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Katie_I
Mountain climber
Wyoming
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Mar 14, 2009 - 11:55pm PT
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Hey writer,
Iowa City, Iowa has some of the best, muddiest, most crumbly, damp choss (Pictured Rocks, Indian Bluffs, Palisades-Kepler) and friendliest climbing communities. And lots and lots of writers. I wrote some fiction stories about choss-soloing there myself.
But there's nothing like digging through mud and ferns with your fingernails to try to get a tricam in a pocket. =)
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Social climber
Toronto Canada
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2009 - 06:22am PT
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You guys are amazing! I can't thank you enough for all the attention on the subject. As it happens, this short story is a club effort [like a community mural] . It's a joint venture that started out of an exercise to combat writers block. Ten minute bursts of simply writing anything that comes out of your head about whatever subject focused on. I started the thread but I needed to make it real so I came here. I will post it here in Climbers forum when it's wrapped up.
Meanwhile,because of this - the wheels are turning around the idea of asking you folks for any special human interest climbing stories that you think need to be written. No rush ... I'll get back to you on that. Till then I think there's more than enough info to get it done. Have a fun season in 09. Thanks a bunch!
~Richard
P.S> I already have a valid passport. I would only need to validate my wallet to see some of what you see.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 15, 2009 - 09:01am PT
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I think Woody still uses one ot those ropes.
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squishy
Mountain climber
sacramento
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Mar 15, 2009 - 03:24pm PT
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Pinnacles or the Napa Palisades (obscure and seldom visited, hiking trail to notoriously crumbly three pitch climbs)
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Mar 15, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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Fletcher writes:
"Nice photos of Mormon Rocks, chaz"
Thanks.
I hadn't been there since I was a kid until last month. I've gone there four or five times now looking to get a shot of a train running through the rocks.
I've got my angles scouted (50-100 feet higher shows a track winding through the rocks), all I'm waiting for is a train on the west (Southern-Pacific) track on a breezy, sunny day. The kite string in the shot doesn't bother me. I'm looking to capture a moment-in-time, and if the kite string's there then, that's how it is.
I vaguely remember my folks talking about something horrible going down out there when I was a kid, and still my mother seems very concerned that I would even consider stopping the car there, let alone getting out and looking around.
Maybe next time I'm out there I'll get a good shot of a train and it'll give me an excuse to press my mom for more details (the statute of limitations surely must have expired by now).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 15, 2009 - 03:33pm PT
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Chaz,
Look closely under the train bridge. A couple of Mormons lurking ready to clad you in burlap Fruit-of-the-Loonies!
RUN!
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Mar 15, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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That's probably what it was.
I can see my mom dealing with those folks "I have TWO f#cking kids already, you're crazy if you think I'm having any more. Christ, we didn't want the last one!"
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Mar 15, 2009 - 03:45pm PT
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Plus, if you use Pinnacles, you can include besides the ultra dangerous rock:
1)heat prostation
2)snakes
3)spiders
4)tarantulas
6)mean rangers
7)vehicle break ins
7)girlfriend break ups
8)buss loads of senior citenzens waiting to die in their un air conditioned bus
9)vultures waiting to pick your bones clean by morning
10)stoned trundlers
11)wicked boy scouts and cub sprouts
12)no food or water for 60 miles
13)carcasses from climbers un found
need I?
He Ring, you have a Belay Card, because I am tired of standing at the counter like a homo. I wanna rip some plastic, man.
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Jason Martin
climber
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Mar 15, 2009 - 08:42pm PT
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What about in the alpine? You could have a completely clean line twenty feet from a line that is falling apart...
Sounds a little a few areas you could find in Red Rock Canyon just outside of Las Vegas too...
Jason
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Mar 15, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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Even PNM KNOWS it's choss... Have you seen this?
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Mar 15, 2009 - 10:56pm PT
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any carpools from the North ( and including, say Walnut Creek) headed to that Pinnacles event?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Mar 23, 2009 - 02:51am PT
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"mean rangers"
not so much anymore. mostly real nice folks keeping an eye on stuff at the parking area so no one rips yer gear.
though a massive kegger wouldn't go off well there.
and what is CD doing these days? does she still climb? guide?
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