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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 29, 2018 - 08:17am PT
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I find myself always going places that others have not. That's what makes me whistle. I never know what I am going to encounter but find it fun looking at a blank map and heading into the woods.
Guidebooks are awesome, but most of my wanderings don't have one, haha! Think on your toes and fingers.
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 29, 2018 - 08:32am PT
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Most modern people can't do that.
They've been so brainwashed it's not possible for them .....
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Aug 29, 2018 - 09:15am PT
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Sounds like you would like caving!
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Aug 29, 2018 - 09:28am PT
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The indigenous were there, and there's the early explorers who made contact with the indigenous, then there's the prospectors, ranchers, settlers and missionaries that killed the indigenous. Perhaps it's the ghost of the long gone indigenous that compels one to whistle.
Maybe it's re-re-discovery.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2018 - 10:10am PT
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Contractor, I agree! But find it fun to wander mountains no recent locals have wandered. Take care all!
How about stories from you guys about the unknown?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 29, 2018 - 10:19am PT
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I concur. I got into obscurism in the Grand Canyon. The GC terrain limits the obvious routes but you can seek out and find places others rarely go without doing a major expedition.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Aug 29, 2018 - 10:57am PT
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"I find myself always going places that others have not"
Story of my climbing life. Never really enjoyed doing established climbs, but liked to repeat some of the easier ones I had discovered. Even with boulders it's the exploration that sustains.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Aug 29, 2018 - 11:03am PT
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I just love driving across the Great Basin and seeing something on the distant horizon the says "heh dude, come on over here..."
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Aug 29, 2018 - 11:05am PT
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along the same lines, I find that looking at half blurry satellite images can be quite exciting about what 'might be there'
sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Aug 29, 2018 - 11:07am PT
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I've taken up sailing... I could see some adventures ahead with that. I wager it's good to keep learning new stuff in entirely new venues. Woods and rocks are great but there's a lot more out there, and under there...
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Hubbard
climber
San Diego
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Aug 29, 2018 - 11:50am PT
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Most of the good rocks I have found were found while looking for some other rock that I thought might be in the area. The idea is to just get out there and start snooping around. if you don't do that you won't find anything.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Aug 29, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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Most people can't leave home without GPS, Google maps, and a detailed itinerary. I agree it is more fun if you don't know what to expect.
Life without surprises is boring.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2018 - 01:54pm PT
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Jody,
Wow! Thanks for sharing those pictures!!! Amazing!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Aug 29, 2018 - 02:23pm PT
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Completely agree. I love getting away from the crowds and exploring. And while probably there's few places in the red rock country of UT that haven't ever been explored, fortunately there's enough places where one can still go where you can get a feeling of exploring and imagine that you might be the first modern person through a canyon.
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sharperblue
Mountain climber
San Francisco, California
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Aug 29, 2018 - 04:09pm PT
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A memory that always comes to the front for me was an entirely unplanned adventure in Peru. We'd spent six seasons there so were pretty familiar with the general nature of it's northern alpine territories, but after battling our way out of the Vilcanota Range by an awful and ungodly brutal traverse, we glimpsed another range far off, glacier-capped, dark, brooding, and dramatic. Over Alpaca steaks and bottles of Peru's finest red in the Palace Hotel in Cusco days later, we pondered how best to spend the remaining budgeted ten days of our trip. Rather than head back to known summits, we ditched everything but basic glacier gear and food and arranged a ride to drop us off on a dirt road on the edge of the Great Unknown in the jack all middle of f-ing nowhere in a hailstorm, then proceeded to traverse the range over the next eight days, down valleys, over ruin-strewn meadows filled with wild horses, and across the snow fields. Not a soul, airplane overhead, or other voice all that time. Needless to say it was pure magic - no map, no phone or GPS, no idea. When we popped out the other side at the end into a tiny village, we had a classic alien landing reception. It took two more days before a mining truck gave us a lift back to civilization. A little obscure post-facto research back home in the Jill Neate listings told us that a Spanish expedition had spent a few weeks in there in the 60's, the Ayacachi Range. Plenty still out there
p.s. - sincere thanks, JohnM
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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Dingus Milktoast,
Anyone can get to Moskitia, heck it is cheaper ticket than visiting my brother in Wyoming!
I find it interesting how many folks talk about the unknown and very few say,"hmmm let's check it out"!.... And follow through.
I always enjoy hearing stories of wild places, especially when the people telling it say, "don't go there, no one goes there". Haha, I got a plane ticket, you want to join?
Haha
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 29, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
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so you are telling me that it pays in virginal, good* stone, to walk a bit further? because it seems like my partners are getting pretty used to the "just another bend up the way" or "just another couple hundred yards and then we can turn around" shtick. I think that they kinda like it too.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 29, 2018 - 06:34pm PT
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I find it interesting how many folks talk about the unknown and very few say,"hmmm let's check it out"!.... And follow through.
The call of the unknown always resonated in my mind. In my younger days, I followed the call, and was blessed with the chance to be the first to visit places no one had ever visited before, and see mountains and glaciers no one had ever seen.
I always enjoy hearing stories of wild places, especially when the people telling it say, "don't go there, no one goes there".
I won't say that. I'll say just the opposite: "Go there!"
Or go to your own wild place.
Forget guidebooks. Just go.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2018 - 06:44pm PT
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Bob, Courtney and Monte Skinner showed me the ways of the mountains. I will always be greatful of what I learned from them.
Courtney gave me an unsummited summit flag from their 1988 expedition. I got it on my wall!
I always love hearing stories from those guys, especially Courtney. Not only does his family have lakes and passes named for them Courtney has a whole mountain in Antarctica named for him.
Honored to know that family, and consider them friends. Get out in them hills!
"There are never strangers in the mountains, just friends you haven't met" Courtney Skinner.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 29, 2018 - 06:58pm PT
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I'd say something relevant about my recent climbing explorations, but then you would take away some idea about what to expect, or where it is.
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