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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jul 11, 2013 - 08:08pm PT
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I can believe working with Bill Briggs would be a entertaining and merry experience. I've heard the "town hill" isn't doing that well these days but Bill's school is still highly regarded.
I went with Bill and several others on an easy ascent when I was still a child...nice gentlemen to everyone on the trail...some of the guides seemed plodding and distant but Bill always animated and genial...
I've heard he still performs in the Stagecoach Bar but haven't been there...
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Jul 11, 2013 - 08:24pm PT
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The cool thing about Bill was he treated everyone like they were an innocent child walking alone for the first time in nature. Very understanding and accommodative.
When I first signed up for his guiding school there were about twenty of us young guns all trying to out do each other pimping and preying about the hill.
He dissolved that whole attitude by wanting to teach us just the basic skill sets like how to stand up when you fall down, that took up the first day alone.
Then on the second day we spent hours on how to make a simple alpine turn. Well the hotshots that couldn't stand going back to kindergarten were gone by the next day and by the third day there was only two of us showing up. He was like Pat Morita in the karate Kid, wash on, wash off.
I still use his technique exercises every time I'm up on the hill or in the backcountry.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jul 11, 2013 - 08:49pm PT
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Great tribute to Bill, Goatboy. ..wish he were here to read it and offer some history on Teton Climbing/Skiing.
A gentleman posted here, asking Bill's address/phone number to inquire information about Gary Hemming. I gave him Bill's Snow King Ave address but asppaently he's moved. ..be nice to hear from him on ST...
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krahmes
Social climber
Stumptown
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Jul 12, 2013 - 03:10pm PT
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In my opinion for skill and raw athleticism it’s hard to beat the pole vault and the 400m hurdles in track and field. Something clicked when I read that JB had been a pole-vaulter in high school: For core strength, explosive speed, and courage nothing comes even close to this event in track and field; point in fact no other event in track and field requires courage. The greatest pole-vaulter in our lifetimes has been Sergey Bubka, here are all eleven of his world records:
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On the track both the upper and lower distance are the domain of genetic anomalies of great talent and determination. The 400m hurdles are that same domain with leaps thrown in every 13 to 19 strides. Edwin Moses was greatest of all time, but the greatest performance of all time was:
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Finally the Boston Red Sox beating the New York Yankees in ALCS in 2004 in games 4 and 5 was unreal. I’m not even that big of Boston, though to be fair I hate Yankees.
The fight game is a whole other rabbit hole.
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