How did you come up with your moniker?

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TehipiteTom
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Post by TehipiteTom »

giantbrookie wrote:giantbrookie was chosen because it is part of a title of a fishing book ('Into the Land of the Giant Brookies') I wrote years ago that I haven't gotten published. Of course "giantbrookie" is also chosen for some shock factor (both for the book and the username) because many might regard giant brookie as an oxymoron after having encountered dozens of "knockemdeadbrookie" lakes where you catch a stunted skinny brookie on every cast. Needless to say there really are big brookie lakes if one looks hard enough in the Sierra and the place my wife and I named the "Land of the Giant Brookies" was a basin of unnamed lakes where I caught fish of 15" and better out of four different lakes on a single dayhike.
You used to be laetacara, didn't you? Love that site--I've consulted it any number of times about some dream destinations...

My name goes back nearly 10 years, I think. I love Tehipite Valley, and 'Tehipite Tom' is kind of parallel to 'Yosemite Sam'. Er...a much kinder, gentler Yosemite Sam, of course.
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huts ws given to me by my younger brother and sister. they also called me "old pal, funny pal" but that is too long.
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The Dyke Route is my favorite Climing Route in the Sierra....but I couldn't really call myself the Dyke....so my first lead was a climb in Yosemite Valley called "After Seven" which is one of the all time great climbs on planet earth and certainly a worthy moniker!
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