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BigB

Trad climber
Red Rock
May 17, 2017 - 01:38pm PT
Springfield, USA
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
May 17, 2017 - 02:56pm PT
Mojave....no, Barstow is the place. Equidistant from Vegas and LA and, get this, you can get decent cerviche there, but the kicker is the proximity to the killer sport climbing in New Jack City.....by Cali standards anyway.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
May 17, 2017 - 03:05pm PT
Maybe Boron?



Susan
WBraun

climber
May 17, 2017 - 03:09pm PT
Just move to Detroit.

Cheap housing!!!

What could ever go wrong there?

If you people would move there it will make America great again.

Stop your stoopid climbing and outdoors drug addictions and rebuild America!!!!

What could ever go wrong with that ......
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
May 17, 2017 - 03:34pm PT
Boron!!! hahaha.

I had to walk to Boron last month. Car broke down 12 miles north, 11 pm, no phone service. Hoofed it through the desert. Subway is open 24 hours at the junction, how cool is that.
Nanobody

Trad climber
Fresno, CA
May 17, 2017 - 03:48pm PT
Gold River, BC
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
May 17, 2017 - 03:57pm PT
Trona. Git sum before it is too late.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
May 17, 2017 - 05:17pm PT
Gold River, BC

Hmmmm. Maybe not. But go about 100 km due east and you might find something...
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 17, 2017 - 05:22pm PT
Alexis Creek, BC!* Rolled in there armed with a book on canoeing BC which
said we could rent canoes there to take to Chilko Lk. The store owner
looked at us like we were daft and said,

"Nobody rents canoes here, but you can borrow mine. How long do you need it?"

Then it was our turn to look at him like he was daft.

"Four days?"

"Fine, when you come back just put it behind the store if I'm not here."

Whoa. Did that really happen?


*Pop? Wiki says 70-80 but 35 years ago we saw about 6.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
May 17, 2017 - 06:14pm PT
I spent a summer on a fire crew based just a couple of miles west of Alexis Creek.

Stories aplenty to tell about that, but for this thread, the short version is: No, Alexis Creek is not the next Sleeper Town.

I did put up a route on a cliff between our camp and the town. The only memorable thing about which was that one of the belays was a tied-off pillar of petrified bat guano in a shallow cave.
Bad Climber

Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
May 18, 2017 - 06:11am PT
Donini, yer boosterism for Barstow is killin' me. Gawd, that place is such a clot. I spent one night there on a bike ride from Tehachapi to Prescott. I was happy to leave. Wait, no, I spent another night just west of town in the final days of a coast-to-coast solo bike tour. I pulled my loaded bike up into some creosote for a pretty nice bivi. I found some random gay porn DVD boxes, and I was visited by a kit fox while I ate dinner and watched the train down in the valley alongside Route 66. Yeah, I think I'm coming around. Barstow, people, Barstow!

BAd
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
May 18, 2017 - 06:20am PT
After yesterday's excursion I can say, without a doubt, it AINT Grand Junction!!
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
May 18, 2017 - 06:58am PT
Might not be anywhere in Colorado,for sure.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
May 18, 2017 - 08:20am PT
Thanks for chiming in Bad Climber....Barstow.....Barstow! LA without the smog and traffic with the added bonus of New Jack City instead of Stony Point.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
May 18, 2017 - 09:08am PT
Ridgecrest, CA must be in there somewhere. It has a central location to lots of different activities. Olvera's might be the best Mexican food anywhere.
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
May 18, 2017 - 09:14am PT
Ridgecrest, CA must be in there somewhere. It has a central location to lots of different activities. Olvera's might be the best Mexican food anywhere.

I know someone who was raised in Ridgecrest. . . . . But then he moved away.
Roots

Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2017 - 11:24am PT
That controller job at the brewery must be long gone by now?

I have not started looking for work yet as I don't know exactly when I will get there.

If anyone hears of any other jobs, I'm open : )
Oplopanax

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
May 19, 2017 - 09:49am PT
Pretty sure that Hyder/Stewart will still be sleeper town long after the rest of the universe has gone up in smoke
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
May 19, 2017 - 12:43pm PT
^^^^. And you can choose your country.


Then there's always Poker Creek, Alaska



Susan
guyman

Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
May 19, 2017 - 01:26pm PT
Trona..... garden spot of America.


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