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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Aug 28, 2016 - 12:59am PT
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Another night we are in Trav's and a guy walks into the bar from the dirt parking lot and calls out.
"Hey. Whose bike did I just back Over?
Dead silence.
Then a couple guys walk out to look and one comes back with murder in his eyes..
The guy who backed over the bike figures it's a simple insurance claim and is writing out contact and agent info. What he doesn't realize is that the bike is probably all hot parts and there wasn't going to be any cops or agents looking over that bike. The biker wanted cash that night.
It took a couple hours, but the guy started buying rounds and finally friends came with about $800 in cash to pay the biker off. And then they all went back to drinking together.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 28, 2016 - 08:19am PT
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Fall at Seneca Rocks from a few years ago
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 28, 2016 - 12:44pm PT
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Seeds of this thread need to be included . With apologies to Jstan,
jstan
climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2016 - 10:22pm PT
I was standing in D C Harper's store looking at the rough plank front door and reading the OPA regulations on prices that could be charged during WWII. That they were there at all was a West Virginia political protest by Buck Harper. West Virginians wanted nothing to do with dandified Virginians nor with city folk from Washington. Indeed West Virginians who came to that state after the War were considered outsiders. The Civil War. I noticed a little guy running around the store on a tricycle while making engine noises. As he reached down and pretended to turn off his engine, I saw a smile appear on Buck's face. The little boy may have been Joe Harper who now operates the store. This was the experience this climber got in Mouth of Seneca.
Buck then addressed me directly saying "Let's take a ride. I have to show you something." We got into his four wheel drive stake rack truck and headed up impossibly steep tracks into the woods. He stopped the truck as we were traversing the steepest part saying "open your window." I swear it seemed a 60 degree slope. Pointing down slope he said, "My mother was born right down there." I have to think she survived only because a tree stopped her from rolling all the way to the valley floor.
I had been involved in getting climbers to lobby the NFS not to site a recreation center and a road in what little bottom land existed in Mouth of Seneca. Buck wanted to show me a high route for the new road that would not destroy Mouth of Seneca. We came on the remains of a log cabin that clearly had been vacant for a century or more. Buck said," Living up here you needed to lay in enough food to get you to spring. There were bear and deer up here but young people today seem unwilling to have snow blow in on their faces at night." I myself grew up with that experience and I have to say it isn't bad.
Climbing has many facets and relationships within the climbing community and without. Both are essential parts of what we gain from the activity.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Aug 28, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
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Was the rumor true that Markwell re-cycled the hundreds (thousands) of empty Stroh's cans into the wedge nuts he made?
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Aug 28, 2016 - 06:00pm PT
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Good stuff up here.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 29, 2016 - 09:40am PT
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Several years ago I tried to contact Markwell to talk with him about Gendarme nuts and got as close as leaving a message on his home phone but he is pretty difficult to engage and I was warned about that.
I would be amazed if recycled beer cans went directly into making bar stock commercially but you never know until you ask.
If true, they would certainly be America's only fire brewed nut! LOL
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Aug 29, 2016 - 11:08am PT
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I would be amazed if recycled beer cans went directly into making bar stock commercially but you never know until you ask.
Son, that's a Buck Harper kind of tall rumor...
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dhayan
climber
culver city, ca
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Aug 29, 2016 - 11:58am PT
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Such a beautiful place - thanks for all the photos...hope to visit there sometime.
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DIP
Trad climber
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Aug 29, 2016 - 05:13pm PT
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Agony, West Pole to Bring on the Nubiles, Pollux to Orange Aid, Gunsight to South Peak. So many good routes. im gonna go ahead and say ecstasy sucks though. so overrated. hell junior's better.
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jstan
climber
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Aug 29, 2016 - 05:18pm PT
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Back in the late 60's, climbers from the DC area never gave a thought to how hard a climb was. Difficulty never made a difference. They all were adventures. That was all they needed to be.
Loved it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 29, 2016 - 06:16pm PT
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Hey, if it was a cast nut like a MOAC then some backwoods crucible might be in order there pops.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Aug 29, 2016 - 06:57pm PT
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Stopped by there once for a couple of days while on my way to The New.
Great climbs there, but I was spooked on some of them by loose rock.
Didn't do many routes but I remember liking Climbin' Punishment and
Pleasant O.
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Yinzer
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Aug 30, 2016 - 12:05am PT
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I'm headed to Seneca next wednesday... going from LA to pittsburgh for a wedding. great memories of being there when i was 11 or 12 with my dad and his friends just learning to lead trad.
Sacred place for sure. we have gone the day before new years eve the past two years and it has been beautiful... cold and even icy but beautiful. A bear was howling out to us through the fog at sunrise. timeless mememories <3
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