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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:19pm PT
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12 years old, at my parents home in N. Virginia with the whole family watching the events unfold on the tube. We also had a French exchange student staying with us that summer.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
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Working on my 68 Vw Bus at Judge Ottonello's house up behind Degnan's. I was working on a long time project of building a camper into my van. A walk in the Park and a walk on the moon!
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:42pm PT
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Watching the only channel we received on our black and white set just outside of Columbia Falls, Montana. Remember it as a huge accomplishment that was so out on the edge of what we thought could be done.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 07:54pm PT
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Glued to the new-fangled contraption called a TV with the rest of my family.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
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Watching a scratchy b&w TV to see Neil Armstrong step on the moon.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
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Part way through a 3 week solo spell in the Coast Mountains. No radio, no TV. I didn't know anything about it until a few weeks after I got out.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Jul 20, 2014 - 08:24pm PT
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Sitting outside the sound stage in Hollywood where the whole thing was filmed.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
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Was OJ in on that one too?
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Jul 20, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
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Watching the moon landing in Camp 6 in Yosemite Valley on a black and white tv that used a coat hanger for an antenna... high tech.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 20, 2014 - 10:10pm PT
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watching on TV, I was in highschool at the time...
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Jul 20, 2014 - 11:28pm PT
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In utero.
8 days away from birth.
This was both ballsy and highly ambitious.
NASA had some amazing brains, and an amazing
endowment.
It seems to be the penultimate progression of human
exploration.
Less than 70 years from the first commercial vehicle
to landing men on the moon...
Really incredible!
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Jul 20, 2014 - 11:41pm PT
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On the alcan somwhere in a camper van. Mom made dad pull over at a house in the middle of now where and ask if we could watch. Nice memmory. Even better, our neighbor in San Diego was on the UDT recovery team and sent me a scrap of heat shield (?) peelings (like gold tinfoil) in an envelope post marked form the recovery aircraft carrier (Nimitz?)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:14am PT
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Glued to the boob-tube with the rest of the family. Grandma was visiting and she was 69 at the time. She was speechless, which got my attention.
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:31am PT
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My Dad was embarking on a trip to Greece, the one that he meets my Mom and gets her pregnant with my older brother. I... I was still unborn but the wheels were turning in the right direction.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jul 21, 2014 - 05:47am PT
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Camp 4
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 21, 2014 - 07:13am PT
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I really identified with the modern-day explorer spirit and had a moon map and a solar system map up on my bedroom walls. I still remember excitedly watching the event live in my parent's living room.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jul 21, 2014 - 08:44am PT
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Playing kick the can with neighbor kids and my cousins in Applewood (Golden) Co. Our parents called us in to watch the actual step off of the ladder. I don't know if it was our cheap tv or the bad signal, but I remember not being able to really tell what was going on from the image. It didn't look as clear as the archival footage that they show of that moment nowadays.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 21, 2014 - 08:58am PT
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Yeah, Sketch. I think it was that moon map
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