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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2013 - 12:24am PT
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I was writing a report on our 11th President, James K. Polk.
Wow! How old are you?
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home away from Home
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Jan 27, 2013 - 12:32am PT
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I'm am 40 years old.
How old are you, man???
Did you KNOW that James K. Polk was our 11th President???
~peace
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:03am PT
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I was in Texas playing in the dirt with a stick. Because that's what you did back then.
C'mon! The story is much better than that! >:)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2013 - 01:06am PT
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Leggs... its a blague!
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:07am PT
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A Brooke Raboutou I wasn't - and I don't mean just gender-wise.
Fresh out of the mountains and home-schooling, I was Class President of Whatcom Middle School, and had just met some bad neighbors who turned me to the dark side for a few years.
My first crime with the bad crew was robbing an UNLOCKED fireworks stand - easy. I got the rush big-time - by 12 I was ransacking cars, stealing drugs from my parents for myself and "friends". At school, I was also tripping girls in the hall because I thought that was a good way to flirt. I got a round-house from a 7th-grader that left a bone-bruise on my jaw for 4 months.
Needless to say, I didn't make Class President the next year.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:12am PT
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Hankster writes:
"I was in Texas playing in the dirt with a stick. Because that's what you did back then."
You guys had a stick?
That's cool. We couldn't afford a stick, because my parents thought I needed a sister instead.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:15am PT
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by 12 I was ransacking cars, stealing drugs from my parents for myself and "friends" At school
That's more like it! A bunch of goody-twoshoes here. When I was 13 (I think) I stole a pistol from a Mafioso.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:24am PT
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Street Plants.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:42am PT
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I hadn't seen that Caylor clip in a while. Love it! Man, you should be certified a national treasure. Anyone who can go through all that mayhem, live through it, and tell about it with a smile and humor is a gem!
Eric
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F'ueco
Boulder climber
Sunnyvale, CA
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:47am PT
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Hmm, at 11 I was running 10km races and throwing stuff at the track... The first shot is me at 11 with my dad after the "Forty Nunners Run" in Foster City, CA. The second is me throwing shotput at age 10 at Modesto Junior College.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 27, 2013 - 01:49am PT
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Hey Mouse! You talking to me? YOU TALKING TO ME????? You saying I'm out of shape???? Hee hee!
For 35 years, I've been 5 lbs. away from being way honed. Damn Peanut M&M's and TJ's Coffee Blast Ice Cream!!!!
Many moons ago, I was one of those distance runners who had to get out every day, do big miles. But I loved running so much (particularly the being outdoors in the elements part), that in my late twenties I knew I need to diversify and cut back. Goal has since been to have knees that work when I'm seventy for running. I have my Mom's husband as inspiration... he's 85 and still running! He inspired me to get into distance running back when I was a kid, BTW.
Sorry to hear about your knees... but there's lot of other stuff out there with good benefits.
Eric
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slayton
Trad climber
Here and There
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Jan 27, 2013 - 06:54am PT
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Some of my best memories are of that 11 year old time period. Running around the desert around my home in Desert Hot Springs, just outside of Palm Springs and down the hill from Joshua Tree. Chasing lizzards, hunting snakes, getting stuck with cholla on a routine basis, digging forts out of the sand around cat's claw. Smelling the rare, itinerant rain with the overwhelming scent of creosote. Bliss.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Jan 27, 2013 - 10:40am PT
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When I was 11, I was wishing I was 56. Now that I am 56, I wish I was 11.
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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Jan 27, 2013 - 10:42am PT
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^^^ nice!
edit: doh, double post Patrick!
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Jan 27, 2013 - 11:02am PT
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When I was 11, I had a pretty serious hobby of making explosives; including by the age of 14; high explosives, rockets etc.
At 14, I blew the tips of 2 fingers off. My mother thru all my stuff out.
If I hadn't quit; I'm sure something more serious would of resulted. Climbing is risky, but my former hobby was more hazardous.
Certainly something I wasn't going to introduce to my own son.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home away from Home
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Jan 27, 2013 - 12:23pm PT
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Leggs... its a blague!
EXCELLENT use of the word "Blague", IHP.
:)
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Anastasia
climber
InLOVEwithAris.
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Jan 27, 2013 - 12:32pm PT
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11...
I was busy being awkward, confused and childish. Not much has really changed, eh?
I remember that my favorite past times at age 11 were riding my bike with my dog and hiking in the Sespe with my dog. Again, not much has changed except... These days I like bringing along the husband a kid too.
Plus no one yells at me when I get home for being gone for hours.
AFS
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