A Desert Life

Posted January 3, 2012 at 5:57 am · Comments { 14 } ·

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14 Responses to A Desert Life

  1. Thekev13 January 3, 2012 at 10:01 am #

    One of the best climbing vids in a long time. Take that stash.

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  2. Anonymous January 3, 2012 at 11:43 am #

    good one Narc!

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  3. TheDanDan January 4, 2012 at 12:10 am #

    Man lives in desert, climbs cracks.

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  4. Sharonbright January 6, 2012 at 9:27 am #

    What an amazing life! Living to do what you love and not pretending you have to be anything else. 

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    • David January 8, 2012 at 10:48 pm #

      Let’s not glamorize a lifestyle that is only ideal when viewed from the outside. The day to day would obviously be much more depressing because to me there is so much more to life than climbing.

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  5. Ian Birlem January 8, 2012 at 4:40 pm #

    and yet he punched out all the windows in his camper…. i don’ think you live that life without some dark, dark nights. i’d have liked to know more about the shadow side of living eating from a can, broke and alone in a pickup truck. chase the dream, but don’t try to say it’s all a good one…..

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  6. robbo January 9, 2012 at 2:54 am #

    There is more to old mates life than just climbing man. He likes hanging in the desert and waking to  calm crisp air and making the little things in life an enjoyable little ritual. Like making his coffee and chilling out. He goes jogging. It’s hardly glamorising it.

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    • TheDanDan January 9, 2012 at 9:14 am #

      It’s absolutely glamorizing it.

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  7. Fillupamerica January 9, 2012 at 11:25 pm #

    Now that is a video. 

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  8. Nick Rhoads January 10, 2012 at 5:56 pm #

    There was quite the interesting discussion over on MP regarding Alf, some lady posted saying he jumped into her camp and helped himself to her food, then it was pretty much 50/50 love/hate Alf for about 13 pages. I can’t find it now though, it have gotten deleted it got so nasty. 
    I also ran across a short note about “Alf’s Arete” in JTree saying Alf spotted the line then gave up the lead to another guy whom Alf short roped when he got to the top so Alf could get the send. He’s certainly a character!

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    • TheDanDan January 10, 2012 at 6:51 pm #

      He sounds like an asshole.

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  9. FDBs January 10, 2012 at 10:33 pm #

    “Lining the Dream”? Bullshit. Gleaning a living off of others to pursue a purely selfish sport without giving anything back is about as far from noble as you can get.

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    • David January 10, 2012 at 10:38 pm #

      Fact

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  10. NM Climbr February 3, 2012 at 10:50 pm #

    Whatev, anyone who has climbed in new Mexico, AZ, and Utah for more than the last year knows alf’s a sketch ball…ask around who’s had him pull a gun on them for refusing a resole…

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