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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I lived in Idaho for one winter...near sandpoint...it was always 15 below...I finally left cause it felt like the wolves were after me...Bitchin place but totaled my truck when one of the locals left a boulder in the road...F*#k idaho...! RJ
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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RJ! You are on course bro!
F*#k idaho...! RJ
As soon as my Parole is over: I'm out of this state!
But why listen to me?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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The road crews in Idaho were illeterate also...I never figured out what Don't be a GUBERIF meant...Last straw....RJ
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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On a positive note...The first television was built in Idaho...Was it Rexburg...? RJ
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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RJ--re:
On a positive note...The first television was built in Idaho...Was it Rexburg...? RJ
We are sooooo proud of that fact. Thank you for mentioning that the people's favorite opiate was invented here.
Of course, we are also proud of the huge amount of nuclear waste buried in an active aquifer, that drains into the Snake River.
You'll get a "warm-glow" in Idaho!
The Nuclear Waste State!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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The cool thing about Idaho was being able to get a drivers license at the local mini-mart and a 12 pack to go...Is that still happening..? And what about those 24 hr. drive-thru , chain-saw sharpening shops? Saved my ass numerous times..RJ
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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RJ: That stuff must be a north-Idontno biz-thing. The LDS majority keeps a pretty tight lid on that beer and all-night chain saw sharpening down here in the flats.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Fritz, Philo Farnsworth went to high school with my great grandmother in the early 1920’s in Rigby, ID (my birthplace). He had plans for T.V. systems even then I understand.
He experimented with mechanical scanning devices in college at BYU but didn’t perfect the all-electronic scanning systems until about 1929 at his lab in San Francisco.
Rigby broadcasts Philo as their “home town boy” in a big way but he was actually born in Beaver, Utah and moved to Idaho at age 11.
(Nice photo of “Ole Murphy”)
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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born in north Idaho
grew up running the Boise hills (chased by rifle shots a few times)
taught myself rock climbing on rim rock with a 60' manila rope from the hardware store (just for fun, not as a sport...the only climber in the state so far as i knew)
ran rivers, including the complete Salmon, before anyone even thought of a permit (just for fun...not considered a sport)
(if you need a permit; it is not 'wilderness'!)
hiked and fished and climbed in the Sawtooths with not another soul to be seen
(if you ever saw a distant campfire at night; hike the opposite way the next day!)
solo climbed for several years before realizing there were other climbers in the USA; outside of Europe
made the long trip to the Tetons and bouldered with John Gill, in awe of his abilities
(continued soloing in the Tetons...when that was illegal)
one of the first rock climbers i met was Royal Robbins in the Tetons and easily followed him on the hardest grade of the day: 5.9
...that was the start of my demise; sucked down to Tahquitz and Yosemite...
the mountains are a way of life...still not so sure about this 'sport' stuff...
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