Celebrating the Mountain Lifestyle

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hossjulia

Trad climber

Eastside

Dec 21, 2007 - 11:22pm PT

following this path, first, a potty break
then, some wildflowers
oh, don't forget to look up!

A 10,000' flower garden, complete with leering dog.
My Shepard Max, begging for some lunch.
and the end/start of the road!

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2007 - 12:42am PT

Cool truck Hoss!!!
Only in the mountains...

Standing Strong

Trad climber

www.happyninja.com

Dec 22, 2007 - 12:52am PT

great pics! esp. tarbousier's, and, excuse me, but i have a jacket just like that.

i love being in the mountains. i am living in the mixed conifer belt, so i'm on the lower part. (foothills basically) but i go up higher at least once a week, whether i need to or not, even if it's just for a little bit, to watch the sunset :) i am so lucky that the "mountain lifestyle" is my everyday life :)

Dave Tapes

Trad climber

Silverado CA

Dec 22, 2007 - 12:53am PT

Mountain life.

Copper Canyon Mexico

BFE Nevada

The Alaska Range

The big one

Friends and Family

High Sierra beauty

Finger Lake

The joy of scrambling

DW

Standing Strong

Trad climber

www.happyninja.com

Dec 22, 2007 - 01:15am PT

the best thing about the mountains... is the people living in them. so many genuine hearts :)

"in [cities] you can find your way out of crisis with a spin doctor and a few evasions . . . but the most artful sleight of hand won't get you down a steep ridge in a lightning storm; power games and paper trading won't help you cross the river and stay warm at night. only your most honest and best traits will help you when you go out and test yourself in the wilds: judgment, patience, strength . . . and character."

mark harvey

"these beautiful days must enrich all my life. they do not exist as mere picture-maps hung along the walls of memory, to brighten at times when touched by association or will, only to sink again like a landscape in the dark; but they saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always"

john muir

in the mountains...

"everything is flowing - going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty - making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams, carrying rocks . . . while the stars go streaming through space pulsed on forever like blood . . . in Nature's warm heart"

muir

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2007 - 01:30am PT

Hella Holla!

Standing Strong

Trad climber

www.happyninja.com

Dec 22, 2007 - 01:41am PT

"It seemed to me that the Sierra Nevada should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of light. And after ten years spent in the heart of it, rejoicing and wondering, bathing in its glorious floods of light, seeing the sunbursts of morning above the icy peaks . . . and thousand dashing waterfalls with their marvelous abundance of irised spray, it still seems to me above all others the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen."

muir

"real eyes realize real life"

always

in winter, we stay cozy and warm by the woodstoves we heat our homes with...

we love the trails outside our doors...

we love morning times at the cute cafes...

don't forget how we love those mountain kisses!

bob d'antonio

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Dec 22, 2007 - 01:45am PT

Classic lines from a classic movie:

You'll do well, Del; providing you don't get into trouble with all that hair.

Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. "Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men." "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline. I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent...

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Dec 22, 2007 - 02:02am PT

Standing Strong

Trad climber

www.happyninja.com

Dec 22, 2007 - 02:40am PT

i have made so many sacrifices to be where i am right now, sleeping in my truck some nights, sleeping on the floor all semester (but i took 18 units so i didn't really sleep much anyway) because i didn't have a bed until two weeks ago (altho i'm still sleeping on the floor every now and then because it's best for the back)... i've gone against the grain and done many things in an unorthodox way... and it's all worth it. i would trade nothing for being here now.

Rick A

climber

Boulder, Colorado

Dec 22, 2007 - 09:50am PT

This’s another fine thread you’ve gotten us into, Roy.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Dec 22, 2007 - 11:18am PT

Fisher Towers, 1971:

bob d'antonio

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Dec 22, 2007 - 12:02pm PT

Mountains sometimes are more than a destination to play or climb...they are a lifeline to the people who lives near or in them. Scared Taos Mountain is such a place.

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2007 - 01:52pm PT

Nederland CO, Tarbuster command post:

Lisa, just up the hill a piece (I try to keep up):

A view out the window:

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Dec 22, 2007 - 07:24pm PT

Western Brook Pond in Newfoundland, 1999:

Watusi

Social climber

Newport, OR

Dec 22, 2007 - 08:03pm PT

For myself, living the mountain lifestyle was about the people that I had met along the way...The camaraderies we shared through the fun times and not so... This photo that Tar had posted a while back personifies for me some of this. Some really great friends enjoying a time, and a laugh together. (left to right, Connie Tobia, Roy McClenahan, Russell Walling, myself, and Dimitri Barton)