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    • What song are you listening to?
      Digital Campfire • music • • nutagain  

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      @toby Talking about a band that has gone through some personal changes (due to deaths from overdose, poor playing due to drug abuse and personality clashes). Christie Hynde would not give up. I saw them when they were promoting the “Learning to Crawl lp, ‘84 I believe. It was at a small amphitheater in Atlanta. Chrissie Hynde ≈ I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration) https://youtu.be/oTFsoRFxj-I
    • Random Photo Thread
      Digital Campfire • • johntp  

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      @NickG said in Random Photo Thread: had a bad fall at work. ladders suck. Yep. My bro used to be involved w/operational safety of oil refineries at a major oil company. Falls from ladders are/were the number one source of industrial accidents. I think he implemented some policy involving additional safety measures for heights greater than something like four feet. Sounds draconian but injuries from ladder falls dropped dramatically (essentially zero, iirc). All to easy, especially for those of us comfortable with heights, to become a little too comfortable on the job, e.g. Scott Cosgrove. Glad to hear you are okay and seem to have recovered fully. Kudos for passing your expertise/experience on to the youngun's.
    • Coronavirus.
      Big Questions • health • • FritzRay  

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      COVID-19, Overdoses Pushed US to Highest Death Total Ever More cheery news.... The main reason for the increase in deaths? COVID-19, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work on death statistics. The agency this month quietly updated its provisional death tally. It showed there were 3.465 million deaths last year, or about 80,000 more than 2020's record-setting total. Early last year, some experts were optimistic that 2021 would not be as bad as the first year of the pandemic — partly because effective COVID-19 vaccines had finally become available. "We were wrong, unfortunately," said Noreen Goldman, a Princeton University researcher. COVID-19 deaths rose in 2021 — to more than 415,000, up from 351,000 the year before — as new coronavirus variants emerged and an unexpectedly large number of Americans refused to get vaccinated or were hesitant to wear masks, experts said. .... One study looked at death data in the U.S. and 19 other high-income countries. The U.S. fared the worst. "What happened in the U.S. is less about the variants than the levels of resistance to vaccination and the public's rejection of practices, such as masking and mandates, to reduce viral transmission," one of the study's authors, Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University, said in a statement. Imagine that... Need I quote Forest Gump yet again...
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      Van Build
      Digital Campfire • diy • • NickG  

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      @NickG T-Hocking ...Welcome to Redpoint Climbing!
    • Winter Climbing
      On Belay • ice • • David Harris  

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      most recent is easiest to keep track of..
    • The "What Happened Next" Thread
      Digital Campfire • • Happiegrrrl  

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      They thought briefly about the Cirque of the Unclimbables, but realized that it was in another county, and would require far more than their limited funds would allow. A quick review of their resources, and a dim memory of a nearly forgotten axiom provided the answer. "If you have never climbed the Boar's Tusk, you have never climbed in Wyoming" went the saying. Hour after hour the aging van crept along and finally the landscape began to change. The change was subtle, but the endless rolling hills gave way to a harsher landscape of badlands with forested peaks in the distance. Lonely roads veered off from time to time, leading to unknown places. Glowing lights in the distance marked the last town. The van sputtered into the gas station where they counted up the last of their money. $36 would buy enough gas to get them to the Red Desert, and hopefully part way back to the highway, so it was settled. They stuffed their battered packs back into Mickey's broken down van and set off down the road, black smoke billowing from the exhaust from the burned rings. The busted shocks rattled with every bump on the highway. After an hour of pushing the van at its top speed of 43 mph, a poorly marked turn lead West into the heart of the Red Desert. Mickey turned left onto the washboard road and the van crept along rattling and squeaking with every minute ripple. Gill, sick of the noise, plucked a single cassette from his pack and stuck it into the ancient cassette player. The gentle refrains of the Dead Kennedys neutralized the sounds from the battered van, just as effective, and much cheaper than a white noise generator, and the rolled deeper and deeper into the Desert. There were no signs, just a battered copy of the Gazetteer, and dozens of spur roads, but the general trend led deeper into the desert, so they continued on. After cresting a small rise Mickey stopped the van and they stepped out for a look. Off in the distance, barely visible in the haze, a dark thumb of rock thrust itself skyward. With the objective in sight all question of its existence disappeared and they renewed their approach with Gill at the wheel. The tape played through, but no one moved to stop it. The tower grew larger as they grew closer, and finally they reached a final intersection, and a decision. Should they take the direct looking route, or would the longer, more circuitous one be better. Dropping the shift lever into 2nd Gill punched it, throwing a roostertail of dust that could be seen in Kemmerer, on the straight track. Not so far, but not so close either, a patch of soft sand barred the way. Gill floored it and the van floated over the soft sand, and then settled axle deep 50' from the edge. "Were kind of fucked now: Gill said. The only thing to be seen was sagebrush and the lone tower a short distance away. The other road could clearly be seen approaching on firmer ground, perhaps, in retrospect, it would have been a better choice. "Not the first time I've been stuck" said Mickey, as he opened the back and pulled out a shovel, some empty bags and an old climbing rope. .
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      Where Is This ?
      Digital Campfire • • NickG  

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      @WyoRockMan said in Where Is This ?: @toby Devil's Tower is correct. Here's Catherine Destivelle climbing "El Matador" (Picture 1). Perhaps the finest stemming pitch around....I'm glad there isn't video, and especially audio, of my attempt. CD-El Matador Holy, holy, guacamole!! Somehow I'd missed viewing the above linked vid. Mea culpa! Awesome sauce, indeed! Although... I remember pretty much being on paved roads when I was there. Must not have been in too an adventurous a mood at the time?
    • Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty....the Cat Thread
      Digital Campfire • • L'Aura  

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      Do any of you ever look at eatliver.com? Worth checking in the morning to get your day off to a good start. Most recent subject was "Really Strange Cat Books That Actually exist". The whole list is here: https://www.eatliver.com/cat-books/ (and has links to Amazon for each of the books) but here are a couple of examples.
    • Wildlife Encounters
      Digital Campfire • wildlife • • David Harris  

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      tobia!! this is wonderful... i love the turkeys... we even seen them around here... often, in some areas... but wow-- YOURS are great, here!!
    • Welcome & Introduction Thread
      Digital Campfire • • johntp  

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      @Old-lady-H Bitd it was infrequent you'd run in to a fellow climber anywhere other than at the crags so it was natural that you'd talk nothing but climbing if/when you were luck enough to cross paths with such (at least for me). Fast forward to modern times, climbing went mainstream (as contrasted with "Counter Culture") and "climbers" are everywhere. As some sage wisely responded to early concerns that we did not have enough climbing content on RPU; "There is nothing more boring than climbers talking about nothing other than climbing....". So please do feel free to discuss whatever, excepting identity political tribalism (see "Claim, Warrant, Impact" guidelines in "Big Questions" category), as at RPU we prefer to focus on our shared passion for climbing and other outdoor adventures that unite us rather than petty differences that divide us.
    • Vintage Climbing Gear Stories
      Gearhead Mind Hive • bitd gear • • FritzRay  

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      that thing climbs pretty good its just that the leash is a total PINTA and the grip is too slippery to go leashless... It has a ton of reach.
    • Happie's RPU Premier "Happiegrrrl Hits the Road" Thread
      Digital Campfire • • Happiegrrrl  

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      @Happiegrrrl Great Update. Hope all is well.
    • Kick Ass Bluegrass
      Digital Campfire • music • • Moose  

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      @toby Yeah...makes sense to call it. Unfortunately, the thought that you can talk sense into a good percentage of the population about vaccination is pretty well gone. It's gonna be a longer haul than we thought it'd be.
    • Road Trippin' Rigs
      Gearhead Mind Hive • • FritzRay  

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      Cool looking rig I saw the other night while buying this....
    • A Dog's Life Redux
      Digital Campfire • • L'Aura  

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      @toby I had to have a cone put on my ex-wive’s chow,(Bamboozle), when he was a puppy after the veterinarian did eye surgery on him. Poor dog couldn’t manage the steps into the house because the cone would impede his leap up. Toby looks like he is resting well. I hope he gets well soon!
    • New Routing
      On Belay • • David Harris  

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      weekend warriors.. We spent most of the summer working on another slab climb. 3 pitches. some kind of 10. finally finished it in september.. we spent so much time slabbing including one day when we climbed all three of our climbs there for about 900ft of low angle thinness that we forgot how to climb real rocks.. Black Mountain felt really Steep last week
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      Installing Wood Stove in Camping Van
      Digital Campfire • diy • • DingusMcgee  

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      NickG says,"...no instructions.. How do I know? I seen the likes of some stellarsea type minds attempting a propane "thieving operation" on a drilling rig circa 1968. They were not in the need of advise, for cavaliers they were. A home propane yard tank filling worker told me the details of how to do it safely -- long time ago -- before 1968.
    • Tasty Eats
      Digital Campfire • epicurean • • toby  

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      Home made blueberry pie. Oh my!
    • One for the Birds
      Digital Campfire • wildlife birds • • toby  

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      Hummingbird in flight stop action Ooohh, la, la!! I dig these little mason jar feeders. Nectar should be changed at least twice a week and these puppies are sized just right. I have a few strategically located around the yard. Not too shabby for a little pocket travel camera. Pretty zoomed here and, iirc, shooting at something like 1/2000s. Could definitely use a few more megapixels.
    • History of Rock Climbing
      On Belay • • jgill  

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      I knew Fred for years. We climbed in Zion (rather unenergetically) and Snow Canyon (same). I last saw him standing by a stunning Albert Beirstadt (love the Hudson River School) in the Park Avenue duplex of David Koch. They're both gone now. RIP