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Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 22, 2013 - 04:14pm PT
Someone asked me start this here just to see where it goes.
nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Jan 22, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
Right there with you brother. Wherever this might lead....

uncharted territory.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Pollock Pines, California
Jan 22, 2013 - 04:26pm PT
peace is ot, dammit.
takin the ot cheeese outta
the main forum is
virtuously sucking the golden center
right outta the edible egg;

the yolk, she's got all the fatty cholestrols
and blood stains and she's pretty much
the next generation in gestation,

so tomorrows won't get pregnant
of todays youthful punks
if we take the piece out of
the resistance.



bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Jan 22, 2013 - 04:34pm PT
Here's what Jimi to say about Boobies and Offwidth and Slabbin' and Reefer and Thin Cracks and Nailin' and Rope Drag and Bad Anchors and Gangster Dynos and ala that sh#t. Straight up, climberz.

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Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2013 - 04:37pm PT
Weege, just say it man. No need for obfuscation. I like your poetry but some things need to be very clear.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 1, 2013 - 08:02am PT
Needs pix.


Pacem. Ex.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jul 1, 2013 - 09:46am PT
Don't be harshing our mellow!

Doooodes.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 23, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
*slurp*

I'll try to get this right the first time.

I think it's a true story.

The author wishes to remain anonymous.


A TALL TALE?

There’s this giant formation nearly in downtown Colorado Springs...there are several, in fact. One’s called North Gateway, got a couple famous routes on it. One’s this 11+ called Anaconda.
 
You can’t really hike around the formation, cuz at the base of this route the ground drops off; so you gotta hike back down and around.
 
But there’s this chimney, which if you climb down it, will take a lot of distance off your trip
 
Back then I had the climb wired. and the anchors were offset enough that you could TR another unbolted route to its left
 
i take a couple recent friends who are interested in climbing out one late afternoon just to look at the place and I suggest we climb down the chimney and proceed around the formation.
 
I go first but before I know it this small ledge I was using for a foot blows out and I’m falling.
 
I remember thinking as I went, "Better get your feet under you." Didn’t have time to do it, just to think it
 
The bottom of the chimney is a rocky gully and I go flying down it. It had steps to it and I remember flying over one and watching the blue of the sky completely rotate past my view...whoosh!
 
Finally came to a stop...just lay there. One of the guys yells down to me, "We’re not going to come down that way! Okay?"
 
heh...
 
Aside from all the road rash, the worse was that I’d ripped a finger tip’s skip off...it was just there hanging turned inside out.
 
I managed to get up and make it back to the car. got back to my apartment and the roomate looks at me and asks about WTF happened. I lay down and couldn’t hardly move for a couple days.
 
Went back later just to check it out and figure I musta tumbled nearly 40’ down that gully.
 
Okay. So years go by and I’m working construction in the midwest. I got hired by Jimmy Dunn, the climber. (That’s several other stories.)
 
But I’m still thinking about this place and that fall. So, driving through C.S., I turn off and walk up to the base of that chimney. It’s been nearly 10 years and I’m curious to see what it really looks like in contrast to the memories I had.
 
There is about 2” of wet snow on the ground; and just right of this chimney is a broad buttress which looks like easy climbing, so i head up it.
 
But there’s snow on it, and it’s in the shade and it turns dicey and i paused in the middle to pull myself together. Cuz it was serious; and I just looked around and thought "This spot almost killed me years ago...and here I’ve come back and given it another easy shot at me. "
 
Sucked it up, wiped the icy snow off the holds, finished the climb, walked away.
 
But just barely.

Edit: Pieces of nine. Arrgh!
coolrockclimberguy69

climber
Jul 23, 2014 - 12:29pm PT
Piece out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ854rwQZUI
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Jul 23, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
You got me Larry. Socks and sandals aren't a fashion statement. If your feet felt like mine, you might make the same mistake.

Peace out? I don't know what the original meaning was intended to be but i have adopted it to my meaning of the peace within projecting out into a world devoid of it's practice.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Jul 23, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
To quote Richard Armour, Kennedy started the Peace Corpse because peace was a dead issue.

John
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 23, 2014 - 03:57pm PT
Your...uh...turd, Ron:

May it bring contentment, if not peace. :0)
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 23, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jul 23, 2014 - 08:27pm PT
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Peace+Out

http://katielambert.wordpress.com/tag/peace-tuolumne-meadows/
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 23, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
Here's hoping you all have a peaceful, easy evening.
Don't let things get you down.It can't drive period, but it can fly 55 mph.

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Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2014 - 12:39am PT
So, according to Eds first link, I read that the meaning is ambiguous and depends on context. Cool.

I wish to say when I use that term I mean what I said before up-thread.

Use it as you wish, and see what you get.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 24, 2014 - 02:28am PT
Peas out.
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