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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 5, 2008 - 10:35pm PT
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Since my ghost is here.....
A long time ago we went to Hercules with Grandma Roberts and Helga and a bottle of Thunderbird.
I'm telling the tale tonight to a guy who can actually climb and just went to Hercules. He said it was pretty f'n horrendous. I told him we of course did laps on after drinking the Bird, Grandma got about 12 feet up the thing with a $12.00 tape job and Helga full on flashed the pile on TR. At the time she had been climbing about a week.
Got any more details? I've seen pics somewhere... are they yours or mine? Even a minor verify will do wonders here.
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Tarbuster
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I am totally a deadbeat!
Buddy,
I've gotten away with ... and slid a lot, no a CUBIC TON of inaccuracies & absolute BS under the rug here on SuperTweako™ in your absence....
It is Mimi's picture, and I have it somewhere.
To tell the TRUTH, Not That There's Anything Wrong with It™, that bottle of 'BIRD was loaded with Kool-Aid or tea or something.
Al just knew we were totally capable of such a thing; so he was disgusted just on general principle and actually probably bought it, hook, line and sinker.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2008 - 10:43pm PT
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hahaha! The Bird was for sure real, as it blew Al away and thats why we brought it..... the Bird facts are not in dispute... but the Helga flash thing is just killing my guest.
I remember Al getting pretty upset that we were so far gone that we were packing the Bird out to the crags. He had genuine concern.
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Tarbuster
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... and yes, Helga flashed it .... ON TR .... after six months of climbing, starting out on 5.6 in the Valley.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2008 - 10:47pm PT
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BINGO!
I was sure of that fact...... pretty incredible display. Glad those two cells connected to bring that bit out into the open. I'll tell him now......
(say.... this DEADBEAT title header really gets results! It might be the new way to go!)
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WBraun
climber
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Not really it's still dead ...
I'm going across the street where real deadbeats live.
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Tarbuster
climber
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OKOKOKOKOKOK...
like I said, inaccuracies.
We did start out with a half loaded bottle of Bird.
Then, when that was done, we topped it off with some other puke, so we could just guzzle away and blow his mind.
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Tarbuster
climber
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found it*
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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oooooops....
Sorry kids,
that's just me and Russ rap bolting Tonic Boom, after RETRO BOLTING Rainy Day Dream Away.
(Mike Waugh still wants to kick my ass for that....)
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Tarbuster
climber
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So here's me on TR,
with a belly full of T-Bird scuffing up Hercules, 1987:
Photo by MimiDude™
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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They don't make tubesocks like that anymore.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2008 - 11:08pm PT
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or harnesses!
Bravo!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Where is Mikey and why is the guy in the yellow jacket wearing a surgical cap on yozzz head ??? Era Fashion ?
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Tarbuster
climber
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And here's the fair maiden in question:
Actually no doubt or question about it; she walked that Hercules thing,
About five months after this picture was taken on top of Hobbit Book, her second 5.7 (the first was Golfer's Route, by starlight)
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Tarbuster
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Lynne,
That's a French beret.
The boys kept calling me "Lucky" for wearing that thing.
(Helga didn't like them scoundrels sayin' it either)
"or harnesses!"
"Bravo!"
Oh and yes, bowlin on the coil tie-in for that stuff...
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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WHO?
Time to duck and cover.
Russ is on to something, the prancer owes me sixty eight bucks...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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In a Real co,boy hat.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Yeah Jaybro they all wear them around here.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Take that shot down NOW.
(... it makes my butt look big)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Bwhahaha, it may make your FEET look big, but we gals will decide on the butt issue, so far no one says it's too big...hang in there for the final decision.
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Tarbuster
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oh, oh...
Alright.
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Tarbuster
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Here Russ,
A little more provenance for your Flyweight Buddy with the HerculesComplex® …
Helga, on TR, Coyne’s Crack about a month before Hercules, fall 1987:
(she started climbing May/June of that year...)
And a bit less than one year later, leading Handbook, late summer 1988:
CF photo
KickASSSS™™™
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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whoa....
Am I seeing things.......
Russ's ghost... And Tarbuster back..... On the SAME DAY .......... SAME THREAD....................
I am seeing things..............
I'll see it when I believe it!!!!!!!!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jingy, Believe...yo Dude it's Christmas.
Helga, whereever you are .....WoW.!!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there... bump... say, helga had great determination...
hope this evening find you well, russ, and tarbuster... and all you all....
god bless, guys... and gals...
*sadly, i got to go try to go to sleep, and will miss all this FUN... working weekends and all week for awhile, as our work hours are going short for winter---got to take what i can...
hope i can make it through the long winter-haul... :)
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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flashed herc, spring of '86. epi was there, he'll vouch.
y'all can SUKIT.
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Rainy day, dream away. Cool shot.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Not Rainy Day...
Tonic Boom, just left.
Thornburg photo
(but we DID set up Rainy Day proper, just no photo...)
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Totally NOT Roy.
where's the cowboy hat? Must be an imposter!!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Nice thread
women in hightop climbing shoes are hot!
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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1) Old photos
2) Adding bolts to established classic
3) On rappel !!
4) Toproping
...Check.....standard procedure.......
:-)
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Wow. Tar, that Handbook photo really captures the moment. Where is that?
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Tarbuster
climber
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"....really captures the moment".
That's because it is a Chris Falkenstein photo!
'Very nice crack climb in Tuolumne Meadows, N Whizz Domes, FA Bridwell/Breedlove
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Without Tarbaby and the Minnow, I would have nothing to drink my morning dose of Hard Liquour to in the morning. I am two time zones to the east, so by the time a thread gets going, it is nice and marbled.
I'm telling ya. I wouldn't find any oil or get my bowels moving in the morning without it. I've already tried other methods. I can turn on CNBC and watch the fall of oil prices, but that is best to watch after my squeezings. It makes me go in my shorts, and the old lady doesn't like the smell. She tried putting down newspapers and I still couldn't make it.
So, in the context of my morning movements, keep it up. It is nice and gentle. For you young ones, laugh away. You got it coming.
Come to think of it, Russ should do a morning podcast. I would buy it, but I think it would make most people go insane after a while.
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Tarbuster
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TARBUSTER = DEADBEAT????
Hell Yes.
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
~ Abraham Maslow
photo Badyrka, Sierra West Side, '78/79
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Can't tell what the h is goin' on in that alleged "rap bolting" photo. It's quite the spiders web of perlon.
Yes, apparently Helga had/has good genes. I remember that though.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Shout out to all self accused Big Butts, the jury is still in session....hehehe, (we are working with a twisted mind and a Far Side sense of Humor.) Reason it's takin' so long !
Base 104,,,,Morning pod (in Fish's case Cod) cast is Grate Idea !
Can yo imagine chugging your 50/50 coffee, half and half while watching select Yo's from Tacoland spew their stuff.
Zeriously, think in a few months Fox, and the others would be bowing to Super Tacos Superiority.
Fish against Anyone on the networks...I'll cover all bets. Yahhhh. Oh, yeah, and Merry Christmas : D
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Dec 24, 2008 - 02:42am PT
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This post wins..."THE STRANGEST POST OF 2008".
Has Mr. Fish found an alter ego that is posting for him ? What is this strange post that defies taco logic ? Hmmm, just wondering.... lrl.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Dec 24, 2008 - 08:37am PT
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That Rap bolting hang doggin' Russ;.....and he has the NERVE to call ANYONE a deatbeat.........once a rap bolter, always a rap bolter......it's like being a little bit pregnant;...either you ARE or you AIN'T ....and it looks like Russ IS.........kiss adventure, fairplay, brass, and tradition out the window.......Next time you want to go new routing, Russ;.....please call up my Granny;...because she can rap bolt too........(I'll even send her over with a fresh pair of lycra, a tank top with a Starbuck's stain on it, and her bent gates.....you Yankee bender.......)........
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Buggs
Trad climber
Eagle River, Alaska
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Dec 25, 2008 - 02:23pm PT
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You guys are killin' me!!
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