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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 17, 2015 - 04:19am PT
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All the State of Califiornia offers is granite, it seems, but that's not true.[Click to View YouTube Video]
It may just be that the other western states which boast lots of climbing don't have as much granite in proportion to my home state.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Of course I used to think, in my salad days, that maybe I was missing something by not travelling to the SW or to WY or to CO or ID.[Click to View YouTube Video]
But I managed just fine, looking back.
It's all old dads got...the rear view.
Regrets are for others. I thank the fateful fingers to have been able to do what I've done in the hills and mountains of California, climbin'-wise.
I'm glad that I was out of the game by the time 5.12 became the new 5.10, however! Oh, the shame of not being able to hang off one finger!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
On behalf of our ST climbers, thank you, Mr. Metcalf! Good luck in your next big AD-venture.
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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 17, 2015 - 06:26am PT
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Gonna go celebrate the elevator's renaissance. Banana pancakes...if they have some bananas. Otherwise, bloob berries.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 17, 2015 - 07:56pm PT
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You're darn tootn' the irony of that hit home at this time last year both there in California
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2450996/Joe-Kraut-Memorial-Thread-respectful-posts-please
and here in New Hampshire.
(if I blow it, no one, will be around, or will be coming in the morning to hang the ropes for their clients.)
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/brian-delaney-memorial---fatality-at-cathedral-ledge---july-12-2014/109218918
Since the middle of July last year I have been spooked,
succumbed to the plight of lonely flight,
an' deaths of ones' I knew, who I know, knew better, than to end up - wrong end up,
at the end of the day.
(and)
since I use a flip tone,
do not think that I do not hear ole' Grim, Saying
"lean back test that pin again, it didn't creak or ping, so where's the fun in that? "
that snide Grim Reaper, says -
"Go ahead and pull down hard" "fall again I dare ya'"
Thanx I hear you and ground-control the urge to climb unroped.
See that short rig?
Look close there is even a rope guard !,
clipped in twice; so sorta as 'elf belay type thing,
if I fall, shock loading the system pulls me as I fall, whiplash. . . I don't fall much.
I use a static rope for st00pid sit(ting) starts.
You and me both tonight and no cheese or any one else's knees.
Sorry in advance girls but it's fridaynight or was.
the time was spent doing not near enough , try as I might, I can't climb every stone l find,. . . . On -sight.
but I am trying to,
too, also this is pristine rock,
on a hiking trail on a golf corse!
Why am I so blessed as to have it all to my self?
You take the Blessings that you get ,
and don't be a Jobe , or a split Lobe,
if the winds blow a climber here he or she will find no chalk left by me
(until it is five very hard).
thats the ethic of the place, I say so this level of purity, is hard to keep to. In most other climbing zones.
but, and when,or
unless you have all the stone to your self,
then to cheat, break the rules is sweet
and I do. . . .
I do cheat and use chalk some times. . .
watcha' got? Rubber Bisxquite?
A very well funded and so, very well cared for course; where they add chip, mulch, 20 feet into the woods,
(this to protect the golfers shoes, the duffers too, I guess, from Tics, the scary pests)
giving a perfect base for the Pebble Pinchers; boulder climber types - who have never come.
this short 'wall' is worth the time that I spent cleaning that other choss,
]but it will take some to put together the right time of day to visit this was after 7pm , at dusk, flat light.and all,
hey hey all, they will be what they will be,
I will have to return again and over time the things that need to get scrubbed on will,
( and the cleaner the better as the gym climber finds dirt not worth touching. )
They are all Gym climbers now , jake..this needs to go back and be opened up.but then it will have to wait.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 17, 2015 - 08:16pm PT
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Um, so this is a sad and pathetic machine, it is a faker at everything it does.
the quality is absent . completely.
The thing plays and Records from all the old wave formats;
Vinyl, cassette tape, CD - and it has a Jump drive slot,
A very big selling feature;
it is why, for X-mas in July, we bought it,
(40 bucks, on a timed, no interest, pay it off slow-like,)
A TV thing, don't cha know.
Like submerines from the back pages of old comix booxs the things a piece of junk.
Darn Poseur (thats french for Mehrd)
poser of the worst kind.
it got all the kids here stoked to listen to the hundreds of vinyl albums
Even the ones that dad says he just likes to look at ,
eh yeah , they represent the years of a mis-spent youth,
if only i had not been into the radio DJ thing,
or if i had caught that wave,
Big Pink shriveldick' Stern and I were both on overnight,
at the same time on separate college stations at the same time in the end of music history..
no sound of any depth or resonance, muted horns, no base. . . or any amplification scrolls.
no way to change the tunes once started, and 'phono-graph' technology from the 1930's.
There is no way to lift or place the needle(not stylis)onto the platter. . .
just a drop or pop 'er off using the thumb tab that is short as in the length of a thumb tac . . . sucks big time, no way that any albums of value are gonna get played, so also not recorded/ wich was the whole point.
this is to fill in and hope to catch up no tunes she will throw me out if I try,this and the othersand this
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 17, 2015 - 08:16pm PT
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The groom's still up at the Tuolumne gas station.
Can you spare some change for gas?
Treated like a farm animal on a wild goose chase?
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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 17, 2015 - 08:18pm PT
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Hand me down my waiting shoes.
Peckerwood Disneyland.
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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 17, 2015 - 08:20pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 17, 2015 - 08:44pm PT
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My buddy Charles does the Radio Ether show. He's got more old radio photos than you you can turn a dial to.
Sportin' high heeled shoes
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 17, 2015 - 10:46pm PT
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415534. [photoid415532], [photoid415330] those two arnt mine ,
So much can be said for the beauty that shines through.
In front of her mother and my wife and children she and I had one of those bitter sweet in passing moments, alone surrounded by the hub-bub of a busy grocery store, watching,
My wife flashing back to souls we had met on the road,
she moved the mom off away so that I could talk sense to nonsense ,
and bask in the glow.
Now the wife and I did not see it the same way,
- so -
no worries,though,
an ole coots dream.,that's all.
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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 18, 2015 - 01:53am PT
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I spent the day on the corner where it all begins.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 18, 2015 - 06:41am PT
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Suge is pissed. There is no reward offered for his arrest. He has howver, aplplied for a transfer to Altiplano.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 18, 2015 - 07:02am PT
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What happeed to Diddy?
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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 18, 2015 - 12:10pm PT
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My granddaughter, Sophie's older sister, Scott's and Jen's #3, and Noah and Jake's younger bister.
She looks all business or is about to bust out laughing, one.
She's the counter-Suge,
Man, she thinks he's such a stooge,
He's like a mean old Scrooge.
Say, listen up Judge,
On this we can't budge,
He's a mean old pudge
And we got a grudge.
He don't know how to roll,
He's just a mean old troll
And he's got no soul.
Now where's my Tootsie Roll,
Grampa Mouse?
Tonight is the World-Famous Merced Art Hop, summer edition (held FAMOUSLY four times a year for the last five years, I think).
At the street level is my son, Scott, "seeding" the downtown area with three skate decks from Madre Skateboards, free to whoever finds them! Yay, Scott and Jen!
This is a real community-based session tonight. There will be this street store.
Street Store
"The world's first Rent-free, Premises-free, Free Pop-up clothing store, Found on the streets curated by you".
--When you come out to the Art Hop on Saturday we are taking clothing donations for our "Street Store" project, all donations will go to the local homeless.
Also, the MAH will be supporting animal rights and services as part of its theme.
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