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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Bollard use brilliant. Be sure to bury them again after use.
Lots of great engineering uses for climbing skills.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2015 - 07:40am PT
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Never leave home without a shovel
Boy you said it there , shovel was essential !
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dan, did yer ancestors come across the country in a Conestoga?
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Love it!
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Gilwad
climber
Frozen In Somewhere
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Cool, I'll keep that in mind too! One fast trick if you're not stuck too bad is to tie some pieces of old rope through your rims and around the tires. Works like chains in mud…. You an also attach a rope to one of the rope pieces through your rims and winch yourself out if you have some sort of anchor, figured that one out in the Ghost one day.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Epic driving threads usually bring some comments about the Ghost. Us Canucks (and a few Mericans) have had many a (not so) fun day in there. Someday I would like to assemble a book of Ghost driving stories.
Gilwad I love your epic picture tale of the Waiperous many years back. Maybe you can post a link to show our friends down south what we deal with on occasion
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Nice job!
great trip.. love it!
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Yosemite
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nice Vince. Thats pretty creative. Putting all those toys to work. Now all you need is a snorkel so your engine can breathe underwater! jk
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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awesome!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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norwegian, think this is one time we agree more than 100% plus.......
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Fletcher
Boulder climber
A very quiet place
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Good story... you guy the McGyver of the Day award for that!
Thanks!
Eric
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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my assessment concluded that humans,
of which genus i am marginally part uf,
leave an ugly trace in our wake.
yes ron, i f*#k things up with the best of 'em.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Meh.. looks like a really ugly mess on an otherwise un-molested stretch of desert to me. Creative solution to getting stuck but I don't get all the kudos. Plenty of places to 4-wheel where it doesn't leave scars.
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alannamal
climber
B.C.
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Yes, plenty of places to 4X4 that won't leave scars. Also a lot of other activities that aren't so blatantly destructive. No kudos from this gal, just a confused sad shake of the head.
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GuapoVino
climber
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Or you could have waited for the wind to pick up and push you ....
[photoid=401092]
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 4, 2015 - 02:30pm PT
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lol ! That might have been quite a wait ...
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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SOme seem to think this to be resource damage. It is not.
I'll have to disagree Ron. It's the driest place in the US. Those plains fill with water but there's no real rain to wash away the scars for years.
My point is that he should have never driven his truck there to begin with.. BTW.. was this within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park? There's that pesky "leave no trace"- thing the park service is always going on about?
Side story speaking of tracks in mud.. Just went out to Wild Willys hot springs yesterday and some braniac drove their vehicle from the parking lot along the raised walkway, and then through the mud all the way to the springs. That mud is bitch to wash off. No digging a ground anchor in that goo.
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TLP
climber
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I'm with justthemaid. The visual resource at a minimum got damaged. If tire tracks are your aesthetic, go to a track. Though the solution merits a small compliment - heck, it's not THAT ingenious - the truck didn't belong in that spot in the first place. We should have got past risking trashing environments that have almost zero recovery capacity just to drive off road, or on marginal dirt roads at times when it's plausible you'd hit these conditions somewhere. It's wrong whether in or out of the Park, though also presumably illegal within. Don't be going out trashing the place and then whinin' about closures, restrictions, and fees. This is exactly why those happen.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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yeah, don't screw up death valley,
sheesh, somebody should drop a nuke on that depressing wasteland,
hideous climate, last known home of the mansion family, yeah, don't mess up that slice of heaven,
whoever visits those tracks will be leaving tracks, get it?
if you live past 18, you are already doing damage to the earth,
unless you walk to work and sh#t in the backyard like i do,
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