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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him. George Carlin
Religion is just mind control. GC
Sometimes fast and light turns out to be frozen and f**ked. ??
Sometimes fear is the appropriate response. 9
The best climber is the one having the most fun. Alex Lowe
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you want total security,
go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Alexander Pope.
"Any fool can spend money."
George A.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:33pm PT
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"Aye, you may be going up mate, but a lot higher than you think".
Whillians, while retreating, to two Japanese climbers continuing up into the storm, Eiger North Face route.
Tony
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Your Not axially 007. Well your not Thomas Jefferson. Ether ?
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Name that tune?
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:58pm PT
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"I came to get high and burn sh#t down"
Sticker on the wall at the Southern Sun in Boulder......
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:04am PT
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...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:12am PT
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"Consumate "V's"....Consumate!
Jeez, guy wouldn't know Majesty if it came up & bit him"......StrongBad
He's got some skills of an artist.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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nice Skully!
"Here I go again with the email. Hope that its from a female..."
-Strongbad
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:38am PT
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"Don't worry Hinterstoisser, we can get back!"
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R.B.
Trad climber
AZ-WA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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In regards to an interview conducted in 1985 in Camp 4 of Yosemite Valley ... a writer for playboy magazine, Craig Vetter who was climbing with Galen Rowell wanted to hear 'my' story about how I fractured my heal taking a 25' whipper on the Catchy Corner, 5.11a of the Cookie Cliff of Yosemite, my (favorite) quote of which is published in Playboy Magazine, around October '86, in an article titled "Climbers" an excerpt is as follows (page 184, middle top paragraph):
At a camfire the night before, a climber, from Flagstaff had talked to me about just that thing (about falling). His name was RB and he'd been climbing for 17 years, since he was four. Just the year before, he'd taken a fall that had flipped him over backward and smashed his heel bone into five pieces. He said he could have saved the plunge if he'd just grabbed the rope, which he didn't, because HIS CLIMBER'S CODE TOLD HIM NOT TO. He said it wasn't a total loss, though. It had left an unnaturally large bump on his heel , which made his (three-striper feerays) fit perfectly (thereafter).
"And I learned something from that climb," he told me. "I LEARNED TO NEVER LET ETHICS HURT YOU."
So this is my favorite (or is that famous???) quote. And so to translate to 2009 lingo -- Climb and enjoy, but remember gravity doesn't care who YOU ARE! Be safe out there ... RB
BTW - This is a cool article about climbing in Yos in the early '80's, with Bachar, Kauk, etc.
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sac
Trad climber
spuzzum
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:11am PT
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Jim Baldwin (Perhaps E. Cooper), on describing their ascent of "The Grand Wall" Squamish.
" We didn't know what to expect... but that was to be expected"
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:54am PT
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"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice" Clint Eastwood
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:59am PT
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Excellent advice R.B., and a good story.
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:12am PT
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"The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some"-Eric Shipton
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quietpartner
Trad climber
Moantannah
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:51pm PT
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"Quit sojering"
"Off yer ass and on yer feet....
Outta the shade and in the heat."
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Esparza
Trad climber
Westminster, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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Great posts... This is one of my favorites...
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 04:36pm PT
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"Everything you ever heard about Berkeley is either true or an understatement."
1975-76 Boalt Hall catalog.
John
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. -- Freeman Dyson
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