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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2011 - 09:16am PT
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Keep on appreciating.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 13, 2011 - 09:23am PT
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"When you're the world's most famous top roper, you take your life in your own hands every day"
"People have know idea how incredibly harsh it is"
"I've been called that"
"Who are you? the parking monitor?"
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frog-e
Trad climber
Imperial Beach California
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May 13, 2011 - 10:22am PT
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"The future of rock climbing is top rope self belay".
 Dick Cilley 2011
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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May 13, 2011 - 10:51am PT
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Always a fun time when Cilley shows up in the Butte area! Hope he's able to make again this summer.
Cheers!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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May 23, 2011 - 08:32am PT
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Good stuff! Go, Cilley. oh, uh.... Mr. Cilley.
Right on.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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May 23, 2011 - 04:17pm PT
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Couple years ago at JT for Thanksgiving, come guy came by the campfire trying to sell some gear. He had no style, no banter, and no ability to bargain, and when someone blurted, "well, you're no Dick Cilley" the entire campfire roared with laughter and the poor clueless punter couldn't flee fast enough.
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euro-brief-guy
Boulder climber
Auburn, ca
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May 23, 2011 - 04:22pm PT
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Wasn't it Cilley who once came up with the best excuse for not getting up something....."I'm just plain not good enough"
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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May 23, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
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Wasn't it Cilley who once came up with the best excuse for not getting up something....."I'm just plain not good enough"
I think it was more along the lines of why others could not do his routes or boulder problems.... "they" were "flat not good enough".
He used to slay all the '80's glory boys and fluffy mag climbers with that simple axiom all the time. Poor bastards never knew what hit them.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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May 23, 2011 - 05:30pm PT
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You're gonna love my nuts
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euro-brief-guy
Boulder climber
Auburn, ca
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May 23, 2011 - 05:37pm PT
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Russ,
Thanks for the clarification......I forgot the context.
So what you're saying is all those who have tried and failed on Tonic Boom are "plain not good enough"?
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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May 23, 2011 - 05:43pm PT
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So what you're saying is all those who have tried and failed on Tonic Boom are "plain not good enough"?
Well.... I wouldn't say that. but, if you said they were "flat not good enough", I would concur.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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May 23, 2011 - 06:05pm PT
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^^^^
They were wrong. Still a "flat not good enough" scenario. It's binary.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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May 23, 2011 - 06:23pm PT
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sort of a pass/fail educational situation
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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May 24, 2011 - 06:50am PT
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Dick sounds like the real deal to me!
Cheers to you man, keep on cranking!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 25, 2016 - 10:18pm PT
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A very Happy Birthday bump to Mr. Cilley. After looking at the Butte bouldering video, I do believe you are aging well.
Hope to meet you one of these days!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 25, 2016 - 10:53pm PT
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Our boy in action -- fit, funny, master of dry sarcasm, and beneath the battle-hardened surface a genuinely nice man. A credit to the scene and a boon to the campfire folklore. When he was on, he was really on. And I don't mean drugs.
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