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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Aug 21, 2013 - 01:57am PT
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Back on one of my first GC river trip one time I woke in the morning went to put my ballcap on...just before I placed it on my head I decided to check it (hadn't been doing this) and pulled down the band inside it...whoa man there were two of these little dudes curled up together. I was pretty lucky and forever afterwards I always check my clothes before putting them on when camping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_bark_scorpion
I also sleep in a tent now on GC trips...
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10b4me
Ice climber
Wishes-He-Was-In-Arizona
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Aug 21, 2013 - 02:02am PT
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Years ago I knew a person who never slept on the ground in Jtree(he didn't have a tent).
He took his chances sleeping on top of the tables, even if it meant he might roll off.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
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Aug 21, 2013 - 02:14am PT
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Aug 21, 2013 - 02:37am PT
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That picture of Tucker says it all:-)
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Aug 21, 2013 - 02:48am PT
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Let me speak for all of us who live in my home..."dear desert dwellers, Thank You for doing your part to keep the beaches, these soft sanded beaches, hugged by the beautiful blue and clear Pacific, clean and uncrowded"
Aloha
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 21, 2013 - 03:30am PT
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hey there say, todd and all...
this was a nice and interesting share...
just little bits of folks life experiences with
'connections to the desert' in various ways, :))
kind of like nice casual 'kicking back' in the backyard, talk...
nice share, everyone...
i'll add a bit:
we had them in south texas...
when the now-ex, me, and the first-half of our kids first moved there,
i was watering the plants there...
the warning--though it came as a joke-hoax type thing--as that was how my ex sometimes was--was this:
"don't put any water down that hole, or a tarantula might come up"
me, well, i thought the ground was just dry and cracked... so i let the
water go down, wondering why he said that...
well, he wasn't joking, that time,
and he was just letting me know:
yep--i reckon i jumped about two feet, when the critter jumped up from the hole... split second, there it was, and not seemingly very happy to have been disturbed!! :O
*never did THAT again, :O
(the side of town where we were, was none for them... so he knew)...
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saa
climber
Bleau, cham, pink granite coast
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Aug 21, 2013 - 09:50am PT
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Hey Todd
When do we clean your garage so the boys
Can climb in winter?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 21, 2013 - 11:04am PT
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I know the dood who was the spidey wrangler for "Arachnophobia".
Let yer imaginations run wild, very wild, and you'll have an approximate
vision of his abode. Did I mention he makes a nice living raising and
milking Black Widows?
"So, Johnny, just how do you milk a Black Widow?"
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Aug 21, 2013 - 11:05am PT
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Hey Todd
When do we clean your garage so the boys
Can climb in winter?
No telling what you would find in there.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2013 - 10:18am PT
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we are working on cleaning the garage.....it's already cleaned up enough to boulder in....but more work is needed........It's coming along..
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10b4me
Ice climber
Wishes-He-Was-In-Arizona
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Aug 22, 2013 - 10:23am PT
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Boulder, Todd?
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2013 - 10:57am PT
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It's a desparate attempt to get more fit.......yeah....indoor pebble wrestling.....pad people;.......I have sunk to the lowest depths of climbing form;.....the boulderer.....(I hang my head in shame...)......All of this is a sacrafice ....so we can better ourselves in REAL roped climbing;....a means to an end ONLY............none of it will be even remotely fun...
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Aug 22, 2013 - 02:08pm PT
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Found this guy recently among some gear I had stashed at the base of my latest project.
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hossjulia
climber
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Aug 22, 2013 - 05:07pm PT
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Wolf Spiders are fun. Love watching them stalk and kill crickets. I've tried feeding them, but when they jump, so do I, and the cricket goes flying.
Used to pick up tarantulas as a kid. One day, I found a tarantula town near my house in Santee. Teased one out of it's den by touching the trap door. I scooped it up and must have scared it, it bit me right on the palm, drew blood. I dropped it, afraid I had hurt it, but it went back into it's house. Never picked one up again. No reaction to the bite, other than to make me think twice about picking up any creature and taking it away.
I miss being a tomboy.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Aug 22, 2013 - 08:39pm PT
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I would travel 2000 miles to boulder in Todd's garage.
That chit is doper than CAT's gym, despite not having a trampoline.
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Rolfr
Social climber
North Vancouver BC
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Aug 23, 2013 - 12:59am PT
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That picture of Tucker says it all:-)
I was wondering how Tucker would make it into this thread? Right on!
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Rolfr
Social climber
North Vancouver BC
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Aug 23, 2013 - 01:06am PT
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we are working on cleaning the garage.....it's already cleaned up enough to boulder in....but more work is needed........It's coming along..
I have holds that need a new home ,if you can use them, plus a hang board. Let me know, i'll bring them south in December. send PM
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
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Laundry room tonite..
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
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He was going for my jugular vein....I know he was..
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