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hobo_dan
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Minnesota
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Tar Buddy- this is a fabulous idea!
The black and white photos of those huge Andean faces really spelled it out for me.
Thanks
murf
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2009 - 09:59pm PT
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The Climber As Visionary
I grew up with this stuff... as clear today as it was when it first trickled into my awareness.
And I still use it, revel in it, give thanks.
"We should explore which characteristics of the climbing process prepare its practitioners for these experiences."
"To climb with intense concentration is to shut out the world, which, when it reappears, will be as a fresh experience, strange and wonderful in its newness."
"Sitting on a log changing from klettershoes into boots, and looking over the Valley, we are suffused with oceanic feelings of clarity, distance, union, oneness."
"…we remember that the incredible beauty of the mountains is always at hand, always ready to nudge us into awareness."
"Vision is seeing what is more deeply interfused, and following this process leads to a sense of ecology. It is an intuitive rather than a scientific ecology …."
"….from that air which blew clean and hot up off the eastern desert and carries lingering memories of snow fields on the Dana Plateau and miles of Tuolumne treetops as it pours over the rim of the Valley on its way to the Pacific."
"And as the visionary faculty comes closer to the surface, what is needed is not an effort of discipline but an effort of relaxation, a submission of self to the wonderful, supportive, and sufficient world."
Thank You Doug !
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2009 - 01:51pm PT
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Okay so maybe the Jewel in the Lotus is presented with a fairly straightforward blow-by-blow set of prose, but the photos are by Tom Frost and the darn spike of rock consummated for many of us a very iconic alpine rock climb for which we had dreamy designs...
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2009 - 01:56pm PT
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Doug Robinson
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Santa Cruz
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May 21, 2009 - 02:25pm PT
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We want Tillie's Lookout
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2009 - 02:55pm PT
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You all will have to wade through the snows of Mount Waddington first.......
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scuffy b
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Bad Brothers' Bait and Switch Shop
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May 21, 2009 - 02:57pm PT
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the drizzle!!!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 21, 2009 - 03:01pm PT
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Thanks, Roy for 'The Jewel'. . .
I've been waiting for it so impatiently!!!!
:-)
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Doug Robinson
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Santa Cruz
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May 21, 2009 - 03:17pm PT
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Seriously, Tar (though seriousness itself is exactly the wrong way to approach it, rather "an effort of relaxation" and a spirit of play), thank you for your voice-activated efforts to bring us this classic mag.
I too, honestly, find some of those lines you quoted from "Visionary" ringing back into my head, especially lately on those long meditative days of one ski shuffling in front of the other and me atop barely able to keep up with breathing in and panting out the rarefied air, and barely able at the best of times to contain the delight.
Intriguing to me, in the couple of paragraphs I reread, how formal and even ponderous my language was then. Some of it kinda pedantic, even. Was discussing style with an editor and new friend this winter, and she actually preferred that old style to my more modern, more played down and "aw shucks" way of writing.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 21, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
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I was thinking the same thing when I read what you wrote Douglas.
Like I was nine years old at the time; for perspective (not that I read it at the time). And it looked like you had done quite a bit of homework. I think a lot of us got, or have been pushed out of being artsy, technical, expository and such with our writing, do to a certain self-consciousness and perhaps even peer pressure.
Striving for insight somehow fell out of fashion I believe.
You have to take risks with that approach.......
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 21, 2009 - 10:36pm PT
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Bump for an awesome thread!!!!
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dee ee
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citizen of planet Earth
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May 21, 2009 - 11:01pm PT
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Oh you Tar...dude...........send.
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Fritz
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Hagerman, ID
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May 21, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
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Tarbuster: Great posting----and my old eyes can read the scans just fine. 1969 was the year I had a one-afternoon -----"this is how you belay and tie in" session with a couple of friends and their older brother. After that it was read and study: "Mountaineering-Freedom of the Hills" and discovery by doing.
Amazing to think I lived through that introduction process.
Thanks! Fritz (I'm the nerd on the right in this 1971 photo in Idaho's Sawtooths)
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2009 - 12:08am PT
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Why just look at those ruffians !
That photograph is brimming with character.
Well done Fritz !!!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:38pm PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:38pm PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:39pm PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:39pm PT
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Uhhhh....
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