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Not a place name per se, but: There's a "Brown Material Road" between McKittrick and Blackwell's Corner in CA.

Ya ever notice how the original GI Joe had his hands configured just right for gripping a beer in one hand and holding a joint in the other?

100 proof Stolichnaya Vodka...In an aluminum flask, packed into a snowdrift/bank until chilled.Smooth, smooth, smooth. On a side note:I know of two situations where one person used anothers bottle of Stoly to cook a pot of pasta.That's enough to make a grown man cry. [ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: ScottP ]

quote: Originally posted by Dru: 666 667- The neighbor of the Beast.

quote: Originally posted by Heinouscling: (Snip) he once again lets loose with a massive bellow of hot air and gets on the wall. He pulls a few moves and ends up again on the rope. He does not stop his girations there though. Immediately upon weighting the rope with his bulk, he starts kicking the wall and screaming "GOD DAMN IT!" "MOTHAF*CKA SON OF A BITCH" "ASSHOLE...MOTHAF*CKA". (Snip) -Heinous I once witnessed almost the same behavior except that it was a helmeted whirly with an El Cap sized rack leading the "Dense Brush" variant of the S Face of the Tooth. I can only surmise that the cause of the ruckus was the age old mystery: "I didn't really want to climb it. I only wanted to have climbed it" syndrome.

I thought it was the inside of Robert Downey Jr's sinus cavity.

My vote goes to RURP for the calculated, yet mundane way he can get the hackles up. Merely labeling people groupies gets him mud falcon warnings and (amongst others) the venerable "cock chugger" moniker. What, are you spittin' on that bait? [ 12-22-2001: Message edited by: ScottP ]

I said: Now, watching Lisa Gnade do a painful(and improbable)looking highstep on Model Worker...that's another story... quote: Originally posted by Matt Anderson: A story worth telling . . . Rob and I were climbing Model Worker one fine spring day. I am just finishing leading it, when this woman walks up to the base of the route and starts talking to Rob; asking him what the route is, etc. I experience a bit of concern as Rob has a substantial weakness for redheads and has been known to be less than attentive at belaying in the best of circumstances. I, however, manage to get to the ground safely under my own control. By this time the woman has walked over to her pack to get her harness on because Rob has offered her a toprope. I quietly ask him if he recognizes her, and am surprised when he doesn't because he knows everybody. Anyway, I tell him who it is and moments later she is tying into the rope. For those of you who know Model Worker, there is a point between the first and second bolt where you are standing on a little ledge and have to do a backstep sort of thing (at least that's how I do it) to gain the slanting corner. Rather than do this back step, Lisa places her left foot up where her left hand is (looks to be about shoulder height from the ground) and proceeds to slowly rock her weight onto her foot. Rob and I are stunned by the "flexibility and control" exhibited. She cruises the rest of the route. After reaching the ground, we make small talk and find that she is here to take a look at City Park. Rob offers her a belay, but soon after doing so, precipitation happens and we are denied the opportunity to see her work on City Park.

quote: Originally posted by RURP: This is RURP. You guys are all groupies. You read about these people in magazines and now they are all your "friends"......I need no other heroes then myself striving to do my Big Wall best.RURP has spoken. In the two experiences I mentioned previously, I either was just minding my own biness when I was approached by the people mentioned or happened to wander by where they happened to be.And I gotta say that Al Steck's and Fred Beckey's reputations predate any mag I've viewed (which brings up the point that I quit buying climbing periodicals when the number of pages of ads superceded the number of relevant content pages.) No grouping here. Now, watching Lisa Gnade do a painful(and improbable)looking highstep on Model Worker...that's another story... [ 12-21-2001: Message edited by: ScottP ]

I shared dried bananas with Alan Steck and his woman friend as I belayed Rob on the Firecracker Roof at Donner Pass. I tried to get the recipe for the excellent bananas he offered, but Rob kept taking falls. He's a really nice guy.

quote: Originally posted by nolanr: Okay, time to bust out my Fred Beckey stories....Passed Fred and a fine looking woman coming down from 3 O'Clock Rock. We got to the cars first and were just changing our shoes when Fred and the woman reach their car. First thing Fred does after taking off his pack is he gives this woman a big congratulatory hug and squeezes her butt cheeks. She pushes him away and slugs him in the chest. She seemed a bit pissed, but he was nonplussed. I got the evil eye from him a few years later when I skied past him on the way up to Muir, though I doubt my witnessing him being pummeled by a woman was the reason.

quote: Originally posted by pope: Anyways, boys, liked the pig thing, as did everybody I know with a sense of humor. A cold wet day at Index when I first saw the pig head. The water ran differently off the grease stain that it did on the surrounding rock. My first thought was "Lord of the Flies" and my second was, "Why?"

quote: Originally posted by philfort: gregm made a functional pipe out of one of those little aluminum candle holders (for candle lanterns) last New Years in the Cariboo mtns. Found a really stinky roach in the summit register of Guye Peak a few years back. Found a rusty tin can stuffed in a crack down a ways from the summit. A knife for poking holes and some matches I had. It was a really stinky roach.

The dude calling himself "priapism" gets my vote.(A painful stiffy that won't go away, no matter what you do.) [ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: ScottP ]

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Who knows what EVIL lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows (sinister laugh). Yeah, EVIL, that's it.

I've got a #1 HB Quadcam that's saved my ass numerous times. It seems to fit somewhere on just about any route I do and is easily placeable with two fingers. The only drawback I have found is trying to place it wearing anything other than thin gloves. My Denali SuperGaitors have kept my feet dry and warm going on twenty years now. (I have replaced the rands four times.)

quote: Originally posted by David Parker: Yeah, I have some generalizations about Americans. They are shitty drivers and consume way too much of the world's resources! Maybe this should be a new thread! I read somewhere once that if all humans on Earth used resources the way US of Americans do, it would take 5 planets to sustain us all.

quote: Originally posted by philfort: thus you can differentiate the bottle from wee of the bottle of water! ?

quote: Originally posted by Dru: if you pour boiling water into gatorade bottles you can melt them. Newsflash!!! Don't pour boiling water into gatorade water bottles.

quote: Originally posted by willstrickland: ... tied off stacked pins .... A lost art in itself...

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Skins and furs, wooden club, bone tipped wooden arrows, hemp fiber shoes stuffed with straw, hemp fiber sun hat, beard. Like that dude they found in the Alps on the Austrian/Italina border in 1991.He was oldschool (like 5000 years old.)

quote: Originally posted by erik: go buy a quart of gatorade and use that bottle. $1.59 plus you get a free drink and who cares what happens to it when you lose it or what. I wrap them with duct tape (including a dead sling for clipping into belays) to beef them up some. They last for years.

Ring angle pitons Steel carabiners 1/4 inch star drivin lead sleeve bolts 120 foot goldline ropes Goldline slings Swami belts Shoulder stands Dulfersitz Standing shoulder belays Wood shaft ice axes

quote: Originally posted by the shadow: I am not who you think I am... Yeah, but you know what dangers lurk in the hearts of men, and that's pretty cool.

quote: Originally posted by Lambone:Fuckin thermarests... quote: Originally posted by Cpt.Caveman: Ditto that. Me three. There is a good reason why they repair them for free.