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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Jan 31, 2014 - 10:04pm PT
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I hear a lot of Scandinavians ended up re-locating in Monrovia because of the grazing possibilities...?
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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I drove by Fargo on the interstate about seven years ago and saw a very large performance center announcing Keith Urban that Saturday night. I finally saw him last summer here in California. It seemed that the performance center offered a lot of various events.
I read all of the Little House On the Prairie books to my kids. The stories of the blizzards were entrancing. I had experienced many blizzards growing up in Nebraska. They are always exciting.
North Dakota has a lot of open space then and probably does still. Living in country, with only the weather to contend with, can be very healthy and relaxing. And it can keep you strong into your late ages. The vascularity of an old farmer's arm will tell you why.
Perhaps in the North Dakota, like in Nebraska, people have to be more civil to each other because they are stuck inside with each other for so many months. Cabin fever can be difficult to control. You have to learn to not escalate.
Yes, the wind blows strongly, and I mean strongly, about every third day. It can make you grumpy. But it can also make you feel connected to nature. I miss it.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I went to North Dakota once.
It was so cold in North Dakota that I took a sh#t in my own pants just to have a warm place to sit down.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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I've been here since April...I've hauled out a couple hundred thousand barrels of crude. I make about ten grand a month. I'm very cold, all the time. You adapt or die, like always.
Good luck.
I could give tips to folks with a cdl license. It's what I do.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Skully! Always good to hear from you!
Sounds like all is going well----& cold.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Hiya Fritz.....naw it's a fricken heat wave. It got up to ten today. That's ten above.
Just going to bed... gotta get up early...do it all again. Colder tomorrow...Arrggh.
Ps.....pm sent
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Skully! Hope you can make it back down to COR in late June. We are working on a group camp with Donini and other folks you have climbed with!
Stay tuned----& PM me your new enail.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Cap'n...Hey!.....Maybe i should call you, Cap'n money bags...
ps...Did you keep your place in eye-dee ho?....
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Thanks, Baser. Every now and then I am reminded how cool you really are!
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Skully let's talk details send me a pm scott.k.peterson@gmail.com
Plaid
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Sent you a pm, Scott. Yes, Nita I still have my place in Boise....headed there in a couple weeks to do some relaxing.
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GLee
Social climber
MSO
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Skully,
We met this year @ FL2013 in C4 (MH, Jstan, HossJulia, Plaidman & wife, and others)...
I am interested in what you are doing
PM me at: glee90@hotmail.com
I'll tell you about my cold weather credentials (& others)....
I do not have a CDL, but grew up driving grain trucks in my cousins fields near Williston (to 1964, then moved to Missoula), and a 1500 gal BLM water tanker for Roadside in Fairbanks, AK (1977-1978)... Missoula has Sage CDL training available.
Thanks in advance,
Greg Lee
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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1959 - 1962: Glasgow, Montana, a few miles south of the Canadian border.
Survived it.
Kind of enjoyed it from time to time.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Skully, how is it going? If you have a couple of days off run down to the hills and we can knock out a tower route or climb some ice. The cave is getting fat finally.
A lot of people are buying property in the Black Hills that work in ND. You can live pretty large on $100k around here.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Howdy, Mike, Greg & all...here's what I do. There are over 8000 oil wells here, more going in every day. They run pipelines to get the oil to refineries....eventually. Until then, we truck the oil to pipeline stations or railheads. A million barrels a day means MANY trucks. There are many openings. They truck everything...rigs, frack sand, water, heavy equipment, etc. It's utter chaos most times. Madness.....you get used to it.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Plaid, when did you live in grand lake? I have two brothers that live in the valley. One in fraser one on Tabertrash. They have been there for over twenty years and climb a lot. Pretty small place really.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Did you hear?
North Dakota is trying to secede to Canada as a tourism ploy.
If ND suceeds in becoming part of Canada, then ND can advertise as Canada's southern-most - and balmiest - province.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Mike I was in Grand Lake from 95 to 2002. Didn't start climbing till 2004.
Plaid
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spulver
climber
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May 15, 2014 - 09:46pm PT
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I've been working in Williston, ND since last fall. I'm getting out of shape, anyone interested in taking weekend trips down to South Dakota or Devil's Tower?
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