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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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May 26, 2019 - 02:42am PT
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cool picture
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2019 - 05:14pm PT
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So crazy how many of you I met here. Thanks for enriching my life, even if I wasn't active the last few years.
Hope to bump into you in real life, or who knows, on some other internet procrastination site.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 30, 2019 - 05:52pm PT
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I’ve added two words to my vocabulary: butthurt and woke.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 30, 2019 - 05:58pm PT
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Met some really cool people that I consider friends. learned a lot about different places to climb and vans and lots of other good stuff.
Will miss you guys.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 30, 2019 - 09:22pm PT
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hey there, say, cleo... it sure would be fun to meet up, with various folks, and you too!!
my life is enriched and never the same, from the folks here...
i will keep remembering them, at the holidays...
and, those that helped with tech stuff, and encouragement, and so much more:
you are not forgotten, either...
:)
oh my-- getting so close, to the last day now... :(
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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May 30, 2019 - 09:29pm PT
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I grew up on Supertopo.
Not because of it, but since 2006 (13 years now?) I've gone from a 22 year old brat to an almost 35 year old curmudgeon.
Having access to the stories, the feelings, the energy of greater adventure at such an authentic level wasn't something I understood at first, and as time went on I watched myself morph, evolve and grow through these influences.
I've shared too much and too little, I've fought hard and laughed off nonsense. I've used this site to heal, to get away, to feel, to hurt, because I can't reconcile these things so well on my own. Whether therapy or an echo chamber or a shoebox thats going to get buried there are so many thoughts feelings and emotions welled up inside these two bit halls.
Maturing, looking back, I feel this site leaving is part of me letting go of my childhood, of the world of wonder and awe that climbing had meant to me then, and hasn't for some time. Maybe I can get that back somehow, maybe it will look different, but so many questions have been answered in 13 years I just don't know if I have the passion to ask.
Sliding into the back 9, I'm starting to wish that I had that community that I did have, or maybe I do, because we are all still here. We've always been here.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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May 30, 2019 - 09:36pm PT
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good stuff GeeDizzl
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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May 30, 2019 - 09:47pm PT
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GDavis, you always got the peeps, the hood, the familia....friends. Peace.
From the mamacita.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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May 31, 2019 - 08:24am PT
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I made some new friends and reacquainted with some old friends. I found at least the desire people had for political discourse a good thing. Bad things happened when we weren't paying attention. I loved the chance to hear directly from some of the climbers I looked up to in my journey. We were fortunate to have them, even if our perception of them is not always what we found in person.
The most memorable events for me were Disaster Master and Dirtineye's cancers, as well as Juan's battles with depression. They were real, and raw, and sad, and authentic. I'm grateful that they had the courage to share their experiences. It somehow made it seem that for a brief while anyway, we were all part of something more than us and our petty opinions. I don't know exactly why, but it seems there was something beautiful there. We'll all be joining them soon enough. I never met any of them in person but still think of them often.
Don't know if I will join one of the new forums or not. I still climb -- a lot. But I have no illusions that getting older will eventually catch up with me. It's been interesting to see how the older folks have used the forum as a means to stay connected when they don't, or can't get out so much. Maybe that's one of the best things about this medium.
So long folks. I hope to connect with you all again soon, in some fashion.
Mike
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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May 31, 2019 - 08:54am PT
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ST was my sole internet social network and I am sorry to see it go.
It enabled me to reconnect with many old friends and acquaintances, many of whom have since died. In retrospect, I realize that this was a great gift. Collectively celebrating the good times and grieving the losses affecting our little community were beautiful things.
If anyone wants to know what made ST so special, point them to the epic Frank Sacherer thread started by Ed Hartouni. It is the best example of what this forum was like at its best.
Hope to see you all down the road, ideally on a summer day lazing at a picnic table outside the store in Tuolumne Meadows.
Rick
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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May 31, 2019 - 09:34am PT
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GDavis. Very powerful.
(I doubt you’re a curmudgeon.) But if you are, cool, so am I.
Susan
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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May 31, 2019 - 10:51am PT
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"I met my best friend through SuperTopo"
Aw, shucks. Me too! xoxo <3
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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May 31, 2019 - 11:46am PT
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I was talking about Locker
🙄
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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May 31, 2019 - 12:48pm PT
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^^^^^. I thought that’s who it might be.
Susan
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 31, 2019 - 09:37pm PT
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hey there, say... cleo! again, wow...
i have precious friends, from the taco...
here's a note from one...
just today, it came for the LAST TACO NIGHT...
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Gal
Trad climber
going big air to fakie
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May 31, 2019 - 09:42pm PT
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OMG, Bobbleseth, oh hell yes!
I would have been so disappointed if I didn't see you here!!!!!!!!
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Gal
Trad climber
going big air to fakie
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May 31, 2019 - 09:56pm PT
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Mike Fredericks, I really liked what you wrote - so true. I met you because of Supertopo. At Lucille-Fest, and Jaybro, Grugg, Gruggs awesome wife Elizabeth - all the people you are close to.
For me, Supertopo continues through Sushifest. Very amazing people here. I lurked a lot, but for a while I posted a lot (even about climbing) ;-)
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Oldfattradguy2
Trad climber
Here and there
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May 31, 2019 - 09:59pm PT
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I got to pretend I was one of the cool kids
Toddeo in mccall, out, feel free to look me up, I’m the forest water guy
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 31, 2019 - 10:03pm PT
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The Taco was how I found out that my friend Bruce Bindner had shrugged off this mortal coil. For that am ever grateful. I lost track of my Cali climbing friends when I moved to CO in 1989. King Tut, Todd Vogel, Kenny Morrell, EC Joe, Bill Mac, Norman Boles, Chris Mayr, Robert Burke, Ian, Dimitri, Vince P., Alex Ng, Kim Grandfield, Rob Grandfield, Paul McCandless, Dave Pendleton, Robert Landfear, Steve Letts . . . thank you all so much for sharing quality time with me and helping me pursue the vertical path.
zBrown keep on truckin'.
Drl Jefe, thanks for being the best Taco connect . . . real deal brother.
Peace out peeps, may the four winds blow you safely home.
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