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Greg Barnes
climber
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Sorry, no evergreens…above treeline...
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Idaho has a lot of dirt roads. I used to have a fantasy of driving North to South in the state and seeing if I could only cross paved roads. About 480 miles as the crow flies.
National Geographic Adventure Magazine published a story on the concerpt, except it was Canadian to Mexican borders on dirt roads. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0408/excerpt1.html
Then there's the people that believe they are in such a remote area that they can camp in the middle of the dirt road.
I'd never do that (smirkle).
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Fritz,
Don't you know that wine and guns are not a good combination?
Try brie with your guns instead.
:-)
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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More Idaho Middle of the dirt road camping.
A middle of the road breakfast with leftover wine on the table.
Oh L, Idaho backcountry car camping without wine & guns, just wouldn't be Idahoisque. You could however get in trouble for openly displaying Brie.
Sure as hell, wine & guns in the middle of middle of nowhere roads, leads to trouble.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Wine and a Walther, that's class ;)
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver, Colorado
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South Platte, CO
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Eureka Valley rd. :)
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Coming out of the Slate Range near Death Valley ...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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The Shafer trail,
More photos on dangerous roads.org
I am hoarding Camembert.....
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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"That pesky ingrown toe-nail will never bother me again!"
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 10, 2015 - 06:13am PT
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Vermont dirt roads are pretty quaint. they lack that wild quality you find out west
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 10, 2015 - 06:17am PT
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Woot!
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:08am PT
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:34am PT
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:52am PT
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:52am PT
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One of my favorite fall x-bike rides..
Back when they used to rocks for advertising aimed at the Easterner moving to the richest hill on earth. This would be about a mile before one crosses the C-divide. Now these rocks and boulders are providing the endless pump so many of us go after
Changing gears on some flat road that leads up to a multiple-wives zone that can often be found in the N Rockies roaded BC..
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 10, 2015 - 11:05am PT
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sometimes our dirt roads get blocked ...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 10, 2015 - 11:38am PT
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 10, 2015 - 11:59am PT
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Wooo Hoooo!!!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 10, 2015 - 12:08pm PT
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Indeed! It's Hell when trees decide to camp in the middle of a dirt road. This one was along the very busy dirt road to the takeout for Idaho's Salmon River Wilderness float trips.
Of course, in Idaho, a logger & chain saw soon dealt with the offending 2' thick Ponderosa.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Apr 10, 2015 - 02:41pm PT
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thebravecowboy
climber
Lost Park
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Apr 10, 2015 - 02:56pm PT
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Nice Kalimon! I know that place and it is worth going the distance.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 10, 2015 - 03:48pm PT
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sometimes it can be a rocky road ...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Apr 10, 2015 - 05:30pm PT
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Apr 10, 2015 - 06:08pm PT
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How about rock roads:
See? Highway maintenance goes all to sh*t when you cross the state line:
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Apr 10, 2015 - 07:00pm PT
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My daily commute.
The road starts off paved where it leaves Boulder Canyon before climbing 2750' in 4.5 miles before turning to gravel.
We often have to share the road.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:13pm PT
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Awesome roads!
Hope to drive them!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Apr 10, 2015 - 08:37pm PT
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The things you see on the side of a dirt road . . .
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Apr 10, 2015 - 09:04pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 10, 2015 - 10:27pm PT
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How about rock roads:
Okay, here's a picture of a rock road. No, really. It really is a road. Rocky, yes, and not terribly well maintained, but a road nonetheless.
But given that there'd been a few showers in the Seattle area that day, we gave up trying to follow it.
It's really all Locker's fault, as I once tried to explain in a TR (http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Its-all-Lockers-fault-a-TR-sort-of/t421n.html);, but the picture really is of a road.
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Apr 10, 2015 - 11:48pm PT
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Works for me, Ghost! I've been on a few stretches like that, and some log roads (Step 1 bulldozer; Step 2, chainsaw to fell the forest across the mud dozer track; Step 3 it's driveable).
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Flip Flop
climber
salad bowl, california
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Apr 11, 2015 - 01:14am PT
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Apr 11, 2015 - 01:49am PT
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Bolivia alto plano
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L
climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
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Apr 11, 2015 - 05:41am PT
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Flip Flop--that last photo is Soooooooo cute!
Love the Rolling Home!
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Flip Flop
climber
salad bowl, california
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Apr 11, 2015 - 05:48am PT
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Rolling Home. I like that. Thanks L.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 11, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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Then there are the dirt roads down in Donini-land.
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Apr 11, 2015 - 09:43am PT
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Oman dirt roads (& ancient tombs):
UT…a little morning project on the backside of the N. Six Shooter:
Central Thailand:
Namibia:
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Flip Flop
climber
salad bowl, california
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Apr 11, 2015 - 10:01am PT
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I just want post #46
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 11, 2015 - 05:42pm PT
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Apr 11, 2015 - 05:55pm PT
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California has NO dirt roads that are any good. Maybe in a few places but few and far between.
Idaho, on the other hand, is the dirt road capital of the world.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 11, 2015 - 06:01pm PT
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Oh man Chris, California has thousands of miles of great dirt roads that lead to some amazing places. Idaho I know has great roads also but dont sell good old California short. You need to go on a climbing trip with me this summer and i'll show you some fine roads that lead to some amazing remote climbing.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 11, 2015 - 06:26pm PT
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Yo Batrock what happened to the Saline Valley sticker !
Also that Saline climbing looks great , maybe you could send me some coordinates?
Lippincott Rd. in Death Valley...
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Apr 11, 2015 - 06:49pm PT
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Chris you gotta get out of LA bro.
Go visit ThisJustin at Shuteye
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 11, 2015 - 07:19pm PT
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Dapper, sorry I dropped the ball big time on the sticker, I'll get to it soon i swear. Oh and I'll PM you the Saline wall info.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 11, 2015 - 07:32pm PT
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Thanks Batrock !
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 12, 2015 - 04:07pm PT
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The road i live on
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Apr 12, 2015 - 06:52pm PT
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Hey fgw,
I've been on that road in Oman to those bee hive tombs.
Jebel Shams in the way background- yes?
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jonnyrig
climber
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Apr 14, 2015 - 11:01pm PT
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thebravecowboy
climber
the Midcontinent Rift
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Apr 14, 2015 - 11:53pm PT
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there be Dihedralz here
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Apr 15, 2015 - 12:20am PT
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road past Idria, san benito county, on the way to The Hole,
a favorite campsite with a 500 foot vertical mine shaft,
pack it in, don't pack it out, just feed it to The Hole,
Panoche Hills in the distance,
and snow in the sierra's
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Apr 15, 2015 - 12:23am PT
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Apr 15, 2015 - 09:34am PT
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Delhi, I don't know if it's Jebel Shams in the background. This is along a drive through the Eastern Hajar range in Oman - a day after climbing the French Pillar (were too tired to look around for additional climbing objectives just then :) )
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Apr 15, 2015 - 09:34am PT
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Hey Dr. Sprock , love the Panoche area ... havn't been out to New Idria yet . The road out there isn't quite dirt, but it barely qualifies as a paved road .
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 15, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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LOL, Chris, any dirt road that has a sign telling you it's steep and to be careful aint a dirt road.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 15, 2015 - 10:23am PT
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(From my kids camping trip to Seward this summer.)
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Apr 15, 2015 - 10:35am PT
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jonnyrig
climber
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Apr 15, 2015 - 10:53am PT
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thebravecowboy
climber
the Midcontinent Rift
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Apr 15, 2015 - 11:15am PT
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Funny in a schadenfreude kinda way, but yes.
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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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Apr 15, 2015 - 11:17am PT
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Alcan Highway 1966
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Apr 15, 2015 - 05:10pm PT
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I built these roads by hauling rock off of abandoned railroad tracks on the outer border of property lines... one loader bucket at a time, about a 500 yds in length. Where the big truck rolled it must be 18-24" deep.
This one is on a friend's farm. The chapel is 200+ years old.
These last two should be recognizable by the surrounding peaks. Pictures are circa 1926.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Here's one from a little before my younger daze, of ore wagons going up Trail Creek Summit, east of Ketchum, Idaho.
The road hasn't changed a hell of a lot in the last 130 years, but people ain't nearly as tough these days.
The ore wagons in the photo are still functional and are the centerpiece of Ketchum's annual celebration of horse-manure, named Wagon Days.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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May 10, 2015 - 11:00am PT
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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May 10, 2015 - 11:03am PT
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i'm tired of being a dirtbag.
i think i'll try on
asphalt junkie.
whooo. tar.
it's like i'm wearing
my ancestors.
straight from the
subterranean ball.
it's f*#king hot.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 10, 2015 - 11:16am PT
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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May 10, 2015 - 04:45pm PT
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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May 10, 2015 - 08:21pm PT
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A recent trip from the Moab area , not all that far from Indian Creek actually ...
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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May 10, 2015 - 08:35pm PT
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Delhi, I don't know if it's Jebel Shams in the background. This is along a drive through the Eastern Hajar range in Oman - a day after climbing the French Pillar (were too tired to look around for additional climbing objectives just then :) )
The French Pillar looks pretty sweet. Hope you had fun. And yeah I've explored a lot of that area.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 10, 2015 - 08:47pm PT
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Of course there is the dirt road south from the capital city of Mustang Nepal, that ends in a wash-out.
In late October 2008, the locals were enthusiastic about using it to move south for the coming winter.
It's OK, the Chinese are improving it as a tourist highway from Tibet.
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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May 10, 2015 - 10:13pm PT
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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May 10, 2015 - 10:14pm PT
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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May 10, 2015 - 10:27pm PT
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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May 10, 2015 - 10:37pm PT
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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May 10, 2015 - 10:41pm PT
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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May 10, 2015 - 11:03pm PT
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