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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 22, 2018 - 07:20am PT
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Brutus was the best.
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ExfifteenExfifteen
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 07:37am PT
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yes, but not exactly as the ExfifteenExfifteen... but close...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 22, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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I think the tedious war between (if memory serves) Madog and Sulam brought the whole thing crashing down. Batten lorded over that place, and Slime was, well.... slime.
What about that car to car time of like 16 minutes to do Crimson Chrysalis that was heavily disputed for about 11 years? Who were those guys?
or ROKKOR... that dude was a hoot, or was it a w00t?
Batten Vs Pappen and the Nose saga?
That place is a goldmine!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:07am PT
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Looks like my first posting was in May 1992 and it went downhill from there.
Ha ha ha.
Met a lot of great people through the wreck and climbed with a bunch of them. It was a great community for a long time. Can't believe after all these years, I haven't met or a least run into DMT in the flesh.
The Crimson Chrysalis saga was about Tony Bubb's car-to-car claim.
Tony's in the Boulder area these days.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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OK. Here's a question for all you rec.climbing types out there(Clint can't play because he's so smart he probably knows the answer:-))
From what already existing "rec." group did rec.climbing emerge?
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:18am PT
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^^ You poor bastard. That can mean only one thing.
Yer gunna die!
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D Murph
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:25am PT
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I read it regularly in the late '90s through 2001 / 2002. Never posted very much so I doubt anyone remembers me but it was fun to lurk. Eric Coomer gave me a sandwich once in the valley, but I never climbed with anyone from that group (well, Clint, but that was because of a different group not the rec). I read it through pine.
Dennis Murphree
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dh
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:31am PT
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Whoa. Memory lane. Lots of posting (93-97) while a PhD student at Cal. Enjoyed it. Nate B, Eric Coomer, and so many others.
Good times.
Dave Hill (dfhill)
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:32am PT
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^^^ From rec.backcountry?
Remember the meltdown between A. Tarr and ???. It was any eyeopener for me that people could get so worked up over some ASCII text.
Yeah, Brutus was absolutely fantastic. His writing inspired my writing almost too much. Too much 'cause I'm not as good a writer.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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When I first came on here, some of you were waxing poetic about the god old rec.climbing days, and would sometimes provide a crumb trail so I could get in and look around.
It felt a little bit like wandering into a dank, dark, bar filled with locals who all knew each other, and anyone unfamiliar walking in would be intimidated, interrogated and/or intentionally ignored until they passed some sort of acceptance barrier.
Since all the active ones were here anyway, it didn't seem much worth trying to fit in over there. But I may have tried anyway; that would be my MO, but I don't recall.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:44am PT
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Darwin,
you are correct! rec.backcountry!
rec.backcountry got started because before that there was just an E-mail list server for climbing discussions on the Arpanet/Internet. Unfortunately, the list server was moderated and the moderator, who was down at CalTech, was not very good. He kept moderating all sorts of things that didn't need to be moderated so a few of us got fed up with him and started rec.backcountry.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Mar 22, 2018 - 09:51am PT
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yep, rec'd for a couple years. Good resource and lots of humor.
That's how I came across ST.
I still recall Lord Slime's handle and Brutus of Wyde's handle as being stand out names.
Side note to handles and IRL... for the most part I still don't know who you people are. Then I get Facebook requests and I'm like, 'is that that guy from the taco?' If you're are, best to remind me of the associations, else I'm afraid of letting the trolls on the Bookface.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Mar 22, 2018 - 11:22am PT
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batten was awesome
remember when trolling was about asking ridiculous and amusing questions in order to provoke outraged responses from people who didn't get the joke, instead of straight up hating?
RIP Jeff
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 22, 2018 - 12:07pm PT
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"Like"
I didn't even have a computer until five years back...
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Mar 22, 2018 - 01:08pm PT
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I lurked on rec.climbing.
But mostly I was on rec.music.gdead. That and The WELL.
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crøtch
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 02:05pm PT
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I posted there from the late 90s until it died. Great format and capabilities. The only thing missing from usenet IMO was the ability to embed photos inline.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Mar 22, 2018 - 02:17pm PT
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It helped me find places to climb in Iowa, maybe '94, on a visit to my wife's folks. And other stuff.
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Mar 22, 2018 - 02:31pm PT
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DMT - I see Eugene Miya in the flesh every few months, and it is still an even bet that he's a was an AI bot on the rec.s. He's still very amused by all the speculation back then. I was mostly a lurker on rec.climbing and rec.backcountry. Same on ST.
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perswig
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 03:46pm PT
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Would dirtineye have been part of that madness?
Dale
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Mar 22, 2018 - 05:10pm PT
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DMT - I'll pass on your kind regards. I'm sure Eugene will be happy to hear from you. Gene retired from NASA about a year ago and is in constant motion around the Bay Area, the Sierra, Nevada, Alaska,.... We belong to the same ski club in Soda Springs, and I'll wake up in the morning to find him sleeping on the couch and then he's off to 4 or 5 stops before the next destination.
Joe Baker
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