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goatsoup
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Its obvious we have all climbed things other than rock and plastic so spill your guts whats wierdest object you've climbed?
Nothing too crazy for me...Inside of freinds room using trim, all the way around room. Lately i have been climbing my local retaining wall, nothing closer )
w00t CliMBhArd.
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It is not strange but beautiful. It is horizontal, but the aproach can be tricky . What am i talking about???
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Pebblestone wall outside corp. office... 5.9?
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Metal sculpture/mural bolted to wall-we came up with some pretty nice bouldering routes on that!
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goatsoup
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Overlord what are yout talkin about?
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Well I've done a few things around school, but I just realized the strangest thing I've ever tried to climb. I don't know if it really counts because I didn't even get half way up, but there is this huge angel statue in Quito, Ecuador that kind of looks over the city. Well this summer when I was there with some friends, a few weeks after a climbing trip, I was desperately searching for something to climb and when we got to the base of the statue it was perfect. The angel is standing on what looks like a globe of the earth and all the land areas are raised. So I tried it to see how far I could get up, but before I was even 5 feet off the ground, one of the adult leaders on the trip came and yelled at me to get down. I do have a picture of me at the base of this thing starting to climb, but not one of me while climbing. Looking back, I suppose it was kind of a disrespectfull thing to do, but I was desperate at the time.
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Apr 18, 2002, 9:17 PM
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Dead tree with homemade climbing holds all over it, in my yard...
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spike_in_milton
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Not that strange, but in high school a buddy and I made a sport of climbing onto roofs of schools. Never meet one we couldn't beat in northern Toronto (and we tried a *lot*), and we collected dozens of tennis balls, pucks, soccer balls, etc.
Spike/Adam
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beyond_gravity
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where i work, there's this big ass room full of boxes. I kick my feet into the holes (handles) like i'm ice climbing, and I make crimpy ledges for my hands. You gotta be careful they dont fall over htough
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A human statue in a square in Christchurch, NZ. The reason details are so vague is that there is little i remember from that eve but i reminded in great detal the next morning by a group of KIWI friend. Oppps.
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I think overlord is talking about a WOMAN!!!
I've done some overhanging routes on open built stairs.
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I was up in SIBERIA climbing prehistorc Frozen WOOLLY MAMMOTH carcasses last fall.
But I think that truly, the WEIRDEST thing I've ever climbed is the West Buttress on Denali. There are 500 people on the damn thing at all times, during climbing season. Now THAT's WEird...
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I used to sell shoes in a sporting goods store. The shoes were all stacked in the back room on rows and rows of metal shelves that went to about 15 feet high. I would push the boxes into the shelves just enough to expose small crimp ledges. Most people climbed to get shoes, but no one else strategically made "problems". When no one was looking I'd dyno for boxes or exposed shelf edges. I had a few embarassing times when my legs would swing into the boxes and send a stack or two of shoe boxes through the other side. Yahhh, I'm a climbing addict.
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Apr 18, 2002, 11:07 PM
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I have climbed all sorts of buildings.
Under ladders. Once I climbed up the side of one of those huge refrigeration units they use on big buildings. Parking structures.
In Flagstaff AZ they have a buildering route in the guide book called Sobriety Test. Its a fist jamming extraviganza. But the only problem is that the only it gets done is by drunken climbers on bar strolls. Thus the name. Lets just say many of mangled ankles and broken egos. Ah! but the stories it could tell.
Rockitup!
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i have climbed a chair, under and back over the top, then 6 in a row, my school, my house, my friends house, my friend. everything that looks good.
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Apr 19, 2002, 12:26 AM
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soft rock thats so fun there were these two mamoth peaks on the horizon and a really slippery crevase but i managed to manover my way around totally enjoying the experience.
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crack features in concrete retaining walls.
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A couple of friends and I climbed the front lounge of our high school at lunch one day. We had to use slings with a biner around support beams as protection. At the top we set up an anchor that will now be there forever I guess? It was super fun because I got to lead it and everyone at my school was so amazed. Now at the top of the lounge in our school there are two bright blue slings/a couple of biners, and a couple of initials written on the white wall with big black felt.
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graniteboy: you've *got* to explain the climbing a wooly mammoth carcass thing... I can imagine eclimbing a lot of things, but climbing dead things that used to move about (let alone dead things that moved about 25000 years ago) is waaaay beyond the pale.
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Apr 19, 2002, 1:35 AM
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I pretty much try and climb anything that has an edge I can put my fingers on, or a crack to stick my hand into. The outside of my college is all rock, I tool around out there when I get bored, there are also some exposed cracks inside, which I try climb sometimes, but they are a little short.
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Apr 19, 2002, 2:58 AM
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Hmmm marble countertop at hotel in New York.The inside of a school but that was a bit of a challenge. Outside of school.
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Apr 19, 2002, 2:58 AM
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I know exactly what OverLord is talking about. I tried to climb the underside of a moving bus once too. Man, my back was paying for it in the moring!!
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door frames, they are getting a bit weak now though. attempted the chimney, didn't do so well. i did some chimneying between walls in the house. i guess that is it. only been climbing 2 months tho.
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Apr 19, 2002, 3:49 AM
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If you get a chance the John Muir Tree in Yosemite is 5.8 and a couple hundred feet.
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A building on campus at the University of Nebraska. It was a 90' chimney on the outside of a stairwell. I would have had a beautiful view of Memorial Stadium - the home of the Huskers, but it was at 1am and it was dark outside. Ya see, climbin' buildings is ill-eagle in Neebraska and the Poe-leece would have been all over my ass. But I got the FA and didn't get arrested. Actually the whole thing went off much better than I had planned, but the climbing was much harder though.
TRADitionally yours,
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Apr 19, 2002, 11:21 AM
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I climbed over my climbing wall and all over my house. When i was little my mom says I climbed up the walls.
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I climbed onto a lamp post when friends are chasing me.... climbed the wall of a museum in hong kong (and luckily the guards didn't see me)... oh, I climbed on a horizontal barbed water pipe in singapore
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Apr 19, 2002, 12:38 PM
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I haven't climbed anything weird but I know that ever since I started climbing I now look at a lot of things as "an opportunity to climb". It's scary... just walking home from the library I look at every building in a new way thinking, "I could climb that". This'll probably plauge me for the rest of my life won't it? *sigh* Once I get more confident I'll definitely have to start freaking people out. Nobody expects people to be able to climb up and down strange objects. But if you just went for it they'd probably get fairly weirded out...
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I had a 15 minute traverse set up at work that I would climb after everyone went home at night, until recently. It started with two door jams a double access door (the tops when left open) some relief trim up to a recessed ceiling in the elevator foyer, back over to some relief trim and then six cubicle tops. I did this every night for about 6 weeks when one morning while waiting for the elevator to go home my boss and the building engineer were talking about repainting the walls. The engineer said it looks like someone is climbing the walls here. my boss, who knows I climb gave me the dirtiest look and I haven't climbed it since it was repainted.
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Apr 19, 2002, 2:28 PM
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There's a nightclub in Glasgow (the Shack) which has potential for some great bouldering problems on the wall inside. Never got to try much of it though. Apparently it's frowned upon.
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missedyno
Apr 19, 2002, 2:50 PM
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well, i climbed some scaffolding on a busy downtown street once.... only about 12' up, but freaked out a few pedestrians...
others didn't even seem to notice, and we got a good picture of it...
http://www.rockclimbing.com/photos.php?Action=ListPhoto&PhotoID=3927
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The local 300 ft. water tower.
There was a latter up the side but it was really exposed.
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Hey Overlord,
I think I've done that climb you were talking about...
It's a 5.6, right?
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Apr 19, 2002, 7:09 PM
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one time i was walking up the 5 flights of stairs to the climbing gym and i was planning a route so i could climb all the way up instead of taking the stairs..but i didnt actully climb it there are cameras all over that place. i climbed the state house of New Hampshire one time. not very strange
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I've been told that I used to climb EVERYTHING when I was little... I was able to get onto the counters before I could walk (or so I'm told...) and could escape easily from my walker and high chair.
When I was four or five, I tackled this huge pine tree behind my house... I guess I got around 150 feet up before my mom found me.
Lately, I've been climbing the bridges in town (both wooden and stone), and we have discovered that the lockers at school are climbable.
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Apr 20, 2002, 2:50 AM
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My little brother tried to climb the base of the Statue of Liberty while we were waiting in line to go up last summer.... They caught him about 10 feet up.
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When I was in Munich Germany some time ago, before I ever had a desire to climb, some nice German people took me into the alps on a hike. They took me to this spire of rock called "the Little Man of Etal," maybe 60 or 80 feet high, I can't quite remember. These hard men and women gave it a shot but turned back. They egged me on. There was a chain on the side of this vertical spire to help pull yourself up; it was slippery polished rock as I recall, and I had on slippery sneakers. I made it all the way to the top. A pretty good feat because there was a metal tube on top with a book to sign in if you made it. Then the problem of downclimbing hit me hard. However, I made it. My name is still up there on "the Little Man of Etal" somewhere in the Bavarian Alps, between here and the Zugspitze.
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Apr 20, 2002, 4:30 AM
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I climbed this nice monument in a cemetary once. I get strange feelings that people are watching me ever since then....wonder why?
lol im just messin.
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Apr 20, 2002, 6:17 AM
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I once A1 climbed out onto a suspended sculpture, with the intent of rearranging the parts. It was supposed to look like a fish, but it was a bunch of rusted junk. I figured that a little rearranging would show it to be what it was.
Mistake.
The cops grabbed me and filed a complaint with the District Attorney for Grand Theft. I was lucky to plead out to malicious mischief.
That was when I was 22, a college student, and figured that I could get extra credit.
Never overestimate the sense of humor of the police.
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my friend and i just climbed 10 schools in 1 night. I've climbed alot of bridges end to end, the best one 40 feet above a class three set of rapids
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not really weird, but it was at an overlook at the lake here where i live and there was a swingset with a frame built around it and roof also...it was good practice. thats where i taught my buddy what i know about crimpers and dyno's and so on...and now after going bouldering only 3 times he wants us to take another 2 hr drive to go climb again...i guess the swingset was a good start!
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playground equipment ( big plastic slide that opened with the head of dragon)
Great boulder problem
went from sloper of ear to pocket of dragon's eyes to undercling of its mouth (quite a reach) and finish by pocket of his nostril. Harder to explain then i thought.
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playground equipment ( big plastic slide that opened with the head of dragon)
Great boulder problem
went from sloper of ear to pocket of dragon's eyes to undercling of its mouth (quite a reach) and finish by pocket of his nostril. Harder to explain then i thought.
w00t
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There are eight foot windows in my apartment framed with large molding. I climb them like a monkey when I am board out of my skull.
If anyone boulders or climbs in the 'Dacks and is will to take a newbie out drop me an e-mail before I get evicted.
Cheers!... now where are those bananas?
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there's a boulder problem that starts on the trailer hitch of my truck. its v3 with the tailgate open, v2 with it closed but its kind of height dependent.
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I think this wins the award for STRANGEST THING CLIMBED. We should lock this thread after this...LOL
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i bouldered from the base of my girlfriends staircase to the second floor. Her parents came home while I was doing it...they just stared at me like I was a freak. She was just laughing the whole time. I finished it though, despite the fact that her mom still gives me crap about it followed by a strange look!
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Here's the strangest thing I've climbed...
FISH!!!
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i think he wins it
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The lockers sets in my body shops locker room, I had my locker door open and just could not resist craking it so I climbed up it and over the top and down some guys on the other sides locker.
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I did a bustop, road signs, climb up to a ceiling camera once too.. at least i tried, almost got locked up too thought.
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I climbed my school once, not very weird, but it was fun.
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Polarwid- comon, that was good, but strange? I think a dead wooly mamoth has got that beat! Actually, when it comes to strange, I'm pretty sure what overlord was talking about has it beat
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shipping containers... a few of those stacked would make a great route!
the one I climbef was all alone tho..
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hmmm it would either be around the inside of a restaurant. Or to the 3rd floor of my buddy's aptment building. Not to wierd but fun
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hmmm it would either be around the inside of a restaurant. Or to the 3rd floor of my buddy's aptment building. Not to wierd but fun
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Heceta Head light house in Florence, OR. I only went about ten feet up to a sort of window looking stucture and got a picture. after that it would definately be an aid climb.
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Is anyone familiar with the sculpture right beside the potomac river in D.C. that has just parts of a body sticking out. I think it had a leg coming out bending at knee, then back into ground, a arm reaching out, the head, and another limp. This thing is entirely aluminum. And when I was in the 8th grade couple years ago I scaled to the top of the knee while it was pouring down rain. I even have a pic. If I could figure out how to put one on my profile I would use it.
also at my school there are lockers(believe it or not) and I like sticking my foot on the combination dial and using an underclinb on the vent strips near the top. \
I cant wait to go to RRG so I can climb some chairs @ miguels pizza.
Oh yeah, I just remembered. this is not weird or strange but it was still pretty fun. we were doing an eggdrop contest(by the way I wone) and we had to climb up the bleachers before they were folded out. I'm short right? so the teacher says, "can ya get up there josh?" and I was like, " I can climb a 5.10 without working out for over 2 months. Well I guess it was over their heads cause they laughed at me. either that or they all onsight some .13's.
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Here i was thinking that i was odd. in my school we have a wall covered in rock climbing handles. Its completly horizontal and made only for tall people i beleive. i'm only five ft two and i can't reach half of the handles. so instead of using them i used the cracks in the bricks to climb and reached thr roof. unfortunately it was during the spring fair at the school, and all the parents were freaking out. Its only ten or fifteen feet high.
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Did a traverce around my VW Van on the rain trough.
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on one wierd occasion, i was in the main building of Place des Arts (sp?) in Montreal. The walls inside are nicely made of stone and would make a good climb. i was just putting my hand on them and figuring out how i would hold them if i were to climb it, you knwo, just for practice. well a guy who was on this guided tour with me asked me "Why do you keep on FEELING the walls man?"
and i instinctively said, "For practice" with a prefectly strait face. they gave me a funny look and moved away,
then about 10 minutes later i reliezed why.
OOPS!
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I used to work the evening shift (4pm-12am) at a software company years ago. My team and I would go bonkers after Wendy's closed at 11pm (back in the day). So, we used to hang outside the company's main entrance and take in the night air. One night we were standing outside talking about climbing. We got so into it that I scaled the side of the building's brick wall. I didn't go too far up, but it was certainly the weirdest place I've climbed.
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catga86
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The strangest thing I have ever climbed was the lockers at school. I had to get to the top of it for a picture, so I went on and climbed it.
Another thing that I climbed was the window sill at school. Each room has a big window with a bar right in the middle of it, so I climbed it. I did it to show people that I could actually climb.
I hope to be writing about more weird things that I have climbed. It will only take time before I think of one....
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lazyboy
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I scaled a 20 foot tall toy cricket and a 30 foot tall teddy bear in orlando last summer
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rockhippie
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climbing out of bed before noon seems pretty strange to me!!!!!!
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In the auditorium of my old high school, there were these little pegs that came out on the wall. one day i passed by and thought that why not and started to climb. i got all the way up to the top and looked down and the principle was standing there with his arms crossed looking dead at me. i got about a week of in school suspension for the stunt but it was worth it. i am the only person to ever do that.
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Medical records shelves!
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There is this chinese restraunt in my town with a 16' statue of Budha in the front of it. I climbed to the top of that. And in Wyoming, there is this giant statue of Lincoln... I climbed to his head, and have a pic of me with half my head up his nose somewhere.
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In line for "Dueling Dragons" at Islands of Adventure in Orlando Florida. You end up weaving in a maze of tunnels in line for this roller coaster. I got bored waiting so my brother and I took turns spotting each other as we climbed. We had quite a crowd (luckily no security) and it was a ton of fun. Hey in Orlando you take what you get. I also climbed the Water Tower at the Blues Club at Downtown Disney.
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A playground statue of The Hamburgler when I was about 8 years old.
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I have chimneyd up my school between a pillar and a wall totally freaking out a freind of mine...that and i climbed the lockers in my school before school hours...that was fun...and today i got in trouble for climbing the wall of a store...the guy working there got pissed and a bunch of people were watching
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climbing out of bed before noon seems pretty strange to me!!!!!!
I know how you mean man, but the strangest thing i have climed was the court house... altho the police werent too impressed but it was fun all the same
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I think that the wierdest thing that I've ever climbed on is the side of my church. It's a 50 ft climb but was pretty awesome in the end. Now i just need to climb some corporate buildings.
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The wierdest thing i ever climbed would have to be my school. There is a little route i do up side of the gym (3 stories). Its pretty easy, the first move is kinda cool. V1 maybe, then the rest is less than V0. I wanna lead up this cell phone tower some time soon, cuz that would kick ass, it might even be multi pitch. 5.9?
Well, I almost got busted climbing the gym after school. The cop pulled over on the road looked at me and then turned around. So i ran and ran Lesson learned, Not in day light
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i used to climb up the brick at my school until they noticed and threatened to suspend me if they saw me doing it again. Now i climb the other side were they can't see.
it's really fun climbing if you little crimpers.
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When I was little, I climbed the narrow hallways in my house chinmey style (with my bare feet and handds out to the sides). I'd climb until I hit the ceiling and my parents could walk underneath me. In kindergarden, while the other little ones were playing Chinese jumprope, I tried to pull the same stunt on the palmtrees nearby. I got up pretty far until the teachers started to notice...
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cragchica
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Has anybody seen the issue of climbing with photos of bouldering spots on Univesity campuses?
I work in the computer lab of La Paz dorm... literally feet from where one of those was taken.
Now all I need are the guts to bring my climbing shoes to work with me...
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well when i had a 3 week break (i was broke) from climbing i went absolutly crazy i climbed trees, the house, through rungs of a ladder, anything over 2 meters high basically but most shameful of all me and my family were on a busy road waiting for a lift and on the side of a building looked like it would be very fun so in front of tones of cars and pedesterians i started to climb the walls after that my sister called me a freak and my mum was very embarresed but it was in good fun
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radd
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The Mexican Hat out in the utah desert. An easy A0 bolt ladder, but was so cool. Ancient art is a close second.
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lesotho
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The beach walls in Seapoint, Cape Town are five meters high, cut granite block walls where you can traverse for up to 50 meters.
The weirdest was when I traversed over 5 sunbathing couples lying on the beach without anyone noticing anything.
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Never climbed anything too unusual, but I have a tendancy to climb up the slides at playgrounds. Also climb over the covers on the tube-style slide using the raised adges where the pieces connect. We have an old swingset in the back yard with a set of monkey bars that I climb around on top of.
I want to go back to my old elemetary school sometime cuz they have this great brick wall! There's also a small bit of brick on one part of school. I'll have to get there early sometime to check it out!
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some friends of mine and i bolted a lead route on a tree at the park. we dont have any holds bolted on, we just use some crimpers and a couple jugs that are made by the bark. there is a heal hook move in there too, its prolly an 11.a . tons of fun.
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i just patched a hole in my sheetrock in the hallway.. caused by a back, using the hallway as an off-width crack / boulder problem / traverse thingy. At one point i had a foot on a light switch cover, and a foot on the cold air return.
(i'm not the dumbass who put the hole in the wall.. That was my homie)
Peaze
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I bolted an empty CD rack to my wall once and used it as a campus board...
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I climb the underside and sides of those big wooden playground structures while my kids play on them. They usually have some great small cracks and edges. I bouldered on the outside of the visitors center as you enter Tennessee from Kentucky. The employees did not find it amusing at all, but it had some great small edges!!
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the inside of a schoolbus, from one end to the other and all over the ceiling. Also a phallus-shapen spire of rock in Hatcher's Pass, AK aptly named "Penis Rock."
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I climbed half way up the duty free store off I87 just after you cross into Canada from New York. I stopped because this old lady started yelling at me in french. *shrug* Looking back perhaps she was cheering me on.... *smirk* or maybe not.
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????inkin playground equiptment bouldering, but then I remember that I used to have a job in a carpet warehouse. I was inventory control, so I had to go around and look for lost rolls of carpet. They were huge rolls of uncut, unfinished goods stacked in piles around thirty feet high, with little 4x8 inch tickets stapled on to Id them. I basically got paid to climb around the warehouse and make sure that all of the tickets matched their location. Thirty foot concrete ground falls will eventually ruin your knees. Kinda cool being paid to climb though. I guess thats as close as I'll ever be to being a sponsored climber.
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I builder on a church that’s near my house quite a bit. It’s made out of some kind of stone or cement mix that isn’t uniform at all. Makes for endless possibilities.
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Not very weird, but I also builder alot here in Batavia, (an hour west of chicago), not many places to climb, or at least without PAYING for gym time...but there's TONS of 150 year old limestone buildings, and the rain erodes it over time. theres churches i climb on, 100'+ ones. I can only climb at night cuz the police arent too freindly...but when its dark, with onlya headlamp, your buddy, and a few pitches worth of rope....seems jsut liek back in yosemite!!
Chris
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I have climbed the lava rocks outside of a local bank, and rappelled off of several local hotels/office buildings.
A.W.
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I climbed a 1800 foot tower in Gainsville Georgia.Hungover.The hangover was cured by the time I reached 300 feet.What was weird was my very wealthy boss came with me and made me smoke a joint with him.I love my job.
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We were bouldering a bunk bed which we named the "boulder bed"!
It was mad fun... its only had one acent though
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I was a leading hand with a bunch of roofers at Tarong Power station whilst it was getting built. We were working on the coal slot bunkers which had 35 degree pitch roofs. Out of all the roofers I was the only dummie who would go out on the purlins a hundred feet above the concrete without a harness and apply the isolation tape to the top of the purlins. The purlins were 6 feet apart so it was a bit of a stretch from one purlin to the next.
One of my aprentices related to me that he and a mate climbed to the top of one of the tower cranes right to the tip of the pulley.
I`ve also been to the top of a dragline at a coal mine, very special view from a hundred and fifty feet up looking as far as the eye can see both north and south gaining a perspective on just how huge that mine really is.
...Phil...
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Two story cobble stone church tower.
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A drywalled wall that was going to get torn down with my hammers, and pieces of rebar duct taped to my boots, like I was ice climbing, 2nd this huge fake giant sequia tree at the local Magic Mt. until I got spotted by security.
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My moms brick chimney, nothing but crimpers and edges and its quite painful. A few flag poles, stainless steel pipeing hanging from the ceiling at work, up the underside of 3 flights of concrete steps that led to my old apartment. Yeah, I know not very wierd, but I'm going to keep my eye open for more.
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I climbed the aluminum scalfolding around the Washington Monument in DC a few years ago during the renovation. Did not get the opportunity to climb the entire thing in one go but the stuff that I did was like climbing big monkey bars.
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The side of Macey's at the mall.
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Sometimes i climb rock walls...
how stange can that be??
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overlord is talkin' 'bout sex!
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I'd have to say the strangest thing I've done "climbing-wise" would be the session of human bouldering done at Miguel's Pizza in Kentucky. We had people bouldering people! The problem was to start "piggy-back style" on someone's back, mantle over their shoulders, down the front, through their legs and up their back again. It was freakin' hilarious
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I was caught on a concealed camera scaling my dorm building in DC...the Man is watching.
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Back in 1978 I too got caught climbing my college dorm. I was doing a skyhook travere out a 1/2 inch ledge out the third floor lounge window. I had a rope but the traverse was dicey since the building starting chipping away.
More recently I climbed a 5.9 tree approach to a climb in Thailand. The tree climb is called "Tarzan" See" target="_blank">http://member.newsguy.com/~climbing/FunPhotos.html">See the picture of Tarzan on this page on my site.
Peace
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The new Yahoo! Head Quarters building while they were building it I use to work across the street, those I-beams were fun.
Also the earthquake proof pallet racks in the warehouse when I worked at the same place.
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What a great post---
lets see, how about...
the outside of a 100 foot grain silo on little concrete edges. When you fell and hit the side of the thing it sounded like a big drum.
a beautiful 200 foot hand crack on the OU football stadium.
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The "Sobriety Test Crack" in downtown Flagstaff, AZ. After the climb I had to find a way down and was floodlighted by the gustappo. "Yep, they got that "mother gooofing" thief again. So, I downclimbed a mortered limestone wall to where I could jump onto a dumpster....that was where I was "caught in the action of a crime against humanity". It was a classic sight, while I was bound and cuffed in the back of the ociffers car and hearing my friends give "beta" and "urge" the coppers on. "Come on man, you got it!!!" "Just rock your ancle left and wedge that boot in!!!" "Jam your hand and wedge it in that crack....your a real cop are you not???" So, they got to try and boulder this three storey problem....it never happened and they let me go after some intense interrogation of my friends.
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We'll see more postings here, now that the Spiderman movie is out.
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Speaking of Spiderman....http://www.b3ta.com/spidermanwillmakeyougay/.
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Well, for work I get to climb, and the best was when I raped from the top of stapples center (where the Lakers and Kings play). But when I raped I did it Aussie style and almost got kicked off the gig.
Climb safe and don't drive angry
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Go to ecocliffchick. Check out the cool photos she has downloaded onto the site. Strangest thing climbed award goes to her friends. A human boulder!
Steve
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I wanted to add a link to that photo on this thread but I'm not sure how to do it... that human bouldering does make for a wild party game though!
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Add "The Macaroni Grill" to the list on buildings with positive holds. Also last night I rapped out of a dorm room window.
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Gerry:
I can totally see you doing that!!
doh!!
slackline from dorm to dorm???
hmmmmmm?
ah the good ol days! Of fearlessness...
wait...fear??
what??
me?
naw!!
play on.
safely
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Radio tower, water tower, brickwalls, a huge smoke stack, tail fin of a huge gutted out airplane, slab climb upon exiting the cockpit of the airplane, palm trees, balconies, and fire place chimneys.
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Heres a good one for ya...
Climbed a football Y-thingy (you know what im talking about, the thing they kick the ball between for the extra point.)
That may not sound hard, or even too wierd, but try doing it with no hands. It was soo funy looking. Hardest thing i've ever done, cause i kept falling upside-down.
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Another crazy climb was the inside of my dresser. Its built into my wall, but if you open the drawers and go into my closet you can fit through the holes that the open drawers make. The only problem is a siding bar between each drawer, so you only have like 6" of space to climb into it. (im a very skinny person, even though im around 5'10"-11") Great for hide and seek, not so good when someone starts closing drawers. Also a good place to go and "think" in privacy.
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Myself, Climberchic, and Bambina have all climbed my 2000 Nissan Frontier... and both Climberchic and Bambina have the exhaust scars to prove it!!
Actually. bouldered it! Starting from the gate extender around the wheel wells...and so on!
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The strangest thing that I have actually sended was the corner crack between the office buildings where I used to work in central PHX. It was perfect hand jam for about 3 stories!!
ivanm
BTW...I only made it up to the first story. I chickened out on the rest. Just didn't want to mislead anyone!
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check THIS out
http://128.138.144.104/stoneforest/Photos/calama_chuquicamata.jpg
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There's a building downtown, and any climber would agree it's just one of those that you just wanht to climb! It's made of this plasti-rock, or soemthing, I'm not too sure, but a friend and I went bouldering on the building, needless to say the sotre manager threatened to call the cops on us! but hey, it was funn still!
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wonder1978
Aug 1, 2002, 8:52 PM
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I made the first ascent of a cliff coming out of a lake, I started climbing from a boat and about a third of the way up I realized that the cliff was inhabited by hairy spiders as big as my hand, and they were many, and they were fast, they could climb well above 5.15, and I had a feeling that they wanted me for lunch. Unfortunately I couldn't go down as it would have meant leaving gear behind. The climb which was moderate 5.8 without the spiders suddenly became a hard 5.10 which I speed climbed barely protected. I didn't even know that such things existed around here.
steve
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rollingstone
Aug 1, 2002, 10:11 PM
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Once on a tour I was leading in Spain, I tried to do a stemming problem on top of the parapet in the Castle in Segovia, but my daughter gave me hell and said I should get down before a guard saw me and I got shot; on another trip I was in Portugal, in Evora, and I tried liebacking a 1st century Roman column, only to find out it was highly illegal...
the strangest real rock I have climbed is Stein's Pillar, near Smith Rock. Guess who did the FA back in the day??
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bigsauce
Aug 1, 2002, 10:28 PM
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City Hall, Portland, ME
WHOOPEEE...
the cops'll never get me!
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rock_climbin_06
Aug 2, 2002, 1:49 AM
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Thats a cool pic Daisuke! Now there's a climber. My weirdest place(not really weird but oh well!) is probably buildering up some of the walls of our condo we stayed at in Colorado. They go up about 3 stories but its a little freaky when you got the managers sitting at the bottom waiting for you to get down. I still want to try some of Houston's Skyscrapers....
-Adam
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climblouisiana
Aug 2, 2002, 2:23 AM
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Berlin Wall just before it was torn down forever.
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the_elk
Aug 2, 2002, 3:32 AM
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Anyone done a table traverse?
Went on a camp and was dared to do it, The guys seemed to think that a chick wouldn't be able to... HAH! I showed them. Most of the guys are still yet to beat me!
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aulwes
Aug 2, 2002, 3:58 AM
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Once I climbed one of those portable climbing walls while it was in the down position. It was a good traverse!
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dyno2finish
Aug 2, 2002, 4:35 AM
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I've done the normal doorframes, school, chimney, etc. But the weirdest is somewhat sacreligious....every sunday I sit in church just dreaming of the climbing and one night w/ just a few friends in the church I tried it out. I got a sick heal hooking traverse working over the alter....the possibilities there are endless, but they are recontructing our church so... But if anyone is ever in northern Ky I'll show you the art of church climbing!
[ This Message was edited by: dyno2finish on 2002-08-01 21:37 ]
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case22
Aug 3, 2002, 12:06 AM
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Let's see, I've climbed fireplaces, houses, and I've tried to climb the building at OSU Mansfield campus. It's not too strange, but it's fun when there's not a lot of actual rock around!
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duck
Aug 3, 2002, 12:41 AM
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I can relate to the Church climbing
There's a great 200 meter traverse about 6' off the ground all the way around the curch near E.Fulton and N.Lafayette in Grand Rapids, done it a million times. The Crux is getting over the door on the Northeast side.
The best downtown climb in Kalamazoo is the Presbyterian church next to Bronson park. I've done it a few times and have yet to get the top. I know I'm not the only one doing it too, sometimes I get up a ways and see CHALK MARKS! Who are you! PM me!
Kalamazoo is also home to Pharmecia (a really big drug company) and on one of their buildings downtown there are sections of steel bars set vertically, about 4" apart, 6" deep, and 8+ stories tall! Looks like some fun aid climbing with a bunch of cams!
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eowyn1025
Aug 3, 2002, 12:54 AM
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the hallway in my dorm was just wide enough to put your hands on one wall and your feet on the other and climb up that way. baseboards, handrails on stairs, doorjambs...one has to get creative in a dorm. my church has the coolest stone wall right in the front of the sanctuary that is just begging to be climbed...haven't done it yet though.
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terss
Aug 3, 2002, 1:18 AM
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There's this sweet stone tower in the woods not too far from my home. I'd like to climb to the top, but so far have only gone as high as my instincts will let me with no rope or pad.
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flagstaff_climber
Aug 3, 2002, 2:05 AM
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If you have ever climbed a water tower to defend your sister's honor....well you know the rest
Rick
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jbone
Aug 3, 2002, 2:34 AM
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SSBN 730 OHIO class submarine
Two routes:
One in the lower level watchstation in the engineroom. I called it the fly on the wall at 5.11b.
Second was during a swim call I slapped the slopers up the turtle back by gripping the underclings as the boat rocked back and forth I inched up and crimped down for when the boat tilted steeper and steeper. Made it when the swell was low but later it spit me off into the ocean for the repeat.
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maskokalover
Aug 4, 2002, 10:13 PM
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The side of my freinds house..
right up beside his living room window, his parents were looking at me like i was bloody crazy...
so was he..
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eowyn1025
Aug 5, 2002, 1:41 AM
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jbone that's so cool! come to think of it, i've climbed the ladder into and out of the hatch of a sub. (tough stuff i know) the Andrew Jackson...she's decomissioned now, has been for over 10 years. aren't subs great??
gwen
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flagstaff_climber
Aug 5, 2002, 2:30 AM
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Hey Jbone
I was on SSBN 641 Gold
I climbed a rope ladder over the side during a swim call
Rick
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moxy
Aug 5, 2002, 3:40 AM
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a giant elias big boy statue, a ford dealership sign, and my list of buildings is growing(there is no rock where i live).
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matt
Aug 5, 2002, 3:59 AM
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People.
It's not my photo, nor myself in the photo, but, I've done it before!
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collegekid
Aug 5, 2002, 4:25 AM
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I'm currently very bored, so i'm gonna go try to find some boulder problems on my '90 toyota pickup. If anyone else has the same kinda truck and has found any cool problems let me know.
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