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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Still looking... ...is it near Clyde? Howe?
Dewey, Cheatam and Howe. Why does that ring a bell?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Aug 10, 2017 - 05:01am PT
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Sounds like CarTalk. It's near Clyde.
Hey, great to talk to ya yesterday.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Aug 10, 2017 - 05:43am PT
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Baker, OR
A long shot at best...
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Aug 10, 2017 - 06:16am PT
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Feck all these places. Except Butte, MT.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 10, 2017 - 09:24am PT
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Butte's got the pit and the Yankee Doodle pond and you know yuppies will NOT live with that reality in their backyard; that kinda stuff is better in other's living environs.
Butte will continue to sleep.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Aug 10, 2017 - 09:38am PT
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Butte will continue to sleep.
Yah, but Butte is 15 minutes from Montana after all.
Just don't raise children there, unless you want some really weird sh!t to happen.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 10, 2017 - 10:13am PT
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My town is better than your town. So is my dog.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 10, 2017 - 10:16am PT
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Just don't raise children there, unless you want some really weird sh!t to happen.
Sounds more like Anaconda to me...
I love Butte and the surroundings; took a trip through the batholith on Sunday to escape the smoke and happened on some coo stuff in terms of MTB trails and killer boulders w/out any chalk.
If you don't have at least 3 generations of blood spilled about Butte, you really will never fit in to their culture. Doug Ammons is working on a pretty cool book about Butte. It'll be based on a mine disaster but he has had to add a helluva lot more about Butte after his initial and now continual research. I used to frequent a coffee zone here and chat with, or I mean listen to his latest discoveries for his book. I can't wait to check'r and if Butte interests you at all, you should check it too!!!
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 11, 2017 - 08:50am PT
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Timid - great to hear from you. Burns seems nice and is close to the Steens! Hope to get out that way this year.
Enjoy the blackout : )
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Aug 11, 2017 - 12:00pm PT
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He's right. Burns is a great town.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Aug 11, 2017 - 12:29pm PT
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Curious why Baker is a long shot? I know nothing about the town but I looked at some pictures and it looks like it has the necessary ingredients. Mountains, historic downtown, etc. I wonder what, exactly, the secret sauce really is???
I watched Flagstaff turn from sort of a seedy logging town to outdoor chic over a span of not really that many years, though it had a skiing / climbing / river running culture for a long time. And of course a university.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 12, 2017 - 08:33pm PT
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and university students gotta get some sleep too ... student housing under construction at NAU
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 12, 2017 - 08:59pm PT
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No Sh!t Skully! You seem to be posting fairly regularly these daze. Hope yer feeling well.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Aug 12, 2017 - 10:27pm PT
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MT is simply too far north to house the next sleeper town . . . it exists at a more southern latitude for sure.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Aug 13, 2017 - 08:24am PT
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Sleeper town? I want a sleeper planet, this one is getting too crowded
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 13, 2017 - 09:52am PT
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MT is simply too far north to house the next sleeper town . . . it exists at a more southern latitude for sure.
And almost certainly in Colorado or California.
Just keep thinking that, and convincing others to think it, and the really good places will stay really good.
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Aug 14, 2017 - 07:39am PT
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Walla Walla
Blue Mtns. 20 min away, largely devoid of humans. Decent Mountain biking. Fantastic road bike riding. Two small ski areas within 1 hour drive. Wallowa Mtns. 2 hour drive, Columbia River 30 min drive, Spring Mtn. rock climbing 1.5 hour, other smaller chossier areas within one hour. Very nice climbing gym, 120 wineries, 3 breweries, 2 distilleries, 2 weed shops, great restaurants, thriving arts scene, symphony, chamber music festival, 3 colleges, a "real" town with old homes and streets lined with huge old trees. Fantastic local fruits and vegetables (and wine and beer), and friendly people. Not full of "body-Nazis" - people can converse on topics other than their latest training regimen and athletic accomplishments. Started to take-off before the last recession and bumper stickers started showing up with the slogan "Don't Bend Walla Walla".
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Da-Veed
Big Wall climber
Bigfork
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Aug 14, 2017 - 09:55am PT
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Definitely not Montana it sucks and there are no mountains! I hear Texas is nice, try there.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Aug 14, 2017 - 10:19am PT
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Walla Walla is not a bad bet as they go...
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 14, 2017 - 10:35am PT
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If on average, if MT was 2k higher we'd be in fantastic shape for being a nice healthy zone to live in. Our fire season, lack of abundant alpine style climbing, choss heaps, knap weed and lack of diversity will keep us in a sleeping state of a state. Also, it can be hard to understand how a lack of diversity affects you if it it something you are used to or like having. I don't necessarily mean it by just your surroundings but mainly when you have casual convos with your friends and acquaintances who only have experience with a white world.
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