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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Jun 18, 2008 - 02:42pm PT
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When you instinctively sniff test EVERY lemon-lime gatorade bottle, no matter what.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Jun 18, 2008 - 02:43pm PT
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When you've lived on Purina Monkey Chow for longer stretches at a time (applies to one of my relatives, thankfully not me).
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Jun 18, 2008 - 02:52pm PT
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When you have holes in your shirt, pants, underwear, socks, and seriously consider yourself well dressed for a wedding because they are clean.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jun 18, 2008 - 02:55pm PT
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A: Johnny Woodward on why he moved to Cali from the UK...
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 18, 2008 - 04:50pm PT
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dirtbag story:
my cousin and i were on a trip to eldorado canyon. 2 or 3 days of sandstone clawing, several nights of margaritas in town. we hustle back to steamboat as my cousin is best man in a wedding. we don't even leave enuf time to shower. we pick up his tux and speed to the wedding.
the wedding begins and im enjoying a beverage with a grin. i then notice that my cousin still has tape on his fingers. my grin swells, and i laugh out loud.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 18, 2008 - 05:34pm PT
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Slight drift but the wedding thing got me thinking....
20 years ago when I got married I had a double wedding with my sister & her soon to be husband who were both climbers. I didn't climb at the time.
200+ people at the ceremony of which I swear 100+ were wearing Tevas.
True story.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jun 18, 2008 - 05:46pm PT
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from 6/6 (but I wore the same for a wedding on 6/1) only yuppies can afford those extravagent teva heelstraps. And I'm a respected moulder of young minds.
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Jun 18, 2008 - 05:52pm PT
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I also have been to the kind of weddings where everyone's dogs and kids are running loose around us during the ceremony.
We dirtbags love our chaos.
Smiles,
Anastasia
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 18, 2008 - 06:09pm PT
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more drift..
jaybro wrote, "...and i'm a respected moulder of young minds."
the 'moulder of young minds' reminds me of a quote:
'education is nothing more than mass hypnosis"
...reelling it back in...
i once was kicked out of a church parking lot bivy in tucson because we were "frightening the youths". the pastor himself gave us the boot and he (of course) didn't even try to witness to us. i took it as the ultimate complement.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jun 19, 2008 - 12:30am PT
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When you have lived in the Leichtfuss Avocado Grove shoveling chicken manure onto the trees.....and you all know who you are!
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Jun 19, 2008 - 12:33am PT
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When your only friend is Tucker Tech.
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Jun 19, 2008 - 02:43am PT
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you hike the sierras for weeks at a time with only a trench coat and biscuits in your pocket
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 19, 2008 - 02:54am PT
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You're a good buddy of the climber named in this article: http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/story/675825.html
The climber, "KY", "was a typical Yosemite climbing bum. He had long hair, dressed in raggedy clothes and avoided the park's camping limits by living in a cave near Curry Village."
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Michael D
Big Wall climber
Napoli, Italy
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Jun 19, 2008 - 05:01am PT
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Norwegian, You'll love this. Got the wife and daughter excited about a vacation to Russia...then mentioned, BTW, we'll be climbing Elbrus while there. Sweeeet vacation. Cheers, Michael
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
hither and yon
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Jun 19, 2008 - 09:26am PT
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I once pulled about a thousand packets of those miniature serve airline peanuts out of a dumpster behind some business that stocked food on flights. Lived off 'em for about a month.
I can't really claim full dirtbag - I left the packaged cold-cuts.
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Jun 19, 2008 - 09:55am PT
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You guys reminded me of a wedding story about a fellow dirtbagger a few years back:
We were exploring new routes in Washington, and my buddy had long hair at the time. We did a free rappel in on this steep wall, and his hair got caught in the rappel device - sucked it through all the way to his scalp - and he started yelling up to send down a knife. I dropped one down the cord, and looked on in morbid fascination as he sawed his hair blindly right next to the skinny 9mm we were rapping on. He cleared his hair, but when we got to the botton he had a big raw spot on his head. He had to go to his brother's wedding the next day, so this is what he did:
He went to Safeway, asked to borrow a pair of scissors from one of the clerks, went into the bathroom and cut his own hair! Apparently, the clerk was mortified when he returned the scissors, seeing the very rough cut he had performed upon himself.
LOL! True dirtbagger!
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Jun 19, 2008 - 10:53am PT
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Mike! You comin' up to the office today?
:-)
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Jun 19, 2008 - 12:22pm PT
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I knew dirtbag climbers who....
slept with concession woman,just to get food and shelter..and sometime drugs.
would cut a raw potato, add ink..then stamp -saved aluminum cans...to get 5 cent deposit.
Scarfed cafe food.. as a way of life.
showed up at friends homes ..at suppertime.
only own towels that have..Yosemite lodge, or some other motel logo on them.
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2008 - 12:51pm PT
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Hording and gathering condiments from convenience stores, grocery deli's, gas stations and restaurants. When your food box is full of individual size mayo, mustard, ketchup, sugar, crackers & if your really lucky those glass jellies!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jun 19, 2008 - 01:12pm PT
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I wonder if my Grandfather was a climber and never told me about it.
we were on a family vacation in Sweden in '71, he must have been 87 or so. Anyway they would have these continental breakfasts with the little jelly containers Sooz mentioned as well as packaged cheeses, suasages, capers, sometimes erzats cavier, etc. we'd sit around and eat for a while and then my brother would nudge me and we would watch my Grandfather fill his sportcoat pockets with that stuff, much to my mom's horror.
Had he been a climber? or was that behavior learned from feeding a family during the depression, maybe?
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