Placing a cam? Slotting a nut? Slinging a tree?
squeezindlemmon
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by squeezindlemmon » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:01 pm
Has anyone on this site climbed the Gendarme before it fell?
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our mind. ~Bob Marley
Curmudgeon
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by Curmudgeon » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:06 pm
squeezindlemmon wrote: Has anyone on this site
climbed the Gendarme before it fell?
Ayup ...
Steve
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by Steve » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:15 pm
mmmm Seneca! I love that place, seems sooooo crowded anymore.
I see they are still lopping off mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Electricity isn't cheap.
Curmudgeon
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by Curmudgeon » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:28 pm
Everything's crowded nowadays, Steve ...
I think we were the ONLY people at Fortress when this was shot ...
Bill Wade and Lamar ???? on Snake ...
Crankmas
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by Crankmas » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:03 pm
stood on the gendarme on a trip to Seneca with Charles Tabor a long time ago, had to cross the river on a hanging bridge made of 3 cables due to that storm that washed out every thing in the bottom, classic routes there
Curmudgeon
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by Curmudgeon » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:36 pm
Charles and I did some climbing together ... anyone seen him lately?
chester
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by chester » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:01 pm
about what years were the fortress photos taken?
[size=84]Women are like tea bags. They don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.[/size]
Crankmas
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by Crankmas » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:55 pm
Charles lives in Grand Junction Co., he spends his time riding his dirt bike and 4wd thru Moab and the Monument areas, a liberal in a conservative bastion.
Curmudgeon
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by Curmudgeon » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:00 pm
I'm thinking (based upon the color of my hair!) that it was prolly early 81 or 82 ...
The Diaspora of Old School Climbers from the Mecca of the eastern US is complete.... Nobody left here, move along!
I remember back when ALL the climbers at RRG fit in Miguel's front room.
Bah Humbug ....
JB
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by JB » Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:16 pm
damn, you are a curmudgeon.
[size=75]i may be weak, but i have bad technique[/size]