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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Indeed. My kids live here, so I'm always here.
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Ooooooooo, Supertopo BCOD* sesh as the Pipeworks!
(I won't step foot in Pipeworks in the afternoon for the next 4 months, too frickin' hot in there!)
*BCOD = Butt Crack of Dawn
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Redwood City
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Anybody want to chime in on a Sacramento vs. Fresno debate ?
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Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
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105 degrees today's high.....
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Biking home from work feels like being slowly baked in a convection oven...
(LOVE THE BCOD!)
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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I do much better with cold than heat and sac isn't that bad. Granted I live at 400 ft elevation and on a creek, outside of sac so my place is cooler than most areas.
If we run the whole house fan all night the house is downright cold in the morning.
It's really only about 30 days a year that it's too hot. And that's only from noon to 8. So you get outside in the AM or stay in the water or at least shade.
Dingus is right the fog is worse. But as soon as you get some elevation you'll have less and less of it.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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that's why i liked living in Auburn. seemed like the fog couldn't make it past Newcastle:)
But driving down Auburn-Folsom rd. the fog could be beyond "pea-soup", once i pulled over and got out to clean the windshield and couldn't find my car.
On a positive note, that fog is a major reason Penryn grew the best peaches in the whole wide world!
And Asian-pears. And Persimmons. And, And,,,,,
Ho man, bring me home(add slurpping noise)......
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Again, I'm glad I don't have to deal with that!
You guys are in denial
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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And I'm glad I do t have to deal with living in Wyoming!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Come to the Vedauwoo Sushifest and tell me there's a better place on the planet to be😎
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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It's all trade offs.
I'm sure being near Vedauwoo is awesome if climbing is the focus of your life.
I'm 1 hr to Sugar Bowl or Squaw Valley or Donner Summit, and 3.5 hours to Yosemite. 3 hours to surfing.
Vedauwoo is 6 hours to Jackson Hole.
I just went to a family fest in our little downtown and it was 85 degrees at 8PM and so nice.
I've been tempted to move to Hawaii as I've got family there, but I just can't give up the mountains, as much as I love the ocean and surf.
If I could afford two places things would be different, but NorCal is a great compromise to have so many great outdoor sports within a few hours.
Plus you have the mediterranean climate, warm dry summers so you can climb, etc. almost any day without worrying about being rained out, and wet winters so you can still ski and have trees and green places.
It would be tough for me to live in Sacramento proper, or pretty much any city. But where I'm at I'm in the country and still convenient to everything we need (which is important because I have kids).
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Anybody want to chime in on a Sacramento vs. Fresno debate ?
One valley town is pretty much. The same as another... Apologies to Camus
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Life is short, pick your playgrounds well!
Today I'm headed an hour up a dirt road to a secret crag with all day shade, unlimited first ascent possibilities, free camping, no traffic between here and there, no other climbers, dry air, 4g, the works.
OT
Interesting digression back there about vedauwoo/ Laramie and skiing... Ten miles west of Vedauwoo ( don't call it "the Voo") @ Lincoln summit ( high point of I-80, btw) is the training trail complex for the University of Wyoming cross country ski team. Some of the best skate skiing I've ever encountered! And I've toured the west for it.
It's possible to ski in Vedauwoo at some point pretty much every winter, though that's more of a novelty, given the wind blown nature of the high plains...
Though Laramie will never be known as a ski town, it's only 35 miles to the Snowy Range ski area, and the back country skiing in said range.
Beyond that steamboat is closer than Tahoe is to Sacto, and the greenies don't do chain law the way they do in Ca. So that's a whole hassle avoided...The entire I-70 ski corridor is about the same distance as Tahoe is from the BA.
It's colder, but that's part of why the snow is so much better than on the west coast.
Or as has been said, you can drive six hours to Jackson, with even better snow and colder temps. But then you have to deal with Jacksons hole, aka Hollywood....as wyomingites know, county 22 isnt really part of Wyoming...
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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It's great having people appreciate and love where they live. It's the chance a place has to become even better.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You gotta find your own Sacramento. You're gonna be stuck there a lot, make it count!. Mine is Moab/ Laramie with an admixture of NorCal and county 18. And believe me, I've tried them all! ... west of Chicago, anyway.
If I seem critical of the real Sacto, it's a cautionary tale for people like me for whom it would not work, ( dew point, traffic, allergens) though it might appear it would at first glance. Same for Denver, Salt lake, Reno, Bakersfield, Fresno, Tempe;all basically the same city, with various nuance.
You don't always get to second guess these things, play to win!!
Once upon a time I would have thought Moab was too hot, until I explored the nature of heat more closely,, and became able to exit it, in the hottest months.
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John M
climber
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100 degrees.. pfft..
never thought I might end up living in this kind of heat.. laughs on me I guess.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Where is that John?
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John M
climber
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I'm in bullhead city Jaybro..
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Got it.
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dikhed
climber
State of fugue and disbelief
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the voo sounds great
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