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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 20, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
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Florida Keys staring at the moon.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:02pm PT
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Greatest photo ever taken.
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:07pm PT
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Sitting on the deck of the dads Chris craft Connie in the Delta looking up and listening to the doins on the radio.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
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10 weeks old. Made it just under the wire.
I Love Ekat. Said it.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:31pm PT
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Smoking weed & drinking cheap wine with friends, while glued to the TV.
It seemed like something we needed to watch & have a party.
I remember a little suspense, about whether they could pull off something that seemed so normal from all the science-fiction I had read.
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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8 years old and splitting time between staring at the TV (and the accompanying fidgeting with the rabbit ears) and racing outside to look up.
The single greatest accomplishment of mankind. That and creme brûlée.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:47pm PT
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I was seven years old in 2nd grade. we had no TV I thought we watched it in school on a black an white TV but that must have been a different moon landing? wrong time of year for school?
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 20, 2014 - 05:52pm PT
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Where were you 45 years ago tonight?
Same place everyone else on the planet was.
Inside my body ......
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:03pm PT
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In Stockholm in a residential district with a school friend from Santa Cruz, and yeah, looking up and realizing there were people walking around up there. A quietly monumental moment.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
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Me Mum and Dad threw a small garden party. Their friends Ron and Darlene were there for sure. Galen? Leedy? Gundry? Plenty to drink with that crew. Plenty of fine conversation.
I ran an extension cord out from the house and setup a portable B/W on a folding card table. We were awestruck.
The moon was brilliant that night, dancing with the stars in the clear (in those days) Salt Lake County sky.
We hung on every word and cheered mightily when Armstrong touched the lunar soil.
Took all of us several days to come down.
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TomKimbrough
Social climber
Salt Lake City
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:15pm PT
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Drinking a beer in the Moose Bar in the Tetons.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:36pm PT
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That is really freaking cool Ron!
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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In Burlington, Massachusetts watching a color TV my dad made (he soldered all the parts together as one of his projects). We had a red VW bus with the Jolly Green Giant lacquered to the luggage carrier on top.
There were ponds, beavers, yellowjackets, fireflies, woods, tree swings, our black lab mix Onyx. Big Wheels, uh huh!
Life was way better than good as a kid, living there.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:41pm PT
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Er...in utero.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jul 20, 2014 - 06:59pm PT
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I'd been dumped off at Westminster School in Atlanta for summer school, I think so I would not have to repeat 7th grade; maybe 8th. I watched the moon landing there with a left index finger that had been reattached after my roommate power kicked the door closed on it.
We were playing "in dorm" soccer. It got pinched between the strike plate and the metal door as I was chasing the ball. He thought it was funny til I opened the door and my finger was dangling from the last joint down by a few shreds of tissue.
Watching him toss his cookies was almost worth the pain; but not quite.
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overwatch
climber
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:08pm PT
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I was 9 years old and would usually have been in Judo class which was canceled for that great event in human history
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
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In a hotel lobby on Catalina with a BIG crowd of people trying to watch everything on a black & white TV.
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