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Elcap76
Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 4, 2009 - 12:03am PT
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260481
I got it when I was a boy scout, back then the earth rotated anti-clockwise. Anyone out there have a lower number?
Dana
Jaybro - 1970 sounds about right....
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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ya got me, 268300 from 1970, I believe
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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My dad had one in the 2-3 digit range from the 1940s, but REI took it back and gave him a large one. It probably got re-issued to some bigwig?
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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I would have to check with my pop's, he joined in 1966. I remember visiting the Seattle store and thinking wow this is cool!
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DonC
climber
CA
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from the late 60's
104,xxx
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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eat your hearts out: 85,0xx
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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295432, 1971
My father's is something like 25,000.
My MEC number is 224.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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253xxx ... early 70s got it from my Dad.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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I got mine in 1979 and it's in the 900,000s.
Curt
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Fish Finder
Social climber
THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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THAT IS FUNNY TAMI.
thread drift.......
I just acquired a book by John Long that you do the illustrations on ........
if i send it to you with return postage paid, would you sign it for me ?
Best Gregg
KissAss Edit : Please
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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77xxx 1968 (I think)
One time at Indian Rock in the early 1970's, we got into this discussion and Jim Crooks produced an REI card with a three-digit number. He said his friends in Seattle teased him because he didn't join right away, so he had such a high number.
John
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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I first joined in 1969, but haven't used it since the mid-1980s. When I was home this past christmas I rejoined and they had no record of my previous membership, though they did have a Patrick Sawyer on their records. My new number is 1000XXXX.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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I never joined the National Speleological Association - a group of US cavers - because it quickly became apparent to me that one's worth as a caver was measured by how low your membership number was. People were making fun of me because I would have been given a five-digit number, and theirs were all four.
Now if I *had* joined, I'd have a really low number now. Damn.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Well, what can I say? At least Stannard is still older than I---it has been a worry of mine recently that I was the only one aging, and maybe at some point John would actually be my junior. #32957 from 1963
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Tami if we added wiener measurements the all women on the board would be confused cause they would think that the line below was 6" long
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Mean while back at the Co-Op all the men are proving their worthiness by who has smallest member (number).
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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In the late 50's I got 13633. A guy I knew said his was easy to remember, the number of feet in a mile, 5280. I went up to Seattle a few years later REI was in a second floor walk up smaller than some people's living rooms.
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Jim Wilcox
Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
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"What a f*#kin embarrasing thread. Any chance you got yer weiner measurements to add to it ?"
If we do let's us millimeters. Sounds better
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Saltydog
climber
NC
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rei sucks, who cares. not that i never shop there, but i'm
about as proud of that as i am shopping at wally world.
putting honest people out of business since who knows when...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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10 centimeters Fatty?
Hahahahahha! You really left yourself wide open for that and I simply couldn't resist! Bwhahahahaaaa!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Comparing REI co-op numbers- a sure sign that the apocalypse is upon us.
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