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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 11, 2012 - 06:38pm PT
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Yay!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 11, 2012 - 06:45pm PT
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Sir Steel - you guys need to come up for this trip!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jun 11, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
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Hope you can make it, Chris.
Lookin' forward to seeing everyone!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 14, 2012 - 12:43am PT
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Just back from "the city" for a 3 day fest. Warm days and coolish nights with no rain or snow.
What's not to like!
Here is the update Meet & Greet info & list!
The updated definite and maybe lists.
City of Rocks Campsite #20 at 7:00 PM on Tuesday July 3rd.
If you plan on attending?? please RSVP on this thread, or if you don't want the world to know------shoot me a PM. I need to get a handle on quantity of snacks & drinks!
Definite! Fritz, Heidi, Brokedown, Crimpergirl, Brassnuts, Pente, Skully,hossjulia,Stein Sitzmark, two Idaho hottie-climber women, and Jello & Connie, and another Colorado ST member.
Maybe: Ezra, Brian in SLC, Mighty Hiker, & Apolobamba. Hope all you folks can make it!
Sorry, but dogs are excluded.
We climbed on Monday afternoon and got to meet with Donini and scuffyb.
We climbed hard on Tuesday morning and early afternoon (I'm a mass of bruises and sore muscles), then took a shower and checked phone & emails in Almo and climbed again late afternoon.
I lost the climbing camera for the day and just accepted "Donini-climbing-punishment."
Back in camp on Tuesday evening we got to see a true example of "team-building!"
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Jun 14, 2012 - 01:04am PT
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Hey Crimpergirl, did you bring Pente the cat to the base routes of El Cap a bunch of years ago? I remember seeing a cat there about 12 or so years ago chilling at El Cap with it's owners and thought it was really funny.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 14, 2012 - 08:35am PT
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Relic - not Pente - she's only about 8 years old. Her predecessor Puma was also a traveling rock climbing cat (having the only Feline Ascent of a dome in Tuolumne. Pente got tooled on and attempted ascent in Tuolumne though on a leash). I'll have to ask BrassNuts about Puma in Yosemite. She was B.C. (before Crimpergirl). :)
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Jun 14, 2012 - 09:52am PT
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I'd totally be there but I'm getting a new shoulder on the 2nd ;-) prolly not going to move around a lot that week...
hang a rope for me !! then somebody 2nd it and cry on toprope for me too ;-)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 14, 2012 - 10:09am PT
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then somebody 2nd it and cry on toprope for me too
I may be the man for the job! :) Good luck on the new shoulder and heal well and fast!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2012 - 11:09pm PT
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pagenmonkeyboy!
We will toast you at the meet & greet!
Best wishes for quick-healing!
Sorry you can't make it to the party!
I will be visiting "the city" off and on for the next two weeks!
Anyone else around in mid to late June?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jun 16, 2012 - 01:23am PT
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Seth & Jeebus will be there next week. I will be there for the weekend, that's my plan, anywho. I have a mostly black 2 door jeep Cherokee.
So there!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 16, 2012 - 09:29am PT
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Can't remember if we posted it, but we are in campsite 12. Can't miss us - we'll have the big rig...traveling in style...24' Cougar...living the life of luxury...White pick-up pulling...6# cat...in a dress...
Ha! Channeled Todd Gordon for a moment. :)
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jun 16, 2012 - 03:31pm PT
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Ahem! Spewers must spew, I suppose. Whatever.....
Thanks for the info, Callie. That was pretty funny, too. Todd Gordon, indeed!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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Supposed to be quite windy today & tomorrow at City of Rocks with top gusts up to 40mph. We have delayed our visit by a day, but we will see how windy it is tomorrow.
Temps will be real pleasant though!
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jun 21, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
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Uhhh...."thread drift?"
I may not be able to make the Greet and Meet after all, due to very dry and soon-to-be-hot weather; I need to get on with my haying operation.
This isn't a firm cancellation, but a thought that's been on my mind.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2012 - 04:24pm PT
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It was "mildly breezy" Monday & Tuesday nights at The City, and I shivered in the shade whenever it overtook me on Tuesday.
Mark, one of my old climbing buddies who hasn't climbed in years, went to The City with Heidi and me, and I warmed him up on Monday, then Donini kindly put the rope up on some harder routes on Tuesday for us.
Mark gamely tried everything, as did Heidi.
Wednesday morning, Mark, Heidi, and I went back to pleasant 5.6 & 5.7 climbing, but Mark was getting a little played out. I think he is ready to replace his vintage 1978 RR Verappes too.
It was great to meet other friends of Donini’s that post on ST, and socialize with them.
Ionlyski (Arne) from Kalispel, his wonderful wife April, and their two talented, polite, & hot-climbing teenagers were fun to see climbing and pleasant to talk with.
TWP from Mancos is a hoot to be around, and a good climber too.
Donini’s classy & beautiful wife Angela had driven up for the event along with his Ouray friend Roger. Both are great people and very good climbers.
The people made up for the nasty evening wind & chill!
Crimpergirl! I'm sure that takes care of the cold weather. 82 F. there today.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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I have spent much of the last two weeks at City of Rocks, climbing with Donini, Heidi, and other friends.
This weekend! I'll see what I can do for whitewater-training with my beginning IK (inflatable-kayak) students. One of them is the permit holder for our late July Middle Fork Salmon trip.
As I have learned: it is self-defeating to kill or injure the permit-holder before the river-trip.
Monday: I'm back to City of Rocks to hopefully meet up and climb with Locker, his friends, and Brokedown.
Most important is the: July 3rd City of Rocks: Meet & Greet for Brassnuts, Crimpergirl, Pente, and other wonderful people.
If you want to attend!
Please reply, or private message me through ST for the City of Rocks July 3rd Meet & Greet!
Fritz
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jun 24, 2012 - 07:55pm PT
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Fritz! Seth & friends from Reno are still up at the Twin Sisters sites for a few more days. I just got home from there(scouting?) Had a Grand Ole time hangin' & climbin' with them.
I'll see ya'll evening of the Third.
Woot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 24, 2012 - 08:03pm PT
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Is there internet service in Almo or somewhere near? Cell service? Have not one, but two (boo) conference calls I need to do while there.
Any temperature is going to be like a cold front for those in Boulder these days. I'm in the Houston area enjoying some cooler weather. Poor BN is stuck in the Boulder Sahara.
See you soon!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2012 - 09:43pm PT
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Skully: I'll see if I can find Seth & friends. Brokedown & I have a "warm-up" spot near Twin Sisters.
Crimpergirl! Yes to cell and internet in Almo, but not at COR. Verizon & ATT for sure in Almo.
The State Park HQ now works with a internet provider to give access to 20 minutes of free wireless internet daily and reasonable rates beyond that.
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The Magnet
climber
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Jun 24, 2012 - 10:15pm PT
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When did they reopen Twin Sisters?
I last climbed the Sisters like 15 years plus ago. My second or third time. Last time I remember they were off limits, "banned".
Something stupid about polluting the view-shed with climbers. But once they closed it, I followed the closure.
One of the nicer routes in the COR, and the actual route is on the opposite side of the view-shed...
When did it get reopened? Or did it?
You guys hitting the register (Camp Rock) next, down at the entrance?
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