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lancegranite

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  1. how about racing the train with mixed results?
  2. Mrs G. is working on graffics for them, hopefully they like the work and hook it up!!!...for me.
  3. Just talked to my guy inside, they are going to be making small batches with changing graffics instead of whole production runs.
  4. Yeah, taken around 1995. My chalkbag was a marble bag.
  5. How about these... Glissades?
  6. The Red Rocks thread hijacker forum -me
  7. You climb a hundred of my routes and you will be able to buy a soda pop. Place them in the crux for maximum effect. I usually put them in pockets or wedged them tightly. A few friends have found them and reported back to me.
  8. Arch, I lived in Calico Basin for a couple years, so the park really was my front yard. RR is now about 15 minutes from my place in town. We were the first living humans to cross this area in many, many years. Fear and Loathing sits high up on the southeast side of Bridge mtn. We were soloing some easier stuff to get back to civilization.
  9. I put pennies on climbs and boulder porblems that I have FA'd. Use new pennies so the date will reflect the year the route was climbed.
  10. Nice TR, no pictures?
  11. You know, you can get a job doing that. It's not a bad living either... LINK:IRATA ROPE ACCESS WORK
  12. Three of my friends were working a show (wheel of fortune) a the NOCC, they barely escaped after the hurricane struck. 3/4 of the local stagehand crew lost everything.
  13. pope, this is your chance to show everyone what kind of badass you really are. Show us how the big boys do it...
  14. But GWB does not believe that global warming is real, so that cannot possibly be true.
  15. Waitaminute!!! You were talking about me? Guys like me always are taken... By girls like this: You can paddle the boat though...
  16. Then you can ride in the boat with him if you like. (You must have a PFD.)
  17. Arch, do you like to fish?
  18. He likes to fish, I like to paddle the boat.
  19. He is the one in the orange vest.
  20. lancegranite

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    Southern Nevada history: Sitting at the base of the Spring Mtns, Las Vegas pioneers experienced a much different view than the modern resident. Greenery was everywhere due to springs that bubbled forth out of the ground, running creeks everywhere and crystal clear ponds of water in many locations. That's why the natives lived here for thousands of years and big whitey followed. The railroads filled their steam engines and early residents had trouble building because ground water would bubble forth when they would dig for foundations. Things changed when they built 900 square miles of houses.
  21. Funny how things change. Some of the most hardcore Red Rock Canyon climbers of their day, guys like Richard Harrison, Paul Van Betten, Wendell Broussard, Bob Conz and Danny Meyers all have reversed their thinking and are now improving their bold climbs of yore with new safe anchors and replacing crusty bullshit protection bolts with new hardware. Talking with Paul, he said that they just did not have a lot of money back then, so the ethic was to leave as little retreat gear as possible. These guys were known as "The Rock Nazis" and were famous for calling sport climbers fags to their faces and dumping buckets of sheep shit of unsuspecting climbers at the Gallery. Richard is a original Yosemite Stonemaster and everybody still cranks 5.11-12 with no problem. so different because these guys put up hundreds of scary difficult routes. Now their kids are repeating their father's testpieces. Nobody is calling anybody a fag these days. You can find all of these guys at sport climbing areas keeping fit and wicked strong. Yes, the old climbs are still runout and many are even harder now due to erosion and broken holds. Attitudes change and it seems fucking stupid to adhere to 25 year old ideas "just because it's tradition". These guys set the pace and were smart enough to realize when their past ideals were just that...past ideals.
  22. spell cheque?
  23. ...and again and again and again.
  24. I quit caring 17 posts ago.
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