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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 23, 2017 - 07:16am PT
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Of course I knows about murderous crows and flights of golfers and the rhinocerose.
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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 23, 2017 - 07:21am PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 23, 2017 - 07:31am PT
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a flight of gophers?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 23, 2017 - 07:52am PT
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What is that big Marine thing called?
Why that's the thing we use to pull the HMS Surprise [replica] outa de water, sa.
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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 23, 2017 - 12:05pm PT
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Eating crow, BirdMeister.
And Tad, sorry about Kootch. Great effort.
I never bothered with figuring out my golf handicap as a kid, as I wasn't a member of the NCGA and had no reason to do it, anyway. By the time I was an adult and playing, not having a left thumb and thus being prone to a steady slice (I mostly played the right side of a fairway no matter how hard I tried to play the left side), I never established a 'cap, but always took the shots anyone was willing to give.
I stopped playing much when I was in my thirties.
I had adopted the name "Mouse Mulligan" by that time.
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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 23, 2017 - 12:19pm PT
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Splitpersonality.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 23, 2017 - 12:23pm PT
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Speaking technically (is there any other way), this is Crow Dog (though I knew him as Mato Sicha, Bad Bear - do not confuse with Bad Bad Leroy Brown).
Is that a Crow feather. Well it certainly isn't a travelift, nor a stairway to heaven.
“Old man Crow Dog, the first of that name, was a buffalo hunter. He knew the ways of the buffalo and of the animals in the forest. He was born in 1836 and died in 1912. A government paper says he was born earlier, in 1832. Maybe so. Before he took the name Crow Dog he had six other names. One of them was Mato Sicha, Bad Bear. “
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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 23, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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Tsaronoro, Bravo Les Filles.
Nancy Feagin, Kath Pyke, Beth Rodden (who had never placed a piece of pro or climbed a big wall) and I, along with Greg Epperson (photographer) and Kevin Thaw (film team rigger) and Michael Brown and Rob Raker as the film team arrived at our base camp, located within an hour’s walk of the Tsaranoro massif, on June 23. We noticed one particularly nice-looking wall with a separate summit to the right of the main formation that didn’t have a single route up it, so we set our sights on climbing this wall. On June 24, we began the first pitch of the route. Since we were four climbers, we split up into two teams of two. Kath and I formed one team and Nancy and Beth formed the other. The lower part of the wall started out fairly low angle, but after the first few pitches, the angle of the wall gradually became steeper and the climbing more difficult. Since there were very few cracks in which to place natural protection, our main forms of protection were bolts placed on the lead.
By the time we reached pitch 6, the climbing went from 5.10d to 5.11c. Pitch 7 (5.12c) was even steeper, the climbing was more difficult and it was harder to find edges of rock to hang my sky-hooks on and drill the protection bolts. By the time we had reached pitch 8, Beth had to leave for a competition back in the States, so Kath, Nancy and I continued to equip the last five pitches to the top. Our goal was to climb the entire route from the ground up while placing all the protection bolts on the lead. Once the route was equipped, we would try to free climb the entire route from ground to top.
As it turned out, we finished equipping the route with only one day left before leaving the Tsaranoro area. Up to that point, I had free climbed every pitch of the route except pitch 8. On the last day, Nancy and I rappelled down to pitch 8 and I began the process of working out a complicated sequence of moves. This pitch starts out on thin face holds, then follows up a finger crack until the crack peters out into a steep, shallow groove. After trying every possible solution I could imagine to get past this blank section of rock for over two hours, I finally found a way to free climb past the crux. After working out each move on the pitch, I tried to link the whole sequence together twice, but both times, I ran out of strength on the last few moves before the end. After having spent nearly 15 days climbing, hauling, jumaring, rappelling and drilling more than 50 protection bolts, my body was thrashed. Nonetheless, during the remaining hours of daylight, Nancy and I continued free climbing up the last five pitches of the route (5.12b, 5.11b, 5.10c, 5.10d, 5.10a). At the end of the day, Nancy, Kath, Rob and I free-soloed up the last 300 feet to the summit of the Tsaranoro formation. While watching the sun set over the vast desert highlands of the Andringitra mountains, we all felt a great sense of peace and satisfaction at having climbed such a superb route, Bravo Les Filles (5.12c/AO or 5.13d, 13 pitches), probably the most difficult rock climb ever put up by a team of women.
Lynn Hill
AAJ, v. 42, 2000
2011 - Bravo les filles par les garcons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXTwpiBcxo
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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 23, 2017 - 04:51pm PT
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Slide presentation.
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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 23, 2017 - 06:08pm PT
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Glad to report Jeff's 'stuff' is as safe as it will get for the duration of the Detwiler fire, which is approaching Camp Runamucka.
I spoke with him on the phone yesterday...he's evacuated to Denny's house in Groveland. Puma is in a cage in the garage, poor thing. Kinda freaked her out, but she's safe.
He and Bill Nickell hauled his valuable tools out and he also managed to transfer his food and the contents of the fridge. He's allowed back in daily for an hour only to check on things.
"There is an army of trucks, water wagons, and ground crews standing in the path of the fire," Mathis said. He also said it's nice to take a break from cutting dead trees. He told me he needed to get more brush clearing done, but it is what it is and he'll have to hope for the best.
Good luck to the Greeleyites.
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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 24, 2017 - 01:59am PT
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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 24, 2017 - 02:27am PT
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 24, 2017 - 06:13am PT
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Rave Maven
The wily Rockies Raven
Rarely requires a raisin
While many other ravens
Eat whatever rot they seize on
But a maven of a raven
Not rude or without reason
This calm un-raucous Raven
Eats pickles out of season
-bushman
07/24/2017
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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 24, 2017 - 06:53am PT
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Raptor.
Flying never walking
Espying (call it hawking)
Darkwing sees, stoops, strikes
And sometimes even shrikes
Are featured on nature's menu
Though she finds RATS more often
Out on Schilling Ridge
--MFM
Pre-emptive link about shrikes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike
It's all torched now.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 24, 2017 - 07:35am PT
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So was there an underwater fence or netting across the entrance to San Diego Harbor in WWII?
Japanese Sub attacks Oilfield
Soon after the start of World War II, a Japanese submarine attacked a refinery and oilfield near Los Angeles. The shelling caused little damage – but led to the largest mass sighting of UFOs in American history. It also was the first attack of the war on the continental United States.
USS Torsk
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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 24, 2017 - 10:06am PT
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