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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2016 - 04:54pm PT
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Having just talked to Cosmici, who is in a like position--
his body rebelling and his backbone yelling "Stop, no mo'!"--
it behooves us all to lament the passing of pissing well,
the brittleness of bones,
the failure of our hearts,
and the cold fact that our circulation is leaky,
never warms us like it did,
and keeps us from circulating among the herd.
We fall behind and are eaten by the wolves, the coyotes, and the rest of the carrion crew.
Nice job, Mr. Sorenson.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 26, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
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Thanks Mouses
Great story that one by Tom Higgins about climbing Astroman with Bev on the Bev Johnson Thread.
"Ok, F*#ker!"
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2016 - 07:24pm PT
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Well for me it's easier to get down than to get up.
Maybe that's why I preferred skiing.
Anyway, keep a good head and always carry a light bulb, or at least let the sun shine in your back door somedayz.
-Cookie V. & Sister Cookie
Gone gone gone
Gone ggggg gone
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 26, 2016 - 09:59pm PT
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Bushman,
I flew Alpine World up here with me, 'cause I don't yet have a printer here. A copy of Alpine World is now on the Wall of Fame at Fair Hall in Fairbanks.
Alpine World was read during a small celebration and several toasts with champagne. Everyone wants to be on your next expedition to Alpine World.
Then we read it as the Ultimate in Alpine Stories. Better than Murray. And we noted it as worthy of an award such as one might give to The Ascent Rum Doodle. I hope to see more stories about Alpine World.
Thank you.
feralfae
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 27, 2016 - 06:00am PT
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Thanks Feralfae, I feel honored!
OK, I bumped an Alpine World sequel up on my list.
Maybe it will help to bring back winter, ha ha!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 27, 2016 - 10:54am PT
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Wow, Gnome with those mystical surrealistic retouched photos of light. Camera wizardry, no doubt. Very dramatic and pleasing. Obviously otherworldly. Thank you Gnome.
Bushman, those mountains in the new image look entirely unglaciated, even in the valley. Is Alpine World a low-gravity planet where snow surrenders to sublimation because it is too cold for melting? I am looking forward to the sequel. Oh, speaking of water, that is Waterman on Hunter next to your poem.
And you, Mouse, with fairies dancing and pottery to make a potter and archaeologist smile. Here at Fair Hall, I'm unpacking, resting,then going out to do yard work for a couple of hours. My flowers have all bloomed while I was in Montana, so I am smiling at the beauty.
Off to the rest of the day.
feralfae
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2016 - 01:31pm PT
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Jul 16, 2016 - 07:15am PT
The Valles Marineris, MarsThe Valles Marineris, Mars
Credit: Bushman
The Puppies of Mars
or
(Ain't evolution grand?)
Deimos and Phobos with me in the park
Catching the frisbee 'till way after dark
Memories of earth linger treacherously on
But uninhabitable meant death
Time to move or we're gone
When the sun finally comes up my fur is a'frost
My toes almost frozen and toenails near lost
My robo cam focusses with my third eye
As dust storms are blowing bad so I could die
To the Valles Marineris the Grand Canyon was a ditch
But these Martian winters can be a real bitch
And breathing fresh air is still something I miss
My suit is leaking again
Got any duct tape?
Hissssssssssss...
-bushman
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You've a tied up and left ay 'N Aye, things get past by
Without comment or attention, make no mistake my desperation to be revele T in your tan
Tall Shadow, but for fear of leaving any taint, I almost always refrain from singing the obvious
ACCOLADES!
That's also obvious. Now where? here ? Did I miss IT,
Alpine World.. ?
The Writing that ff makes a point of picturing, - my memory slips? Could you post it ?
(be it force of habit - a direct thing that is abrasive,-
I hope the compliment landed wheels down , rudder 'n flaps up.. . is clean landing still a valid description??
I was just saying below a " Oak Tree", Go Up And Right, just the facts,make it into the guide.
Less is more - do I need to point out the deadly drop or the tree to set you top rope on ?
It seems to me to be stating the OBVIOUS, don't miss it ? What ? The climbing .
Do I need to say there is a hidden ledge down a step after the second chimney, where ther is the only pin, a directional to top rope off a tyrolean line so getting a rope down two sides of a split cleft 80 feet five or six climbs . What about , Nine climbs ranging in difficulty depending
In lent hug , steepness & style of ascent.? Blah blah blah . ..
How is our friend Emma-dogy doing ?
As a thing I know the troubling underlying rumble.
Love to you and her
these - most of all - times you'll cherish,
Remembering her all loving - loving all
And make you wonder at it,
almost . . .
you grasp that most strange man-god-dog link
Thinking of Ema dog today, Peace.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:31pm PT
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Oh the Nerve
I'm here for a bit
Then out the door
To work some more
107 degrees today
I'm on my way
Otherwise
Not much to say
Not much I say
Luke has tumors on his leg
Next week they're removed
And then biopsied
And we shall know
If they're serious or not
Then we will know
Then we shall know
Emma's on a new insulin
She's blind as a bat
But loves me so
I'll check her numbers on Saturday
The we will see
How it will go
How it shall go
It seems that life
Is full of curves
My dogs are my children
They don't deserve
The sh#t life serves
Most of us don't
But we draw on reserves
Oh the nerve
Yes the nerve
-bushman
07/207/2016
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2016 - 02:41pm PT
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Por bushman!
You mighty man , stanch that sweat, or you, you use it to start the tears.
I'm all about the internalizing of pain
but this o, also I know
Here on the taco We All Love All The Dogs!
And it brings a great level of energy to bare do not underestimate FAITH!
We Are With You, I'm so sorry that the only cure fore life and climbing are the same.
As a strange aside or maybe not . ..
My email- by a mystery ? Has just -for the 1st time- had a J es us saves, type
Un-solicited (so spam) religious Missive
about new found ancient teachings of the ' "Son" his own self'.
Teachings spoke of in secret texts,
I dare not open any more,
having just opened it this far I'm worried of a virus.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 27, 2016 - 04:23pm PT
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Where does it go? There are no chalk trails to follow!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 27, 2016 - 06:21pm PT
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Not that oneAnd I really need to get back onto this gem.I Will Get Around tuit]That is the pin I was looking for. It is a resident that provides a directional to climb all options around this Tuitit is hidden from view, set just at the base of the false summit step,
Where you can see just a slight flag of green.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 27, 2016 - 10:27pm PT
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Alpine World
On a glaciated planet
We stepped off the massive burgshrund
On diamond cut and icy granite
Reaching to one hundred forty thousand ft.
Below an aurora borealis
Green above the glacier rivers
Below mighty frosted sawtooths
And escarpments beyond our dreams
After sixty thousand feet
Our bivy a cavernous snow cave
Full of creatures of no comfort
As the blizzards sealed the opening
For a year and seven months
Tunneling out five hundred yards
Between overhangs below snow towers
We fired off all our cannons
And buried ourselves in icy holes
To avalanche the route above
Three weeks later finally summiting
Our rope burns some scabbed some raw
Attesting three hundred foot falls
And an ordeal beyond all measure
A first ascent on a foreign world
Which we thought would spell our end
But none of us had fallen prey
To the ice gods down below
-bushman
04/22/2016
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2016 - 08:19am PT
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Bergschrund.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2016 - 07:26pm PT
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