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Lynne Leichtfuss
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 7, 2009 - 12:49am PT
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Trying to get rid of the stuff the shizzle and the sheee and simplify life.
Anyway I found Jerry Moffat's ear ring I won from him mucho years ago in a, well you might have guessed it, a beer chugging contest bitd at a party in J. Tree at Ash Gordon's house. It wasn't a crazy party....our four kids were there so we had to behave.
What's your best find ?
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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^^^^^
I was at that party... and got to see Moffat crawling around in the bushes hurling! Amateurs!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 12:59am PT
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Fun Times Russ, Mussey, Fish.....bitd it was fish.
EDIT: Kids were enthralled with Maria's story about Ash and his Ashes on the mantel there. We we young and cremation hadn't become a table topic yet.
Russ, Dude, if yo still out there. Maria also told the kiddos that Ash had a lion and some other creatures in his back yard. I saw empty pens. Do you think this was fo' real ?
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Well Russ, not sure if Lynne was one of those amateurs back then, but now the girl has got skills. She won Chug Fest on Thurs. night at Facelift. You go Lynne.
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Denise Umstot
climber
Princess of the El Cap Bridge!
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That girl has had practice! Chug away Lynnie!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 01:04am PT
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Slakkey, it was so Grate to meet you and your beautiful family at the Lift. Thanks for saying Howdy. The key is save yourself, only have one beer, and drink it with Zest. :D oh, yeah, and focus.....hehehe
Edit: I think Russ meant the Brits were amateurs.....just guessing tho.
Double Edit: disclaimer, last time I did this was @ 6 years ago in the yucatan pennisula. Only time in life I lost... to a New York stockbroker....by one swallow, we had a rematch same results. I think something funky was up.....just a gut feeling.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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She beat Moffet, she had some skills BITD....
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Zest & Focus.......Hmmmmm.
This sounds Key. Yes, I think so.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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From what I've seen, Lynne is certainly no amateur..... Moffat on the other hand..... belonged in diapers back then.
Edit: Ash had two lions, an ocelot, a cassowary and 3 Haitians penned up back there for years.
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Lynne, it was nice meeting you too. The whole week was a great time. It is a good event and was a whole lot of fun too.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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You should give it to the YCA and Ken, for the museum. The earring, that is - not the beer.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 01:16am PT
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Back to the closet.....
Climbing related....the red swami everyone wore (never ever a harness for anything, did they even make harnesses in the 70's and 80's ????) The original blue tiny little rack used to carry everything, a leeper and a C- 3 USA, and the famous orange helmet so popular then.
edit: somehow I don't think russ may be kidding about the Haiitians. Pretty certain they were caretakers for Mr. Ash. and jess worked for him.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 01:28am PT
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Mighty Hiker, Hi
It is a very cool earring for it's time. I had never seen one like it which is why we arranged the competition (read, lynne wanted that earring). It is a multi colored fly fish lure...teal blue, yellow, orange and several speckled hawk like brown colors with a pearl on top.
I doubt Ken wants it....but he can have it. Other wise, I'm wearing it to the Allied Climbers of San Diego Party this Friday. :D
By the way, Jerry and his friend Chris lived with us for several weeks when they migrated from England and I have the utmost respect for both of them. They were awesome with our 4 kids and Dan Boy gave them a work list to accomplish every day before he left for his job. They were fun, honest and I enjoyed their stay.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Off topic, Russ' avatar of Sham-Wow Vince's mug shot after he got arrested for beating up a hooker is priceless.
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hooblie
climber
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closets can be cleaned? i thought skipping town was the only option. btw, was ash called ash before the cremation?
in the late seventies i insinuated myself yabo style into a scene called the monastary, which was a rental reserved for climbers in a little ski town in montana. the understanding was that regardless of how the rent might or might not be getting paid, the appearance of a tent in the back yard was to be taken in stride. this hub of climberdom was legendary for decades of absentee landlordism, rights of tenancy could be passed most casually, and the owner deserves much credit as both a practitioner and benefactor of the art.
a few artifacts of prehistoric european climbing equipment hung on appointed places on the wall for long enough to etch their image on the faded paint, and a repository of topos and notes passed through each regime. door casings were polished since well before finger boards were marketed.
but upstairs, in a tiny closet crowded by the slope of the roof, a stack of old summit, and mountain magazines dating back into single digits layed heaped in a scrambled pile and provided clues to more than a generation of dirtbags, that reckless, can do attitudes inspired deeds in far off places, by people we heard spoken of again, and that we might later come to realize, were huge
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 02:08am PT
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Fluoride, nice to see yo pic....looking great Gal. Miss you, see ya at Josh this fall I hope.
Hooblie, nicely written....great share.
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hooblie
climber
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tami, i'm sipping tea, my pinkies are pumped
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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"Best Found Thing Cleaning Out Your Closet...climbing related"
My climbing partner for a next day's big effort...
Worst found thing cleaning out my closet... climbing related
My girl friend with him...
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2009 - 02:39am PT
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Here's hoping nada....evah' ! Closets are for stuff not humans.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there flouride, say... i been WONDERING where ol' russ got that mug shot from... thought it was just off the street or something...
seems i just now read the other thread as to who that "character" is---wow, you learn SO much around here don't you? ;)
okay lynne and all:
say... best "found thing", cleaning out your closet, huh.... ?
climbing related huh?
well now:
i've been finding CHEWED-UP hula skirts and i'm none to happy....
climbing related, right?
yep...
the ol' cats are the culprits and they climb fast, hard, and high...
night or day... empty or full...
*more often empty, i'd reckon, as they seem to spitting-up chewed-up hula skirt grass everywhere! oh my!
needlessly leaving color-dye spot all over, for to trail them... :O
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