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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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I wouldn’t say I’m still here, but I do poke through these pages every so often to see who’s doing what awesome thing. I think about Bruce quite a bit. He is missed.
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piglicker
Trad climber
Cubage Patch
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Was at least a very active lurker for 1993 - 2001 or so, then lost track of it as NNTP started to fade away from people's collective consciousness, to be replaced with lame web forums (ST is one of the better ones)...
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pmonks
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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THIS IS BURT BRONSON THE LAST BASTION OF THE HARD CLIMBER SPEAKING.
j/k - I rarely post here, but was a wreckular (is that the right word?) in the mid-late 90s and early 00s. I still refer back to the Burt Bronson stuff, as well as the beer powered ascent of the leaning tower (one of my most favourite TRs ever).
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BillWright
Trad climber
Boulder, Colorado
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You can add me to the list as well.
I also helped found rec.climbing. It was born out of too much climbing-specific threads posted to rec.backcountry. I remember voting on splitting it off. It was such a great source of like-minded climbers when I discovered it. I made some long-lasting friendships from that group including:
"English" Bob Sinclair
John "Mr. Slime" Byrnes
Greg "Opediah" Opland
Tim "The Toolman" Taylor
George "The Trashman" Bell
Bruce "Dr. OW" Bailey
And others that I only knew a little bit, including Bruce Hildenbrand, Jeff Ellison, and others.
Great memories.
I'm generally just a rare lurker here these days, only coming here if a topic in the weekly email from Chris piques my interest. Hope everyone is doing well.
I was known mainly for posting overly long Gumby trip reports. I still write reports these days on my blog: http://billwright510climbing.blogspot.com/
Back in those days I wasn't even married. This summer I'll celebrate my 25th anniversary and my main climbing partner is my youngest son Derek, who is now 20 years old.
Bill
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Pewf
climber
Gunnison, CO
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I was there late 90s to maybe 2001. Amanda Tarr (now Forrest). Mostly do drivebys on ST
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John Morton
climber
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Sometime in the early nineties a few Bay Area rec.climbers who had never met arranged to rendezvous and camp at a hot spring near Austin, NV. Next day we met at a roadhead and climbed Arc Dome, the high point of the Toyabe Range. A marvelous trip, the only one I've ever taken with net strangers. The ones I remember are Eugene Miya and Bobbie Morrison, with whom I still have occasional contact.
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dh
climber
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Very good years on wreck; mid-90s. Was at Berkeley at same time as Coomer. Met Nate B in the valley as I was setting off to do the Muir. Looked up George Bell in Boulder once. Met very few others in real life, but enjoyed all the chatter and TRs online. It was fun seeing people drift into and out of the orbit. Remember climerware?
Dave Hill
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NBB
Social climber
Boulder
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I met a lot of brilliant, incredibly talented, interesting and sometimes totally bat-sh!t crazy people. I miss them all.
Supertopo casts a wide net as the internet has made it into pretty much every home - and that's pretty cool, it makes things more real here.
However, in 1994-ish, when I first logged on to rec.climbing, it was a very different space than this place - full of outliers.
Jean's Halloween parties, then later the Boulder crew - made the memories.
I've bumped into most I knew from back then, here and there, in person, or online, over the years...
...except...
...where is Mattie Thompson??
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allanc
climber
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I was there from the late 1980s to maybe 1994.
I remember the person that told me about it asked "do you have any exams
or problem sets due this week?" When I replied no, he said, "ok, I'll
tell you how to get onto rec.climbing"
This was pre-web, so it was using text-based news reader software.
It was soooo long ago, that I think a typical hard drive was about
100 MB at that time. Even more disturbingly, the climbers were
all wearing pink lycra tights. I'm not sure if the lumberjacks and
fauxhemian man-bunners that infest my gym have pushed the stylistic
boundaries forward or backward.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2018 - 07:31pm PT
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...where is Mattie Thompson??
Alive and well in my memory.
In real life, I think she's now in New England. Vermont, if I remember. But we had a lot of great times together, and I sure do miss her.
And on the subject of old wrecks that I really miss, I think Al Black tops the list. Are any of you still in touch with him?
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Hurrah for the donut man! He kept with rec.climbing 'til past the end. That was important to my hanging on there, too.
edit
Make that doughnut.
On 17 May 2005 10:15:24 -0700, Mad Dog wrote:
>Al! Nice to hear from you. Consider this note to be an electronic doughnut!
Yes, I'll have that doughnutt Maddog. I've been lurking the
past bit, slumming for a decent newsfeed, changing ISPs etc. Good to
see a few familiar faces living the life.
Speaking of doughnuts, I've been thinking about Cairns' bouldering
post, and would like to extend it with a modest proposition. It may
give you a smile.
The D scale:
D'a = A problem, as in that's da problem.
D'ough= A problem that's so much fun it makes you think of a doughnut.
D'slag = A problem that you and your friends are going to sit under
for a while, looking up, and having fun slagging one another.
D'Oh = A problem that makes you think you may have had too many to
many doughnuts.
D'OhOh = A problem that leads you to indulging more. Often in the
face of common sense, often at the expense of your tendons and joints.
This scale gets more to core of why me and my buds like bouldering.
It also solves the problems inherent with grading shemes. By getting
rid of numbers, it avoids counting, which hard to do when you're
hyperventaling or eating something. The doughnut scale is not likely
to suffer from grade inflation, since its rather "climbing resume"
replellent. Real beauty of the D scale is that you don't actually
have to finish a problem to give it a grade.
It may also be applicable to other things in life. For example, I'd
say Usenet is a D'OhOh problem. But your milage may vary on this
one, so I'd recommend caution or perhaps a few mindful moments and a
doughnut or two.
al
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nafod
Boulder climber
State college
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Jun 21, 2018 - 09:18am PT
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Lurked with my 14K modem, then posted for a while (til 2003?) Similar user name. Stopped posting and climbing when my climbing partner had an accident and I lost my belay slave (posted the accident report on rec.climbing at the time, very similar to Florine's incident). Moved on and got fat, but recently have re-gotten the itch to climb, especially since my son has become a gym rat. Was a middle of the bell curve climber.
Met and climbed with a bunch of east coast folks back in the day. Met some great peeps.
I remember arguing with DMT about eating and bonking, where I based my knowledge that you can go a whole week without food on having gone through a whole week of SERE school without food. But you lose a *lot* of weight fast.
Resubmerging...
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jun 21, 2018 - 12:59pm PT
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HAS A BLACK MAN EVER CLIMBED EL CAP?
I miss Batten, man.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jun 22, 2018 - 06:56am PT
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Courtesy of Ouch!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 23, 2018 - 03:45pm PT
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I met a man named Carlold Nelson in the parking lot at Lowe's in Seattle who claimed to likely be the first African American to have climbed El Cap. I have yet to interview him but he was a Gunkie made the voyage pretty early on.
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