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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2009 - 07:00pm PT
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You d*mn right I do.
Post 'em up dawg!!
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survival
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A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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Oooops, see what I mean about my memory?
Edit #1) I was too hasty when I said Mescalito was the only thing I'd done with Jay!!
Edit #2) Things were getting a little tr..embly on the summit of Dragontail when the fungus started to attack...just a little..shakey ...in the brea...thing...kinda..shimm..ery...
So we started the descent.
We walked toward a big drop off and Jay starts jogging and just leaped off this edge. All I saw was him disappear as my nuts went up into my throat!!
I ran over to the edge to see him speed glissading down a big smooth slope...whew! Gulp, here goes!
What a gas that trip was! If only Judy would've let me get a little...bit...closer.....d*mn!
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Jul 22, 2009 - 11:17pm PT
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Hey Now Jay Kerr!
Cool stuff, crazy stories...
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NotIt
Trad climber
Malaga Cove
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Jul 26, 2009 - 02:54pm PT
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It's fun to read (and look at some pics) from people that seem "normal" (posting on SuperTopo is normal?) and getting that giddy/nervous/inadequate feeling that comes over you when you realize that you'll never do something as big and bold as what you're looking at on your little computer screen.
And f-ing A? SCHROOMS on the descent from something like THAT?
Yallz doodz are kewlz. Hats off.
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Alpinista55
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Jul 26, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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I just posted a TR on the North Buttress of the Rooster Comb. It is vintage stuff (meaning it was a few years back), but still tells well.
Jay
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2009 - 10:17pm PT
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Jay,
any photos from Dragontail?? Serpentine Ridge? I seem to recall there were.
Slip some in here, or do a seperate TR for Mescalito and Serpentine!!!
I'm glad you're here bro.
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Alpinista55
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Jul 26, 2009 - 10:18pm PT
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Found a few, I'm scanning...
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Alpinista55
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Jul 28, 2009 - 01:25am PT
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OK, Bruce, heres your blast from the past:
Dragontail Peak, circa 1980
Bruce low on Dragontail Peak, Washington
Bruce soloing up the exit cracks to the summit
Bruce, Keith, and Jay on the summit just before the 'schroom attack
Mescalito:
A lot of crap to haul!
Jay looking for just the right thing
Up there!
Bruce on some serious air guitar
The view from the Molar after things got serious
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Jul 28, 2009 - 01:35am PT
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Whoa, badass story and pics!
Thanks for sharing!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2009 - 11:11am PT
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HOLY SHIZZNICK!!!
Was I ever that d*mn young?? Oh man Jay, you just put me
through a serious time portal.
I forgot how absolutely beautiful Serpentine Ridge was.
Soloing near the summit. I guess our GONADS were bigger then too!
Mescalito: Unfreekin'believable how it was no shirt weather at the base to that incredible Cathedral shot. Oh my GAWD!
I'll be looking at these pictures a hundred times and sharing them with everyone I can think of.
MORE!! MORE!! MORE!! MORE!! MORE!! Please Jay, MORE!
I hope I can capture those pix for my computer somehow.
I don't know how to grab an image from someone else's post.
Help?
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couchmaster
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pdx
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Jul 28, 2009 - 11:25am PT
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Right click on it and you'll see the copy options Bruce. "Save image as" will get it to your hard disk. You can name it and pic a spot to put it. Try it, easier than some of the routes you did there:-)
I love the "Bruce soloing up the exit cracks to the summit" pic. Looks cold as hell and you're styling.
Jay's probably also unroped and hanging over a nad shrinking void to get the shot. This might be as good as it gets, thanks for sharing it all Jay!!!!
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Alpinista55
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Jul 28, 2009 - 12:31pm PT
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A little background on the Dragontail Peak story:
Keith and I were just back from 80 days in the Alaska Range, where we skied hundreds of miles, and climbed multiple grade 6 alpine routes. Bruce was on leave from the Air Force, and had just finished a bunch of survival training. Needless to say, we were all pretty fit.
Serpentine Ridge is rated 5.8 or 5.9, but the crux comes in a single pitch just below mid-face. We roped up for that single pitch, and soloed the rest. Most is 4th class with exposure, but the last few hundred feet to the summit are steeper, maybe 5.6.
Most of the last bit we were climbing so close together that I would have to wait for Bruce to take his foot out of my next hand jam. The final 30 feet to the summit is on overhanging jugs, with a couple thousand feet of air under your feet.
We pulled over the top into the midst of a group of amazed club climbers who had come up the easy side, our ropes coiled and tied on our backs, then really freaked them out when the bowl and the 'schrooms came out.
Man, it was great to be young and crazy!
jk
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Jul 28, 2009 - 12:39pm PT
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Welcome Jay! Cool pics....LOL, babyfaceBruce...;-)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 28, 2009 - 01:37pm PT
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Welcome, Jay. You sure have an impressive alpine background!
Also like the current activities. Did you know that Guido here (Joe McKeown) and who has posted to this thread, lives on his boat most of the year and is currently in Fiji, normally headquartered in New Zealand? He has been doing the boat thing for more than two decades now; I don't think that this came up in his post.
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Jul 28, 2009 - 03:00pm PT
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Hi Jay and welcome to the Taco.
You have some catching up to do. We will need to know your views on the following.
-God.
-Guns.
-Drugs.
-Proliferation of guide books.
-Beer.
-Japanese foot binding.
-Rap bolting.
-Eldo Prancers.
-Your experiences ordering Fish gear.
-Prop 8, or is it Prop-hate
-Dogs, cats, birds.
-Health care.
-Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. all the way back to when you first voted.
-The economy
-Favorite everything IE, movie, book, food, sushi, goofy movie, tv show, type of woman, tyop of man, animal, climbing area, route, drink, sexual position, etc. You will also need to defend all of these positions.
Cheers
Prod.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2009 - 03:27pm PT
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D*mn Prod, That is a great post. You got me spittin' up a lung over here!
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jul 28, 2009 - 03:31pm PT
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Welcome Jay Kerr. I haven't met you but if your friends of Bruce and the Cozmic Bandittos then you are good people in my book.
Now that your here in TacoLand you might want to fasten your seat belt it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
And Prod ditto on the crack up over your last post.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 28, 2009 - 03:42pm PT
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Love the olde photos. You got that many, there must be a lot more. Should be able to spin that
resource into a lot of entertaining threads on the Taco, even without jumping into any of the gods,
guns & gays geysers.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jul 28, 2009 - 03:44pm PT
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Ha Ha. There is a route name there somewhere Chiloe.
How about Fundies stole my blog.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2009 - 03:47pm PT
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Gods, Guns and Gays sounds good to me!
Now all we gotta do is get off our *sses and put up a route....
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