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Gersh
Trad climber
San Diego, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 22, 2015 - 09:19pm PT
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And it's not cmac's fault. I've been lurking here for near a decade and, yeah it's going down hill. There was so much potential, but you semi legends missed the ball.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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May 22, 2015 - 09:32pm PT
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So much for the "climbing community" "policing itself," huh?
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thebravecowboy
climber
liberated libertine
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May 22, 2015 - 09:34pm PT
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Jeremy's mom?
Sour milk for sore titsuckers, is what I hear.
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Gersh
Trad climber
San Diego, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2015 - 09:39pm PT
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Yeah, when dudes like you get drowned out by stupid sh@t
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 22, 2015 - 09:53pm PT
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Add something dude, instead of complaining. I agree....some fresh input would be appreciated. Lurking has always had a Peeping Tom quality to me.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 22, 2015 - 10:07pm PT
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Be the forum you want to take part in.
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WBraun
climber
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May 22, 2015 - 10:48pm PT
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If it sucks it means it's alive .....
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Psilocyborg
climber
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May 22, 2015 - 10:52pm PT
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donini, he is being ironic. As he complains about it sucking he makes it suck. "Thats some catch that Catch-22" "It's the best there is"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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May 22, 2015 - 11:13pm PT
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but you semi legends missed the ball
I will try harder, but it's tough being a Semi American Legend!
Wait just a sec, you aren't one of those anti-Semis are you?
Next you'll be saying they should have their own schools.
:)
#climbingcontent
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 23, 2015 - 01:26am PT
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"This forum sucks"
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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May 23, 2015 - 07:14am PT
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Semi American legend, MungieOne?
Methinks you mean American SemiLegend. I don't think semi American is possible, like being a little pregnant.
Lol.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 23, 2015 - 07:31am PT
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I don't think semi American is possible...
Sure it is...we just call them Canadians.
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dirtbag
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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masturbators
Ouch...that one really hit home.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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May 23, 2015 - 07:36am PT
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I didn't know Locker was left handed
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Dick_Lugar_II
Trad climber
Casper, WY
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May 23, 2015 - 07:48am PT
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...but you semi legends missed the ball.
Nice malaphor.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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May 23, 2015 - 07:55am PT
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here, i'll fix it for you:
"she does the hula hoop naked,
'neath the chandalier.
the whole house is shakin.
her horizon is clear.
the big flower on her
bicycle basket,
the wind blowing her skirt.
i'm staring out the window
at the rocks and the dirt."
-my friend rusty
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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May 23, 2015 - 08:15am PT
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hey, isn't this Memorial Day Weekend? Why aren't all you semi-legends out at the crags? you're really dropping the baot!
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 23, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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Munge, nice shot, beautiful movement; where is it?
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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May 23, 2015 - 08:33am PT
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Ha ha DMT
I got ice packs on my lower back now too
and my dogs are givin' me the stink eye.
'Superbigtoepoe'
Not too very long ago,
Before the gri gri and go-pro,
There lurked in someone's mind,
The seed of Superbigtoepoe,
It weren't a bad idea,
If one seized upon the deal,
But the internet were a virgin,
And had yet no true appeal,
So the insipideration died,
At the the cusp of someone's dream,
And it drifted through the ether,
Lost forever it would seem,
Yet it settled to ignite,
In C-Mack's imagination,
Wernerisms never die,
Despite our indignation,
And the climbers forum thrived,
As trolls would come and go,
In the halls of virtual legends,
Here on Superbigtoepoe.
-brushmachio gespachio
Thanks Weeg fer the insipideration.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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May 23, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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Define superbigtoepro;
1. At big toe which has been broken off in a crack
and is later tied off and used by another climber for protection.
2. A climber who uses only his big toe to climb professionally.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 23, 2015 - 09:02am PT
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How about a thread for all the quality posters that are still contributing "content".
Been a lot of noise about lost content lately. Some of it from folks who don't really add that much content.
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WBraun
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 09:04am PT
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What "lost" content?
Just step out the door and everything is there ......!!!
(I was going to say Stupid Americans but too many cry babies here now ....)
:-)
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WBraun
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 09:13am PT
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Who are they?
Randisi"s are good when he shows us China which we know so little of ....
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 23, 2015 - 09:21am PT
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I loved em...I suppose I should have given a bit of feedback though.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 23, 2015 - 09:23am PT
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Randisi....you hit on one of the forum's problems. People do care about your insights about China and people do care about Trip Reports.....but....they post mostly about controversial, non climbing subjects that they have strong opinions about. Consequently, the junk stays on the front page and the good stuff disappears.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 23, 2015 - 09:27am PT
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Be the forum you want to take part in.
I'd like to, but the forum I want to take part in is tolerant of all sorts of topics, not purely climbing.
While some non-climbing threads squeak through, posting in them is like hanging out in the bathroom in high school, smoking a cigarette trying to not get caught.
Only Caldwell focuses on the next pitch of climbing while sitting at a long belay. I'm not Caldwell, my mind wanders. And I think most climbers are the same, smart wandering minds.
From what I see, the forum isn't policed that tightly, and jerks can run amok as jerks for a long time before the Registrars Office catches wind. I was happy to hear that the Registrar gave Ron a pretty thoughtful warning, and Ron still decided to implode.
The forum lives on, but it certainly has a different feel. It's more like slack-lining now.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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May 23, 2015 - 09:28am PT
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Lurk more ...Cry less..
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Psilocyborg
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 09:33am PT
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Randisi, I care about all of them, especially the international ones. I just don't respond. But trust me, at least one person reads and enjoys all the pictures, stories, and every trip report.
I highly enjoy this forum. There is plenty of good stuff to read. The boring or negative is easily skipped over. If there is nothing new or nothing interest me...get this...I simply find something else to do. Shocking, I know.
You know, expectations just never did anyone any favors. So stop with that.
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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May 23, 2015 - 10:23am PT
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lack of content? every werner post is a trip report ...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 23, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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Yes, please.
Who are they?
Well, the lowly Survival has 33 trip reports to his name.
A couple of them barely climbing related, and none world class cutting edge, but there they are. I've posted TR's from at least five states. I've tried to do a good job of showing high country, climbing, varied environments and some story telling, mostly through decent photography.
I have participated in OT threads, but I don't dominate them, or live on them.
I went climbing with The Fet yesterday.
Content, it's so hot right now!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 23, 2015 - 10:51am PT
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Dudes and dudettes, get out and do something! I'm north of Milan right now, go to Sicily tomorrow night. Trip doesn't revolve around climbing, but I packed my clothes for 10 days into my carry-on laptop bag so my check-in is 2 60m x 8mm ropes, 15 alpine draws, and a rack of doubles to #2 and a #3 and some nuts. Going to kick some ass or get beat trying in San Vito Lo Capo.
In preparation, I'm stuffing myself every meal with awesome homemade Italian food, and mandatory desert and alcohol with and after lunch and dinner.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 23, 2015 - 11:01am PT
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Nut, how did you like the Lambrusco? When you go to Sicily can you stop by Etna and pick me up a few bottles of wine? Just kidding, but if you can try them out. Etna Rosso and Bianco. Very unique and well made wines.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 23, 2015 - 11:05am PT
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Oh, and Nutter, don't bother with any reports on the wine that is only kinda unique, ya hear? ;-)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 23, 2015 - 11:07am PT
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Maybe this is a good place to ask- I read somewhere that you need a letter or permission from an Italian climbing group to hike to the summit of Etna without a guide. Otherwise, you have to stop at some point part way. I was planning to skip it because it will take 3-4 hours maybe to drive there, and no certainty of access. Looks better to check out standing columns from the Greek empire and do some deep water soloing along Zingaro Reserve.
But I will eat as many Canolli as I can and try some Etna red. Non mi piaciono i vini bianchi.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 23, 2015 - 11:09am PT
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Fuggetabout Etna, Stromboli is where you wanna go for the real Vulcan experience.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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May 23, 2015 - 04:22pm PT
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At what point does one become a semi-legend?
The best way to make this better is for everyone who says it sucks to start posting their trip reports about climbing.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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May 23, 2015 - 04:25pm PT
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Also you can't post something for replies. I've got a thread running for the last month with over 250 photos of travelling and climbing in it and I've only got 15 or so replies. This thread, complaining about the forum sucking now has 55 heh.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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May 23, 2015 - 04:30pm PT
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Also you can't post something for replies. I've got a thread running for the last month with over 250 photos of travelling and climbing in it and I've only got 15 or so replies. This thread, complaining about the forum sucking now has 55 heh.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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May 23, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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Apparently I liked it so much I said it twice.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 23, 2015 - 04:43pm PT
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TFPU, sir.
TFPU, sir.
and for effect, TFPU, sir.
"It's like slack-lining," or words to that effect, too.
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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May 23, 2015 - 05:37pm PT
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Please do, Randisi.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 23, 2015 - 05:40pm PT
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This forum is starting to suck...
... any estimates on when it will finish?
Since we now have a rough estimate of the start time, if we can get a ballpark of the end time, we can calculate the actual suck rate.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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May 24, 2015 - 07:22am PT
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Wait just a sec, you aren't one of those anti-Semis are you?
Mamma hated semis.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 24, 2015 - 07:31am PT
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My father was a semi conductor. I remember him waving his arms in the shower as he was conducting an imaginary orchestra.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 24, 2015 - 07:41am PT
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^I get it. Probably where the deep-seated music appreciation evolved, eh?
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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May 24, 2015 - 07:51am PT
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This forum is starting to suck . . .
Starting!? This forum has always sucked. That's what makes it so fun
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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May 24, 2015 - 08:00am PT
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SHARK?
WE NEED MORE SHARKS!
AND COWBELL.
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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May 24, 2015 - 08:02am PT
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Sharks don't suck!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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May 24, 2015 - 08:24am PT
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I think they said Pilot Whales
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 24, 2015 - 08:45am PT
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Since we now have a rough estimate of the start time, if we can get a ballpark of the end time, we can calculate the actual suck rate.
What is that "sucking" sound?
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 24, 2015 - 10:55am PT
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When the "Stone Monkeys" begin their decline. We will welcome them here.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 24, 2015 - 11:20am PT
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At least here our friends, pioneers and legends have a place to wander in and out of the firelight occasionally.
We just got spoiled for a while.
Most forums can't lay claim to that.
Viva Jello!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 24, 2015 - 11:27am PT
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What is that "sucking" sound?
You have to ask?
These fellas are playing in San Diego at the baseball field tonight. I won't be attending.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 24, 2015 - 11:47am PT
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Randisi, Good list. Peter Haan, Guido, and Don Lauria always add something solid.
Doug Robinson is good fun to read. Just finished his The Alchemy Action and recommend it. His A Night on the Ground, A Day in the Open is wonderful and I re-read it occasionally. The Alchemy of Action is available as an eBook now and the Moving Over Stone video is now on DVD! Love that. Doug's website is http://movingoverstone.com
John Long's stories are great; love his sense of humor. That story about Tobin Sorenson climbing Green Arch is hilarious!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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May 24, 2015 - 06:39pm PT
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Yes, Long's writing can be entertaining.
The problem is the hyperbole. It's sometimes difficult to sort fact from fiction with him. Not a good quality in a writer chronicling the past.
You sir are a killjoy.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 24, 2015 - 06:46pm PT
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Hyperbole?
Big wheels spin and spin
Little wheels go round & round
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 24, 2015 - 07:53pm PT
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I've been watching that for two hours, zBrown. Thanks.
Once you get into it, it's hard to get out of it.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 24, 2015 - 08:12pm PT
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"Got a spot that gets me hot . . . and you ain't been to it . . ."
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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May 24, 2015 - 08:13pm PT
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Hey Gersh!
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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May 24, 2015 - 11:36pm PT
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'Round and Round'
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All through the town,
And after a brief success,
The self satisfied magazine artist remained smug,
Until in the ladies barroom bathroom,
The local gang of biker girls,
Were to put an end to all that,
And for someone making room at the top,
They made room for her at the bottom,
Now she pushes forward her new agenda,
To show her unique line of high end Sasquatch wear,
And the babies on the bus go wah wah wah,
All through the town.
-bushman
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 25, 2015 - 05:56am PT
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Personally, I think it's come around and is on the upswing!
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Dick_Lugar_II
Trad climber
Center of My Universe...
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May 25, 2015 - 06:04am PT
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After a several year hiatus, I'd say that the forum is doing just fine, thanks to loyal guy's like Jaybro! His positive energy is inspirational, as are most of the regulars here...cheers.
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Gersh
Trad climber
San Diego, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 25, 2015 - 05:08pm PT
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Gersh
Trad climber
San Diego, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - May 25, 2015 - 05:09pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 25, 2015 - 09:55pm PT
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Als zBraun eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gewölbten, braunen, von bogenförmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch, auf dessen Höhe sich die Bettdecke, zum gänzlichen Niedergleiten bereit, kaum noch erhalten konnte. Seine vielen, im Vergleich zu seinem sonstigen Umfang kläglich dünnen Beine flimmerten ihm hilflos vor den Augen.
»Was ist mit mir geschehen?«, dachte er. Es war kein Traum.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 26, 2015 - 06:51am PT
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I'm north of Milan right now, go to Sicily tomorrow night.
Nut Again, Swing thru Cefalu, it is where my father is from. Beautiful place, although I have only visited in single dimension and verbal "travel".
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 26, 2015 - 07:22am PT
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Nice family on the beach shot!
From where I'm looking from, you have absolutely nothing to complain about! ;) cheers!
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 26, 2015 - 09:15pm PT
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jaybro, no complaints from me, I read where nut again was going to Sicily and telling him to add Cefalu to his itinerary.
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skitch
Gym climber
Bend Or
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May 26, 2015 - 10:15pm PT
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Gersh: my wife and my friends think I must be a goddamm retard for ever using Internet forums. They are right. Go do a project, even model cars and video games are better than wasting your time on this stupidity.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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May 26, 2015 - 10:27pm PT
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RE: the beach shot - looks rife for some gold panning too.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 27, 2015 - 06:48am PT
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I think the gold is already evident!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 28, 2015 - 02:34am PT
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May 23, 2015 - 02:28am PT
THIS is NOT where it should be
But wtf
Gresh
no content from you !
How do you feel about Dawves, Pixies,& Gnomes!
Your welcome here has a timer on it post some thing worth,
Gresh or Jeremy's mom?
We do not need a pile on azz-hole from your subset here, messing up good shares with personal attacks no matter how weak.
Edit
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 28, 2015 - 02:53am PT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 28, 2015 - 04:10am PT
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Buildering choss?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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May 28, 2015 - 12:46pm PT
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Mouse
Jaysus, Dinah-Moe Humm. I haven't heard that for a while. It used to be a big "sing-a-long song" around ("stoned") C4 campfires back in the mid-1970s.
"Stoned", of course stoned, rock is stone isn't it, especially Zappa rock.
I haven't heard it for ages. Thanks for the reminder it's a hilarious 'zong' ala Zappa.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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May 28, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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Supertaco. It just keeps on sucking.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 28, 2015 - 02:27pm PT
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"We did it 'till we were unconscious and it was useless anymore . . ."
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 28, 2015 - 02:55pm PT
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Exactly
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 28, 2015 - 03:29pm PT
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This forum is starting to suck...
... any estimates on when it will finish?
Since we now have a rough estimate of the start time, if we can get a ballpark of the end time, we can calculate the actual suck rate.
Nah that would just give you duration of suckage... need some amplitude readings.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 28, 2015 - 05:00pm PT
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If you don't like the current state of the Forum, then there is a wealth (over 2,122,506 at last count) of interesting posts out there for the inquiring mind types.
Have you ever, for example, wondered about poop on the forum?
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=398799&msg=398819#msg398819
I cheated and skipped to the end, but then went back and read through it too.
Looks like a bear has been eating a strictly vegetarian diet to me. We have scat like this here in the spring in our high country when the snow is almost gone. I have a great picture to compare it to, but I do not know how to post pics yet. Also my pic is of grizz crap so the volume is a much larger pile. It definately is not goat, sheep, horse, elk, deer, moose, dog, or even Todd Gordons unruly manimal. I track and check scat a lot while hiking here and have seen many bear piles similar.
When you see a huge pile up here it is both good news and bad news when there is huckleberries in the pile. You could get eaten, but there are a buch of ripe huckleberries nearby.
Bob
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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May 28, 2015 - 05:24pm PT
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I don't mind if it sucks; it's when it starts blowing I am worried about.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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May 28, 2015 - 06:20pm PT
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I don't mind if it sucks; it's when it starts blowing I am worried about.
So THAT is why they ban the blow-hards!
It all makes sense now...
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 28, 2015 - 08:36pm PT
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"She said her stereo was four-way and I'd just love it in her room . . ."
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 28, 2015 - 09:10pm PT
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"I mean her mendocino beano, by where some bugs had made it red"
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 28, 2015 - 09:13pm PT
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Nice pick, Biotch, for Throwback Thursday, especially.
+2, at least
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Delhi Dog
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Good Question...
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May 28, 2015 - 09:42pm PT
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