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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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did a lot of worshiping this summer :)
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2016 - 05:44pm PT
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Some seriously beautiful pictures being offered up by the parishioners....the mountain goddess thanks you.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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I've been saddened to see most of the pictures, as the vast majority of the "cathedrals" don't go free. Thus, they are inferior, merely faint shadows of what "church" should be about, and their "gods" reside in weakness.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Churches are to convert sinners into the saved, Jim.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2016 - 07:16pm PT
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Pantheism, Buddhism, Animism, Islamism, Judaism, Christianity et al, are birds of a feather.....human constructs with no real underpinnings. Mountains are real and splendid to the eye, truly deserving of our attention.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2016 - 07:27pm PT
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Who says you don't get warm, sunny days in the Bugaboos.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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truly deserving of our attention
But they don't go free, so they can't ever be superior.
Bouldering. Free-soloing. Free-climbing. Those are the only things deserving of our attention, as only those are superior and expressions of the pinnacle of the sport. Slogging up mountains isn't even climbing. That's hiking, perhaps roped hiking.
Yawn.
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DM88T
climber
Dave Tully SanDimas,California
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occasionally roped supplicant
Jim B, I also lay down and close my eyes in church.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I found a few more mountains worthy of worship in my archieves.
I've worshipped more than a few in my lifetime.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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DM88T: looks like we took damn near the same photo from approximately the same location...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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I'm thinking that the real reason Donini goes to these fantastical places is to challenge himself with seeing how close he can come to capturing the moment in a snap.
Screw all that climbing stuff, the real prize is coming back and sharing these most out-of-mind, outrageous photos. I bet they even impress Jim himself, "Dang, I really did make it there!"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sometimes yer prayers are answered...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Dec 10, 2016 - 06:25pm PT
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It was real winter up there today... the exit moves on this one always get your attention....
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Dec 10, 2016 - 07:06pm PT
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Lots of climbers get schooled on this one:
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Dec 10, 2016 - 09:33pm PT
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x15x15, where is this?
And to contribute, a few of my own:
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