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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Mar 30, 2009 - 12:57am PT
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Great Tr Yo... But have you noticed that after a few pints that subdued Aussie dialect is sheer gibberish to us slow talkin' yanks...They talk so f''''bloody fast....No wuckin furies mate and all that shite and it has always left me feeling a bit bewildered.....Bloody Hell. The last fight I was in that I was definitely Knott going to come out on top was with an Aussie mate from Perth. We were shootin some stick and swillin a bit at a local Reno Pub when some Prick came over and started messin' with our sticks while we were trying to shot(Pool)..... We told him to "Bugger Off", well he was the quarter back of the UNR football team and most of his offense was there. The friggin Aussie didn't have the sense to back off and after a few punches (fortunately) the bouncers broke up the whole thing and gave us an option of leaving or continuing the brawl(11 to 2), ( we might be good but Knott immortal) I had to drag that friggin aussie out of there.
Gawd I love those crazy beer drinking Bastards......
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Apr 16, 2010 - 04:06am PT
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time for some fun bump
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Did yo or deucey ever see or comment on the Haida canoe photo posted upthread, and its resemblance (or not) to The Canoe?
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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We were going to unimaginatively name it "the Boat", but we ran into Steve Sutton in the parking lot upon our return to the ground, and the faithful Canadian said, "that's not a boat, that's a canoe!"
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Burt
Big Wall climber
Las Vegas, Nv
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Yo...
getting back in the stirrups again... have a few new ones scooped in Zion... how is the schedule looking for the fall? Lets go beakin... and where the hell is that spray lord Nate at? :) inside joke hope he gets it.
Kurt "Burt" Arend
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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very sweet TR. I can't believe I missed this one.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Whoa-what a classic!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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A most EXCELLENT TR with LOTS of sweet goodies scattered all over the route.
Still no pix of the Canoe from afar?
Ken
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hollyclimber
Big Wall climber
Yosemite, CA
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I love this trip report. Thanks guys.
HB
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Well, I guess we'll have to round up Steve S and find out what he knew and when he knew it. I think he moved from Vancouver sometime in the later 1970s or early 1980s, although he perhaps sometimes came back for visits. Aboriginal/first peoples things, including things like Haida canoes with their distinctive prows, became much more visible in the 1980s, maybe with Expo 86. That was probably after Steve moved, but maybe he was exposed to it. Your basic Canadian canoe has a quite different prow, the usual curved thing.
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yo
climber
a tied-off Tomahawk™
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2010 - 03:01am PT
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Good times.
How is this four years old already?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 25, 2010 - 06:01pm PT
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Time-Space Bump!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Sep 25, 2010 - 07:03pm PT
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I don't think so Stevie--- obviously there has been a rip in the Space-Time Fabric. Look what Yo just said above!! Ed Beartouni is busy having a Facelift so there's no help there either!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Sep 25, 2010 - 08:03pm PT
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Great TR.
Love the "Hey F*#k Face" helmet...
Good stuff
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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What this thread was missing was a photo of the Canoe.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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What this thread is missing, Anders, is a photo of the Canoe with an inflatable Helga doll hanging from it.... [HINT]
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Hopefully the thread vandals will stay away from this one.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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One of my all time favorite TRs.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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on the first ascent--I was freeing an old rope had gotten stuck on the Canoe probably sometime in the early 80's. Back in 1984, the wind had strung that same rope across the Shield, where it annoyingly flapped and whipped at me when I was soloing that route, so I reached out and cut it in half. Here, many years later, I was able to finish the clean up job...
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Hey John,
How about some more photos from the first ascent? Those would be great to see, especially the pitch above the Canoe which has become Pretty Darn Hard now that the beak placements are getting beaten out.
Would also love to see a photo of The Flight!
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