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treyr
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.
Trob
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hang_man
Apr 19, 2002, 11:43 AM
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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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czinkula
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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kahuna3602
Apr 19, 2002, 1:27 PM
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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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dougiec
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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outhere
Apr 19, 2002, 4:35 PM
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The local 300 ft. water tower.
There was a latter up the side but it was really exposed.
[ This Message was edited by: outhere on 2002-04-19 09:37 ]
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camhead
Apr 19, 2002, 5:19 PM
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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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vaness
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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jules
Apr 19, 2002, 11:44 PM
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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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gsgisgirl
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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clam
Apr 20, 2002, 4:08 AM
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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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miagi
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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apollodorus
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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prairie_climber
Apr 22, 2002, 6:23 AM
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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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alternativekudzu
Apr 22, 2002, 4:46 PM
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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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goatsoup
Apr 22, 2002, 7:34 PM
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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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goatsoup
Apr 22, 2002, 7:44 PM
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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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newtons_law
Apr 22, 2002, 8:19 PM
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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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dogen
Apr 22, 2002, 8:26 PM
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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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polarwid
May 6, 2002, 6:02 PM
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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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iclimbtoo
May 6, 2002, 6:28 PM
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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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rockunderfoot
May 7, 2002, 1:38 AM
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Here's the strangest thing I've climbed...
FISH!!!
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jono13
May 7, 2002, 1:46 AM
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i think he wins it
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daggerx
May 7, 2002, 1:52 AM
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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.
DaggerX
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