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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 21, 2013 - 12:40am PT
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We've got Yosemite and Squamish covered pretty good - where's the Index love?
More stellar 5.11 cracks than you can shake a stick at...
The van in the parking lot, Todd Skinner on the greased City Park, the South African Blond Wunderkind...give it up, people.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2013 - 12:45am PT
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One of the best days was climbing Lower Town Wall then getting a beer at the Index Tavern and grabbing a plastic chair from the lawn, dragging it into the river and swilling while soaking the sore feet in the Skykomish.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 21, 2013 - 12:49am PT
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BITD you swilled at the Index Tav at yer peril.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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I am guessing the Bikers, not the Local Climbing Giant? LOL
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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2013 - 01:03am PT
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I forgot the first rule of Index Club - don't talk about Index.
Guess I am out of the club?
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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May 21, 2013 - 01:04am PT
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Great idea Mr E, never been but I'd like to know more about index too. Oh, & your thread title is pics & stories but I don't see any pics.
Ghost?
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 21, 2013 - 01:31am PT
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This is one of the first things I posted on the net once you could link photos. The photo quality is pretty bad, and I could never spell and was even worse at proof reading my own writing, e.g. butt!=but. Still, it was a good long day back 12 or 15 years ago. I may clean it up, but don't hold your breath.
http://www.bigstupid.org/Outdoors1/darwin_hmr/climbing/towncrier/tnc.html"
I can't remember when/where I first posted this, but I was coy about the name of the climb, and Clint immediately chimed in with Town Crier based on the "three tiered overhang". Really his guide of Index is one of the coolest things ever. I have a couple copies each of Roper's Red and Green guidebooks to the Valley, but I value the Clint's photocopied Index guide almost as much.
ps:
Mark in this case is the the son of Bill Iffrig, the 78 year old marathoner knocked down by the bomb at the the finish of the Boston Marathon.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 21, 2013 - 02:14am PT
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Great place to get humbled!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 21, 2013 - 04:30am PT
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I think I have spent more fishing days in that area than I have climbing days. Still very good either way.
real
granite.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 21, 2013 - 04:42am PT
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A pointed question about where is the index love, E.
And one mustn't take any fingers for granite.
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MH2
climber
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May 21, 2013 - 01:40pm PT
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Not talk about Index? How about The-Index-That-Was?
I moved to Seattle in '79. My first visit to Index was with a physics student who was studying the Puget Sound gravitational anomaly. We ended up on Narrow Arrow pinnacle and I think we did a short bit of 5.10 near the top but I don't remember which route.
My first visit to the Upper wall was with Bill Myers (if I remember the name correctly). Here he is getting ready for Davis-Holland.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 21, 2013 - 01:53pm PT
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The van in the parking lot, Todd Skinner on the greased City Park, the South African Blond Wunderkind...give it up, people.
How about Nature visiting the non-stop erotic cabaret?
I posted a story and some pictures from that episode a while back: http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1243593/Nature-visits-the-Non-stop-Erotic-Cabaret-vaguely-on-topic
But the best summary of Index that I ever heard was from Jim Donini, who said: "If you can climb at Index, you can climb anywhere."
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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May 21, 2013 - 02:01pm PT
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Index - Chase on Japanese Gardens
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TeleRoss
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 21, 2013 - 02:16pm PT
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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May 21, 2013 - 02:35pm PT
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Now we're getting somewhere. Nice photos.
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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May 21, 2013 - 05:10pm PT
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Where's Index??
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 21, 2013 - 05:23pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 21, 2013 - 05:34pm PT
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I thought this was Index?
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benzo
Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
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May 21, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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it is.
shhhhhhh
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benzo
Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
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May 21, 2013 - 05:54pm PT
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^^^^
diggin the golden arch shots! radical man
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