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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 13, 2015 - 12:55pm PT
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Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Just some of these.
Dozens of instrumented buoys were moored throughout the equatorial Pacific Ocean in the early 1990s, as part of what’s now called the TAO/TRITON array. The array gathers surface meteorological and oceanographic data and records ocean temperature to a depth of about 1,650 feet. (Image courtesy NOAA.)
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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 13, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
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Rfog, no sleep, no shuteye, no rest, just wheezing along.
Am I stronger because of it? Positively.
Do I know more about myself now, like Reinhold Messner? I doubt it.
Too wicked, I guess.
Definitely less committed, too!
A miniature Lake Cahuilla, of sorts.
I sat in a camp chair and dozed Saturday afternoon after trying to capture long-range photos of climbing on the Crocodile.
I had a ball in North Fork, though, that Friday morning while Flip Flop did a few things in town needed doing and while he unloaded some things from his truck at his place.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 13, 2015 - 10:18pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... just stopped by, fast... am doing a favor for someone tonight...
say, wanted to say that these north fork pics are really super good stuff, here... keep up the great work, :)
have camera, staying ready: new motto, for mouse...
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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 13, 2015 - 10:43pm PT
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"just stopped by, fast"
fast enough to say, "Hey there, say."
Thanks for the compliment. Looky-loos do not leave compliments.
Hope your computer problem(s) are soon solved.
You still haven't found time to take it into the shop?
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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 14, 2015 - 01:58am PT
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A SHOUT-OUT!
to Steve "Crusher" Bartlett and to Strappo Hughes (nearly 60), and to "Jerry."
"Yesterday [07-11) Strappo, Jerry and I climbed a new route on a previously untouched crag, four pitches, each about 5.9+/5.10, exceptional quality, no bolts, not a single loose hold and barely a single crystal crumbling underfoot. Strappo said--though this was after a few beers--it was one of the best days' climbing in the South Platte he'd had in -~30 years," according to Crusher.
See Crusher's FB page.
Happy Birthday, Strappo!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 14, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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On track for a big El Nino year (tropical Pacific Ocean temps 2.0 C greater than normal).
However, the blob (an unusually powerful ridge of high pressure over the area that created this massive pool of warm water) in the North Pacific may confine the storms to Southern CA, when where they are needed is in Northern CA.
-The Cincinnati Kid
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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 14, 2015 - 08:27am PT
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Is that so? Happy Chappy knows...
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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 14, 2015 - 12:28pm PT
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Gnome, I did not know you had been schooled by Kim Schimitz, the legendary alpinist.
Your dad did you right by signing you up for that day in the Ditch.
Did Kim teach you the importance of "shuffling" hands and feet in a jam instead of going hand-over-hand?
It must have been a very memorable afternoon.
Tell us more, please, Old Sport.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 14, 2015 - 04:34pm PT
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If you volunteer for the maintenance crew, then when they take this one out for a spin (spinaker?), you get to ride along. Click the link to see that it is the STAR OF INDIA. Why isn't it there then? Good question. Gonna have to take it up with Clint.
http://www.schoonerman.com/images/010_10.jpg
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jul 14, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
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Dozens of instrumented buoys were moored throughout the equatorial Pacific Ocean in the early 1990s, as part of what’s now called the TAO/TRITON array. The array gathers surface meteorological and oceanographic data and records ocean temperature to a depth of about 1,650 feet. (Image courtesy NOAA.)
Amazing coincidence that these buoys recorded data just down to the operating depth of a titanium hulled Akula class submarine...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 14, 2015 - 06:33pm PT
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I only visit this contented gent once or twice a year but I can see that many more visits are in store.
ThIs picture for-shortens the feature of the corner, but not the sleepy lean.
I may have once had plans to dig out the up-hill floatsom,
(From point of the pic,thirty by ten feet deep, at least)
The climbing is worth a cleared zone. They don't grow that way.
Gsg's or gnome secret gardeners' are all but extinct though.
The real test has been, that this ididlic looking spot suffers from the most east coast of maladies :
highway road noise with a startling but regular police siren from a more than occasional speed trap.
Then, to make sure to ruin any hope at quiet contemplative reflection on life,
while climbing small problems,
lost in a trance bordering on a zen like state,
, no chance ,
BANG BANG
gun fire of all calibers,
not a withering volley,
picture sixty odd guns lined up and shot off, yards apart, in succession.
BANG BANG BANG,
it even gets a spin that adds that deep woods southern flavor; Open Range,large caliber!
especially on skeet night when it is two heats of shot-gun shooters,
back to back, with re-loading and next heat up, back to back in rotation,. . . till they run out. . .
of
clay pigions not ammunition.
so I fain a dilema of wanting too publicize, tell about these rocks.
and know that I will Rue the day,* that I find others. . . chalk and derbies. . .
I find evidence of others, the chalk and derbies would be the least of it, given the way things often go.
(be careful what you wish for , ; more on this later)
I do find peace and serenity alone in these spots, find the magic of the steep high places
I yearn for here in my woods.
Along sooty highways across from gun ranges
with randoom sirens, ands ravens crys mixed in for a real threatening mesure.
at these spots that I have all to myself.
It is a re occurring story in my life - the conflict of crow about what the head has found,
then cry when the ass follows up and sh!ts the place up.
only this spot is plagued with highway road noise and a fairly regular police siren, plus an old school good ole"boy gun club/ public shooting range.
Why doesn't any one else climb here??
*Idiom:
Rue the day,* that
*Idiom Definitions for 'Rue the day'
This means that the person will one day bitterly regret what they have done.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 14, 2015 - 08:02pm PT
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The rock that got anti 'Hillarierd' that I showed tagged , and scrubbed has a real owner,
who seeing me asked for a care plan for the short wall of stone.
I hate to think that I was the catalyst for any of the activity,
that has taken place at the spot.
Should I have left un-touched ? the word that said ,'slants'
in blue?,
(on a fun .4 ish thing)? I scrubbed it too. I actually walk past the low part of the wall.
to hike up to the state land beyond,
and have only taken the silly tagged shots
(there are one or two good problems),
Super short, hard, in the V grades, on the best stone,
With sit(ting) starts 'nd good landings, for pads,
The best of the problems would need chalk and work some I have top roped once.
or twice I mostly walk on by
THERE IS NOTHING WORTH CLIMBING, NOT EVEN THE TRAVERSE
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I gladly explained the way exfoliation works..
and the risks that come with leaving nature, aided by his crap lawn crew, to take its course.
0[Click to View YouTube Video]I walked the few hundred feet along the short cliff band.
Where I showed him the exact examples where Gravity was held at bay, by growth,
explaining that it was good to help the trees, and stop the climbing vines.
I showed him, an example, at the far end of the cliff,
where the vines were over grown next to a paticularly old stand of weeds,
including poison ivy, Virginia creeper, and black raspberry vines, tangled in with mostly eastern white rose; a bramble of thornes and sticks, that would over time compromise the slope.
That's it there on the right side of the picture.( audible sigh )
also.
With the same detail, I explained where exfoliating pressure from plant growth, freeze /thaw and gravity were taking down his wall.[Click to View YouTube Video]that was after a long explanation of both schools of thought as to recording and developing an attractive nuisance:
In the law of torts, the attractive nuisance doctrine states that a landowner may be held liable,
for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a hazardous object,
or condition on the land that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or ...
versus,
leaving the cliff un-touched so thus in a more user beware condition,
or posted no climbing or and the take I told him I would do,
and his neighbor,had taken,as steps to do,also.
do a bunch of all of the above, incuding paying,
so that the police will take the spray paint incidents seriously.
the result was that he did not supervise the crew or tell me that they were going to do anything .When I heard chain saws I went to see and was to late .it is amazing, but not surprising that,as I had said, if they got the chance they would eF it up
that the lawn crew has been set free to screw it up,
and not get the job done,
all at once,
I would or could only be sicker,
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if i knew how much they charged him for the damage.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 14, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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Hahha I'm all at loose ends with a thing to fill in but it will wait[Click to View YouTube Video]Ihave to size the picsYes, I had eyes for the picture of the dog with eyes on the prize, nice gang for sure, Did those chips become dog food?
I painted the pin in rustoelm, wrapped it in the plastic
and placed it in 2003.
I use it as a directional but time is past for replacement.
I get more gear , plenty of redundancies when I rope up,
[Click to View YouTube Video].
Good smiles, on every one, and a dog about to take charge , or chips,
the happy serenity of the moment is palpable in mfm's shot below.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 14, 2015 - 08:40pm PT
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hey there say, ... nope, not yet... not computer, getting taken care of, but: i got two side-yards, cleared and cared for, for two of my older friends... i'm SOON to get to the computer, next, i hope, oh my, :))
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