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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 26, 2008 - 02:17pm PT
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Spanish Mission Ruins
Built in the 1650's?
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 26, 2008 - 02:23pm PT
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Flagstaff's "Sobriety Test"
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2008 - 02:42pm PT
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Awesome MrE.
If some people post up, we'll actually have to decide how to decide! I'm sure I can dig up a meager prize in my garage!
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Nov 26, 2008 - 02:47pm PT
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The bottom of a hut I lived in on a rainy day, built circa 1650-1700.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Nov 26, 2008 - 02:53pm PT
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Nov 26, 2008 - 02:55pm PT
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Nov 26, 2008 - 02:57pm PT
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Offset
climber
seattle
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:00pm PT
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survival
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2008 - 03:01pm PT
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Woohooo! Now we're rolling!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:02pm PT
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:03pm PT
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:11pm PT
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2008 - 03:49pm PT
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Best Field test: MisterE!
Best Action shot: Hoipolloi!
Best Silo: Todd Gordon!
Best Dressed: Offset!
Best Plumbers crack: Ghost!
Best Fiction: Ontheedge!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:56pm PT
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Nov 26, 2008 - 03:56pm PT
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From Marc Jensen's Bouldering, Buildering and Climbing in the San Francisco Bay Region, 1988
Captures the "innocent bystander" aspect, like some of the stunts in the James Bond films of the 80s.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 26, 2008 - 04:07pm PT
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New Soundwall, Bellingham, WA:
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MH2
climber
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Nov 26, 2008 - 05:01pm PT
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Fewest climbers
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Nate Ricklin
climber
San Diego
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Nov 26, 2008 - 05:44pm PT
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UCSD
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bwancy1
Trad climber
Here
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Nov 26, 2008 - 05:53pm PT
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Phew!
Tough landing on that chimney!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 26, 2008 - 06:02pm PT
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Found this one on another site, "Naked man Square":
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2008 - 06:07pm PT
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Wow, that's a cooool one!
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 26, 2008 - 07:54pm PT
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Levy at Dune.
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Nov 26, 2008 - 07:59pm PT
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that parking garage is awesome. I always look for those, but can't find em...
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 26, 2008 - 08:02pm PT
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Babies doing a High Ball!
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Nov 26, 2008 - 08:10pm PT
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 27, 2008 - 12:04am PT
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Ocean Beach
San Francisco, California 1990
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2008 - 12:58am PT
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Too Cool!
I love the variety here. I think that's the beauty of buildering.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:39am PT
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Great stuff!
here's one of a friend from Washinton:
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:42am PT
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Julius Palunus and I at the 2nd & Clementina Crack.
San Francisco, California 1986
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:44am PT
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Sweet nut stack! You win! But this one kills me. Another NW friend:
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:48am PT
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That dude needs a shark suit crash pad!
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2008 - 10:56am PT
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Loomis,
Those are really cool, Which one is you, and how hard is that thing?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 27, 2008 - 12:02pm PT
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Okay this is fun. Here are some shots of the late Allan Bard building climbing with me at UCSC in about 1972-73 I think.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2008 - 12:56pm PT
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Wow Peter, those are really something. That roof looks sweet.
When do we start voting?
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:15pm PT
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Not exactly buildering...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:18pm PT
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Nov 27, 2008 - 01:28pm PT
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"As you can see, there's a perfect splitter hand-crack (cupped hands) to play around on.
Toward the top it narrows to thin-hands. I have to say, the mattress-people sitting around were duly impressed.
And in case you're wondering, I was too chicken to top out. However, I managed to get a gratuitous
heel-hook to show the mattress-people that it is indeed the Americans who wrote the book on "rad"...
(from: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=93999 )
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Dudeman
Trad climber
California/Idaho
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Nov 27, 2008 - 02:09pm PT
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The Maria Yagnico Bridge in Goleta California
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Nov 27, 2008 - 02:42pm PT
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bump. New page. These are great.
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MH2
climber
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Nov 27, 2008 - 03:20pm PT
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From the Seattle Times, May 14, 1983
A University of Washington Student who identified himself as Brett Brown scaled his way to the top of two seven-story exhaust chimneys near the campus parking garage yesterday afternoon. He wedged himself between the two towers for a few minutes before making his way back down to the ground, where he was greeted by a small crowd of onlookers and by UW police. The authorities gave him a verbal wrist-slapping but made no arrest.
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schwortz
Social climber
davis, ca
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Nov 27, 2008 - 03:34pm PT
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la poste, creysse, france
some scaffolding at a site i was working at, carsac, france
climbing a pyrmid, khufu i think, giza, egypt
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2008 - 03:36pm PT
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schwortz, I think you have to try again.
Great shots everybody.
oops. Never mind, I've got the links now.
I've been on the pyramids too!
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schwortz
Social climber
davis, ca
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Nov 27, 2008 - 03:41pm PT
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fixed...thanks...
and i got chased off that pyramid before i got too far...
_almost_ bribed a guard to climb menkaure but decided against it seeing as it wasnt really worth the risk...
if you go out to dashur you can climb up one of the smaller pyramids without any issues still...
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MH2
climber
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Nov 27, 2008 - 04:45pm PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 27, 2008 - 06:24pm PT
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thanks Peter
Ah, the Great Bardini, how that man is missed.
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Scott_Nelson
Trad climber
San Diego
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Nov 27, 2008 - 06:33pm PT
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UCSD Buildering Pics:
Mandeville Loading Docks
Visual arts building
Center Hall Death Chimney
Gilman Parking Structure
HDB Tyrolean Traverse, Singapore
Encinitas
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Nov 27, 2008 - 07:00pm PT
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Bump....
This all has been well worth the time taken to view all the photos.
There used to be a time when I would look at every building with this all in mind.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 27, 2008 - 07:07pm PT
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Claremont Hotel, Berkeley 1963
Winter Sport Show
Somehow, Rowell, Harper and I got talked into this. Had a hell of a time finding anything on top worth anchoring for the rappel. All the wood columns were rotten.
Benefit were the drinks passed out the window as we slid down. Met some nice young ladies, hounds that we were. Had to rappel every hour for three days. Somebody had to do it.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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Thanks guido!
Yodel-ay-ee--ooooooo
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Llama
Big Wall climber
The bubble that is Irvine, CA
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Nov 27, 2008 - 08:36pm PT
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A little aid buildering...
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martygarrison
Trad climber
The Great North these days......
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Nov 27, 2008 - 10:09pm PT
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kman, I have those pics of us doing some pretty wild stuff at csus. If you dont have them digitized I can do it and post.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
Last >>
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Nov 28, 2008 - 01:06am PT
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Just of the recent posts , the Scott_Nelson stuff shows heavy commitment to the game ( big and tall ) , and radical's daughter(s?) hung out to dry is classic , but that " Brett Brown " photo is so sick . . .
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 28, 2008 - 03:42am PT
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Doug Drewes transitioning out of the double kneebars and onto the rail on "Student Center South By The Column". Cutting your feet and going from that edge to the top in one shot was always exciting. Circa 1975 or 76.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2008 - 02:06pm PT
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Man, all these cool shots have turned out even better than I hoped for.
You can just tell that there is a great story behind most of these pix too.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Nov 28, 2008 - 03:35pm PT
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The shots of the towers @ the U of Washington reminded me of a story...
I vaguely recall a story I heard from Adam Gradzowski, about some guy climbing a tower/sculpture thing up at Evergreen State. I recall something like there was one bolt for the 80' (or so) and this guy did it within site of the graduation ceremonies and peeled from the top avoiding a grounder by mere feet (held by a Rawl button head and Leeper hanger).
Anyone know about that story ?
(would'a been early 80's)
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Nov 28, 2008 - 03:49pm PT
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I was looking for bouldering shots of the Towers in Red square at University of Washington, but couldn't find any.
That's a classic chimney problem too. There has been more than one person stuck at the top after doing the exit moves and finding out getting back into a chimney at 60 feet is much more frightening than exiting it.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Nov 28, 2008 - 04:07pm PT
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TrundleBum: I vaguely recall a story I heard from Adam Gradzowski, about some guy climbing a tower/sculpture thing up at Evergreen State. I recall something like there was one bolt for the 80' (or so) and this guy did it within site of the graduation ceremonies and peeled from the top avoiding a grounder by mere feet (held by a Rawl button head and Leeper hanger)."
I don't recall the specifics, but Adam Grosowsky and Jeff Ellington went to Evergreen and are who you are thinking of. They are both earlier slack / high line pioneers. I do know they both did some high railing walks and solos around campus and had a highwire rig in the woods. I've known Adam since he was twelve, climbing in Southern Illinois, and visited him at Evergreen around the time you're talking about.
It was pretty fun visit and we spent quite a while getting running full-tilt and jumping onto a line down (11mm cranked down hard), which involved much Keystone Cops hilarity as well as a few big and horrific 'bow string' launches into the abyss. Adam is still climbing, walking down in Eugene, OR these days and Jeff is over in Bend.
P.S. Doug Drewes (in the photo above), Alan Carrier, Adam, myself, Jim Tangen-Foster, and a few other folks formed the nucleus of the third wave of SoIll climbers in Gill's wake.
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MH2
climber
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Nov 28, 2008 - 04:58pm PT
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small window for thread-thread contact
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2008 - 02:57am PT
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Hey, that guys peeing his pants! And his elbow's bleeding....
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Nov 29, 2008 - 12:01pm PT
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2008 - 02:14pm PT
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Nice job Alpine!
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MH2
climber
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Nov 29, 2008 - 02:37pm PT
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"Hey, that guys peeing his pants! And his elbow's bleeding...."
...and his pose seems to've been modeled after a previous guidebook illustration.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 29, 2008 - 05:06pm PT
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Cool alpine!
That dude has bin trashed.
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Nov 29, 2008 - 11:34pm PT
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survival, I am the one leading the crack.
The crack is size dependent, inch and an eighth and very slick!
The cams would slide out of the crack occasionally.
I have done 5.12b's that seem easier.
Cool thread you started here,enjoy, Scott.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2008 - 11:39pm PT
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Thanks Scott,
I love to put faces to the handles I know so well on here!
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Nov 30, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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Anyone climbed the perfect handcrack that goes up the South side of the Memorial stadium at Berkeley? Probably 100 ft, goes through two small roofs at the top, all hands to cupped hands by the feel of the bottom. Immediately adjacent to entrance.
Someone must have climbed that thing. What a plum.
Any pics/stories of Cal buildering out there?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2008 - 11:30am PT
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cintune,
Nice addition, thanks. That guy is an amazing story.
I have some "killer" Dia De Los Muertos stickers, and I think I should award at least three.
Anybody want to weigh in before I just pick my three faves?
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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My first place pick..The Alpine man -climbing under the bridge...very cool picture.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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I agree Nita, it's a rad shot!
some fodder from a cellphone camera...
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Sort of like Deep water buildering.
Prod.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2008 - 12:35pm PT
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An example of one of the prizes.
Sorry, I'm not rich, but they're nice stickers!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2008 - 12:49pm PT
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I like the Alpine "bridge" shot too.
I'm nominating Loomis "Ocean Beach" for 2nd place, although I'm not seeing it on my thread at the moment.
3rd place- I like Peter's first Allan Bard "under the roof"
or Scott Nelson's first "Gilman parking structure"
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E thatch
Trad climber
New Hampshire
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Climbing I-Beam arches in my High school library:
and the video slide show:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaCPX6lBNjA
The house keeping lady in the library guessed it was me and made my partner and i go back up and clean off the chalk marks. The librarian took pictures and put it on the school website! and we thought we would've gotten kicked out if we got caught the first time
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Mark
climber
bend, oregon
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rocky butte "castle" in portland.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2008 - 01:36pm PT
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Hey Mark!
We used to climb at Rocky Butte too!
Now what's your vote?
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Mark
climber
bend, oregon
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my favorites not in order:
(1) MisterE "sobriety crack
(2) Loomis "Clementina Crack"
(3) Peter Haan "Allen Bard shot"
(4) Scott Nelson "death chimney"
(5) healyje "Student Center South"
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day
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Granite Park Chalet, Glacier National Park
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Impaler
Trad climber
Munich
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Koblenz, Germany. 2nd largest fortress in Europe.
Zürich, Switzerland
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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i was up at the pollen grains the other day, and i couldn't seem to find any good buildings to climb...
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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A few more:
Art
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Hey Peter! I've done that light-fixture overhang problem at UCSC! I bet the stucco is cracked off by now.
I think Garrison also did that chimney (on the Science Bld?), without the rope. Hey Marty, didn't you show those to me? Cheers...
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Late entry...
UCSD Muir Dorms, Circa 1992 (up to 6th floor only- I chickened out before completing the 10th floor):
Does "craning" count?
... About 200+ feet up a T-crane, out the arm, and slide down the steel cable to the ball, suspended over the construction site of the Revelle Biology building (then hand-over-hand the steel cable back up):
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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I think we need to hold off on the judging as long as these killer new entries keep rolling in...
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Those aren't real:
Just bricks. Not real rock.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2008 - 11:33pm PT
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Hardman, I think the judging shall Knott be done yet!
There was a definite lull in the action.....and then boom!
Pete are you sure they're Knott real?
They look like real rocks to me....
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Definitely real.
Quarried local limestone.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2008 - 02:32pm PT
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Alpine,
You sure have entered some great shots.
That next "under the bridge" shot is cool too.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Thanks. I love to shoot climbing - even in Florida. That first under the bridge shot took me at least 30 hours to equip (bolt up the holds and hangers) so someone could climb it and I could shoot it. I had the vision of the shot first and then made it happen. I guess its not technically buildering since its "manufactured."
My next target is a lonely boulder(old fort remnant) on a perfect desolate island - waterfront, white sand, palm trees, you know - the good stuff. Lots of access issues so its a toughy to shoot.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Strider on a 'built' structure
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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Very nice work, Alpine! Thanks for sharing.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Teenage angst wall
57 fwy old lead route
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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how about getting it documented. get this guide book the next time your in L.A.
LA CLIMBS: ALTERNATIVE USES FOR ARCHITECTURE Hartley
By Hartley, Alex
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jay jay
Ice climber
San Francisco, CA
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From Black Rock City
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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At one time, the ceiling beams in the Kain hut at the Bugaboos were pairs of parallel 2" x 12" planks. They crossed the ceilings on the second floor sleeping loft, and were perhaps 16' long. Probably about a dozen sets of such, each forming a roof crack of slightly differing widths. All hand size.
One rainy day project used to be to pile up all the foamies in the loft under one of the "cracks", making a thick pad, then to try to climb across the crack. A good time was had by all. Sorry, no photos.
Naturally, they eventually boarded up the cracks, to stop the fun.
It does seem somewhat absurd, buildering at the Bugaboos.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2008 - 06:10pm PT
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Anders,
Wasn't it Harding that called us Conquistadors of the useless or some such thing???
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Terray
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Anybody got pics of the Desoto Cracks?? (Anybody know the history?)
Anybody know if they still exist?
LookingSketchy?
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Bump for the burning man pics...
and I fixed the picture of the "craning" climb...
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
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posted before, but still a good buildering photo, I suppose
Honestly, my favorite buildering problem was in the Circus Circus parking garage, a dead jump to a wide hand jam in the ceiling. Bloodied my hands up on it a bunch.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2008 - 10:29pm PT
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Jaybro....shoulda known it was a frenchy..too poetic.
Noshoes, nice pic!
I like the burningman shots too.
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Ammon
Big Wall climber
Capo Beach
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Can't take the credit for this one but thought it worthy of this thread...
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Mt. Davidson Cross
San Francisco, California.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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You folks need to be more rural
just sayin'
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2008 - 11:09am PT
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MisterE, Not that many of us live in the weeds...
Some do, but we still go to town every so often to restock our larder.
What, you never eyeballed a man-made structure?
I'm just sayin'
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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does the Cross route still go?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2008 - 10:30am PT
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OK, this time I let it drift 4-5 pages back before declaring:
*Alpine
*Loomis
*Peter Hahn
*Scott Nelson
Email me an address guys. I have to go to a certain shop to get your stickers, but they'll get there.
So many cool pictures, everyone on Supertopo is a winner for getting to look at each others shots.
Thanks to everyone for playing the game!!
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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A few from BITD...
Another wash out day at the Gunks, 1980, note "chalk bag"...
On the summit of the Graduate Reasearch Tower, 1982, UMass Amherst, The Vent Route, II, 5.10a A2, Beer3
Mackey pit, Boulder, 1983
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MH2
climber
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a few other oddities from Life Magazine found while looking for an article they may have done on the Gunks
boy on drainpipe 1949
girl in doorway 1954
and the classic King Kong on Empire State building 1933
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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jay jay: great sculpture - what vision.
noshoesnoshirt: My kind of climbing, I suspect jaybro got excited about that one as well. Have to check that one out myself - good eyes!
Ammon - Adam Grosowsky kicked off much of the current wave of slacklining in '75 when, as a 16yo in the SIU library, he stumbled upon a picture of a c1890s circus act where one guy was doing a onehand handstand on a flagpole top just like that one, with one hand on the ball and the other holding the end of a wire. The other end of the wire went down at an angle to a brick wall where it was attached and the guy in the handstand was tensioning the wire by hanging his body off the opposite of the pole top from where the wire was fastened. The kicker - there was another guy doing a handstand in the middle of the wire. Don't ask me how - it still seems utterly impossible and I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Adam tried [and failed, fortunately] to get us all to recreate the feat.
MH2 - don't forget the obligatory c1923 Harold Lloyd, where do you think Kong got his inspiration?
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chaggs
climber
cadillac, MI
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Out of the archives, Noah 2000
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Nice, Chaggs, you crackhouse head.
Re; the post one up, I was trying to find a clip of Harpo on the Marquee, but u-tube is being 'Fussy™' anyone got that one?
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MH2
climber
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MH2 - don't forget the obligatory c1923 Harold Lloyd, where do you think Kong got his inspiration?
Okay, well, and I thought it was Fay Wray.
So how did this get inspired:
human squirrel 1918
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Thread drift to Oldest Builderer Alert!!!!
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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Empire State Building ironworkers, photos by Lewis Hine.
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Great photo's! It has always amazed me what those iron workers have done over the years on buildings and bridges.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Bump
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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clearly a terr0rist plot going on here
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Nudge Nudge
Trad climber
WI, now CA
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Old glue-up traverse
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2008 - 11:03am PT
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Yo Nudge,
I like that picture a lot. It's got great depth and perspective.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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What kind of glue/epoxy is best for glueing holds to cement?
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Dec 10, 2008 - 12:49am PT
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My server got "jacked" and all photo's deleted as a result.
Switching to photobucket.com from here on...
Enjoy the pics again.
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kev
climber
CA
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Dec 10, 2008 - 11:22am PT
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Ok here's my contribution.....I think this was fall last year.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2008 - 11:25am PT
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Hey kev....wha happen?
Never mind. Excellent!
You builder on Johnny Po Po's house?
How did you drag your big Balzsak up there?
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kev
climber
CA
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Dec 10, 2008 - 12:34pm PT
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Well I just saw the nice rock and corner - and I guess after a few adult beverages I wasn't looking at the the sign above. I didn't realize what I was actually on until they came out through the door. They muttered something to the chic shooting the pics and she mutter something else and they went on their way.
Lucky I guess huh?
kev
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Dec 10, 2008 - 03:02pm PT
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alpine, they say PB-7 but I've had mised results.
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todd_tomorrow
climber
califonia
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Dec 20, 2008 - 08:57pm PT
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I really want this thread kept alive.
It was a little close to the pictures of the little girls.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 20, 2008 - 09:22pm PT
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anybody remeber that glue up under the over pass in Foster City?
Who built that thing? We were talking about gluing jugs to overhang section when Caltrans ran us out of there and took all the holds off? But I always wondered who started the effort.
Tom
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2008 - 10:29pm PT
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Nice post Tom!
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Dec 20, 2008 - 11:07pm PT
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Mike Fogarty at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California 1982
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2008 - 10:36am PT
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Loomis,
Not up to your previous standards.........HA!!
Email me an address so I can send your Dia De Los Muertos sticker!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2009 - 04:09pm PT
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Nobody claimed their prize!
Just goes to show you that most climbers aren't in it for the money....
Bump to go with Peter's night climbers of Cambridge thread!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2009 - 06:45pm PT
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Friend, me too. Except back in the day, someone would come out and chase me away from the building rather than have me arrested!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 13, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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A Buildering Birthday Bump Because Loomis has some Bitchin' Buildering shots in here, and we Botched his Birthday card....
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duncan
Trad climber
London, UK
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Jul 13, 2009 - 05:55pm PT
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Dahshur Red Pyramid - Egypt
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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Jul 13, 2009 - 06:04pm PT
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hahaha Nice! I did the great pyramid when I was there. Had to bribe the cops, but you have to bribe everyone for everything there...
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NMClimber
climber
New Mexico
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Jul 13, 2009 - 09:38pm PT
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Denver Merchandise Market
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jul 14, 2009 - 05:22am PT
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Chick Holtkamp by the freeway in Cleveland
Dave Koster bored in Fort Wayne
Dave Koster and ? in Cleveland
Keith Virostko (sp?) at Stanford
Me at Stanford
John ... at Stanford
Coz at Stanford
Me at stanford
Another Stanford
Another at Stanford form BITD
My backyard wall
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2009 - 08:50am PT
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E Robinson,
That is a great series of shots!!
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jul 14, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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It was fun looking through the posted collection, wish I had some from UC Bekeley to add, but seem to have lost those ones.
Elliott
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Double D
climber
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Jul 14, 2009 - 02:23pm PT
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Nice shots of Stanford! I remember when they re-built the main courtyard and took stone-by-stone away and then returned them. I was stoked that the excact same ones were returned keeping the same moves.
I just ran into some slides from the Ross n Wilson building in Palo Alto when I took Yabo there. I'll have to scan em up!
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Glad to see this thread still going. Since I lasted posted to this inquiring about what type of glue to use, I've made some progress.
Exhibit A:
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waulrat
Big Wall climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Apr 10, 2010 - 09:15pm PT
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Apr 10, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
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Naitch:
Two thumbs up on your son's vid ;)
The Alpine:
Hats off M8.
Nice project and simply stunning photograph/y
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Apr 10, 2010 - 10:16pm PT
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I don't have much to contribute here but heres a few.
John b. on the London Bridge
Oh wait shes not quite climbing!
Phil in Chicago
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bearbnz
Trad climber
East Side, California
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Apr 11, 2010 - 12:48am PT
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My three boys cruising the walls on a dinsosaur exhibit near Page, AZ. We found a spot out of view of all of their surveillance cameras.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Apr 12, 2010 - 02:48am PT
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Heres another I found lurking around. Brian Skeen Climbing Alaska Pacific University Campus
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 12, 2010 - 03:04am PT
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naitch,
that IS a pretty cool video!
The guys did a great job.
These recent photos with the bridges are sweet too.
Although, I do think that bolted on holds kind of goes against the original spirit of Buildering.
Just my thoughts.....
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Apr 12, 2010 - 03:15am PT
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We REALLY need a climbing gym at UC Merced for when the weather isnt good in Yosemite. Those cracks probably go around 10b
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duncan
climber
London, UK
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Apr 12, 2010 - 08:02am PT
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Appropriate graffiti
The Spriggan
From sunny north London
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 14, 2010 - 07:51pm PT
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Bumping this historic thread. Also to answer Le Bruce's question of 2008 here: yes the UC Berkeley Memorial Stadium cracks were all done in the sixties. We would do them at night having sneaked over the cyclone fence and gates. There were four, each was different. A couple also kind of wiggled--- problems in the original construction. They all bottomed out at about 6" with a sheetmetal backer in there that also had some nails left from the formwork process of these cast-in-place quadrants that made the stadium bleacher structures. Guessing they were built in the teens to the thirties.
Anyway awesome cracks, dead vertical---the business part was 40 ft with a cornice at top that was not hard. The cracks were 5.10 though due to sizing issues, the backers that blocked a nice deep jam and the vertical continuousness with no rests. Top-rope of course anchoring to the last row of bleachers..total ht maybe 80 ft ++. I guess they are doing a new stadium as we speak so I am not sure if these cracks are even there any more or will be surviving in a new design. My group was not the first on these; Roper, Pratt & co were on them in the earlier part of that decade.
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groundup
Trad climber
hard sayin' not knowin'
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Dec 14, 2010 - 08:26pm PT
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The Great Wall. If the Mongols could climb 5.7 the Chinese were screwed.
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Dec 14, 2010 - 08:58pm PT
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Le_bruce, if the old stadium is going away we might need a night mission....
Ground_up: That 5.7 with boiling oil, stones, and arrows probably becomes 5.19d
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2011 - 04:23pm PT
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Bump for sumpin' aside sh*t slingin'!!
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Apr 21, 2011 - 07:08pm PT
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Kick ass. Buildering has its own peculiar charms. There is a church near me that has all kinds of potential; overhangs, arches, underclings. The whole facade is offset sandstone built circa 1950. No climbing though, unless you are a ninja
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Reeotch
Trad climber
Kayenta, AZ
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I remember we found this cool mausoleum in the Arcata cemetery. Hewn granite blocks, about 20' tall and 30 feet wide on each side. It was a killer pump, not very positive.
One day I got caught by the undertaker in mid-traverse: "What in THEEEE HELLLL are you doing up there?!!!! People are interred here . . ."
I'm sure it is still there in the cemetary at the top of the hill near the high school in Arcata CA. I think it was the Miner mausoleum . . .
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waulrat
Big Wall climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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I climbed that bridge a few years ago in the middle of winter, the holds had icicles on them. Cool place, its in Friberg Switzerland, which is also a cool little town.
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Gene
climber
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Cpt0bvi0u5,
NICE!!!
g
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Crashpads are for pussies. Why when I was a lad, we used to lieback with no crash pads. Summit or plummet, dude. Finger locks or pine box. Hand jam or body slam.
I've got a pig with your name on it next week, if you catch my Drift.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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The Library Roof at Evergreen State College. This thing actually had a bolt on it, for leading. Ropeless it was committing and scary.
(Off White photo, 2/8/1980)
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Dec 15, 2012 - 01:56am PT
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here is me doing a random act of buildering.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2012 - 02:05am PT
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pyro, where's your mask?!
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dcaunt
Trad climber
Chico, CA
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Dec 15, 2012 - 10:54am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2012 - 11:11am PT
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Jan 22, 2013 - 06:59pm PT
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Cool thread - I'll dig up more stuff as time allows! Bellingham in the 90s. I don't know the history of this wall but it reminds me of the Star Trek Quarterdeck.
Boise in the 70s
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Jan 22, 2013 - 07:01pm PT
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Whow! I deleted an entire thread! Now there is one.
I saw the UW red Square post. I climbed that chimney back in the 80s when Lynn Hill was doing a slide show nearby. I must have done it after the beer! I remember it being very wide - like toe and too wide to use my rear but I could use the sacrum area and ended up with a bit of a blister there. Would have been pretty serious to hit the deck there! When I got to the top I stayed in the chimney. It would have been a serious undertaking to climb out the top and then try to get back in! I have not done too much free-soloing but that would have to count as a free-solo.
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Jan 23, 2013 - 12:11am PT
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Dave, is that the retaining wall by the railroad tracks somewhere off Foothill (or something like that)? Cool memories of old glue ups, I always wondered if any of those epoxied holds stayed up.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Jan 23, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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Not really a building...but "dam" that's kind of cool!!!!
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Dam - that dam looks fun. That bridge is beyond amazing! This overpass wall in Soda Springs, Idaho from 1987 is the closest I have to that. It was about 200 feet long though!
I just remembered I DO have a dam shot. This is the Piru Dam spillway about 1968.
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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Sorry -- No pic's , but a whole lot of Fry's food stores in AZ have exquisite 12a/b finger frying 40 foot plus walls at the back of their stores. We would lay matresses down and go for the top... fun for all ...
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bearbnz
Trad climber
East Side, California
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Once inside, they bouldered up to the tank location
And made it to the top floor
On the the same trip, bouldering some charcoal kilns near Ely, NV
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Chugach
Trad climber
Vermont
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Jun 10, 2013 - 10:02pm PT
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What sort of as#@&%e would climb on a pyramid or other historical monument?
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jul 12, 2013 - 09:39am PT
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Reckless endangerment bump.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Mar 28, 2015 - 10:23pm PT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Mar 29, 2015 - 09:12am PT
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And of course, let's not forget the work of Alex Hartley, LA Climbs, a marvelously wry volume available from Amazon and other sources.
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TheSoloClimber
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Mar 29, 2015 - 11:28am PT
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Stem corner just up the road from where I live.
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perswig
climber
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Mar 29, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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Likin' it, folks.
BIOTCH, those last two show amazing composition.
Thanks.
Dale
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Mar 29, 2015 - 03:40pm PT
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Jun 24, 2015 - 11:03am PT
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The cemetary in Arcata has an amazing mausoleum (Minor family)made of hewn granite blocks.
I wish I had a picture of the undertaker confronting me, mid-traverse:
What in THE HELL are you doing?! People are INTERRED here!"
At least he didn't call the cops . . .
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Barney Rubble
Trad climber
ALAMEDA
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Jun 24, 2015 - 12:31pm PT
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Buildering on the castle above the town of Nafplio Greece. If you tried this at the Acropolis in Athens the authorities would be on you the moment you even thought about it. Elsewhere in Greece it hard to walk 10 feet before tripping over some ancient (and forgotten) treasure.
The buildering potential was amazing and looked at times like an M.C. Escher print.
Quality stone and lots of it!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 24, 2015 - 01:06pm PT
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A gem from jgill's website. Photo by the Abraham brothers.I'm totally unsure why this came out like this.
Perhaps the barndoor is open in the lower section? :0)
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 31, 2016 - 04:48pm PT
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Marty and I had quite the circuit. I've got more pictures somewhere...
And man, after a good chalk-up session, nothing like hitting the pub at the local Student Union!! Yep, that'd be k-man and martygarrison, enjoying the suds...
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 31, 2016 - 05:38pm PT
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Ventura Vagabond offers climbing.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jan 31, 2016 - 05:58pm PT
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
— Winston Churchillq
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jan 31, 2016 - 08:25pm PT
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jan 31, 2016 - 08:45pm PT
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What an idiot - just walk up the stairs!!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 31, 2016 - 08:59pm PT
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Randisi, that structure was the famed Mt. Earl, named after the P.E. teacher who had the foresight to put it in in the late '70s (notice the date on the newspaper article says 3-20-80). I don't know for sure if it's the very first, but that's the earliest climbing wall that I ever knew of. 40' telephone poles, 8' apart. Plywood stacked on their side all the way up, with one wall on wheels so you could have a lower-angle wall. All the holds were wood.
We had a circuit that went all over campus. I remember some really great problems. Of course, there are the obvious hand cracks that go up for three stories on each building. On top of one building, there's a hurtful finger crack, and some great traverses.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA (stuck in Jersey)
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Feb 23, 2016 - 11:13pm PT
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Feb 24, 2016 - 12:34am PT
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Matty. Upper Trestles
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climber bob
Social climber
maine
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Feb 24, 2016 - 06:32am PT
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