Wreckage... Who's still here from rec.climbing?

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Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 21, 2018 - 10:13pm PT
Sitting around this evening drinking beer after dinner with Steve Grossman (a common occurrence), we got talking about the old days (another common occurrence), and about Supertopo (yet another common subject), and somehow the subject of the wreck came up.

Steve was never part of rec.climbing, and I tried to link it to ST for him, but wound up stumbling. As in, "sure, there are probably dozens of us who made the transition... Uh, well... no... I can't name dozens..."

When he pressed me, the only people I could be certain of were Craig (Dingus Milktoast), Greg (the monkey of steel), Kath (ekat), and me (David).

Okay, there are a couple of drive-by posters. Slime, maybe MadDog, but who else?

Anybody out there in ST-ville who arrived via the wreck? Gotta be some history here...
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
Mar 21, 2018 - 10:15pm PT
I was Wrekked... still use it as a resource sometimes

Russ Walling
4/26/99
Ed Huckle wrote:
>
> Many times while driving to the Sierras I see these huge rock walls just
> a few miles north of Olancha California. They are located about a mile
> off of the west side of the 395. Does anyone know if there are any
> routes there?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Huckle
These are the Crystal Geyser Crags, named after the nondescript blue metal
building that houses their bottling operation. The middle of the 4 "towers"
has the longest routes. There is a 9 pitch 5.7 with a very exposed crux
section comprised of crimping large feldspar knobs about 2 feet above a
bolt. Very serious lead. The guy who runs the shipping dock is known for
hiking up there on his lunch hour and solo-drilling new lines. Some of
these will be 10-34 pitches long (depending on rope length) and quite
exciting. The crags have an access lean put on them by Crystal Geyser Corp
so that only employees of Crystal Geyser can climb up there, unless you
have the necessary "poop-free" permit....only available by inspection at
the plant. Seems some roughneck redtag jumpers from Bakersfield were
bagging all the good lines and taking huge dumps in the rivulet that leads
directly to the bottling facility. Very unpleasant. Maybe this situation
will change in the future, but for now just suck it up, clean your pipes and
go on in for the inspection. Nurse Ralph is very gentle.
hope this helps,
Russ


FishProds
4/7/94
(Quang-Tuan Luong) writes:
>>I understand that it does not provide a good storm shelter, but
>>how uncomfortable is it compared to a portaledge, and compared
>>to a bad (real) ledge ?

On a scale just devised in my head, calling on past experiences, mostly
unpleasant, here's what I think: (using the star rating system with 5 being
best)
Moms bed when you are a child: 5
Your own bed, after a 100 mile hike: 5
Your own bed on most nights: 4
The livingroom floor with your girlfriend: 4
A FISH (blatant plug) portaledge 2000 feet up, in the summer: 4
El Cap tower with 3 ensolite pads: 3.5
El Cap tower with no ensolite pads: 2.5
Camp 4 on the Nose, with 3 ensolite pads: 2
Tied up naked, on your own front lawn, with all your neighbors laughing,
pointing, and pouring icewater on you, after a 100 mile hike: 1
A hammock: 0
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Mar 21, 2018 - 10:17pm PT
I posted to it 1995-2003


Brian in SLC

Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
Mar 21, 2018 - 10:22pm PT
Ahhh...wreck.climbing...

There's a few folk here that posted on the wreck.

I met and climbed with a number of folks through that site. Still keep in touch with most.

Cheers!
Lennox

climber
in the land of the blind
Mar 21, 2018 - 10:23pm PT
I had several drive-by posts in the 90’s.

Here’s some sprayta from 96: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/rec.climbing/jbeRP3s2wHY
BruceHildenbrand

Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
Mar 21, 2018 - 10:29pm PT
I helped found rec.climbing, but my first priority was keeping rec.bicycling and then the six subnewsgroups I split that into in 1992 going so I didn't post much on rec.climbing. Those of you who were on the rec.climbing site in the early days might remember my primer for climbing in Yosemite Valley which was first posted in 1992.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.climbing/BjGDJOOw604
scuffy b

climber
heading slowly NNW
Mar 21, 2018 - 11:21pm PT
I found the wreck only in the 21st century. The decline of the wreck was a big topic when I first checked in. There was a lot good writing there. (Steve m)
mcreel

climber
Barcelona
Mar 22, 2018 - 12:02am PT
I posted to rec.climbing from 95-99, according to google. Only 20 messages. When I first discovered ST, I didn't sign up for a while, as there was too much hard core climbing content from people like Peter Croft, Bachar, etc. I didn't want to dilute that with my modest ramblings. I got over it, though.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 22, 2018 - 04:19am PT
Oh yeah, I treaded those waters; tiblocs and flamethrowers, Brutus, Slime and others.......
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Mar 22, 2018 - 04:21am PT
Long, long time ago
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 22, 2018 - 04:42am PT
Oh yeah...
rgold

Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
Mar 22, 2018 - 04:44am PT
I made eight posts there.
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Mar 22, 2018 - 04:59am PT
I posted on rec.climbing, from 1992 to 2007.
Eventually it got kinda wrecked by Jeff Batten's trolling, and people moved over here. Then he trolled people here for awhile.
Gunkie

Trad climber
Valles Marineris
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:19am PT
I think I was 'Gunkie' on rec.climbing, too. EDIT: Yep, just checked. Good times.

RE-EDIT: I just looked. It seems I was mostly posting under my real name when the world was new. June 1994 was my first post on rec.climbing. 24 years ago I was 30 years old, really fit, climbing and surfing like crazy, doing stupid stuff just to do stupid stuff and BK (before kids). And OMG, I was using Delphi internet service!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:20am PT
I believe so.....
Bargainhunter

climber
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:28am PT
Present
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:46am PT
I was there, and a few other places, until the fish sent me a link to this place in '03, and I saw the, lite...
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:46am PT
Present. It was a interesting place. I was running FreeBSD in those days and used Tin as my reader. I liked Tin. Two good things about usenet was the killfile and no back editing or deleting of posts. So you'd better mean what you wrote.

Batten might have been a little too much involved, when I climbed with him, it was a major topic of conversation. He really liked the Double Cross bolt troll.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 22, 2018 - 05:47am PT
April 1st is almost upon. Us....
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 22, 2018 - 06:26am PT
hey there say, ghost... i saw it... and skimmed a few reads, but never thought to stay there... or, join in...

however... i saw my brother's name here... and folks seemed to like him...
so-- any place that liked my brother, had to have 'real people' at least, :)


plus-- supertopo just 'sounded neat' ... and the trip reports,
at the time i joined in were neat, and full of info, and camaraderie...

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