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Mini
Social climber
Bishop, CA
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Apr 12, 2006 - 01:40pm PT
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Find the said illustration and post 'er up, Mick...oh by the by, i love all the "what is trad" wanking going on over your other post. Nice work.
Mini
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Apr 12, 2006 - 02:12pm PT
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Ho BVB, I can't wait, say hey to the Roy man this weekend, I hear you boys are gonna rage, well rage for your ages.
Peace
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Apr 12, 2006 - 09:40pm PT
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april teaser: departure time 36 hours and counting......
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Apr 13, 2006 - 12:22am PT
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long story short: dateline: 1985.
me and brents "swole" hawks are feeling the mojo and decide to fire off the south face of the column in a day. never mind neither of us has done much climbing all winter and are about as fit as a couple of dartmouth frat boys after a four-week gin and juice binge. we saddle up and i lead pitch one. brents launches up pitch two, gets off route, gets waaaay above his gear, and gets pitched off into deep mussy nebspace with a terrified yelp.
sitting on the belay ledge, one hand on the cord, the other fumbling trying to light my smoke, i notice mounds of slack rope piling up all around me on the ledge as brents begins his epic gravity launch. i drop the smoke and lock both hands onto the stitch while seconds tick off with all the fleet alacrity of molasses. finally the cordage that's been stacking up around me start to reel out again with a horrific whipping sound, the rope comes taunt, and suddenly i'm suspended in midair between the anchors and the belay plate, rope stretched tighter than my wife's wallet at a single-malt bar.
brents makes his way back to the ledge, rattled but still looking hale. i suggest that we eat our stash of, um, "provisions" and repair to jojo, then hightail it to the mrb. no arguments from brents. we ecstatically downed our rations, washed to the gullet with warm OE, and punched out over to jojo just as the exlixer was taking effect. brents managed to snap of one quick, poorly framed and out-of-focus pic....
a few hours later we're heading into the bar when we get corraled by brooke and wason as we're making for the door. they give us the once over, trade a quick glance, and wason says: "so, did you guys save any for us??"
just another spring day in the valley, back in the day.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Apr 13, 2006 - 12:32am PT
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'stroids'
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gonamok
Trad climber
poway, ca
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Apr 13, 2006 - 10:23pm PT
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dyaahhhhh
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Apr 13, 2006 - 11:35pm PT
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Excellent of you to drop in!
Easiest way to post an image is to upload it to Photobucket.com (you'll have to set up a free account). Once the image is loaded, copy the whole code from the box labelled "image" at the bottom of the picture. This includes the code that works with this board, which you can then examine so you can use it to post images from other places that don't set you up with a coded image location to paste. I tried typing the code here, but of course it tries to treat it like an image.
feel free to email me if you need more info.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Apr 13, 2006 - 11:57pm PT
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yo ron-o, 'sup g? bust out yer scanner and travel to the weird zone with us!
oh, wait...you're already there.....
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scuffy b
climber
S Cruz
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Apr 14, 2006 - 07:51pm PT
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bvb
Any chance gettin Brents to post up?
SWOLE or mutant?
sm
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Apr 16, 2006 - 11:21am PT
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Hey Roy, BVB don't let this go down too far. Roy Boy, forget your tendonitis', maybe Lisa can do the dirty work for you and start the scanning and posting. I would anticipate you have some material after the trip to Mussyville.
Happy Easter to all!
Peace
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Apr 16, 2006 - 05:12pm PT
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Ron, most everyone who was "keepin the magic alive" was at the party last night. I would imagine there will be lots of stories and photos comin down the pike soon enough. For the rest of you punters who found other places to be, I can only say you missed one of the best climber fete's money can't buy.
cheerio
Pat
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Apr 16, 2006 - 09:55pm PT
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Pat,
you callin' me a PUNTER!? Hey bro what gives? Wife wouldn't let me outa da house with all yous, she know better, too many memories of the days. Can't wait to hear about it all, glad to hear you all had a great time, wish I coulda seen you all.
Peace
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Dave Tapes
Trad climber
Silverado CA
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Apr 24, 2006 - 12:54am PT
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Where the hell were you Ron, I was expecting to see you there. The wife is NOT a good excuse.
The ermine coat was displayed in public again! Wonder what happens with that coat in private?
Russ?
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tetonhack
Social climber
jackson wy
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Hey BVB all is true about the gigantic whip on the collum, but I was in never never land (I know it's hard to get lost on that route but i.e. the name teton hack). The only part you left out was that after consuming the provisions and rapping down, we then followed a rattlesnake around for some time before continuing on.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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'sup Brents, googling your name bring you around to this thread? You absolutely must have some incriminating photos, post 'em up!
cheers
Off
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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ay me laddie, we downed massive loads of twilly's finest, poked sticks at the rattler, fired jojo, bumped even more massivley as we hiked out, and were coming into fill blaze effect as we headed for the MRB when we were intercepted by brooke and wason who took one look and knew we here holdin'.
'85 was a very, very good year...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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omfg, i just realized...winter is upon us....is the mussyneb about to supernova agian??????
my scanner is glowing pale green and blue...sorta like the submarine reactor meltdown scene in "clear and present danger"......
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2007 - 12:17am PT
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Yo Brents.... that ain't me in the coat... here I am just yesterday:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Wow, now that's a fine example of the hooman form...
Whut a piece ah werk is man!
Welcome aboard Brents.
'Hope that Jackson Experience is doin' ya proud.
Hey BVB, me'n Lisa are headin' your way mid February.
Plus, Sheyatt.
Hot Darnit!
'Time we rastled 'nother jt fandango up...
...or was it..Mandingo?
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tetonhack
Social climber
jackson wy
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Pleez Russ you're killn me, as usual. The ol'lady's got me on a program for the man boobs, I'll send it to ya asap (soon as I finish off this Sierra Pale). Arcy says hey.
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