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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 27, 2013 - 09:51pm PT
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I was 6 years old, and Mom and I were doing fire lookout watch in the North Cascades at the Sauk Mountain Lookout.
Sadly, the lookout was burned by the Forest Service in 1991.
What were you doing?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 27, 2013 - 09:56pm PT
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Loving a lot but not nearly enough......there must have been something in the air.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jun 27, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
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which specific summer was that?
I remember about a dozen in a row.
but of course Wikipedia has the answer:
Ed beat me to it
1967
No juicy stories to tell. The Nerd that was me had to endure one more summer before "getting it on".
So my (mis)adventures in the Summer Of Love must go unreported.
ahhh.....after dusting off the cobwebs I have a sweet recollection. I had fallen in Lust with a smart, pretty and very athletic young Colorado girl I had met through her parents (in SLC) and sailboat racing. We were exchanging "sweet" letters. Last time I saw her was during the Summer Of Love at her folks' house in SLC. Ahhhh well.......what might have been.
eeeegads I was such a NERD!!!
Edit
and yes, I can still remember her clearly and her name (and her Dad and Mom's names)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 27, 2013 - 10:53pm PT
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I'll let you know
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jun 27, 2013 - 10:57pm PT
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Still in high school. We spent most of our summers on Lake Erie. By that time it was horribly polluted...so my Dad would take us to spend a lot of time in the Adirondack mtns.
Susan
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:09pm PT
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I was 13... in Claremont CA...
not much to tell
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:16pm PT
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Summer of '67 I was nervously anticipating becoming a Midshipman in the fall.
Love? I had read about it, but it was strictly theoretical. I distinctly recall watching the news
of those weirdos in San Francisco interspersed with the unlovely footage from Nam.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:17pm PT
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I miss the TMI thread
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Sir Donald
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:24pm PT
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I was just 15, my family had rented a cabin for the week at Redfish Lake Lodge in Idaho. I saw her on the first day there at the beach. WOW, I hadn't yet even gotten to 1st base, and already I was in love at first sight. She was two years older than me, staying with her family at the lodge. We said hello, the talked, then by day two we were splashing happily in the water. She told me of her life in Los Angeles, I bored her with my talk of cattle ranching. We went on long walks, laughed , flirted, then finally kissed. Then the night came, all the parents were drinking and playing a cribbage tournament, we snuck a bottle of Wild Turkey off to the beach with a blanket, and so began my ascent into manhood. I was lost, helpless, and eager. She was patient, caring, and horny. After several hours of fumbling and fun, my 2 hour attempt at the real deal had produced several $&@(%gasms for me, and finally a happy contented sigh from my blonde beautiful future wife. We strolled back to the cabins hand in hand, my crotch full of sand and chaffed skin, but I felt ten feet tall. On the last day there we shared another kiss and exchanged address and phone numbers, and I cried quietly under a towel in the back of the station wagon on the way home. I wrote over fifteen letters and called the wrong # she gave me 100 times, and my heart was broken. But that fall, I met Linda, from Algebra class, and Tracie Burnett ( you heart breaking bitch) was forgotten.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
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That's the stuff! Thanks, Sir Donald!
Who was around Haight-Ashbury? Gotta be someone...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
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More like my dad's summer of love. .. I was just a twinkle in his eye at that point.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:33pm PT
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Ha ha! I was 10 years old. Missed out.
But I hear things, along the way....it was, I hear tell, the last summer with legal LSD.....
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jun 27, 2013 - 11:43pm PT
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I was a 9 year old beach rat in Pacific Beach, San Diego. Me and my little crew of delinquents would rummage through trash cans in the alleys of Mission Beach looking for empty 7-Up and Coke bottles, then trade them in for the deposit to buy pennie candies at the 7-11 store by Crystal Pier, or get the 25 cent spaghetti dinner from the back window of Maynards, a long-gone PB biker bar right on the beachfront. Mitch Hull and I set a grassy field on fire and almost burned down Henry's Burgers on Garnet Street, Home Of The Texas Monster, an enormous 25 cent burger. We discovered shoplifting that summer and got pretty good at it. Lifted a lot of candy bars and baseball cards from the Rexall Drugstore in Pacific Plaza. Only got caught once. Saw 35 cent double features at the Roxy Theater. It was idyllic, in retrospect. I don't even recognize most of PB now. In any event, 4 years later I discovered pot, acid and climbing and life changed utterly and completely. There was no looking back, it was climbing climbing climbing 24/7.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 12:24am PT
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Playing in the creek at home, doing chores, 4H with my Lamb, riding my bike, dirt clod fights...
At Church camp.
Spending the month of August @ El Ofanato de Fe, en Mexico ..playing with kids while my parents volunteered their time.
yep, my love was.... summer vacation..
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Jun 28, 2013 - 12:27am PT
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I didn't exist. My Dad was thinking about going back to Greece and getting a wife. He did good.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 12:49am PT
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I was in the Navy's Electronics School at TI, had guard duty every few nights, on the SF side, watching the Bay Bridge suffered no secret sampan attacks ALONE IN THE DARK and stoned on weed.
I went to the Mission District to score, not the Haight (too crowded); there was a commune that I "freak-wented."
Actually, this was NOT during the Summer of Love, but in the Autumn and the Winter of Love and the Spring Following said Summer of Love. I was in Boot Camp all summer, but came out with a bang by attending the Monterey Jazz Festival on the Sunday that Janis was there. It wasn't Monterey Pops, but just as cool.
Got my first joints from a fellow sailor who happened to be my Merced neighbor Larry who was stationed at DLI Monterey, this on a weekend we both happened to be in Merced and following basic at San Diego and before the jazz festival, which I attended with Larry. Once stationed at TI, I stayed high as much as possible.
I managed to see several good hallucinations on TI while tripping, also. Frank Zappa appeared one night, all of two feet tall. If you don't believe me, what can I tell you? The commercial potential of my convincing you of what I say is non-existent, while Frank lives on, Walter.
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Modesto Mutant
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jun 28, 2013 - 01:31am PT
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Yaz hit for the triple crown, Clemente led the NL in batting average and the Cards beat the Sox in the World Series. That's about all I remember.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jun 28, 2013 - 01:46am PT
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I did some amazing hiking with my Dad in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and loved not being in Baltimore for a few weeks.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 28, 2013 - 01:53am PT
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67? I think the Air Force had just come to the realization that I was maybe not potential High Command material, and I to the realization that maybe I would be happier guiding whitewater than bombing people I didn't know.
So we parted ways, and I picked up my paddle again and the Air Force did whatever it did.
And yes, there was love.
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