At 6 p.m., Marcus Floyd munches on his sub sandwich as he saunters out of his office inside Wood Link Fence Company to the place next door. Floyd sets his half-devoured sandwich down on a table cluttered with ice axes, carabiners, cams and other climbing devices. He punches the chalk covered buttons of a CD player and sits back down to occupy his hands by doodling in the grooves in the blades of his ice axes with a Sharpie.
BOONE LIFE: The climb up
Boulder buffs and beginners come together to climb rock
Sunday, March 25, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 10:48 p.m. CST, Monday, February 9, 2009
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