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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:03am PT
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The government should make some new laws against old people going out climbing;...it's just not safe for persons after a certain age. I need to get over it, and find a nice, safe new past time.........stamps, coins, movies, tennis, golf, bingo, shuffleboard, computor gaming, football on T V........something else besides the dirty and dangerous climbing game;...that's for kids, not grown adults with families.......I got a boo boo yesterday climbing......AND it wasn't my fault;.....
Trival move;...just cranked into it wrong.
There must have been dirt on my shoe.
The rock was hot and in the sun all day.
Too much coffee.
Not enough coffee.
I was thinking about Obama OR McCain as president, and I fell.
Mosquitos distracted me.
Must have stepped on the rope.
Overtrained.
My belayer pulled me off.
The sun was in my eyes.
Didn't have C4 rubber.
Didn't have lunch.
Flash pump.
Hangover.
Too much beer.
Not enough beer.
Rock was choss.
Hard to concentrait on anything less than 5.12.
I'm prefer limestone; granite is too slippery.
I suck.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:04am PT
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Jesus Todd, you could use a shave.
Curt
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:07am PT
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Picture taken just before fall......
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:08am PT
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You better get Locker or Dee Wane to stitch that thing up.
Lordy, thats a 5.12 at least, you deserved to get dropped.
I mean hurt.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:12am PT
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Narly dood,
Well I have done my best to keep you out of the high hills.
Someone must be responsible!
Aloha,
wil
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:13am PT
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Chossy J Tree climbs;...low angle dummy domes.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:13am PT
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Come on Todd and face the truth!
You and I both know it all started with the Kennedy's. Oh, and I dont wanna short-change our current "Hitler Youth" Pope.
Admit it, you are lucky to be alive heathen!
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:16am PT
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Damn Kennedys;...smoking pot in the White House, sleeping with movie stars, and driving drunk off of bridges;...giving all our hard earned money to crackheads on welfare. THAT is what we get for putting an Irish Catholic in the White House...
Climbing is a dirty and dangerous sport too....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:20am PT
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Climbing is a sport for the young;...not those in their sunset years. Brett Pinar, age 17, on route;......I led up behind him;....you saw the results..........( I need to get over it.....I'm toast.....)
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Loomis
climber
(>_
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:23am PT
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Todd, didn't you mean Dead Kennedy's?
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:23am PT
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I like to watch others climb, but really have no business myself on the rock;....I'm WAY too old. Here is Tim Pinar (another old guy) doing his thing....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:27am PT
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Reesa Ashbacher following a long scary traverse;.....it's just not worth the risk;......for leader or follower. I should have stayed home cleaning house, changing diapers, and watching football on T V.....next time, I will know...I didn't even leave my house until 3:30.......and just LOOK at the trouble I got into.........what was I thinking?
Climbing is a dirty and dangerous sport.......did I mention those damn Kennedys?
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Loomis
climber
(>_
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:36am PT
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Todd, Czech your e-mail please.
Scott.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:40am PT
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Crappy 1/4 inch bolts, grainy rock, ......no place for a 53 year old gentleman with 3 young children at home;...what was I thinking?.....
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 03:44am PT
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Climbing is for fools....everyone knows it, but just doesn't respond....get over yourselves....
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Loomis
climber
(>_
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:51am PT
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Lucky you, we got rained out of church dome today! (Hate you)
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:55am PT
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Todd, no wonder, you were up there taking pictures when you shoulda been focused on the climbing!
Gawd, I miss those josh rocks. You're a lucky man...
Thanks for the pics!!!
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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:58am PT
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It was the white socks!
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Sep 30, 2008 - 04:05am PT
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It's very unseemly to start a climbing thread in the political season.
Besides, you got that boo-boo because you were SPORT climbing.
Being a sport climber is ALMOST as bad as being a rethuglican, you know.
And climbing on nasty quartz monzonite, good god man, what were you thinking?????
Come to the south, an climb on the good stuff. Ask the muppet woman about LK and big green, you'd love those places. There ain't no slick water polished granite in the south, ROTFLMAO!!!
And our sand stone is NOT going to break, hell, the good areas for sand stone were under heat and pressure and have a better matrix to begin with than that stale bread you call sand stone out west.
I can show you climbs on sandstone that have water running over them most of the time, and you never have to worry about breaking a hold. No three day waiting period here!
PS I should dig up my list of climbing failure excuses for you. It is extensive, and many are applicable, and besides, it's a really funny list.
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dogtown
climber
Where I once was,I think?
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Sep 30, 2008 - 04:09am PT
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Maybe you should move to the coast take up Surfing it’s a old guy sport.
Or maybe fly fishing?
Or maybe just take photos of others?
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