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"Back when I was in High School, dry tooling was what you did if you couldn't find a date on Saturday night."

-another classic Tackleism

Thanks to Sean Issac for bringing that one up last night!

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Originally posted by willstrickland:

Back when I started climbing:

"We didn't have all this fancy gear, we just tied the ropes around our dongs and put a bunch of pitons in our mouths like roofing tacks, we didn't need these new fangled EBs or them spendy goldline ropes" - Beckey as related by Cpt C.

 

Ummm errr not quite but I bet he would say something like that eh!

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A quote from a friend of mine who did one of the early ascents of Astroman on nuts and hexs.

"So theres some 5.11 crack pitches on this climb...huh. I was leading 5.11 cracks before you were born."

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Back then, sex was safe and climbing was dangerous.

Once at a Beckey slide show, he took a final question for the evening: Do you have any good bivouac stories?

Fred responded that he did, but that she probably didn't want her name mentioned. Good night everybody.

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"Back when I lived in the Great Basin of the American West, going out on a double date meant four cowboys in a pickup."

 

"Back when I was a young climber, we thought getting into a diaper seat meant attaching webbing to a set of pampers."

Beck

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Back when I started climbing:

"We didn't have all this fancy gear, we just tied the ropes around our dongs and put a bunch of pitons in our mouths like roofing tacks, we didn't need these new fangled EBs or them spendy goldline ropes" - Beckey as related by Cpt C.

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"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN?!!?!?!?! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING STRONG I AM?!!!!!!!"

-Stevie Haston after he failed his guiding test due to improper belay techniques

 

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"He doesn't count because his head is square." Stevie Haston on Robert Jasper.

For those of you uncertain on ethnic slurs "squarehead" refers to Jasper's German nationality.

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