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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 08:23pm PT
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I thought that one of those pumping granite shots had Largo smoking a cig. That and that NIAD photo led me down the dark path of tobacco. Yep, it is all their fault.
I remember reading those articles over and over with the mag open on top of my textbook in high school. I sat WAY in the back.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 08:31pm PT
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Here you go BASE!
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 08:35pm PT
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Photo credit for that one goes to Kieth Cunning.
In the climbing mag in which it appears, no credits are given; I somehow thought Brian Rennie.
But Kieth made it to one of our reunions this spring and happily claimed the effort.
Shared some hilarious times with Kieth, John & The Uplanders...
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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 08:38pm PT
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Yep. That's the one. I wanted to be just like Largo. Except the muscles. I could never quite pull that one off. My wrists were bigger than my biceps.
Cough, cough.
I mean, geez, look at that guy. He was ripped. Probably still is.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 08:42pm PT
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"HO MAHN...whos the BASE Jumper with pipe cleaners for biceps" ...Long may have said.
and then:
...Sayy BUDDY, can you spare a dimp???
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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 09:11pm PT
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Yeah, I had bad genes. I am still trying to get over that part...Maybe they could inject me with some of Largo's stem cells. 30 years too late, alas.
I am working out right now. I have about 40 well logs in front of me and am trying to sort out a horrible correlation. My mouse finger is twice as big as my thumb. It would be great if I were a doctor with that finger....
Keeps me rolling til midnight 24/7. That and lots of smokes.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 09:14pm PT
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Dimp for a Chimp however?
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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 09:23pm PT
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No way, Roy, dipping is BAD for you.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 09:30pm PT
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Yup, that chaw juice is vile.
Lemme see if I got it right...
A Camel straight has no filter.
A Dimp is with filter.
If you "square" a dimp, you have a makeshift straight.
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Mimi
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2008 - 09:50pm PT
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I thought a dimp was a cig and a dip was a dip? Isn't the usual transition from dimp to dip to quits if you're lucky? So glad I never went down Tobacco Road. Just say no.....
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 09:53pm PT
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Correct Mimi, a dimp is a cigarette, but with filter.
A dip of chaw, or chewing tobacco, is just a dip.
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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 10:07pm PT
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Yeah, Mimi, I am still a horrible smoker. Not all of the time. I quit for a few years and smoke for a few years. I am a bi-smoker.
I wanna hear some stories about that jungle trip he took with Bridwell. Like if anyone got the Guinea Worm.
Geez, I got all this work in front of me. I am glad that I don't have a boss....
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Mimi
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2008 - 10:24pm PT
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I wonder if these gadgets would be off limits on a no hands problem?
Largo, from back when you and Bridwell were hangin' with these curly gents...got any tales?
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2008 - 10:47pm PT
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Sorry BASE,
All I got is this clip from Ma Vie a la Verticale, by Lynn Hill:
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BASE104
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An Oil Field
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Aug 23, 2008 - 10:57pm PT
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Man, I gotta get me one of those penis gourds and show up at a meeting. They already know that I am a brick shy.
Plus, you get a big gourd and it makes you look more burly...those curved ones are really cool.
Really, I gotta hear about that trip.
Somebody told me that when they were in the valley after that, Fish or Shmutzfink or somebody drew a picture on their van of Largo with a bone in his nose with the caption, "I dig the jungle." I didn't see it, so not sure.
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Mimi
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2008 - 10:59pm PT
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A brick shy, but a foot taller.
Edit: In the saddle that is.
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Robinson
Trad climber
Chattanooga
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I cut all those shots out of the mags and had them plastered on my walls in the late 70's. I coveted that kind of power, and tried to amass as much of it as I could. (Looking back I wish I had only worked on contact strength and done yoga.)
In the late 80's, I hooked up with John, and remember one day in particular when we went for a bouldering tour at Stoney Point. I'll never forget watching him sprint towards an insane-looking overhang sporting a pair of half pad holds about nine feet off the deck, launch -- completely airborne -- and then locking off like some mutant Dobermann shredding a bite sleeve. After a couple of casual swings he stabilized and then (with power to spare) torqued up into an improbable mantel before high stepping to the top. It's too bad there's no video out there of John bouldering back when he was still at the top of his game....
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 14, 2008 - 01:16am PT
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A Wilford Horsetooth classic from Mountain 91 May/June 1983.
Jerry Moffat on Armed and Dangerous (B2), at the Quarry Area, Horsetooth Reservoir near Fort Collins Colorado. Mark Wilford photo.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 18, 2008 - 06:54pm PT
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Horsebump!
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Dec 18, 2008 - 08:26pm PT
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