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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:08am PT
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Most likely Kimbrough posted while drinking a beer in the Moose Bar!
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Jul 21, 2014 - 10:50am PT
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I was at home in Mexico City, tripping on LSD, watching the moon landing on our old b&w, with the sound off and the Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun blasting through the speakers.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:24pm PT
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Climbing Church Bowl Chimney in the morning, then racing back to Fresno to see the landing. Unfortunately, when I got to Chinquapin, my water pump went out. I got towed back to the Valley, the garage was (amazingly) open, and installed a new water pump for $22.00, parts and labor. I got back in time to watch Armstrong step down the ladder.
It was an unforgettable day, although I think I marvel now as much about the $22.00 water pump replacement as I do about the moon landing.
John
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:54pm PT
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Ummm,....I was a super serious student on a summer internship at the Museum of Natural History in New York. We we're enthralled by what was happening. However, I was deeply torn because I was hugely involved in anti war activities and found it hard to reconcile the two government-funded activities. I'm not so serious anymore.
Susan
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jul 21, 2014 - 01:01pm PT
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Where's the arc in that picture?
On the right, just under the face of Zeus.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
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Jul 21, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
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Watched the live grainy b&w egress and step onto the moon and walk like so many others. Absolutely amazing. We travelled to another planetary body landed safe walked around, picked up lunar rocks, set up a few experiments and came back safe. We have accomplished great things.
However, we should have a moon base already, man should have walked on Mars by now, and we should be mining asteroids. We are behind. I'd like to see us step it up. We can do this! I really want to see all this in my lifetime.
I didn't play with Major Matt Mason and my Lunar base station and Moon crawler for nothing. He was mining the Moon and encountering Mars aliens! Lol
Edit:
Good post gobee!
By the way I was 7 when Armstrong made a small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind. Perfect age.
And the Mothership is still up there!
Lol
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jul 21, 2014 - 11:33pm PT
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In Devil's Tower campground with David Lunn and the late John Luz watching the moon landing on a TV in one of the tourist's trailers parked there. A lot of generous old retirees staying out there that summer. Treated us climbers like royalty and served us a free dinner to celebrate the moon landing. The next summer John fell down the south face of McKinley. That summer evening Devil's Tower seemed like the age of innocence.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa mesa
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Jul 22, 2014 - 08:11am PT
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jail
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2014 - 11:22am PT
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Anybody see Iron Sky?
Hilariously funny and well made film with zero big stars. In the opening we learn that late in WW2 the Nazis colonized the far side of the moon,...
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Jul 22, 2014 - 11:55am PT
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The Gift Shop in Mesa Verde watching it on the TV they had in there. A most spiritual place to see the moon landing for sure! Or, was it a live shot from the mojave desert somewhere??
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