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Tradboy
Social climber
Valley
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 29, 2005 - 04:22pm PT
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You probably get a kick out of how often your name gets dropped around here.
Haven't seen you since Harding's memorial, good luck with the shoe company.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 29, 2005 - 04:50pm PT
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There was a little coaxing involved…
Acopa Shoes are pretty awesome. Can’t say I put on a nicer fitting Boot.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
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Nov 29, 2005 - 04:55pm PT
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Got me? Probally just another poser?
Juanito
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Shack
Big Wall climber
So. Cal.
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Nov 29, 2005 - 05:04pm PT
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Check the Mike Reardon thread...
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pc
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 29, 2005 - 05:07pm PT
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Juan, I advise you to cut bait, return to shore, and observe big fish from a safe distance. Occasionally they'll jump out of the water and you get a glimpse.
pc
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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Nov 29, 2005 - 06:58pm PT
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Of course the guy was going to go onto the Reardon thread and defend him. The dood is front and center for his shoe advertising. He ain't going to come on and say, "Yep, Reardon's a liar".
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Roger Breedlove
Trad climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:20pm PT
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Hi John,
I am assuming that you are posting up. We need more old guys on ST that actually still climb. Some of these young whipper snappers are starting to draw the distinction between "I used to climb." and "I climb." Depressing.
BTW, if I tried your shoes, would they make my hair brown, my waist smaller than my ass, and put me on the sharp end of 5.10+? I'd pay mucho for the make over.
Cheers, Roger
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:43pm PT
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Mr President, sir
I think what he was really saying, is he may know Reardon better than most of you. He said he actually climbed with him so he has first hand knowledge of his abilities.
If you know Bachar you would know he would say the same thing about Reardon regardless of who’s shoes were on his feet…
I would think? if someone were to risk so much they would want to climb in the best shoe they could.
For the record Sir, I don't know Reardon but John is my friend and I have no financial reason to post this.
Requesting your resignation sir
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:44pm PT
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It was not really Bachar!
Hey Gramicci, I used one of your ledges when I soloed a Big Wall and it worked great.
Thanks
Juan De Fuca
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Matt
Trad climber
places you shouldn't talk about in polite company
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:48pm PT
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"what the hell [were you] thinking" is right
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:49pm PT
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I voted for him. I plan to never vote again. I am to stupid to vote.
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:55pm PT
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Mr. Gramicci, I feel your pain. However, I was lobbing a preemptive strike(I am good at that) to head off what inevitably will be said about Johns defense of Michael. Just getting the comment out of the way at the beginning. I will not resign until I have brought liberalism to its knees and taken over the world's oil supplies.
Rajmit, nobody in MA voted for me, so I know you are a liar. If you will check the Reardon thread, I spelled Dude correctly there. In this thread, I was just trying to fit in with the average idiot climber that can't spell.
Juan, that was the real John Bachar and I am the real president.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 29, 2005 - 07:59pm PT
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Juanito, thanks
The LAST time I used one I soloed a big wall.
You’re right it wasn’t Bachar, he never really existed he just said he did. Pretty good fake on his email you think.?
Impeach the bushwacker
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
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Nov 29, 2005 - 08:00pm PT
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Well mister President. Thanks for all the uneducated illegals that have destroyed my wonderful state of California.
So nice here in S Cali, come visit soon.
Juanito
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 29, 2005 - 08:08pm PT
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“W” you’re a great politician here on ST as evident in last nights hilarious posts. I vote you keep on breaking the ice on inevitable questions.
I withdraw my request for Impeachment
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Nov 29, 2005 - 09:27pm PT
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Thanks for the welcome guys! I'm new at this chat stuff but Gramicci said I should try it out. Don't know if I can keep up with all of you. How much time do you guys spend on all this? Are you guys drinking beers and stuff? Crazy....
Yeah Reardon wears my shoes and he actually does all this sh#t as well. Really though, it ain't all that impressive like people think. Well, maybe Romantic on-sight is... I'm surprised there aren't more dudes (sp?) out there doing this kinda sh#t. All these young guns are all killing it - what gives? Maybe everyone is out free soloing at night now days and they don't talk about it. Whatever.... hey if ya' need a good guitar check out Blanchard's sh#t - it's da' bomb. And Bush - go solo Romantic Warrior for us all, pleeeez. I'm out. peace.
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T2
climber
Cardiff by the sea
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Nov 29, 2005 - 09:57pm PT
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Hey John, do you ever hear from the General anymore?
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Northern Mexico
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Nov 30, 2005 - 12:43am PT
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If you are John Bachar were did your dad teach math?
Juanito
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Nov 30, 2005 - 01:08am PT
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Words of warning to the new guys:
half of what is typed here, and on bbs in general, is bullsh#t. The other 50% is half-truths, and the rest, well, the good folks shine through on their own merits.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Straight Outta Squamton
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Nov 30, 2005 - 02:54am PT
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Bachar wrote:
How much time do you guys spend on all this?
An embarrassing amount. It's like an addiction.
Are you guys drinking beers and stuff? Crazy....
Fuçk yeah! I just finished a 22 oz Racer 5 IPA...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:38am PT
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Raj, why am I not surprised that you are a Bushite.
Welcome to the forum John, I haven't seen you or mike since 1978, I never climbed with you guys but I have bouldered with you. Actually, of the people on this forum that I have met before, I haven't seen any of them since the late 1970s, though I talked with Ronnie Kauk (but he doesn't post here) in Lee Vining Canyon ice climbing back in 1985.
As mungeclimber said, there is a lot of bull on this site, could be me.
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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Nov 30, 2005 - 11:56am PT
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Hey John!! It's been forever!! How have you been!! MP
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burp
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Nov 30, 2005 - 02:32pm PT
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Welcome John!
Don't want this to sound like hero worship or anything ... I just have a great respect for everything you've accomplished.
I've never met you, but the month/year I started climbing ('86), the first climbing mag I bought had your interview in it. Being an impressionable young man, looking at those pics and reading the interview/article ended up defining what climbing was (and still is) to me (the mag is carefully nestled in my bookcase to this day). I greatly respect your accomplishments (at least what I understand them to be). I still have my favorite climbing picture, of Shultz on the Bachar Yerian from an early Grammicci/Sole Survivor calendar, hanging on my wall at home (much to my wife's chagrin). It as well as your legacy of accomplishments continues to provide motivation for me to get out on the rock regularly.
Thank you for showing me and the world the possibilities!
Hope to meet you someday and get your autograph.
Anyway, enough sappiness...
Enjoy!
burp (Mike)
P.S. Michael Reardon's film spotlighting you is something deserved and long overdue. I look forward to viewing the film!
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10b4me
Trad climber
On that V2 problem at the Happies
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Nov 30, 2005 - 03:35pm PT
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Hi John,
like the two Mikes's posts above, I never met you, but you were one of my heroes back when I started climbing in the 1979. First time I saw you in person was in the mid-eighties at TM. you were soloing the left Watercrack on Lembert.
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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Nov 30, 2005 - 03:46pm PT
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What in the name of Iraq is going on here? I never got so much as a "Nice to see you Mr. President" when I joined this forum. And then this Bachar guy joins, makes a couple of posts defending a friend, and people treat him like God? If it is Bachar, I am having my doubts. Hey, Mr. Bachar, post the last four digits of your phone number if it is really you. If you don't then I will get the IRS on your back.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 30, 2005 - 04:20pm PT
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This one will dispel all doubts if this really is John.
Tell me John, the name of the cameraman in the gillette commercial we did back in the day.
And what did he give me after the shoot was over.
I know Russ Knows ....... so don't tell.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Nov 30, 2005 - 05:50pm PT
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Damn I am curious, what DID he give you Werner? (heh, heh)
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 30, 2005 - 07:03pm PT
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Well, that about sums it up - we're so low brow we need Bachar-Braun ciphers to prevent creeping credtheft from turning us all into just another faceless John. Welcome - do keep your snorkel handy...
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pc
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2005 - 07:37pm PT
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Hmmm...Has a nice ring to it for a route (rout) name.
Bachar-Braun
You could even call it;)
The Bachar-Braun Cipher
if the route finding/move finding was particularly nasty.
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Nov 30, 2005 - 07:42pm PT
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No, call it "Brauny Johnny"
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Nov 30, 2005 - 07:42pm PT
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Werner, I know it too, as I was one of the riggers setting up Bachar and the cameramen for the shots. Remember the time we set up Separate Reality, the light was good and everything was set--then Union lunchtime required the full buffet on the road and by the time it was over we lost the light?
THen of course there was the three day El Cap swing rig that resulted in about a 1.5 second shot for the commercial.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 30, 2005 - 07:49pm PT
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Ducey yea don't we remember that dumb ass hollywood stuff, he he
Does Bachar now have a different line of shoes? No more boreal?
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 30, 2005 - 09:43pm PT
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Werner, read from the beginning to answer that question :-)
For a little controversy, Russ Walling = Bachar and he can be reached at john@acopa.comon
GWB, that’s what you’d call a preemptive strike since Werner set up who else knows his question (besides deuce4)
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:08pm PT
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Mike (Gramicci)
I've read the whole thread from begining to end and it still doesn't confirm if it's John B. WTF there's been so many imposters and posers here that you never really know who the fu-ck is who.
Thus who the fu-ck is bachar in this thread? Russ? impostering? or is it the real deal?
I find it hard to believe it's John.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:15pm PT
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Geeeez… Werner, for someone that doesn’t drink you’re a little testy here.
The first two posts confirm that the imposter does have another boot line, that’s all.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:18pm PT
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Who asked you rammy.
By the way rammy, you say you've climbed for x amount of years? Tell us WTF you've actually climbed in climbing area in the US. I'm really curious as if you actually do (climb) or are you just a lying poser?
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:28pm PT
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Is that you Werner? Yeah it's me bro. Caleb Deschanel (sp?) remember? Anyway I can't believe you're into this chat room stuff! I can barely keep up with this stuff. Who else is into this madness that I know? Chatting's cool but we should all get together and go free soloing and sh#t! Maybe Josh or something... We'll all try to keep up with Reardon - we can take turns and switch off between solos - he'd probably be cool with that. Maybe he'll do some easy sh#t so we can have a chance. Is Deucy on here too? Russ? I'm outta here for now, Don't drink too mch guys. Peace, jb
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Nov 30, 2005 - 10:44pm PT
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Werner, is it still raining up there?
I told you to get out of Dodge (Yosemite) and come down and visit me in another post. With no reply?... Its mellow down here, no rain some pretty good sandstone crags. You can unwind a little, I’ll drink beer :-)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Hi Erik,
Welcome to ST.com. Good to have you on board.
Been on any good walls lately?
LOL!!!
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matty
Big Wall climber
Valencia, CA
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Yeah Klaus it's pretty lame when people have heros that inspire them.
By providing a concrete example of an individual struggling against overwealming odds, heros help give us the power, and will to believe in our own goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of living.
Matt
Edit: Klaus's post is now missing but he was basically calling everyone who publicly stated Bachar was a hero a mindless heard of sheep.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Yo John, Once more into the breach! Stir it up.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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healyje: snorkel? Hell, you need a shovel for this forum.
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John F. Kerry
Social climber
Boston, MA
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...joy of living...
Perhaps the lack of this joy is Klaus' problem. When you hate yourself and are mad at the world, heroes are irritating.
Oh, and welcome to the forum JB. My Boreal "Jazz" shoes lasted 10 years and got resoled 6 times. Hated to see those things go.
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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It has been brought to my attention that faulty intelligence has led us to believe that John Bachar was actually participating in this forum. This faulty intelligence directly led to the sickening lovefest that we now see. Knowing that the intelligence was not genuine, we are face with a decision. Do we cut and run? Or do we stay the course and continue to act as if it is really John? I feel it is in our best interests to stay the course.
Have a nice day and God bless America!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Like I said, you need a shovel for this forum, and of course especially for crap from the usual suspects, Kofi and GWB. You too K. Jealousy comes to mind.
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burp
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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"sickening lovefest? superhomo's?"
hmmm ... came off a little thick, eh?
Hey, when one has some respect for a guy who has inspired many a climber (only non-California climbers?) and you want to commend him for it when a chance sighting (real or not, to be determined) comes upon supertacos ... all it comes to is grief!?!
Well, the praise has been unleashed ... . The horror!!
Sorry, I haven't anything else to contribute ... talk amongst yourselves.
Enjoy!
burp!
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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klaus=Carson Daly
Omigod, I saw him on TRL like this one time...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! He looked right at me!
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WBraun
climber
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Gramicci
It's still raining as of today and it's actually dumping. I can't get out of dodge because I'm house sitting and other commitments. But I don't mind at all, it's really cool here now, actually it's the best time of the year. Nobody here and no weird scene that's always present in Yosemite.
I was in El Cap meadows yesterday morning and there was not one person nor any vehicles there. So cool.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Sounds cool Werner, I’ll have to come there and drink beer! Do you have an extra computer?
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Michelle
Ice climber
my mother
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I have a climb called 'Carson Daley is My Bitch'. 5.5 on a dirtly loose pile of crap. fun though.
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WBraun
climber
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Jody
I was in LA and then I came back I never made it to Wawona, I can't call you on a phone because I can't hear a phone conversation. I havn't used a phone since 1972. I looked around to see if you were here in the valley on Sat and Sun but I didn't see you.
To call me here in Yosemite you can leave a message at the SAR cache.
Mike (Gramicci) I've got extra computers or if you have your own Laptop you can easily get connected to my network either hardline Ethernet or wireless.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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WBraun
Yo Werner! Check out the Yosemite mummy cave for us all would ya? Take some pics if you find it. Thanks, Bachar
(see "Yosemite mummy" thread)
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Anybody who thinks Bachar never fell soloing never heard his Saxaphone solos in the Ahwahnee Dorms in the early 80s...
A few years later, he was shredding though.
Welcome. Don't get addicted. We've even got Werner in our clutches now.
PEace
karl
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Shack
Big Wall climber
So. Cal.
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Hey! What happened to Klaus's post?
Does that mean that it's OK to start the,
"Eric Kohl is my hero" thread now?
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Wonder
climber
WA
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i cant believe all the old names being thrown out. do people still remember Yabo? Bachar' sax & his burnt down house?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Yeah, it's the gathering of the tribes. We have a few more names to go before we get together for the final event. The big question is "what kind of event?"
Battle to the death (there can be only one...)
or
Tupperware party (good for leftovers in the cooler of your van)
or
Everybody invests in a gated retirement community in El Portal. Harding's old climber's home made real.
or?... Subject for another thread
Peace
Karl
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Jeff, he's afraid if he goes down the ST road, he might not be able to stop.
He know's where the skeltons are buried
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Ca
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What name does Roy Boy post under?
And by the way, the retirement communitee is already forming but it is in Josh. Move there soon or be left out! I have dibs on KP's trailer on the side of the house.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
NOT FOR LOAN™ CC3
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Sorry ShortTimer,
That is where Powell keeps his harem locked up during daylight hours. Maybe AlDude can squeeze you in next door.
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akclimber
Trad climber
Eagle River, AK
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I just got off the phone with John. It is definitely NOT him posting here. Someone is having a load of fun with you guys but I won't reveal who it is.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
NOT FOR LOAN™ CC3
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Yeah... my spare crib.....
You would not be thinking that when you see me over there with the rubber gloves on scrubbing toilets. If it WAS my spare crib, I could really get you a good rate.
You could always sleep in my van.... got a leaky WiFi you can tap into.
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabon movin on
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Anybody who thinks Bachar never fell soloing never heard his Saxaphone solos in the Ahwahnee Dorms in the early 80s...
Was he any good at the horn? What did he play on?
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Hmmmm, maybe I should rent my shack for a couple of months. 2.5 acres,1 mile from entrance,fenced yard,shade trees - 500 a month? 400 for a chick!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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"Anybody who thinks Bachar never fell soloing never heard his Saxaphone solos in the Ahwahnee Dorms in the early 80s...
Was he any good at the horn? What did he play on?"
He was disciplined about practicing anyway. Now you can't practice a saxophone in a women's dormatory (or in your van parked outside) without making some noise, and it's not exactly the ideal solo instrument either. His practice sessions were infamous amoung some locals.
A number of years later I heard him play in a local band at a traditional Tuolumne Meadows closing party and he sounded great.
PEace
karl
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straightandnarrow
Sport climber
Salt Lake City
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Welcome John, great being lovers with you in 1983, Tuolomne Meadows, mid- July.
Don't ya remember the rubber gloves? We climber something hard on Fairview, then did it again that night.
Jen
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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ummmm, pics pleeze?
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straightandnarrow
Sport climber
Salt Lake City
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Bob, don't make me post pics, otherwise I'll have to post a pic of you and I having a real similar type of experience (if ya know what I mean).
It could be too disturbing!
Love ya, Jenny
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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oh, those halcyon days....
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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shite mang, ya done one ski track, ya done 'em all...
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426
Sport climber
The Acquittal. TN.
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And Bush - go solo Romantic Warrior for us all, pleeeez. I'm out. peace.
Heh-classic, Mr. Bachar.
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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"And Bush - go solo Romantic Warrior for us all, pleeeez. I'm out. peace.
Heh-classic, Mr. Bachar."
Hey, 426, pull your hero-worshipping, butt-licking nose out of Mr. Bachar's ass and I will challenge you to a solo-fest any day. After what I have been through leading this nation of malcontents, bitchers and complainers, I have no fear of anything.
As far as Mr. Bachar goes, at his age, if he is not a conservative yet there is no hope. :) Pussies like 426 are just part of the extra chromosome crowd.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Hey Georgie (that you Jody?)
Bachar runs a capitalist organization that would benefit from your money-grubbing for business policies, and he'd still like to see you impeached and face a war crimes tribunal.
I respect that more than his climbing ability.
Peace
Karl
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Bart Fay
Social climber
Redlands, CA
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Quite the rant, sister.
What a waste of effort when you end your diatribe by invoking Waugh to
justify your opinions.
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George_W_Bush
Big Wall climber
Crawford, TX
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Karl Babble, I am not Jody, and I swear to God. Jody has found a salvation your kind
will never know. I feel there is hope for Mr Bachar however. Whether he realizes it
or not, The Lord has provided for him during dangerous soloing, and will continue
to do so. On the other hand, a devout communist such as yourself might be beyond reach.
My administration will continue to keep a close eye on you, looking for any anti-American
activities. You had better watch your step!
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426
Sport climber
The Acquittal. TN.
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awwwww, I hurt little Georgie's feelings. What's with the "homenemies" (I'm more into grits, fyi)...
Remember when you wuz "e-harmonizin" W? (True story)
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