Trip Report
Nepal is a Ball of Hash!
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Sunday November 15, 2009 4:27pm
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I'm tired and I'm stoned, really stoned! I'll try to put this together.
On the way, flying into Honolulu.
Then it was Hong Kong.
A lovely place!
Nicer at night!
Flying over the mountains.
Kathmandu.
View from my hotel room.
Holy dudes.
A snake charmer.
Now to get that Hashish!
The hash store.
A kilo should do me. I can also send some to Locker.
They use chillums here.
The TOOL made me paranoid, so I came back to my room and composed this.
I think I'm going DMV!
More to come.
Blitzo
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About the Author
Blitzo is a social climber from Earth. |
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2009 - 11:33am PT
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Go Blitzo go!
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susan peplow
climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Nov 12, 2009 - 11:52am PT
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And people think that digging holes, taking photos and pet sitting is a bum job.
Little do they know while we're sitting in our cubes 8-5 you've got the time to make and let live.
It's a bit like a fantasy! Enjoy it my friend.
xo,
Sooze
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Nov 12, 2009 - 12:02pm PT
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I smoked out of a chillum once in India. It's all about cupping your hands around the thing properly.
Have fun, Blitzo! Looks like a good time.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Author's Reply
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Nov 12, 2009 - 01:15pm PT
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It must be the jet lag, or maybe the hashish. I am welded to my bed hallucinating! It sure is noisy here!
This place RULES!
It's around 55 degrees and overcast and it's supposed to be raining tomorrow. I guess I'll just tour the breweries. It's 11:00pm. I'm going to take a couple mandrax a pass out!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Blitzo, do you know former Fish™ employee, MartyR, who is currently traveling around the same part of the world? You guys should meet up. Do you get email now? I'll send you his contact and link to his blog.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nov 12, 2009 - 01:29pm PT
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Yikes! I didn't realize we had such foreign correspondent here. After reading that I had to go out quick and buy a hamburger.
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dangry
Trad climber
Sin City
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Nov 12, 2009 - 01:43pm PT
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Blitzo great report so far looking forward to your updates.
Don't forget the old stand by for smoking hashish- Hot Knifing
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em knot
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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Nov 12, 2009 - 02:39pm PT
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that "chillums" photo gives me the chills.
(I mean that in a good way--fantastic photo, blitzo.)
oh, to be there too in kathmandu...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 12, 2009 - 03:00pm PT
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I've always wanted to go there, since before i knew about the reasons Blitzo emphsizes.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Nov 12, 2009 - 04:03pm PT
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We (my brother and his friends) knew this bloke in the late 1960s and early 1970s who use to smuggle in Nepalese hash, ‘deadly’ stuff, sometimes it had white streaks (opium). Apparently, he use to fly out on flights that would stop initially at entry in the US at some airport and clear customs, and board the same plane for SF, having cleared Customs. As I was told, inflight he would stash his contraband in some ventilator ‘panel’ in the toilet (which he apparently could unscrew) prior to the US, go through customs and get back on the same flight/jet and inflight between the US port of entry, after clearing customs, gather up his stash and disembark in SF.
Don’t know how true all of that is, but he always had loads of powerful hash and photos of Nepal.
BTW, if he indeed did do to this, nowadays, especially post-9/11, one could never do this.
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Nov 12, 2009 - 04:16pm PT
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A true TRIP report. Sweet photos. Travel safely--
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Karen
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ ~
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Nov 12, 2009 - 05:07pm PT
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So cool Blitzo!!!! Amazing, you can just go in a store and buy hash? what about opium? I know, so naive over here.... but so curious!
Have a great time !!!!!!
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Jingy
climber
Random Nobody
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Nov 12, 2009 - 07:47pm PT
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Kick A$$ on the travels!!!!
Blitzo for mayor of Nepal!
This could have used a better story.. like that one night when you emailed me after getting completely drunk and zapped on the hashe!
I keep telling that one to my friends and they are still laughin.....
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Nov 13, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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Amazing pictures!!!!! more please..Thanks and play safe.
nita
edit: I keep coming back to the.".They use chillums picture"... extraordinary!!!
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The Wedge
Boulder climber
Estes Park, CO
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Nov 12, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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smoke pot, check your knot!
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Nov 13, 2009 - 02:18am PT
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Great pictures, Blitzo. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the next installment.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Nov 13, 2009 - 03:40am PT
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yowza! welded to the bed? go with it man, we'll talk you down.
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Nov 13, 2009 - 10:10am PT
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Cool Blitzo, keep the photos coming,
Who's in charge?
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Jonny D
Social climber
Fanta Se, NM
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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nice thread, i had a great time in nepal last year. but seriously, did you dig those hash shop photos from the past? i'd always heard that that good stuff's been illegal since the 70's.
anyway, can't wait to go back there, great place with great people.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:27pm PT
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oh hell yeah!
VERY KICK ASS!
have fun and
CHEERS!
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billygoat
climber
Pees on beard to seek mates.
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Nov 13, 2009 - 01:11pm PT
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True story:
So I'm leaving Nepal in Oct of 2001. As I'm going through airport security, a guard pulls me aside and asks me to remove a shoe. I ask which shoe does he want me to remove. He looks at me, my huge beard, my hippie traveling clothes, my suspicious all black backpack, and replies, "your choice." Hah! I actually didn't smoke anything in Nepal, and I definitely didn't have anything on me in the airport, but I certainly could have gotten away with it had I tried.
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Nov 13, 2009 - 05:05pm PT
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Happy Trails, Blitzo, and good luck with the Beer reviews.
Tune up your vocabulary.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Author's Reply
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Nov 16, 2009 - 01:05am PT
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Ah, this place is GREAT!
The sky cleared and there was a nice rainbow.
I went down to Freak Street, which was the Napalese Height Ashbury in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Most of the girls of the street wouldn't let me photograph them, but a few did.
The peaks are amazing! The little ones are huge!
Ama Dablam is my favorite!
I twitch and turn and rub my eyes. Sitting up I realize that I am still in Joshua Tree. I don't even smoke dope any more. What a weird dream!
Hashish and marijuana products were sold legally in Nepal until 1974 when the Napalese government made it illegal. One will face stiff penalties for possession these days.
Sorry for pulling your legs. Sweet deams! Blitzo
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tonesfrommars
Trad climber
California
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Nov 15, 2009 - 10:27pm PT
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Ha hAAAAAA HAHA
f-ing great.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 16, 2009 - 03:35am PT
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So, you'll be in Josh for Thanksgiving? Ropegun?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Author's Reply
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Nov 16, 2009 - 09:37am PT
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I may be in Thailand, depending on how well I sleep.
Heading to LA today for a few days.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Nov 17, 2009 - 12:29am PT
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Brat!
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Nov 17, 2009 - 08:09pm PT
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Next time take me with you cause I'm overdue.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 20, 2009 - 06:08pm PT
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Scumbag!!
I was thinking, wow, why didn't Buggs do that side of Nepal??
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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Nov 21, 2009 - 12:26pm PT
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Good One!
But, did you take those photos and do that trip in the 70's? Cool.
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susan peplow
climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Oct 25, 2013 - 12:37am PT
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Thinking a lot of Blitzo being a fixture at our house. On the couch, at the table, barnacle in the shop or always in "his office". Hoping he's enjoying traveling the afterlife.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Oct 25, 2013 - 01:19am PT
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Locker, did the bowling balls arrive safely?
maybe i shouldn't mention this on the internets...
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 25, 2013 - 01:20am PT
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Off to meet the Goddess Ananda, he is.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Oct 26, 2013 - 03:00pm PT
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Oct 26, 2013 - 03:13pm PT
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Very cool.... thanks.
see ya around.
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SofCookay
climber
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Oct 26, 2013 - 04:25pm PT
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I am going to Nepal next year...maybe I can take a little of Blitzo with me...
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Mar 11, 2016 - 04:20pm PT
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4:20 bump for Blitzo.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 11, 2016 - 05:11pm PT
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If only Blitzo could talk to us now......
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cotuclimber
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 11, 2016 - 04:59pm PT
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Thanks for the bump.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Mar 11, 2016 - 06:43pm PT
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johnkelley
climber
Anchorage Alaska
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Mar 11, 2016 - 07:50pm PT
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Namche this morning
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