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harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
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I was at the wedding of my 22 year old neighbor in the smoggy flatlands of Hamilton, Ontario. I vividly remember it was super hot and I had one of those giant triangular freezies that you could get back then. It was grape flavour and of course I got it all over my dress shirt right before we arrived.
I turned 8 that month and remember getting my first hotwheel, a cougar. I ran over to my best friend's house to impress him only to find out he had already got one, damn!
Life was good.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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In the Central Highlands of Vietnam
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Nilepoc
Big Wall climber
Tx
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Entered the world on the seventh.
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jopay
climber
so.il
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I was a short timer in Germany waiting to fly home to Ft.Dix and be discharged after three years in the US Army.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Just turned 6, living in Chicago, still buzzing about the moon landing, and dreaming of becoming an astronaut.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Steve....if you hadn't gotten shrapnel in your ankle in Vietnam you wouldn't have gone to the army base in Merced for a "good deal" on food, and......I wouldn't have had to eat Spam for four consecutive nights on the Salathe Wall.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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In the Tetons or Black Hills, probably.
I had resigned my commission in the USAF several years prior, so Vietnam was a horror show I didn't participate in. I wasn't a hippy either. I was not addicted to the music of the time and didn't join in demonstrations. Just a pretty boring guy.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Not positive, I would have been 11 and was either avoiding Chipewyans in Churchill or jigging for cod off the dock in Port McNeil.
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Festus
Mountain climber
Enron by the Sea
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Crap, was I the only one old enough who was working?
Flippin' burgers at the San Diego Zoo for $1.83/hour.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jenny Lake Campground in the Tetons and Devil's Tower.
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Enty
Trad climber
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Celebrating my 1st birthday somewhere in northern England......
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Sonora
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A twinkle in daddy's eye
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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I was 7. running barefoot all summer, hunting, fishing and working in the fields. Scared of growing up and going to Vietnam...
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Every year, starting around 1966, some of us would go to the Newport Folk Festival. I started doing it in 1967 when I was going to school in Connecticut.
The lineup in 1969:
Newport Jazz Festival, 1969. The lineup was ridiculous-
Jeff Beck, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King, Johnny Winter, John Mayall, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Blood Sweat and Tears, Herbie Hancock, Buddy Rich, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith, George Benson…
The last day of the festival, I heard some people talking about something bigger coming to upstate NY. We talked about it, how could it be bigger? There was no internet in those days, so it went to the back burner.
The night before, I get a call. "IT'S GONNA BE HUGE." We never made it. Got stuck in traffic and turned around. Oh well.
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Gene
climber
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A bunch of us Taconistas were on the John Muir Trail that month. I went Bishop Pass to Crescent Meadows about that time.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Roaming around the western states from Montana to Oregon Coast and a drive down 101 to San Francisco and down to Monterey. A big trip for a 13 year old.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Visiting cousins in Redding who had a house next to one of the big rivers ?...I remember the Manson thing going down and trying to see Mt. Shasta off in the distance while shooting hoops in the middle of nowhere..
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Teaching climbing and white water kayaking (we made our own kayaks) for my second of seven summers at Perry-Mansfield in Steamboat Springs, CO. We spent several days climbing in the Gore Range, up Boulder Creek and found an occasional solid passage of rock on Keller Mountain's north face . Then I went back to USFS fighting brush fires in So Cal. Only learned about Woodstock later. Where was Nutstory? Some good photos up-thread.
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