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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Dec 17, 2008 - 10:02am PT
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See, Philo. That's what I'm talking about. The Group W bench line...brilliant! You probably came up with that in a few seconds, while I struggled for an hour just to come up with the lame Call me Ishmael, only to abandon it.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2008 - 11:41am PT
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There we were the usual gang of dirtbaggers sitting around a picknick table in the North Rim campground. It was a rainy rest day so the usual thrumming sense of doom that the Gunnison river elicits wasn't even vaguely apparent. We had no place to go and no better place to be. In our altered states fueled by lazy overindulgence we were passing the rim time by discussing and debating our preferred methods of dispatching ticks. Of course all methods had to be tested with that days crop. The methods employed were many and all were diabolical. We decided to subcatogorize above rim, below rim and wall time methods of execution. My personal rim time favorite was a hot cast iron skillet. Like popcorn but too small to eat. As a huge Tolkien fan I always muse about poor ol Bilbo having to listen to the trolls debate the best way to eat dwarves and burrahobbit whenever I reminisce about the great tick debate and decimation of 87.
We were huge, grim and malicious creatures lording over a make shift torture chamber for ticks. Fortunately Gandalf and the Sun never arrived and we gleefully carried on with our tick-lish experimentation till all the fodder was gone. Ah ah ah! Don't ask about my wall time favorite.
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wayne w
Trad climber
the nw
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Dec 28, 2008 - 04:29pm PT
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Philo, thanks for your Black stories, and cartoons. I have wanted to climb there since the 70's, but when you are disabled like myself you have to rely on partners to drag you up stuff. The excuse I have for still not having made it there. Hopefully this will change in 09. If so I will post up my own Black story, but until then would love to hear more of yours!
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dec 28, 2008 - 11:42pm PT
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Bump for The Black....& Philo's way with the word.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 29, 2008 - 11:47am PT
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Poitics is water.....climbing is stout!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Dec 29, 2008 - 02:25pm PT
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I'd love to hear some accounts of either Atlantis or Crystal Vision. Both are high on my list for this coming Spring.
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Roman
Trad climber
Boston
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Dec 30, 2008 - 08:19pm PT
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Fantastic stories philo. If you have more please post them. They have moved me so much that I just called an old partner to plan a climb up Seneca Rocks. Thank you so much. It was what I needed.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 30, 2008 - 08:35pm PT
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Thank you Roman glad you enjoyed my words. It really means a lot to me.
Please go check out the Red Rocks Stories thread.
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J. Werlin
climber
Cedaredge
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North Rim recon, New Years Day:
Checkerboard catching the sun:
Narrows are looking icy:
Blackjack:
Downstream:
Happy New year
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2009 - 10:47am PT
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Thanx! Now I feel home sick.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2009 - 04:11pm PT
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Inspired by J Werlin's fine photos and wishing to avoid the barbarism of some political threads I just penned this one up while en"throne"d in the "little library". I hope it's not a shitty story.
To clean up the thread I dropped all the other posts and reposted the final draft of the story with the toon in place.
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goatboy smellz
climber
dirty south
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Excellent story Phil!
Thanks for sharing that slice of life.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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My palms are wet after reading that last one.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2009 - 11:22am PT
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Thanx Eric. I noticed some goofy errors when I read it over. It still needs something. hm mmmmm maybe cardamom or nutmeg.
It was a "one off". Written start to finish with no editing while performing my morning constitutional. I call it multi-tasking. Anyway it's just a shitty rough draft but I am glad you like. I swear I have been trying to focus on climbing threads.
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piquaclimber
Trad climber
Durango
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Wonderful writing Phil!
Thanks for posting up all of these wonderful stories.
Brad
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Thanks for the story Phil!
I remember when the Newbs and MadMan rapped to get that haul sack, visions of booty plums dancing in their heads....didn't quite turn out that way. At the time I remember Jimmy saying something like "my biggest problem is that people can talk me into anything!"
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2009 - 12:51pm PT
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And no one was and is better than the MadMan at talking Newbs into anything. Like the world's most dangerous garbage pick up. HA HA HA.
Hope your new year is stellar!
And by the way the Chargers suk!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Phil, I totally agree about the Chargers!
Closest thing I've been to climbing is that I went to a convention in Vegas about a month ago. Took a morning and went out to the circle, pulled off at the first turnoff and bouldered some 50 ft 5.5 thing in my Kronhofer's. Then drove around and took a good hard look through the binoculars at your route up the big sandstone castle...impressive.
Hope all is well with you and your wife's relatives.
Moss
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 6, 2009 - 03:40pm PT
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Thanks Moss. Best wishes! Phil
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Nice writing and all Philo, but say WTF about the Chargers?
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