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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Oct 16, 2011 - 10:51am PT
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hay thanks, hank.
i comin up on my six month monument,
and jus' now the dawn was showing me her breasts,
i always git a liddle 'cited when she does that so here comes
a lapse of all intelligable thought,
dawn finds me dragging myself thru some uncomfortable moment.
a little liquor and life becomes a slide, the passage thru eased of greased, but all moments become downhill and the momentum gathers among itself and no longer is you driving but instead your riding your decline as all the faces you once knew and loved speed by on the periphery of your once wicked vision and they all wear lost hope on their faces cause they knew you could have been but they also knew that you didn't know how though it was a beaufiful effort, yours. galiant and defiant,
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 16, 2011 - 10:58am PT
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Love this thread. Everyone here is just awesome.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Oct 16, 2011 - 11:14am PT
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Funny I was just thinking about this thread this morning.
Fell off the wagon, or intentionally climbed down from it. Now comes the job of climbing back on it.
Here goes......
Day 1.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 16, 2011 - 11:23am PT
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Good Job Chief!
Norweigan, Did yhou read naked luch too mANY times?
You do have serious creative mind. Should put some of your words to music. If you do not already play buy a cheap gituar and stART learning..... i did not start playing untill my mid 30's
Old Dawgs can leARn new tricks....
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Oct 18, 2011 - 09:23pm PT
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Rox FOAD Harsh!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 18, 2011 - 09:36pm PT
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Anyone who gives a recovering alcoholic or drug adict crap for being on the wagon is a complete loser. That was not harsh at all just richly deserved.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Oct 18, 2011 - 10:02pm PT
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I've heard it said that the wagon is just a vehicle from one drunk to another and that never is a long time.
I've also been called a wagon burner.
It's good to mark a calendar and measure time spent trying to live differently, sometimes it's a great motivator. At the same time, it doesn't tell the whole story and in some cases doesn't amount to a real improvement.
We each have to find our own way and few of us get anywhere worthwhile without falling now and then. The important thing is to get up again and keep climbing.
Best to all.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Oct 22, 2011 - 08:13am PT
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4 days shy of 6 months sober,
i came out of the fog.
i showed a friend around the leap,
climbing a few of the classics.
all day i lugged my daughters pink camelback up routes,
my partner wondering of my mental module.
within the pink i carried a secret, actual 96 ounces of mobile wobble.
last route of the day, atop main wall as the sun is completing its summit walkoff,
i open the backpack and pull 2 tall boys out and raise a summit cheer with my friend.
as i had two more tall beers, i offered them to another team of friends that were summitting a route on central wall. they declined so we's drank up.
my six months sober was a good journey, as all journeys are.
i sorted thru my relationship with the alcohol drug.
and now i better understand it.
im not one for absolutes. nevers and forevers make little sense to me.
life must be allowed its own course, me riding shotgun,
for fvch if im driving this dream!
i can drink and i can still live onward.
conducting a silent life, pitted with screams of insanity.
i wish that all of us accept our way and give up on rewriting the future while dreaming of the past.
cheers. sorrows. and everything elses, too.
"....everybody prayin and drinkin that wine
i can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines
come to daddy on the inside straight,
well I got no chance of losin this time..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWBpUy87lFs
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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I went in the Liqour store a few days ago to buy my boss a hippy beer in one of those big bottles for his Bday. it mad me physicaly ill to be in there. Heart was pounding, adrenilin was surgeung and I felt sick to my stomach. Made it through intact and sober but it was freaky...
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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aint it crazy how conditionable we are.
we got emotional memory,
physical memory,
and (some) mental memory.
all this memory and i sturggle with today
because yesterday is still boss,
and i enter tomorrow cloaked in
three past lives,
so i try to outwit my physiology.
i coached my psyche toward a habit of no liquor.
6 months i kept outta of the can.
my self adjusted to this new environment
and began to employ other (f*#ked up) mechanisms
at my navigation thru.
i got a poor diet.
i shouveled the coffee at my head.
my sleep cycle dried, and its edges curled in.
but i never reached for a beer.
now im free to drink again,
but i got no urge to.
so i don't.
now i gotta fix that other shite,
but who knows she's controlling my ship.
are you da wind?
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Glad you made it out with only the beer for your boss, tradmanclimbs!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Nov 20, 2011 - 07:23pm PT
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Pre-holidaze bump!
This is the start of the triple threat to sobriety: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
These holidays can be trying for anyone, but for the person struggling with alcohol it can be a particularly difficult time. Some are lonely, spending the time by themselves; others would rather do that! But instead they have obligations to meet which are tough to cope with.
Let's be here and stick together, for those who can use the support(that would be all of us!) during these next few weeks.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Nov 20, 2011 - 07:36pm PT
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anyone want to simul-dream?
i can trail cause i never fall from dreams,
no matter how desperate the become.
you lead cause my dream navigation skills lack,
i couldn't tell you how many
unplanned bivies i've endured,
stuck in a dream for weeks,
months, forevers.
it'll be cool to summit with whomever
joins me.
you got the dream rack?
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Nov 20, 2011 - 07:45pm PT
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Dang! I'm going to be a year in about six weeks! I miss it sometimes, that good ol feeling of tipping a nice beer up to your lips. Although, don't miss wanting the fourth beer after having the third...
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Nov 20, 2011 - 07:48pm PT
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Weegee,
From your surf/turf photo, it looked like you did fine solo. I haven't done one step of alpine, let alone 12. Still, if you are looking for some backup, there surely are some sponsored climbers here. To your (not your's) dream summit, one step or day at a time.
cheers!!!
It looks like coming down can be the hard part. fek
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Nov 20, 2011 - 07:57pm PT
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Hankster posting when I try to link the fek thread. Kismet alert, where is the braun? Oh yeah, note to self, ground fertile mind.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 21, 2011 - 12:59am PT
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Weegie, with that clip and quote choice, 'Loser', were you being ironic? Or asking for help?
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laughingman
Ice climber
Seattle WA
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Nov 21, 2011 - 01:05am PT
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Had a guide once (super chill chilean dude) who told me he once CUI (climbed under the influence).
Apparently at high altitude (he was in the andes at 19,000+ feet) it is much easier to get drunk. After summiting he and his partner split a bottle of wine. The affects of the booze became apparent quickly.
good times
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Nov 21, 2011 - 02:06am PT
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yeah don't sell out just becuase of some stupid holiday.
the reason they invented thanksgiving is because man is a jive ass turkey,
so don't let the turkeys at the table get on your wick.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Nov 21, 2011 - 03:01am PT
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Right now, getting in shape and crushing my old warm-ups is WAY more desireable and obsessive and important and vital to me than getting loaded and silencing the committee of H8'ers in my head who keep trying to convince me I'm a f*#k up.
F*#K THEM. I've got a sprained ankle and a buncha gobi's that are far more satisfying than any 25-year-old single malt I've drained in the last 5 years. The sw0le train is leaving the station, and I'm in the cabin highballin' the motherf*#k.
This is a good thing. Where's my pull-up bar?!
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