pope Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 I want to nominate my long-time alpine buddy Dwayner for this week's honoree. He's not only an entertaining guy with a wealth of experience to share, but he's the kind of guy who will take care of ya when things ain't going so hot....inspite of the fact that he's an internationally recognized scholar/explorer with an extremely busy schedule. I first gained a full appreciation of his character when a girl I was running around with dropped me like the two-foot put. I was taking the development kind of hard (not seeing her meant not seeing her incredibly hot mother!) Anyway, Dwayner invited me over for beer and hot-tubbin' with some of his scholarly friends; he assured me that talking about exploration and adventure with his cronies would take my mind off of things. As soon as Dwayner and I cracked the first beers, he informed me that his buddies couldn't make it...it was just going to be the two of us. Not ten minutes after his announcement, the door burst open and two fine young hotties clad in two-piece swim suits jumped in the tub....Now that took my mind off of things (I had to concentrate on not allowing an uncharacteristically buoyant limb to surface). Yup, Dwayner will take care of you. And he taught me some great gags, like the old coffee creamer exploding to simulate a ruptured glaucomous eye. And so it is with great pride that I nominate him for this week's Alpine Buddy. Quote
erik Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 i second that nomination and by the way dwayner i having girl problems too, how about some of that hottie bo bottie therapy pope is talkin about???!!!!! you don't even need to be there!!!!! Quote
Chongo Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 how come all of pope's posts these days are about hot tubs and saunas? you feeling the cold there buddy or what? hint: eat more meat and fried food and you'll be LAUGHING at the cold. Quote
chucK Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Dwayner, the facilitator! Thanks for your many amusing trip report/anecdotes. You rule. Chuck Quote
mattp Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Dwayner is everybody's buddy. You want dating advice? You got it. A hot tub experince? Call Dwayner. A history lesson? Professor Dwayner can fill you in. Moral and ethical counselling? He's right there for this, too. If you want to share his Mickeys, though, you have to find him before 9:00 a.m. Quote
jules Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 I wholeheartedly agree.... Dwayner is the quintessential Alpine Buddy! Quote
mtnrgr Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Dwayner your the man! The one time I met Dwayner I throughly enjoyed are conversation on the middle east. Too bad his name is not really Dwayne, I don't know anyone else who climbs name Duane or Dwayne. Quote
Dru Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Duane Constantino? (old school washington Rock author and beard owner) Duane Raleigh (editor Climbing Mag and presider over its current sad decline...) Quote
mattp Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Duane Constantnino was not a Washington Rock author, though he was good buddies with David Whitelaw, who was one of the authors (Don Brooks was the other). Duane was a genuine hardcore badass, and put up some routes that have had few (at least one of them probably not even one) repeats. Quote
Dru Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 mattp is right. i am wrong. who even knows ifconstantino had a beard either? dont believe anything you read on the Internet, including this statement. Quote
mattp Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Now can we hear from the original Dwayner? How does it feel to be this week's Alpine Buddy? Any advice for the rest of us? Anything you'd like to say to the folks back home? Quote
Dru Posted January 31, 2002 Posted January 31, 2002 If Dwayner is "Alpine buddy" (that term affects me the way the term "freshies" affects Dwayner) does that make RURP "little buddy" like Gilligan? Quote
Dru Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 How many Alpine Buddy's of 2002 are now banned? Quote
MervGriffin Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 A LITTLE HISTORY: The "Alpine Buddy" concept was initiated by "Dwayner" and "pope" a couple/three years ago to give a nice and supportive high-five to various denizens in the climbing neighborhood. One early recipient was nominated for being "effortless cool". Â SPEAKING OF BANNINGS.... Ironically, it seems that our own "cool buddy" was instrumental in having "Dwayner" himself banned (or at least recommended that he be put on temporary time-out ) for his "manipulative" and "disruptive" behavior in which "every post" became a discussion about bolts and/or ethics. Â LOOKING BACK... In retrospect, we made a poor decision with this whole "Alpine Buddy" thing. We dropped the concept in short order anyway because as with most well-intentioned things around here, it quickly devolved into a downward spray-spiral. Quote
Dru Posted September 20, 2004 Posted September 20, 2004 chepe was also designated as an alpine buddy and banninated Quote
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