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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 24, 2015 - 07:51am PT
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52 and in good shape......you need to dust off your shoes, grab your chalk bag and put your signature on some of the limestone over there!
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rincon
climber
Coarsegold
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May 24, 2015 - 07:58am PT
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Climb that sh#t!
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WBraun
climber
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May 24, 2015 - 08:41am PT
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Thanks again Randisi ....
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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May 24, 2015 - 09:17am PT
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Very cool Randisi. Those statues are awesome. Cool cliffs too, are they as chossy as they look?
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 24, 2015 - 09:36am PT
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Nice new set of photos, Randisi.
They don't suck!
Somehow in my reasoning, anything that is about nature or physical pursuits or travel or adventure is not off-topic here. But you even threw in a climbing photo! So the whole thread will henceforth be officially on topic.
Thanks for the contribution.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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May 24, 2015 - 09:43am PT
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The more I learn the more I find China fascinating. Almost identical in Size to the USA but more extreme and varied geographically and culturally. Thanks for sharing little local slices of it.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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May 24, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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Randisi! I thought you said you quit climbing! ;) Looks fun! Thanks for those pics!
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 24, 2015 - 11:27am PT
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Wow, that's so cool. Have you been to Xining yet Randisi?
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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May 24, 2015 - 04:06pm PT
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Thanks.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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May 24, 2015 - 04:47pm PT
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I am glad this thread is back - it is nice to get a glimpse into another world.
Thanks, Randisi!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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May 24, 2015 - 05:30pm PT
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Mixed feelings here. I'm glad to see more of your China pictures and to read your thoughts about living in Dalian. But at the same time I'm bummed that you dumped the original thread. A lot of people, me included, contributed to it and enjoyed it. To have it nuked is... I don't know, kind of frustrating. Or sad. Or something.
So please, keep this one going.
Edit: I've been in China twice this year, and I'll see if I can find a picture or two, but most of my time was spent working inside hotels and conference centers, so there won't be much that couldn't just as well be in Chicago or Munich or Dubai or...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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May 24, 2015 - 06:45pm PT
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Very happy to see this return! I know embarrassingly little about China. This thread (and the original) is some of what is best here on the taco.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 25, 2015 - 01:46am PT
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So Randisi... what are you doing there? (edit... just looked at old thread.. philosopby prof... that sounds like a good gig)
Its interesting to me to see so many young yesterners trying to make a go of it here in Kunming. But for myself I'm getting bored..... of course I'm the type to get bored anywhere I go. The culture in the cities is getting too westernised for my taste... though nothing like say Bangkok. To know the real China I get the sense you have to live in an isolated village.
One plus I can say is rent is cheap. We live in what I consider a luxury three bedroom highrise apartment for $300 a month. Easily cost $4000 in San Francisco. But food...if you like anything western... say cheese or spaghetti sause is expensive.
Anyway I'd be interested to know more about your life there. Work, school, romance???
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John M
climber
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Wow… thats kind of mind boggling. very trippy.. The world is a wild and interesting place.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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China is a vast country with much natural beauty once you get outside the cities. As for isolated villages, if you're in Kunming, those villages in Yunnan are most likely going to belong to ethnic minorities, not Chinese anyway. Those minorities have more in common with hill tribes in Laos and Thailand, north east India and eastern Nepal than the Han Chinese.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Everytime you post I learn something amazing.. Just WOW!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Life in the city is now the real China, for better or worse. Is the real America to be found in the villages?
Aren't there still 600 million peasants still living off the land?
The urban pop only surpassed the rural in 2012.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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My point is that there are plainly two Chinas with a sizable gulf between them, a gulf more
sizable than the gulf separating rural and urban America. From everything I read the rural
people really get the short end of the deal, especially from the local corrupt politicians.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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All I was doing was replying to Rockermike's comment about getting out in the countryside by
pointing out the obvious, that there are still two very separate Chinas, and there was certainly
no sort of judgmental implications, just an observation. As a geographer and would-be
anthropologist I am very interested in urban/rural disparities, wherever they occur and whenever
I can discuss them in an adult manner. I hope you countenance a more open-minded discourse
in your classroom than you do here.
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