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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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May 17, 2017 - 01:38pm PT
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Springfield, USA
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 17, 2017 - 02:56pm PT
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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.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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May 17, 2017 - 03:05pm PT
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Maybe Boron?
Susan
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WBraun
climber
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May 17, 2017 - 03:09pm PT
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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 ......
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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May 17, 2017 - 03:34pm PT
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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.
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Nanobody
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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May 17, 2017 - 03:48pm PT
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Gold River, BC
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 17, 2017 - 03:57pm PT
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Trona. Git sum before it is too late.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 17, 2017 - 05:17pm PT
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Gold River, BC
Hmmmm. Maybe not. But go about 100 km due east and you might find something...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 17, 2017 - 05:22pm PT
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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.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 17, 2017 - 06:14pm PT
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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.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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May 18, 2017 - 06:11am PT
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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
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 18, 2017 - 06:20am PT
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After yesterday's excursion I can say, without a doubt, it AINT Grand Junction!!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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May 18, 2017 - 06:58am PT
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Might not be anywhere in Colorado,for sure.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 18, 2017 - 08:20am PT
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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.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 18, 2017 - 09:08am PT
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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.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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May 18, 2017 - 09:14am PT
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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.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2017 - 11:24am PT
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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 : )
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 19, 2017 - 09:49am PT
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Pretty sure that Hyder/Stewart will still be sleeper town long after the rest of the universe has gone up in smoke
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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May 19, 2017 - 12:43pm PT
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^^^^. And you can choose your country.
Then there's always Poker Creek, Alaska
Susan
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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May 19, 2017 - 01:26pm PT
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Trona..... garden spot of America.
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