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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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May 24, 2012 - 09:30pm PT
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There used to be a boulder at the turn off to the Saline Valley Hot Springs that had a big bat painted on it until the Park Service thought it best to bury it instead of just pushing it across the road to BLM land. It was known as "the bat rock". I guess I am paying respect to a small bit of Eastern California history. M
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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May 24, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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Nickname from early rock climbing college years. I said "bullshit" a lot so it reminded my friends of Sparky from National Lampoons.
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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BUMP DE BUMP DE BUMP.........Let's hear some of the new ones......
Stevo
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Ahwahnee Bartender
Big Wall climber
Fog Town
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I was a bartender at the Ahwahnee Hotel. Get it?
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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mine speaks for itself i think. started climbing summer 2012, started posting this march.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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It was real tough.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Well, my name is John. Hillrat was made up for a 4x4 forum and got carried over here somehow in the beginning.
Now, johnnyrig on the other hand, something like near twenty years ago before I was even old enough to drink, I had an old POS red international pickup. Think Sanford and Sons.
Anyway, I took it camping with my sister's friends to the big annual MelonFest (that's what we call it... got a constitution and all, as the whole idea stemmed from her poli-sci class, still happens every year. Lots of jello shots, sharpie, music...). Now, the big campout happens every year. On the last day "virgins" (who've never been there) get awarded their "melon name". I had no melon name yet.
The second day, the fuel pump in the old truck gave out after 4x4ing a two wheel drive truck up to Bassi Falls (you could do that back then). So, it being the old broke-down worthless truck that it was, I shot it. Put it out of it's misery and such. One in the hood, two in a tire. Tossed back a few shots myself in consolation.
Party on.
Last day of the big campout, everyone cleaned up, packed up, and left except three rigs... mine, my sis, and her good friend. The good friend proceeds to "go for a spin", whereupon he stuck his truck in a mudhole and burned the clutch so bad it nearly caught fire. So now we got three truckloads of cr&p and one working truck.
After a bit of head-scratching, I dismounted the shot tire and patched it up with I-don't-remember-what and some rubber cement (it was a split-rim, so I only really had to fix the tube and didn't even own a spare), siphoned gas from my tank to a 2 1/2 gallon can that I carried (because the gauge didn't work... engine dies, add two gallons, drive to nearest station), bungeed the can to the roof, and ran a six foot piece of hose through the new bullet hole in the hood directly to the carburetor. Voila! Two running trucks.
Then I pulled the stuck truck out of the mud, and we caravanned down the hill back to Sacramento (from about Lover's Leap. That's where Bassi falls is located). Had to stop every-so-often to siphon more gas from the tank and re-bungee the can to the top, so I could tow the burnt-clutch rig home.
And thus... my actual FULL original Melon nickname, which is forever gaining addendums, is "boomboomjohnnyrig".
At least they didn't call me d&%$head.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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my father came in my mother
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Er
I'm from Vegas and I climb...tough huh. Haha
Jonny, my first vehicle was an IH as well, a 1960. My standard repair kit had baling wire and duct tape in it....I had to rebuild part of the throttle linkage with baling wire as you couldn't get parts for it. Payed $120 for it and wish I still had it haha.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Nice! Mine was a 66. I got it free because my friend kept trying to time it on no1. You time those on no8. Here's a picture from the next Melon, after I'd swapped the original step-side for a utility body and painted it in the driveway. I'll keep looking for a picture of how it originally looked.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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Because I have Leggs.
Tomboy Leggs to be exact.
;)
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Old girlfriends nickname ...
you had a girlfriend nicknamed "Stewart Johnson"? There has got to be story behind that!
EDIT: Nice save :)
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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well whitemeat was my nickname from my dad! it was just another thing but it stuck and when I was contemplating what to call myself I thought it would be a good one! ea?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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46 & 2 just ahead of me = mechrist
assuming we progress from left to right
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Newton County Mentality
Boulder climber
Ozarks
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It's the name of a route at my home crag in Arkansas, the route was aptly named as it pretty well sums up the majority of the climbing in the area. 1 hard boulder crux at the bottom and 50 feet of jug bashing. It's also my IG handle sans the spaces.
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peladob
Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
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tired of typing the entire length of my Summitpost name.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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I don't remember exactly...
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