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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 24, 2019 - 09:31am PT
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Knightce shots, DMT. Very cool.😎
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 24, 2019 - 04:39pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 25, 2019 - 03:45am PT
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Feb 25, 2019 - 07:09am PT
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That's a bad ass trestle. I've always wanted to hike out to that thing.
DMT
Keep an eye out for a cowboy and a nun on a mule.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Straight Outta Crafton
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Feb 25, 2019 - 07:18am PT
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Huell Howser was there.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
He found a cool way to get there too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 27, 2019 - 04:58pm PT
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Posted on Facebook, the town of Monte Rio on Russian River recently.
The same bridge in ordinary times.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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On the 99 norhtbound.
On Santa Fe Avenue southbound.
The railroad bridge grafitti/art gallery.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 18, 2019 - 04:14am PT
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Neat pictorial tour, DMT.
Careful with that truss-passing, dude.
Jumping Frog Jubilee aka Frog Jump
Though the first County Fair was held in 1893, the fiarst Jumping Frog Jubilee did not take place until 1928. Created by the Angels Camp Boosters to commemorate the paving of Main Street, the Frog Jump, as it is locally known, drew more than 15,000 visitors to watch a parade celebrating the area’s Gold Rush heritage and a frog jumping contest. Ten years later, the County Fair and the Jumping Frog Jubilee were combined at the nearby County Fairgrounds, of course called Frogtown, and have been held there in May every year since.
Today, the County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee remains the biggest annual event in Calaveras, and both Mark Twain and Jim Smiley’s frog are colorful and celebrated symbols of the county.
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Jenny Lind, CA.
Situated on the road leading from Stockton to the Southern Mines, this town on the north bank of the Calaveras River was first called Dry Diggins at the dawn of the Gold Rush and served as a convenient waystation for freighters and mule teams.
In the early 1850s, the town was renamed Jenny Lind, partly for pioneer Dr. John Y. Lind and partly for the far more famous singer Jenny Lind, though the Swedish Nightingale never set foot there.
Placer mining prospered on the river, mainly by the area’s large Chinese population, for only a short time and in the early 1900s, gold dredging operations moved in until they diminished with World War II. Though Jenny Lind’s heyday is long past, a handful of buildings still stand as reminders of a rambunctious history.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Mar 18, 2019 - 07:38am PT
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Bridge over lake Ponchatrain is so long (21 miles) that it has it's own cell towers. Nawlins on the horizon.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Mar 18, 2019 - 07:49am PT
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The Edmund Pettus is a cool bridge in it's own right. In 1965 a little known young black man led a group of 600 brothers and sisters on a voter suppression protest march across this bridge and were brutally attacked by police. John Lewis finds it necessary to continues that fight over 50 years later. That is not cool
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Zay
climber
Monterey, Ca
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Mar 18, 2019 - 09:52am PT
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maybe its buried up thread, but does anyone have any pictures of the famed rotten log of royal arches?
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Mar 24, 2019 - 03:15pm PT
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The French aren't so uptight about folks jumping from bridges, are they Mike Honcho?
We actually got caught the second to last jump. 3 French cops in a Subaru Outback were waiting. The only thing they were cranky about is that we stopped our vehicle for a second while the 4 of us piled out of the car. No cuffs, just follow them to the police station and we all paid a 22euro fine, about $25 bux. Then we all got repacked and did it again. The vast majority of the rest of the world sees no reason for a massive police force to incarcerate it's own citizens for mostly harmless sh#t. The Russian Gulag camps excepted..
As a fan, this is a bit tough to watch..
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Caylor
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Mar 27, 2019 - 05:17am PT
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The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in Taos, NM.
Considered remote and sketchy it very very rarely gets jumped.
Plus the hike out is tricky as hell and easy to f*#k up.
But the Wife and I just love it.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Caylor
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 27, 2019 - 09:55am PT
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Caylor cool stuff.
Flip Flop will show up soon and go into his crazy rant again ..... lol
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Mar 27, 2019 - 05:09pm PT
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Ok, so I co/organized a BASE trip waaay down in Mexico and was the 1st person to ever jump the Baluarte Bridge, my wife was the 2nd. Easily one of the most dangerous things I've ever done. The landing is the least forgivable scenario on the planet but we had helicopters and crazy "Werner style" Mexican High Angle Rescue dudes all over.
It was rad, there were still dudes working on the bridge. Check out that scaffolding. They were very very proud that not a single man lost his life building that freakshow.
Also rad, we were given unfettered access to all parts of the bridge. The supports off to the side were 400'-ish tall and fantastic jumping.
1,322' to the road deck makes it a tall ass bridge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baluarte_Bridge
Caylor
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 16, 2019 - 04:08pm PT
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9 to forever, its been a pisser
Caylor u gno`me she sure is a keeper
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