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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 18, 2011 - 06:07pm PT
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By an odd twist of fate, I really am eating popcorn right now
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 18, 2011 - 06:16pm PT
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Dingus gets the coveted post#1096!
Hey even basementeers gotta eat...
Besides 10 miles away at Deto, it's over a hundred degrees.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 18, 2011 - 06:22pm PT
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True Dingus, but being upside down
isn't always that bad......
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 18, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Ammon should say nothing about the climb.
NOTHING
That way this stupid internet wanking will go on for another 30 years untill they're all dead ......
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:06pm PT
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Werner, I remember clearly your cautioning in regards to speculation back in the day. Loved the way you would enunciate each syllable of "speculation". Your wise words have influenced me well over the years.
Looks like we'll need a lot of popcorn before Ammon tells his tales!
cheers
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:14pm PT
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Hopefully no poopcorn.
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Prod
Trad climber
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:24pm PT
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Hey Gene,
Get with it, that was posted a few days back.
Prod.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:32pm PT
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Seems, if memory serves me correctly, that some people here owe Ammon some money and a LOT of alcohol... Maybe someone should go back and tally that up. I seem to remember it being near a couple thousand. Just sayin...
Proud send Bro! Sorry I wasn't there. Work sucks ASS! But, not as much as homelessness.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:34pm PT
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Sometimes, homelessness rules. Just sometimes.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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Jul 18, 2011 - 08:58pm PT
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Captain - OK, really it was the difference between $14K and about $900.00 a month in residual income, plus a percentage of a company. I've had to make a LOT of sacrifices for this project, but when finished, can climb at will again. :) Ammon was forgiving/understanding.
I *was* pretty bummed tho, as we'd been planning this for years now and just hadn't been able to synch schedules. We'd even both fixed the first pitch(es) separately, in attempts to get off the ground. But, that's life, eh?
I'm psyched for he and Kait!
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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Ron Anderson said: this will be talked of thirty to fourty years from now, much like the WOEML was talked about. Wonder what climbing will be like then?
when will the next "great" controversy take place, and where?
Good analogy, because who really cares deeply about the whole WOEML debacle anyway, aside from a good historical tempest in a teapot?
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tonesfrommars
Trad climber
California
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Jul 18, 2011 - 09:18pm PT
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Hey Ammon,
was that photo staged or did you guys actually drag that book up the wall for inspiration and spiritual enhancement?
did I say enhancement? hehe
GOod job, can't wait to read all about it!
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 10:08pm PT
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Does Ammon really get to collect the brews and cash if he doesn't post a TR? Just curious...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 18, 2011 - 10:35pm PT
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Congrats Ammon & Kait! Take all the time you need. Get it right and positioned correctly.
I've been wondering about this since the colonel and I climbed Aquarius as our first el Cap route and watched the "window washers" as their ledges occupied the same part of the wall during our one week ascent. The last day we saw them they were packing up to haul.
After 29 years I can wait a few more months. The exchange between the two parties will be mind enhancing as well.
How many thousand more posts will we see see on this?
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Jul 18, 2011 - 11:13pm PT
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Pete Pete Pete,
That was a really big blunder,
Now it's your ass, Ammon should plunder.
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bringmedeath
climber
la la land
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Jul 18, 2011 - 11:45pm PT
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Now it's your ass, Ammon should plunder.
I don't think Ammon has any desire to plunder Pete's ass!
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Offset
climber
seattle
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Jul 18, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
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TR?
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