rangers were pissed as never before. i was a pitch below with a motodrive camera catching the action as he went by. stashed the chute in the talas and made a clean get away, though injured. sadly, john is no longer with us.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Mar 20, 2013 - 07:45pm PT
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Nahhh...not the same one. A lot of C4 regulars were involved in the escape out of the park.
They were after the two most wanted on Earth, meaning these two hypothetical people never told anyone Jack.
It was pretty wild. I never got busted. I had to run for it here and there around the country, but I never got nailed.
Nobody has been seriously injured around me, either. I am a lucky charm.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Mar 31, 2014 - 09:49pm PT
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I remember the making of the legend... I had no idea there was a camera there... or I wouldn't have put my hands so close to your ass.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Werner,
Check out Ravenhairs and One of the Thirteen.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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^^^^
Holly!!(second from left)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 13, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
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Long Live the VW Bus!
I had a 71 and drove it many a mile!
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Mar 17, 2015 - 04:17pm PT
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I guess this shot belongs here...an accidental picture of the C4 lot itself...circa 1972
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Feb 25, 2019 - 07:45am PT
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Just got some old Yos pictures from Mike White that deserve to be seen. I think he got some of them from Fig
TM Herbert reaching for a concerned Whitey. Dennis Miller in the background with Chris Bonnington on the right.
Bob Ashworth indicating his displeasure. I think that’s Dale Bard’s panel truck in the background.
Crappy photo. Drone Stephens sitting on the rock. Whitey in the foreground. I don’t recognize anyone else.
Here’ a classic. Peggy Bridwell and Jim Pettigrew sitting on a car in the Annex parking lot across from the gas station.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Feb 25, 2019 - 08:24am PT
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I kinda remember Pettigrew being like an African honey badger-unpredictable and volitile. That expression on his face is priceless.
Here’s Drone, Brossman and Fig at a table in Camp 4
Brossman before he went MCA corporate
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Feb 25, 2019 - 03:50pm PT
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Absolutely killer thread!
Jack Roberts (RIP), racking for Cosmos in the Spring of 1976…
That's the open boot of my burnt-orange MGBGT.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Feb 26, 2019 - 07:01am PT
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Drone at the wheel of his broken down Caddie. Whitey in the middle on the roof. I have no idea who any of the others are.
Blinny, you knew a different Pettigrew than many of us did. I reunited with him 10 years or so ago and he was a completely different person than he was in the 70’s.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Feb 26, 2019 - 12:56pm PT
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1973-British site
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Feb 26, 2019 - 05:45pm PT
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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HB, AJ, TB
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