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Bertrand
Trad climber
SF
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Apr 28, 2010 - 02:35pm PT
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Shockley's Ceiling in the Gunks, naked, on your birthday = a traditional requirement dating back to the Vulgarians of 1964. Check the Dick Williams guide book for author's photo evidence.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Apr 28, 2010 - 03:11pm PT
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Jingy
Social climber
Nowhere
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Apr 28, 2010 - 03:25pm PT
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silver - classic clearing method!!!
"BITD my climbing buddy and I show up at Big Chief the whole place is full of gym climbers and they have top ropes on about every climb. He gets pissed strips naked and starts to climb the one route that no one is on. In no time the place is cleared out and we have the place to ourselves."
bwahahah
Bag Drag Edit: is it considered a DAB when your bag drags?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 28, 2010 - 03:35pm PT
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What's wron with this sentence?
"bitd........gym climbers"
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 28, 2010 - 03:51pm PT
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Memories of days gone by from an earlier post on ST:
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Jun 25, 2008 - 10:05am PT
The NW was a route we would routinely ran up on a nice summer day in the early 60's.
In 1965 or possibly 66, I was working seasonally as a climbing ranger under Steve Hickman. Two sheriff deputies , out for a weekend of R&R, spotted a naked climber wedged into a jam crack near the upper section of the normal route . What we discovered on arrival was a rather strange and puzzling scene. A long time dead, naked, muscular and incredibly tanned male, tightly wedge into a crack in a perfectly normal climbing position. After two summers of search and rescue and too many morbid encounters we had taken to calling ourselves the Alpine Body Snatchers to lighten the psychological baggage. We flipped a coin for who was going to bag this one and I lost. What ensued was one of my most unmemorable climbing experiences. It is one thing to extricate yourself from a difficult jamming position, but try to envision pulling a dead, naked body out of a similar situation. We slung the body off with a helicopter and spent the next two days at the base searching for clothes to no avail. Far as I know the individual was never identified. Riddle never solved. One can well imagine all the wild scenarios we came up with to explain the wild circumstances surrouding this episode.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Apr 28, 2010 - 04:00pm PT
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Crazy stuff Guido
Couple of weeks ago, first ascent and first naked ascent of "The Left Cheek" at The Far Side. Located to the left of "Adams Crack", also a first nude ascent.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 28, 2010 - 06:05pm PT
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So 20 yrs ago is bitd?
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Apr 28, 2010 - 06:39pm PT
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Sorry Jay, before this thread you were only "old", but now you are officially "old as hell". It's downhill form here sir. It sucks but what can ya do? We get old and then we die.
Except for Beckey. He got old and fossilized I think...but the rest of us I mean.
Good luck.....
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