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Prod
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A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Hahahaha,
Yeah I was one of that crew. Slammin Sammy Pappis taught us that trick, but a few of us incorporated it into our repartee. Fifteen feet is selling it short though, you must of seen a somewhat sober guide who was afraid to let it all hang out with the valve fully open. It also made a big difference when you lifted it over your head so the flame was vertical.
Other Diamond boys of my era…
Tyler Jones, Now owns Rib City in Montrois
Les Hibbert, Trained me in, still friends and talk to him often.
Mike Harding, Big guy, now owns a rib city in Cincinatti
Mike Sampson, Little Mikey, I think he’s still in Breckenridge
Fred Sanford, Funny MoFo, Breckenridge
Troy Booker, Teli Ski patrol in Breck with his dog and still guiding.
Sammy Pappis, gotta be dead, but he had fun.
Rob Nunin, Teaches at Prescott, still guides
Steve Hill, Short timer, living in Co someplace
Mike Genius, Great guide with 30 plus years.
Chris Genius, quit Diamond by the time I was there but still in the Grand.
Pat Genius, RIP, great guide and friend, died of skin cancer.
Lots of others too….
Man I miss that place.
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tenesmus
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HA!! so there I was. Backeddy Camp. After a very long day up in Deer Creek - all the way to the Throne Room with like 30 peeps... And down into the narrows etc.. You know the drill. Very dehydrated, finally roll into bed and kind of fall dead asleep.
All of a sudden, just above my head on the big cooler I hear this 'flick'... 'flick' and what sounds like a propane canister rolling around. Right by my head.
giggling... then the valve opens and this guy starts screaming, "ITS GONNA BLOW!!!"
Then 'flick-thwump' and a freaking jet is like 30 feet above my head and some Diamond guy is holding the damned tank of propane over his head and primally screaming 'ARRAAARRRGGGHHHH' or 'I have the POWERRRRRR' or something crazy like that!
Scared the pee outta me! I was completely spooked and almost fell into the middle well of the boat. Nuts! WTF is he doing that just above my head anyway! Pretty good laugh about it once I actually woke up and realized what was going on.
So I was best acquainted with two or three Diamond guys. There was this really nice, charismatic TL who ran about the same schedule I did for several seasons. Every trip he had this huge birthday bash for himself and drank tons of YooHoo (and many other things) I thought his name was Jeff or something like that, but I must be wrong. I was so clueless back then.
And there was this guy who had an uncle or something that owned the company. I kind of knew him from school but he was relly low key and quiet. Again, super nice. I think his last name was Diamond too?
Small world in a big canyon
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Prod
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A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Duh! How could I forget about Jeff Pyle. A brother like no other. Man did we get into some trouble together. He now sells real estate in NV. I think I might have been on that trip... somewhere around 93 or 94? I quasi remember crashing out at paco and hearing about Jeff causing problems at back eddie the next morning. Sound like the same period?
I gotta dig into mi box of pictures and start scanning.
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aka Guy Kenny
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tenesmus
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yeah Guy - I think you must have been there amongst the drunken mayhem. What was it about those camps in there that always got me into trouble? It was like the point in the trip where the doorway into mischief was fully opened or something.
Jeff was one of those guys who could sell a trip on doing just about anything. Funny stuff.
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John Moosie
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Beautiful California
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Ah man, what a beautiful place the Canyon is. Thanks for the bump and the new pictures.
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