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Mimi
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 25, 2007 - 08:19pm PT
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In celebration of kicking those dips, thought you might enjoy some shots from the glory days back when ADD stood for all day dynoing. Gotta love the slack TR and the swami. Your brisket was never more chiseled!
Cover caption: JL at midpoint on the notorious Ripper Traverse near Pueblo, this being one of John Gill's most vicious 'test pieces.' The strain on his tendons is so intense, it is nearly audible to the onlooker," John Gill (and photo).
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 25, 2007 - 08:34pm PT
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I always wondered if his folks really split without leaving him a forwarding address.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Aug 25, 2007 - 08:39pm PT
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John's parents were the two of the most loving people you could ever hope to meet. This was probably the only time where Johnny used hyperbole in his writing...
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murcy
climber
San Fran Cisco
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Aug 25, 2007 - 09:19pm PT
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thanks, mimi!
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Aug 25, 2007 - 09:34pm PT
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How about that Bachar dude - all he could do was scroll reefers and sheet!
Man what a loser.... heh heh
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Aug 25, 2007 - 10:48pm PT
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classic stuff
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WBraun
climber
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Aug 25, 2007 - 10:51pm PT
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What you can't see in that article is the smoking fast dyno moves that Largo could do.
It was unreal.
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Aug 25, 2007 - 10:53pm PT
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Great stuff Thanks!
I think the rope was there to keep him on task
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Aug 25, 2007 - 11:15pm PT
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seems like that article was a big one (along with Pat's book on John Gill) toward making Bouldering what it is today.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Aug 25, 2007 - 11:15pm PT
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Those are all great problems...
...photos by John Gill.
Curt
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Aug 25, 2007 - 11:21pm PT
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From a climbing mag around '80 or so. Article about climbing the boulders of Tahquitz. The one with the tilted shot from the Kong Boulder on the cover. This dude is honed...
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seamus mcshane
climber
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Aug 26, 2007 - 09:48am PT
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Verm wrote that Largo looked like "an albino bull gorilla on a Nair kick:" in that "Where Boneheads Dare" picture.LOL
Too funny!!!
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Aug 26, 2007 - 11:20am PT
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You've gotta have vision--for sure--but the real key is TUBE SOCKS!
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Aug 26, 2007 - 11:24am PT
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I thought bouldering was invented about 5 years ago! This article can't possible be true.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 26, 2007 - 12:29pm PT
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How about those nifty tape spats on the Kong Boulder shots for style points.
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mack
Trad climber
vermont
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Aug 26, 2007 - 12:43pm PT
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Does he have a cigarette in his mouth? How's the kick the habit going?
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Mimi
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2007 - 09:01pm PT
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Hooooman! How bout some of that speckled stuff? The third installment of the series (Pumping Iron, 1977, being the first with that Arnold guy who went on to Pumping Handshakes). Check out his brisketoliciousness™™ at work.
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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I had forgotten this “pumping granite”
Love the last sentence, last paragraph, hell the whole thing!
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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That article was like a small bible that sent me on a search for bouldering salvation.
Classic!
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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I noticed last year that the big old tree behind Largo on the "Way too High" boulder problem has since been cut down.
Curt
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