By Kevin Coopman
Nov 21, 2008
| Dude,
This is such an easy one. Just move to Aspen and become a trophy boy for some 50+ women. You'll have income and must go climbing and stuff to keep the trophy status.
Kevin | 
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By Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi?
From Vegas
Nov 21, 2008
| Mike Lane wrote: Yo Gigi, I routinely have digging projects; I'd be more than happy to provide you with all the free digging you'd ever want. My crew does not share your enthusiasm, but I like the workouts.
If you punch into some old glass, then I'll dig on the Lane crew. No splitting on the rare whiskeys, sodas, and medicines; and for the hook up, you get some free digging, and you can even keep a cracked sulphide marble or two, and the broken doll heads(The whole ones are mine!) |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Nov 21, 2008
| Shawn Mitchell wrote: Shut up, Mark. It's not true, Seth...there are *no* MP sacrifice rituals that require a victim with passing resemblance to Frodo Baggins!
Ha ha ha ha! Too funny. |
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By Richard S
From Centennial
Nov 21, 2008
| Gigette
I have just the project for you.
A cheap client that will use anyone for free.
Late 1800 to early 1900s home site. We may need to dig down 16'.
The test holes came up with coal and other materials.
In the walls of a 1914 crafsman style built home I found a six pack of San Diego beer , a whiskey bottle and a news paper. I gave it to the owner.
Seth
I made a call to Breck and am waiting to hear back . |
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By England
From Colorado Springs, CO
Nov 21, 2008
| Time to climb now!!! That's what you came here for. |
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By Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi?
From Vegas
Nov 22, 2008
| Richard S wrote: Gigette I have just the project for you. A cheap client that will use anyone for free. Late 1800 to early 1900s home site. We may need to dig down 16'. The test holes came up with coal and other materials.
1800s to the turn of the century is music to my ears. It sounds like you dug into a trash pit; there should be several in the mid yard to the back of the property line of the old home that stands or once stood; trash pits of homes usually aren't more than 4-6 feet deep but produce an abundance of bottles. Privies (outhouses) are much deeper can produce layers, upon layers of bottles. The deepest privy we dug was about 14 feet deep. This was in LA. Vegas sucks for bottle digging; just not old enough, and the ground is full of caliche. If I lived closer to you, (damnit) I'd be able to probe, and find the perimeter of the pits, and the privies, so you guys wouldn't damage all the bottles with careless digging. It's a good idea to screen the dirt of the privies, and pits; that's how you find the wonderful German doll heads, and fun things like old clay, and sulphide marbles (if the early occupants had children); as a bottle digger, you always hope they did.
Richard, it's a touchy thing when you get so-called "permission" to dig on someones property. They might say, "Oh sure, you can dig for bottles" , but as soon as they see potential dollar signs, usually after you had spent the whole day doing the dirty work, they can kick you to the curb empty handed, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Believe me, it's happened. The best digging of my life was behind boarded up homes, in run down neighborhoods. The cops were rarely called in those areas, and the owners MIA. Good times of days gone by.
Let me know what you find. : )
AKA BUMP for Seth.
G |
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By seth0687
From Fort Collins
Nov 26, 2008
| well I survived kinda....left a good portion of my skin and blood in the creek but my only regret is not staying longer. I am back in the fort for the moment, and have already applied at a few local places just seeing whats out there. Gonna go buy a newspaper, enjoy thanksgiving and make way either friday or saturday.
I'll start a new thread when I get some pictures.
Cheers,
Seth |
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By Rick Blair
From Denver, Co
Nov 26, 2008
| That is one burly climbing trip for your first time since you moved west! What did you climb, if you have never been to Moab before, what did you think?? |
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By seth0687
From Fort Collins
Nov 26, 2008
| aside from climbing in gyms and some bouldering when I was younger this was my first climbing outside. Learned pretty much everything from the ground up from Sal and his awesome group of friends.
I was on TR for everything and flailed my way to the top of most all the routes haha, but none the less it was amazing I loved it there, everytime I looked around I almost had to snap myself out of a transe.
Day 1: Donally Canyon
-I did two routes and am unsure of name or rating
Day 2: Pistol Whipped
-got up 5 routes and again some unnamed stuff but I do remember getting up Coin Crack Simulator
Day 3: Cat wall
-more unnamed stuff and not sure if I got up 4 or 5 routes haha
Day 4: Scarface
-flailed my way up scarface and then got shut down on an unnamed 5.10 or 5.10- I believe, again not totally sure
Day 5: Super Crack
-highlight of my trip for sure made it up Incredible Hand Crack clean on TR and then flailed and hangdogged my way up 3am crack.
I will try and get some pictures and stuff together and post a thread later on, but that is a rough highlight of everything I got a chance to be a part of.
All in all it was one of the best times of my life and I can't thank Sal, Yager, Frankie, and Mike enough for all their help and guidence throughout the trip. |
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By Mike Pharris
From Longmont, CO
Nov 26, 2008
| seth0687 wrote: aside from climbing in gyms and some bouldering when I was younger this was my first climbing outside.
DAMN! Your ruined from here on out you know.....
:)
What a kickass way to intro to the sport!
You don't have any accounting skills at all do you? |
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By seth0687
From Fort Collins
Nov 26, 2008
| MikeP wrote: DAMN! Your ruined from here on out you know..... :) What a kickass way to intro to the sport! You don't have any accounting skills at all do you?
haha oh ya spoiled for sure lol.
I don't have any direct accounting skills, but I'm a fast learner and have a good financial background with retail banking, commercial banking, and market finance as well.
Seth |
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By Marc H
From Lafayette, CO
Nov 26, 2008
| Good work, Seth. I'm glad you enjoyed "the best crag in Colorado." :)
--Marc |
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By Daniel Yager
Nov 26, 2008
| it was a pretty damn good time indeed. cant wait to go back.
seth- it was good to have the company on the way back.
give me a shout sometime, well do some climbing.
have a good thanksgiving |
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By Adam B
From Eldorado Springs, CO
Nov 27, 2008
| seth0687 wrote: I'm not trying to be picky, but I don't really have the back for moving furniture, I hurt it a while back and its no bueno...and no offense taken about not using you as a reference, you don't knwo me I wouldn't expect you to stick yourself on the line....tis all good my man.
Glad you have the self awareness and good sense (better than mine for sure) to stay away from moving furniture. Gave myself a bad back moving pianos last spring. Dumb way to get hurt. Also check out the Pickle Barrel, Cooper Smiths, and Choice City Deli in Fort Collins for restaurant jobs. Pickle Barrel pays the worst of the 3. Coops is always hiring it seems like. Choice City is my fav restaurant in town and the people there are the shit.
Congrats on the Creek trip man. Pretty Burley indeed. Welcome to Colorado cragging at its best! |
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By Adam B
From Eldorado Springs, CO
Dec 18, 2008
| Make that 2 people looking for jobs in CO starting in January. Anything is good for me although something flexible would be good since I will be leading trips for a week in march, 2 weeks in april and 2 in may. Send me a line if youve got something that fits this sorta thing. the march trip can be cancelled if the work is consistent. thanks in advance. |
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By Mike Pharris
From Longmont, CO
Dec 19, 2008
| Here's the bare bones on what we're looking for - if this sounds like it might be up your alley, send me a message and we'll talk offline.....
office job in N. Boulder - a few basic accounting skills would be good, but you don't need to be an accountant really - familiar with accounts receivable and strong attention to detail. Won't work any overtime to speak of and we're relatively laid back. Drug screen and background checks will be done. |
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By Mike Pharris
From Longmont, CO
Dec 19, 2008
| back at ya kirra.
It's a full time job, might not be a good fit if you need a lot of flex like that Adam. It'll have some vacation beneys, but maybe not quite THAT much. good luck though. |
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By seth0687
From Fort Collins
Dec 21, 2008
| sorry for the delay my laptop is acting up and I have been away from the interweb. I actually did find some work, but thank you very much for thinking about me, and good luck to you guys looking for work as well. |
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By Mike Pharris
From Longmont, CO
Dec 22, 2008
|
hey kirra, i just noticed that my reply i sent you got rejected by the email gods, so i just resent. |
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By Max Thorpe
From Hell, fuck you!
Dec 22, 2008
| Thats why we need to close our borders, No More usless deadbeats in Colorado. GO AWAY!!!! |
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By Mike Pharris
From Longmont, CO
Dec 23, 2008
| seth0687 wrote: sorry for the delay my laptop is acting up and I have been away from the interweb. I actually did find some work, but thank you very much for thinking about me, and good luck to you guys looking for work as well.
Right on Seth. Good luck to ya, if your in Summit County thru the winter, i hope you ski - and ski A LOT!
:) |
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