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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 22, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
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Thanks Marty - BTW
Sierra takes the "hot and strong girl" to a whole new level.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 22, 2016 - 08:08pm PT
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With 7 billion souls the "love level" on this planet has been and will remain constant....go climbing.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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May 23, 2016 - 07:08am PT
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Marty,
Woah, this "spiritual" struggle of yours seems painful.
Personally, I have become so disillusioned with all forms of religion. I find very few satisfactory answers, only fantastic explanations which are un-provable, and therefore require me to "believe" in something. I guess I am realizing that it is not necessary to believe anything. Beliefs are just stories we make up (or are fed) about things we don't know, or can't know.
We all have a direct connection to the creator (or whatever you want to call it). That is the greatest gift climbing has given me - a direct connection with the spirit of this world and the core of my being.
Don't lose your connection to the Earth (or the ground, for that matter!)
Cheers!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2016 - 10:49am PT
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Reeotch - The pain of the struggle has brought me to a greater level of peace. It was worth it! I have reached a place where God no longer needs the paper trail in my life. instead of me researching to join the correct religious institution of God and God’s people, I am comfortably with God outside of the religious laws. This does not mean that religious institutions do not have their place. A persons lesson may be understanding reverence toward God, or understanding community and the energy a community can provide, gives an opportunity to be assisting or helping in Gods community, etc, etc.
On TV I recently watched an old movie named “Higher Learning,” a college movie which Ice Cube is an actor in. In the movie the kids being individual were all brilliant, but they all felt like they had to join some group to become somebody. Each one of the kids became all victims of tragic failure except for Ice Cube, who insisted that the knowledge obtained should be for a individuals growth, not just to get a passing grade for show. Ice Cube graduated at the end. Great movie!
What I have obtained by the struggle of my last six years is Faith. I no longer have to prove to others “if there is a God” or “how I know there is a God.” It doesn’t matter anymore and its their problem anyways that they struggle with their God! I gots’ the Faith! I”m dancing with the energy!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2016 - 12:08pm PT
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2016 - 03:50pm PT
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In 9th grade my older son James decided to have blue hair. It was a total surprise to me as I picked him up from school and wow, his hair was silky turquoise blue. Me being a man who encourages the wearing of face paint and tights, I thought the blue hair was the coolest thing, and it was my sons choice! So this is how my son started his high school years.
James graduated thursday night from Arcadia High School. National Honor Student, Honored Student of the Arts, and top 10 % of the class, with a scholarship to Arizona State University. Yeah I can tell you how proud I am of my son. James you believed you could do it, you didn’t take no for an answer, you set your personal goals to the highest level, and you totally deserve all of the honors you were presented with. I love you James and give you the greatest applause for this awesome achievement in your life!
The biggest THANKS goes to my Xwife Randi for James’s accomplishment. Randi’s biggest dream for the kids is for them to have the opportunity to experience college, and her encouragement through the years has paid off in a big way!
James is psyched for college at Arizona State University, which is only a half mile away from where I work, the Phoenix Rock Gym. Maybe he will work at the gym for extra cash. I can give him the special minimum wage gym tasks, you know; wash windows, clean toilets, pull chewed gum out of the bolt holes, remove used bandaids stuck to the climbing surface, clean the rental shoes, etc.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2016 - 05:48pm PT
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I have been searching for more patio doors for another museum display at the Phoenix Rock Gym. This space should be large enough to display 1000 or more bolt hangers. I am psyched! But unfortunately my Home Depot source is gone and now patio doors new are basically $300.00 each. Yipe! While searching salvage yard websites I came across a listing for two doors for $100.00 in Fountain Hills AZ. I left a message and waited in silence for two days over this Memorial day weekend. Finally a text came through to pick up the doors the next morning. So my day started off by purchasing a Zermatt mountain patch on ebay. I have been salivating over the patch for months so I finally spent the $10.00 to obtain the patch. Yeah! Then drove to the beautiful Fountain Hills and met with Connie. What is interesting about the story is to my surprise the owner of the patio doors is the wife of the late Vince Bousselaire, a mountain climber who died on the Matterhorn in Zermatt.
—From the internet:
A beloved pastor who overcame cancer, then decided to place a bible at the summit of the tallest peak on each continent, died August 7, 2008 after scaling the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
Pastor Vince Bousselaire and several partners were descending from the east side of the Swiss mountain when a storm moved in. Bousselaire and Carolyn Randall fell -- both died.
"He was very special," said Bousselaire's wife, Connie. "I loved him to pieces. We were married almost 34 years. He was my friend, my buddy and I'm going to miss him."
The assistant pastor at Arvada's Faith Bible Chapel Colorado was an 11-year cancer survivor.
"He had Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma," his wife said.
He beat the cancer, then decided to get into shape.
"He ran marathons, went skiing and took up mountain climbing," said daughter Janelle Bazar.
He encouraged his loved ones to become healthier.
One of the goals Bousselaire set was to climb every 14'er in Colorado. After accomplishing that, he set out to climb the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. He took a bible up to each peak.
"He didn't make it all the way up to Everest because he suffered pulmonary edema and nearly died. So he had a climbing partner, who was Jewish, take the bible up to the summit of Everest for him," Connie said.
"He was a warrior," said son-in-law Aaron Bazar. "Somebody you respect."
Bousselaire's wife said she didn't like him climbing all those mountains, but added that he was so irrepressible that she couldn't stop him. "I loved him and wanted him to love life," she said.
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the Associated Press reported that Bousselaire fell ca. 300 meters and his partner, whose rope caught on a rock, fell ca. 80 meters. The two bodies were recovered at 13,100' on the Matterhorn's east face by Air Zermatt. Bousselaire was an experienced mountain traveler, having hiked Colorado's fifty-four 14,000' peaks. He is survived by two daughters, two grandchildren, his mother and eight siblings.
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Essentially they got caught in a storm while still at high altitude and were forced to descend onto the face of the mountain from the ridge to avoid intense electricity from what the survivors relayed to the family. After traversing the East face towards the north face to get back to the Hornli Ridge the ice broke loose under his feet and he was unable to self-arrest. There were only three climbers in their rope team though, and Carolyn had the rope tied to her. Vince was last in the northerly procession Carolyn was first and northernmost. The middle climber was 10 feet from either of them, and was able to see roughly 200 feet at the time from his indications. As they had traversed a reasonable distance the rope arced down behind Carolyn across the ice field. Vince unavoidably careened straight through it in his tragic slide, pulling Carolyn loose also. -followerz9
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Connie told me that Vince fell around 1000 feet, and then she showed me his ice axe which was a Chouinard Zero blue carbon fiber shaft broken in two, only the axe head side was found. It took around 5 weeks to get Vince’s cremated ashes back to the USA. The coincidences I constantly experience are beautiful. I feel like Vince himself set this one up. Many Blessings and thanks Connie!
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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May 30, 2016 - 06:17pm PT
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That is a pretty cool story and congratulations on raising a good kid
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2016 - 11:10pm PT
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Over the past week the Three Ball Climbing company in Tempe AZ started the process of moving their shop to a new location. Three Ball makes rock climbing holds and training holds for the disciplines on the American Ninja Warrior show. I love shopping the shops that are moving! It is amazing how much stuff just goes in the trash which is museum worthy. I’m like, “Dudes Yipe, don’t think and just put the trash items in this Marty pile, and I will take it from there.” Preserving climbing history sure is a lot of work! So I monitored all trash items and two truckloads later, big smile on my face, , , mission accomplished! I scored!
Steve Dison the owner of Three Ball was totally generous and donated a bunch of stuff to the museum. The story I know is that Three Ball Climbing gets it’s name from Steve being born with three testicles. Just throwing some Three Ball trivia at you! One of the employees at Three Ball made the qualifiers and will be on the next American Ninja Warrior show. Half of the Three Ball shop is for manufacturing holds, and the other half is an advanced Ninja Warrior course. Dang these guys are built with muscles all over the place doing flips from one rope to another and doing one arm pull ups across tufa’s 18’ above the deck. They are quite dedicated to their Ninja Warrior sport! Thanks again Steve for your continuous Museum support!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2016 - 09:06pm PT
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My good friend Robert Olson with the RO Climbing Collection is moving to Hawaii for three years. Job assignment where he decided to put his house stuff into storage, and himself the wife and baby are off to Hawaii. Robert was the MC in many of the Phoenix climbing competitions and a creator of the Thrash & Dangle Fest. He is a great show person always providing the best energy for the crowd. Put a microphone in his hand and his mouth moves nonstop. I enjoyed all of the special climbing projects Robert and I did together through the years. Robert donated a crate of special climbing holds to the museum, and the other hundreds of Robert holds were sold to the Phoenix Rock Gym (sweet!).
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Marty, you are one of the core group of fully expressive and dedicated lifers.
Just when I start to feel self-conscious in my little English way.
Thanks, and much love for what you give to the community.
It is legacy.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2016 - 07:44am PT
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Aaah yes the Zermatt patch. I have about 100 patches and this patch is probably not rare or anything, I just wanted it since I have been to Zermatt. I purchased the Zermatt poster in Zermatt in 1994 while on my honeymoon. Very cool place! no gas engines are allowed in Zermatt and the train that took us there had to be pulled by chain for the last few miles. In Zermatt it seemed like every shop was a ski shop, a climbing shop, or a bar. Unfortunately I only purchased one climbing item, a carabiner, since al of the equipment that was being sold was the same as the stuff I could easily get in the USA. I was disappointed that here I was in Switzerland and I could not find any unique climbing gear. Plus the prices they had on all of the gear was outrageous. There was no rope being sold for below $300.00 and all of the other gear was also triple in price compared to the USA. Mammut ropes were the highest cost item and the rope is manufactured in Switzerland. Go figure!
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dikhed
climber
State of fugue and disbelief
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You give the guy a compliment and he just rolls on, posting more pictures of climbing holds and shitty old carabiners. Are you just talking to yourself?
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
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overwatch - Thanks for the compliment!
MisterE - As always, thanks for your ongoing support!
dikhed - In the highest level of spirituality,…”Yes I am talking to myself.” (I can hear Matt Kahn chuckling…) Thanks dikhed for the laugh!
And just for fun, here is a photo of shitty old climbing holds and carabiners!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2016 - 08:40am PT
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Grivel dual gate locking karabiners
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dikhed
climber
State of fugue and disbelief
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Jun 11, 2016 - 08:49am PT
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I am glad you took it that way because that is how I meant it, as a laugh.
My whole Avatar is just a laugh obviously just look at my picture
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2016 - 09:04am PT
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dikhed - Without you being on this Supertopo site, all of these threads would just be ego fantasy stories. You are the attack element which retains and demands a deeper truth to the stories. “Always watching from the silence in great anticipation for an opportunity to raise the red flag!" I totally appreciate your visit to my message thread.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2016 - 11:10am PT
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2016 - 11:48am PT
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Summertime again at the Phoenix Rock gym which means, daily summer camp youth groups in the mornings which kills the course setting………so we build!
Justin Wagner, owner of Planetary Climbing, brought his welding toys to the gym for a day of fun! We made tons of sparks, cut metal, made tons of noise and created a two bar pull-up bar for the workout area behind the Fang formation. Yeah! The next day I cut a section out of the back wall for Justin’s next project, welding shelves for all of the free weights etc. Good times! Jeremy Cox added a ceiling fan to the area so no more excuses….you too can become a 5.13 climber, just takes a little commitment! Or be like Sharma and strive for 5.16.
Planetary Climbing has hundreds of awesome hold shapes, volumes and specializes in training apparatuses. Planetary Climbing also builds climbing structures in home or business locations. Justin Wagner is lead course setter at Focus Climbing Center, and a guest setter at the Phoenix Rock Gym. Planetary Climbing also sponsors the Flying Zebra!
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2016 - 12:07pm PT
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Other projects going on at the Phoenix Rock Gym is a wall mural being painted on the wall over the bookcases and the TV. I sketched out the design for the mural a year ago, and when we recently hired artist Stephanie Ruiz at the gym, Stephanie insisted that the mural be brought to life. It is a Dr. Seuss style outdoor scene. Most of the art is by myself and Stephanie, with assistance by singer Kat Martin, and artist Luke Wyssmann. Eventually painted in the scene will be over 300 climbers, boulderers, hikers, slack liners, etc. We have just started the painting and already it attracts the kids and leaves them mesmerized.
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