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NutAgain!

Trad climber

South Pasadena, CA

Sep 19, 2017 - 10:32am PT

Spire Repair Service is pretty funny :)

Mark Force

Trad climber

Ashland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2018 - 09:03pm PT

Tell your story bump

rgold

Trad climber

Poughkeepsie, NY

Feb 15, 2018 - 10:26pm PT

He and Chris were getting some tee shirts made up that stated plainly on front and back, “High Country Spire Repair Service”. They hoped that this would eliminate any further inquiries.

Hmmm...

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1986011&msg=1986609#msg1986609

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Feb 16, 2018 - 04:39am PT

Well then I will add this from the Link below the pix, cap'tn obvioushttp://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1621352&msg=1621997#msg1621997

Wayno

Big Wall climber

Seattle, WA

Feb 16, 2018 - 10:14am PT

When I was a young noob in Yosemite way back I ran into the Bird a couple of times but never got to know him or even been formally introduced. The one time I did interact with him was when I was stuck trying the "nut throw" on the Trip. He was coming down from fixing on a new route to the right of the Trip and paused below us on the ground to watch my shenanigans. He eventually shouted up something about a hook move and sure enough after a few tries I hooked over and got it done without the silly nut throw.

Fast forward some thirty plus years later I find myself at the Oakdale fest hanging out with Jim. We seemed to be hitting it off pretty well and I tell him the Trip story. He laughs and says he remembers that and then just shakes his head and says, " f*#king guidebooks."

Priceless.

Ice climber

mogollon rim

Feb 17, 2018 - 06:07am PT

When I was 19 I was allowed to borrow my dad's car to go to the valley. Hit a big snowstorm and had to beach it in fish camp and thumbed the rest of the was into the valley. I went to camy 4 where I ran into bridwell and John long who took me under their wings and allowed me to hang with them probably because I had weed. Jim was driving a green dodge van with a doghouse on top which is where I got to stay.
It snowed pretty much all week so alot of stories were told sitting in there. We got out climbing at least once to arch rock which was awesome! When the week was over and I hitched back to the car all the freeze plugs had blown and it had to be repaired in coarse gold and boy was I in trouble....again

EE