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Ropeboy
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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I helped my running club with highway cleanup and we did it for several years. It was an impossible task to keep it clean, the new litter monster was always bigger than us. We finally left the program but it was a good fight while we lasted.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Nice bio, jstan. The essence.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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You are a good man, jstan. I've known this for a number of years, though we've never met.
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2015 - 08:49pm PT
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I think it was Churchill who said that Clement Attlee "had a lot to be humble about." Tom Frost and Yvon played critical roles as did the inventors of the cam. I think the way everyone stepped up to the line, all on their own, made the early 70's an incredible experience.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Yes interests change but I've often wondered why so many of the guiding lights....Frost, Chouinard, Barber, Wunsch, Pratt, Jardine, and you John, left the stage so early. Climbing, for me, has been defining....probably not the healthiest thing.
Just re-read this post, sounds critical....not meant to be so in the least. I've often wondered if my preoccupation with climbing has been healthy. Oh well...we are who we are and we are defined by what we do.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, jstan and all... very nice and interesting thread...
lots of ways of looking at interests, and the changes and the why and how, that these things enhance us all...
nice share! :)
might add some stuff, too, here, later, as well...
:)
am enjoying it...
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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I stamp collect, and seek pen-pals.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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I've often wondered if my preoccupation with climbing has been healthy. Oh well...we are who we are and we are defined by what we do.
You are not alone in your preoccupation brother. Many of us continue to be be defined by climbing more than any other aspect(interest) of our lives, and are happy to be so. My parents have a climber son, my wife married a climber, and my daughters have a climber dad. Many a friend or coworker has been introduced(drug out and exposed) to the infection of climbing.
Climbing can be extremely social and yet so solitary, spiritual and a meditation medication, the obsessive pastime.
Climbing is not to be confused with bouldering which doesn't require an IQ over 75 and is more comparable to surfing.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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^^^^^^^
Oh my, still having problems with those V1s are we?
Keep trying, and try not to be so negative.
;>)
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Hah! Yep, I' m a closet boulderer. To V-4, then I shut down. There are anomalies in the intellectual spectrum of boulderers. I was only refering to the masses and a few specific friends.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 11, 2015 - 10:51pm PT
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Healthy, open citizen deliberation, particularly between those most apparently diametrically opposed, is a worthy and ideal interest. It is one of those apparently insurmountable objectives that some good people seek. Like picking trash in the desert, like fighting to minimize abuse and neglect of those dear human beings stricken with dementia. Like jamming cracks on new towers.
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couchmaster
climber
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Oct 12, 2015 - 03:53pm PT
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HAHAHA, The preeminent boulder and PHD math dude John Gill who spake thus to Clinker for the win: "^^^^^^^Oh my, still having problems with those V1s are we? Keep trying, and try not to be so negative."
Re clinkers post: "Climbing is not to be confused with bouldering which doesn't require an IQ over 75 and is more comparable to surfing. "
Still laughing......will be for some time.
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Barbarian
climber
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Oct 12, 2015 - 07:22pm PT
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If you have a high enough IQ you avoid R and X boulder problems.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 12, 2015 - 08:00pm PT
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John
You didn't make it to Facelift this year?
What's this world coming to?
(I hope this finds you healthy and doing well)!
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jstan
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2015 - 08:54pm PT
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Steve:
Fear not. I was there. Did not run into many cameras though. I put extra effort into C4. For the first time I got C4 into the shape I wanted. My tenth Facelift. The famous bumper crew went out to Rt:120 hoping to find our bumper that was stolen a couple years ago. Next year. You can never have too many bumpers.
Busy lately. Wednesday worked with Yucca Valley folks. Thursday- Sat collected 100 tires, two sofas, two box springs and a load of trash with Yucca Mesa Improvement. Sun-Thurs building an erosion control dam on Juniper. After Wed's Clean Team I start preparing for a kids' grabber fest at the community center. Giving away tape measures and perhaps line levels. In just a few years these eight year olds will be needing to start building their houses.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Oct 12, 2015 - 09:05pm PT
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Great thread!!
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Oct 12, 2015 - 09:27pm PT
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Giving away tape measures and perhaps line levels.
Don't overlook the power in a 20 foot piece of clear tubing filled with water - works wonders on a sloping grade for finding level.
As a side note - still can't believe you gallantly indulged my water-logged scullery maid of a wife during one of the few Facelifts we managed to attend -
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Oct 13, 2015 - 05:07pm PT
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Enjoy your well thought out ideas, Jstan.
Wish circumstance blessed us with more time for sharing the wonderful thoughts, ideas and solutions that are there for us. Agree that we can solve most of them.
I have a wonderful, serious, campaingne idea to get rid of cigarette BUTTS in Yosemite National Park.
Cheers and Love, lynnie
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 13, 2015 - 07:46pm PT
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Glad to hear you're doing well, and kudos to you for
your continuing work, where ever you happen to be.
Still an inspiration to me!
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