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Re: [ammon] Chi-town Suberb Slackers:
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healyje
Nov 29, 2006, 1:47 AM
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Chicago slackers...
Now that's something fairly amazing to read and a real evolution - a whole bunch of folks slacking in Chitown.
I spent a couple of different stretches living on the Near North Side in the '70s and early '80s after my years in C'dale. I walked my cranked down 11mm pretty religiously while I was there to keep sane in the days long before climbing gyms. I rigged up in the Honeylocust trees between the running trail and the lagoon in Lincoln Park at Fullerton and put in a five to eight hours a week there day and night year round. Some of my favorite memories are walking late at night when big storms would come in off the lake. My rig was set up north-south parallel with the shore so in 50+ knot gales you could use your hands/fingers like sky divers adjusting the pressure and just lean against the wind like a wall. I watched the weather fairly religiously and tried to catch the good pressure fronts when they moved through.
The cops never knew quite what to make of it and though they'd cruise the running trail giving me dubious looks they did keep their distance and never hassled me. And over those years I showed a lot of curious runners how to walk on the low rig I used for jumping I usually setup perpendicular to the higher one. Back then it was definitely a pretty damn peculiar thing to be doing in town and it would have been fun to have had other climbers to do it with. Good for all you folks for hooking up to play.
And Ammon, what are you in town working on?
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