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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 3, 2016 - 03:43pm PT
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Word just in!
Anders Ourom - the Mighty Hiker - will be in the Boulder area for an Access Fund event. That means it's time for a happy hour and a gathering of the tribe!
When: FRIDAY, October 21, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm.
Where: BrassNuts and Crimpergirl's house. Email for address and directions if needed: renn isonc@gmail dot com. Remove all spaces. You are welcome to pm me here too, but those private messages don't always seem to arrive to my email box.
Given we have no waitstaff and food preparers here, this is a BYOB and BYO-Chow event.
No pets please. No exceptions.
Looking forward to it!
Who is on the RSVP list besides Brick?
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Anders has a bouldering area named after him?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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More to the point is whether he can be happy for an hour.
That's a tall order for those Scandihoovian existentialists!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2016 - 05:52pm PT
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So what you two are saying is YOU'RE IN!
:)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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No, sadly, Crimpie, you said NO PETS! :-/
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2016 - 06:55pm PT
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I didn't say anything about feral beings! :) haha
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Anders: Are you still in Yosemite?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Thanks to Callie for taking the initiative on this. Hopefully Boulder and Denver peeps will be there.
Anita: Left Yosemite on Friday, now home. Loki happy to see her human.
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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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Work til 6 so be a bit late but I'm IN
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I'll be there!!!!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Anders is one of the good ones.
I also vouch for Brassnuts and by extension, Crimpergirl.
In absentia,
A. Cairns
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Wish I could make that, but will be in LA. How are those brass shoulders doing?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2016 - 07:58pm PT
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The RSVP list to date:
Crimpergirl
BrassNuts
Mighty Hiker
Pente
Brick
BD Climber
Steve W
Aya and the not-Barbarians
Plus facebook posters
:)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Wish I could! Great to see Anders at FL and Brass Nuts in the Meadows this summer. We missed you Crimpy Girl. Cheers, Lynne
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2016 - 06:35am PT
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Bump! Looking g forward to seeing everyone in person and in spirit.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Anders rockin'the states tour?!
Best collect some bail money. Could be sketchy without Ghost there to keep him in line.
Keep him away from the cocaine and strippers!!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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The missus and I will certainly attend.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Would love to attend but not sure what's up for that weekend yet.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I'm still gonna be there.
So there.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2016 - 05:36am PT
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Happy to see the list grow with an excellent cast of characters!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Should the event morph into an impromptu fundraiser for Jello and Connie, that'd be fine with me. I could tell stories about BITGOD, when p'terodactyls nested on the Chief and stuff. Although if that leads to more attendees, we may outgrow Casa Crimpie/Brassie.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2016 - 03:26pm PT
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Only about a week to go! Looking forward to seeing everyone.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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Oct 15, 2016 - 05:18pm PT
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I'll be arriving in Denver that evening after 6. If OK, might try to drop by later.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Oct 15, 2016 - 05:37pm PT
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Gym will attend and I will accompany him.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 15, 2016 - 09:58pm PT
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Met Anders in camp 4 at facelift 2015. Good times.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Oct 16, 2016 - 11:15am PT
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I arrive in Boulder Thursday evening, and will be staying at Casa Accomazzo. Leaving Monday noon. Apart from the Friday night happy hour, and the Access Fund's 25th anniversary dinner on Saturday, I'm free and available for modest adventures. (Still recovering, so emphasis on the modest.) Climbing, hiking, campaigning for Clinton, visiting Nederland - whatever anyone is up for. I'll have basic climbing and hiking stuff. Thanks!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2016 - 11:17am PT
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Looking Sketchy - I'll send a pm with the address. If nothing comes through, email me at rennisonc at g mail dot com and I'll get it to you!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2016 - 11:24am PT
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The RSVP list to date:
Crimpergirl
BrassNuts
Mighty Hiker
Pente
Brick
BD Climber
Steve W
Mary Ann D
Aya and the not-Barbarians
Eeyonkee
Ms Eeyonkee
Mike M maybe
Looking Sketchy
Nature
Gym Birdwell
Liza maybe
Pam Roberts
Rick Accomazzo
Gerry Accomazzo
Sally Moser maybe
John J
Katie Dott
Jessica Y
Plus facebook posters
Looking forward to seeing everyone...and hopefully see the same crew at the Access Fund dinner the next evening!
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Oct 17, 2016 - 08:24pm PT
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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Oct 17, 2016 - 09:38pm PT
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I sure wish I could make it. It's been too long since I was in Boulder, I missed Facelift, and I miss you people!
Have fun and have a toast for those of us who wish we were there!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Oct 20, 2016 - 03:31pm PT
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Bump.
I might be a little late. I have an evening/sunset drone photoshoot at Sticker Giant in Longmont.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 22, 2016 - 12:30pm PT
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OK crimpie, post them up. We know you have them.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Oct 22, 2016 - 12:57pm PT
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MAN BUN!
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Oct 22, 2016 - 01:18pm PT
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Photos, please.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 22, 2016 - 05:19pm PT
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hey there say, ... stopped by to see how it went...
:)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2016 - 06:55pm PT
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Will get some photos up soon. All of us are at the Access Fund Event tonight. Lots of dressed up climbers!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 22, 2016 - 09:08pm PT
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Nature.
Gym WASNT there.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 23, 2016 - 12:24pm PT
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 06:11pm PT
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Trying to wrestle camera away from BrassNuts so I can upload some photos!
May have one or two (but not many) from the Access Fund dinner as well. It was a blast!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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We should have focused on taking more photos since we missed so many of the people who attended. Still, it was great fun, and we did manage to get a few...
George B, Rick A, John J, Gerry A and Pam Roberts!
Eeyonkee, George B, Jan, Anders/Mighty Hiker, Brokedown climber, and assorted others
Anders and Pente
Nature, Steve W and BrassNuts
Mr and Mrs Eeyonkee
Anders, Elizabeth, Nature, Crimpergirl, and Eeyonkee
Eeyonkee styling it the Boulder-man way
A thinking man by the name of Nature
Pente running away from the Manbun guy; Someone with a manbun going in for a kiss!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 23, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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But there aren't any pics of you all dressed to the 9's at the AF
dinner!!!!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 07:38pm PT
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I'm not sure there is a photo of that. Will have to ask around. Got a nice one of BN:
*You can see Mighty Hiker at the table next to us over BN's shoulder (on the left).
And some 'hold the camera up and shoot the crowd' as we were being seated for dinner. Maybe you can find all the STers out there. :)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
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Ah, here is the only one I know of. We missed a lot of good photo opps last night and the night before. Very fun visiting without that though.
Hola RV - super fun hanging out with you!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 08:11pm PT
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Love the photos! Thanks!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 23, 2016 - 08:32pm PT
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hey there say... wow, very nice pics, everyone!!!
so nice to see everyone!
thanks for sharing... :)
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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Oct 24, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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Sorry to miss the get together at Crimpy and BN's, but it was fun hanging out with them at the AF cocktail and dinner.
More than a few of us were amazed to see a room of 400 reasonably well dressed climbers celebrating 25 years of the AF. Connecting with new and old friends and acquaintances was great.
The Black Diamond metal beer glasses we are clutching was a highly prized item. Rumor was it doubles as an emergency tube chock.
Along with Anders, I attended a few of the seminars/workshops earlier in the day. There were so many dedicated climbers from all over the US (and, yes Canada) whp are doing incredible projects. Very inspiring to say the least.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 24, 2016 - 03:41pm PT
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Well, Mr. BN. Not only looking svelte, but like, a perfesser or something.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 24, 2016 - 04:10pm PT
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Send me one of them cups, I'll drill it out and whip on it to see if works as a tube chock!! ;)
AF event looks, well, different than Camp 4. lol
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
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We sadly forgot our two cups. Tragedy. :(
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Oct 24, 2016 - 09:17pm PT
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:31pm PT
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Thanks to everyone for a pleasant trip, and for all the hospitality!!
Gerry and Rick A, for providing a cozy billet, and great company! (Bonus: Meeting John J.)
The Crimpster, Brass Nuts and Pente, for hosting a wonderful get together on Friday night. Jan S, Rodger R, Pam R, George B, Elizabeth & Greg (aka Eeyonkee), Steve W, Gerry & Rick, Aya, Nature, and others were there too. Although Rodger had an almost four hour drive - one way!
Eeyonkee, for climbing with me in Eldorado on Friday - the "get fit again" process evidently will take a bit more time and effort. Plus we talked about his solo free ascent of Pipeline in 1979, looked at Glenn's photo from the FA in 1966, and speculated as to who might have tried it in the interim (as hinted at in the 1975 guide), and where the pipes ended up.
Brass Nuts, for our conkwest of the Third Flatiron on Monday, and our foray into Whole Paycheque. Many snowy mountains to the west, if not the continental divide, were visible from it. (The descent from the flatiron seemed disproportionately challenging, in comparison to the climb.) Probably the last sunny outdoor climb I'll have for a while.
It was also interesting to visit two historical climbing areas, where considerable effort has been put into protecting their heritage.
The Access Fund's 25th anniversary dinner on Saturday was great fun. I was very active in access and related matters, and the Climbers' Access Society of BC, from the early 1990s until about 2008, and since then have had a limited role. Other responsibilities, time to move on... But when I got a note from Armando in July, mentioning the dinner, and closing with (roughly) "You'll be there. Won't you?", I decided to attend. The AF was always supportive of what we did in BC, and something of an inspiration. (Indeed, the Access Society - CASBC - helped stimulate formation of LCOs in Penticton and Squamish, and access groups in Alberta and Ontario. Plus did some useful stuff.) So it seemed a good excuse for a wild weekend. By my standards, anyway.
Tons of friends, old and new, at the dinner, and a very busy night, where they gave us drinks, then having anaesthesized us, separated us from our money. (ABF - Always Be Fundraising.) Timmy O'Neill was the MC, Armando and John J talked about how the AF got started, a young woman from New York talked about the importance of organizations such as the AF being inclusive, and Tommy Caldwell gave an amusing talk about where climbing has been, and where it might be going. There was even an auction.
I've been to five or six AF summits, the first IIRC in Seattle in 1998. At that time, most of those attending were male, white and middle-aged or older. There was a significantly higher percentage of women and younger people at the summit on Saturday, and some persons of colour. (The new AF president, Kenji Haroutunian - maybe related to Ed H? - is of Armenian and Japanese ancestry. Although he's admittedly male and middle aged.) So that's progress - something which in multicultural BC we can learn from. As climbers, we need to remember and learn from the past, but always be looking to the future.
Overall, a great weekend, now back to the land of rain and work.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2016 - 09:22pm PT
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I can see the flatirons from my office in Denver. Yesterday I looked at the third, knowing your two were there, and was jealous!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:41pm PT
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Anders & all! It sounds like great fun. Thanks for sharing the story & photos.
I flew down to Denver & spent a long weekend in Boulder with my old friend Bruce Franks & his wife Meg, somewhere around 1974. He was sales manager for Longmont-based Camp 7 at the time.
Of course, we had to climb something, & the 3rd Flatiron, was ready, willing, & supine for our fun. I do remember the top of the descent was short, but steep & a little complicated.
My last time climbing in Colorado.
Sigh.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Oct 26, 2016 - 09:39pm PT
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So at the AF dinner on Saturday, there was quite a silent auction. (I bid on a few things, unsuccessfully.) All sorts of goodies. One of them was a "crag dog" package, with a nice blankie for doggie to lie on, a (short) leash, and stuff. So Callie, Dave and I naughtily added "Dog not included" to the auction sheet. Perhaps Pente if not Donini would have approved, but I understand that dogs are a major problem at crags there.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Oct 26, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
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I would argue that dogs are really never the problem... the owners who bring them along and then let them run rampant are nearly always the real problem. :-)
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Oct 28, 2016 - 07:42pm PT
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The man, the myth, the legend :-)
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