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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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May 10, 2016 - 05:35pm PT
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What do the kids of climbers from our age group become?
Drug addicts? drug free?
Jaded beyond belief like their parents?
or having an amazing curiosity for life and learning?
Please discuss
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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May 10, 2016 - 05:53pm PT
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Naaaa, we got lucky, Hanna turned out awesome:
Inspired, no doubt, by her parents' artistic aspirations!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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May 10, 2016 - 05:59pm PT
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Meanwhile, Eppi sets up for the move on the hardest V4 in the Monument, spotted by Stahlbro, Spencer, and Bearamiah -- 75 year's worth of combined spotting experience:
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 06:07pm PT
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Bona fide Stonemaster sighting!
Rick Accomazzo, Flagstaff, 2008:
Just had lunch with Ricky today.
 A committee of 12 Nobel laureates and the Dalai Lama couldn't design a better human being!
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 06:11pm PT
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Bona fide Stonemaster swag:
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 06:14pm PT
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OMG, this thread TOTALLY needs more Mike Paul:
Photo, Greg Epperson
Photos, Mike Paul collection
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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May 10, 2016 - 06:19pm PT
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Mike Paul is the only person that I know that could cruise both the Bachar Cracker and Pumping Monzonite
Never saw any one else top out on these problems
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Pasadena, CA
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May 10, 2016 - 06:44pm PT
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LOL!! Craig, I can only dream of having a butt like that! I've never had one :(
WWII peeps, I TOTALLY have an AMAZING curiosity for life and learning.
I was a professional student and ended up getting 3 degrees and 3 credentials,
all in education. Go figure.
Not jaded, we all questioned authority, then did what we wanted.
We could have all been sheep...
Roy, keep up the great photos. Rick is still looking hot on the crags.
Lunch? CA, CO, or AZ? Thanks for the update.
Mike Paul, awesome dude!
Jeff, thanks for the compliment. I was all of 19 or 20 yrs. old : )
Now we all think we're middle aged...isn't 55 the new 40?
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 06:55pm PT
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Vik,
I live in Nederland, 3000 vertical feet and 18 miles west of Boulder, Colorado.
Moved to the region in 1990. Actually, drove out here with David Evans' gal, Margie, just for a visit and never left.
Lived in Marshall, just outside of Eldorado Springs, for 10 years.
Lisa and I have been in Nederland since 2001.
When Ricky goes snowboarding in Rocky Mountain National Park, he sometimes drops in and we have lunch.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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May 10, 2016 - 07:01pm PT
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How's the Cross Country Center doing up there
Is Global warming causing problems?
I did many a km skating there
It was the first years of skating, and they had signs saying no Skating on this or that trail
I would say, "I will skate anywhere I want to skate" and skate it anyway, laying minor waste to their machine laid parallel tracks....
just more evidence of being completely Jaded
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 07:20pm PT
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The Eldora cross-country nordic center rocks!
I can't use it anymore, too many musculoskeletal issues.
But Lisa skates those steep trails like a champ.
We've been getting pretty darn good winters here. Though spring tends to come earlier than it did in the early 90s.
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Climbing in the Flatirons with Rick, 2008:
Pinot Noir with Ricky at Chez Accomazzo:
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WBraun
climber
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May 10, 2016 - 07:33pm PT
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You know .... they make ladders for getting up stuff and the intelligent class uses them.
You can buy them or get them just about anywhere.
But instead climbers do it the hard way for life while the rest of the world shakes their heads .......
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Tarbuster
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May 10, 2016 - 07:38pm PT
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Yep!
Artwork by OUCH!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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May 10, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
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Dude,
Cowboy Junkies in 3/89 5.11c You led the crux.
I was thinking it was the same weekend we went up and did the White Rain. So wrong. I will have to go way back. WE hiked up with Walt Shipley and Billy Russell.
It was the same weekend I led Private Idaho 5.11b and The Gila Monster FA5.8+ and The Tripper Jack classic of all time....2nd ascent....The one with a thin crack and a face crux...out near Gilligan's Island.....but on the other side 5.11 b on both cruxes.
It was the weekend after the FA of my hardest lead ever. The FA of the Bloodline.
Gots to go to bed....lates.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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May 10, 2016 - 10:14pm PT
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There's always more room for Mike!
Once upon a time in Yosemite:
Two years and 700 laps later:
Years and then decades flew by, but somehow it stayed same as it ever was:
Wherever you were was home
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 10, 2016 - 10:20pm PT
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Wait - Driver is a BILLIONAIRE?
Someone has to ask the off-topic questions...
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Pasadena, CA
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May 10, 2016 - 11:42pm PT
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MisterE,
No, Geologist.
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Tarbuster
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May 11, 2016 - 06:46am PT
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QUESTION:
Just how balls out courageous would the rest of us have to be to walk in Kyle Van Bell's shoes?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Vik,
Since you are big into education ...
And Craig said:
or having an amazing curiosity for life and learning?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tarbuster
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May 11, 2016 - 06:56am PT
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So, Dave,
You are saying the FA of Cowboy Junkies is either March or May of 89?
(I'm thinking it's a typo)
*Thanks for the correction!
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Mike Paul was SO bad-ass on those Mount Woodson cracks.
I was there with him and the Swiss contingent, early 80s, he was lit up on mushrooms and we watched him solo Hear My Train. To see this was to witness a virtuoso.
Can we say CONTACT HIGH???
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Tarbuster
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May 11, 2016 - 07:07am PT
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Eric Z, Swiss Michi, Mike Paul, John Mallery, bare foot Swiss stoner dude, winter 1984:
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