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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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plymouth valiant can't touch the grillage on the sister ship, '62 dodge dart:
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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What, no Edsel?
I miss the days of Chrome...by Crom!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2012 - 12:16am PT
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Steverino:
Do you want to live forever?
Because you're not gonna.
In fact, we're all gonna die and the hexcentric and other lives will no longer be "all that."
But you will have gone out with a clean conscience.
Sentimental, hexcentric old ffool...
I wish I'd have marketed these babies (having invented them and obtained rights and patents and all the legal BS, of course).
No regrets, I'm just drinking out loud...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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A Troll once got a Quickie in the Teetons...or so I heard!
Mighta been at the Mangy Moose...
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Everything I liked was either 6-sided or required a hammer.
Here we are playing with these funny new things called "hexentrics" when they first came out. Just learning to climb, doing girdle traverses of long 1/2-mile cliff face that we're very high. Don't remember the year, early 1970s?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2014 - 06:15am PT
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BBST.
"Bumpin' fo' a beddah ST."
I cannot think of a beddah dude to bring it back for us than Doug Robinson.
"Commited to an adventure."
I was unaware of our total dependence on nuts until the first afternoon of our climb, when Dennis yelled up to me: "We've looked in all the bags and can't seem to find any pitons. They must have been left behind."
Dennis was not a convincing fibber...he was far too experienced and careful to have left pitons behind--unless he did it purposely. He and our other companion, Doug Robinson, had sorted the climbing equipment together.
I realized what Dennis meant: This time we were not carrying our courage in our rucksacks. We were committed to an adventure.--Galen Rowell, in his National Geographic article I wonder, does Doug still have that pair of EBs?
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pinckbrown
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 17, 2014 - 09:34am PT
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A multi-functional hex!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 31, 2018 - 12:52pm PT
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Old gear bump.
Photo is by Imstein in Idaho's Sawtooth Mtns.
Title is:
It's a jumar!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2019 - 01:46pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 4, 2012 - 05:35pm PT
It's either six of one or one-half dozen of the other.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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If it ain't one thing, it's a half-a-dozen others.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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two words:
Alpine Hex.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 22, 2019 - 03:34pm PT
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In my rush to comply with the request to remove pictures I mistakenly deleted a picture of these in use
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