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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 20, 2018 - 09:56pm PT
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With a little help from mah friends
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Mar 20, 2018 - 10:25pm PT
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Talk about sculpting holds!
Sheesh.
Full on aid with that cheater stick.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 20, 2018 - 11:51pm PT
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HaHaHa! I laughed so hard I couldn’t go to bed. Dude was so fat he couldn’t roll over?
Did I tell you about the time one tried to cimb in bed with me? It coulda gotten kinky, not
to mention painful. We were on a rescue and the four of us were bivied on a really nice
ledge. The face we were on was a typical Washington low angle turf and choss death face
which we had climbed in the dark until it got too sketchy. There was a full moon and it was a
beautiful October Indian Summer night. And it wasn’t raining! I came out of my slumber and
looked below me to see something coming towards our ledge. He was coming steadily with
a purpose. 15’ below me I realize it’s a huge porky and I’m getting sketched. I was last on the
ledge tied into a 3” x 8’ tall Waiting For Godot tree. Porky comes up to me, he’s a foot away,
and I whispered sweet nothings to him just to let him know that he was welcome, just as long
as he didn’t try to cuddle. I didn’t want to wake my three bunkmates, for fear of causing a riot.
Porky stared at me for 20 seconds and then climbed up the tree about 6’ to the only fork.
Great, like how am I supposed to sleep with 20 pounds of porcupine directly over me in a tree
with a 25 pound load limit? Somehow I did and the next thing I know it is getting light. In a
panic I look up and he’s GONE! WTF? I didn’t even bother trying to tell them.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Mar 21, 2018 - 05:30am PT
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Manufactured V2 into class 2. Don't boulder on a full stomach.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Mar 21, 2018 - 06:46am PT
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Thanks- that totally cheered me up:)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 21, 2018 - 06:55am PT
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hey there say, ... willoughby... i love it!
thank you so much, for sharing... :)
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Mar 21, 2018 - 09:21am PT
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Tami, I have always enjoyed your humor, but you must have left a trail of scarred psyches in your wake when you were a youngin'. Just sayin'.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Mar 21, 2018 - 10:31am PT
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I can just see some porcupine pulling a quill out of its tail and heaving it like a javelin. I'm pretty sure that's how my friends dog must have gotten a snout-full of quills ;-)
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Mar 21, 2018 - 11:42am PT
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I thought the use of his or her tail as a prop was fantastic.
Pines are cute critters but not too bright.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Mar 21, 2018 - 07:48pm PT
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Reilly! Re your memories: Great, like how am I supposed to sleep with 20 pounds of porcupine directly over me in a tree
with a 25 pound load limit?
I vividly remember a 1960's U of Idaho Forestry field trip, where two of my fellow students chased a porcupine up a skinny Lodgepole pine, & since Porky's are a known enemy of healthy trees, they decided to shake the creature out of the 4" diameter tree.
It peed all over them.
Think how lucky you are.
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