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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 26, 2013 - 01:10am PT
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Did I mention I HATE alpine starts? So why did I subject my fragile
psyche to so many? Or was that 'sposed to read 'psycho'?
There ain't even a flippin' moon fer heaven sakes!
And crap was it cold! (Jan @ 10,000' on Rainier)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 26, 2013 - 01:43am PT
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Dang, Reilly, it was worth it for as long as you took to get back into the sack!
Heroes do with no cawfee!
Shoulda, couldn't, woulda had we a guide. Jist o' Jim and Dillis. Occasionaly Lloyd. The Bros. Bircheff.
No concerted efforts on our part, just relying on, "I took along a real rack."
"Well, should we use just pins or just nuts?"
Cryptic answers, all we got, except from Lloyd. He had a license.
wimp.com "Climbing tools--the piton." Suggested dideo.
That's the wimp. Sorry. A4, let's go to the cawfee shop.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 26, 2013 - 01:53am PT
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In removing the piton, should it resist coming free, connect your cleaning biner, which is conncted to your waist, and hit the $&*#@! pin and push your weight away at the same time.
WHACK!
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Waste time, f*#k around, just don't make another sound.
WHANG!
We're good...
Providing you are suspended from ascenders, of course!
Wooo-hooo-hooo!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 26, 2013 - 11:19am PT
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Aujourd-wee dans la valley de SJ.
Mother’s Joy: Jeff's m'Boy!
Barbara raised me to love the One Who gave us life and breath.
This is dedicated to my best friend, the better half of Mouse and Jeff.
She and Betty both were both concerned
When our diplomae we had earned.
And to the Valley our faces turned.
There it was we met our fate
In forms we loved and forms we’d hate
With stacks of pancakes on our plate.
Jeff could really cook, and jam, and screw,
I washed, belayed, and wished I knew
A nice blonde easy gal or two.
All that happened long ago,
In days of Yo in old Camp 4,
He’s sixty-five. (I’m sixty-four.)
He’s older now and we’re both lots wiser.
I owe my life to Lilly and Pfizer,
And to Jeff. (can’t wipe my eyes, here).
Mom “came to me” this morning after I was out shooting on the balcony.
She and Jeff share the same birthday, the twenty-ninth of March.
I was pretty hammered last night. This nearly worked.
Happy Birthday coming, Mom.
We’ll see about the REV.
Jeff Mathis' address, birthday card-wise
PO Box 982
Groveland, CA. 95321
Ph. 209-878-0423
He's not online, never will be, but he's still connected.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 26, 2013 - 01:08pm PT
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Well, Pilgrim, YOU tell ME. I'll do the rest of the sharin' out.
Who was it that said, "To quote Elvis, you have to twitch (twitch)."
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 26, 2013 - 04:22pm PT
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I been out fightin' the law again, sure hope it doesn't win.
Here's a couple from Corona Del Mar (could be South Laguna), where I used to hang out.
I can't remember if they tore down 2 or 3 houses to build this one. Some guy told me he knew who owned it, but he wasn't saying.
I just grinned and shook his hand, no was all I said.
After you cut down those termite infested trees, you have to whack them up into little pieces. Always good to have an ax-man like Jimi around to listen to when you're whacking. Was kinda irritated anyway cuz all my orange shirts were in the washer.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
On a clear day you can see all the way from Corona Del Mar to Maui (it's somewhere some few meters over the rainbow).
Just don't judge me by my shoes.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 26, 2013 - 08:58pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 27, 2013 - 02:17am PT
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Nice tan, Chan.
[Click to View YouTube Video]A Stone in the Garden of Rocks.
For sure, one of the best autobiographies I have read.
Try this Life and then We Gotta Get Outa This Place by an animal or a bird, one.
Catching the full moon bus to the Valley in the morning.
I'll be in touch.
Easter Break begins at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.
There are no black and white days scheduled in the next month.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 27, 2013 - 02:44am PT
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But not yet.
[Click to View YouTube Video]One more throw.
I would like to go to Vitally Musienko's presentation if anyone from the area is planning on going, or might like to go--I will share gas expense.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 27, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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The view down the avenue from Union Point.
http://gigapan.com/gigapans/7224/
Killing some time waiting for the bus.
I had the whole hog for breakfast.
I penned this last night while the moon was directly above, more or less.
Moonyanna
Bridal night on Bridalveil Creek
the legend of Tis-sa-ack
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/lly/lly28.htm
the legend of Po-ho-no
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/lly/lly29.htm
The orb and the dome come together and kiss.
Long-lost cousins or a maybe just a loving couple?
The granite dome is three-quarter orb to begin with, in a way of seeing which is perfectly natural.
Oh, Diana.
Oh, the Lizzes.
Oh, Tis-sa-ack.
Oh, North Dome.
Oh, three-Starr King.
Oh, old Po-ho-no.
Oh, papoose.
Oh, don’t you all moon-dance on the same night.
I can’t be in two places at once.
Not when I’m right here in the center of the universe.
Did God plan when He created?
He should not have had to, being who He is.
But move over here, it’s the center of MY universe, a skewed vision of the real, maybe more real, I can't tell.
So this can happen, though not on the same night, of course:
This kissing of former planetary cousins, at one time one being.
It is illusion, practiced by the lens-man, who plans both illustration and illusion.
There is no kissing of Luna and Rock in reality.
It is simply a nice conceit.
It’s good, though.
I guess He could have gotten it better, if He did plan; it is all part of the mystery of the universe.
I just think I might want to carry this night around in my wallet as a memento.
Along with the one that’s already there of the Golden Arches and the Liz and my self.
It will help me remember my universe belongs to the one who made me.
Or is it the other way ‘round, do you think?
Cue "Knights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
You never really reach the end.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 27, 2013 - 05:49pm PT
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the one with the fez
he turns and he sez
we'd like to help you
make your trip
wheels throwing water all over my axe
and you know about Mr. Jones (he emails you)
good tidings on your trip
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 27, 2013 - 05:52pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... well, the ol' new faster browser just ain't what it used to be, ... hmmmm, does this remind one of a song, perhaps... :)
well, i just sent you an email.. painting is done, but for touch'ups... :)
an extra surprise will be in it, too... check email for mailing time, etc...
happy good day trip here, to you... :)
oh--i meant = sent you an email HERE... could not the email in my browser to work, :( after 20 min, i gave up... :(
so in case the taco email doesn't work, i posted here, too... :)
but--check the ol' email, and hopefully the taco, took'o....
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 27, 2013 - 11:38pm PT
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To top grasshoppers in the long jump, relative to their body length or height, an average adult male human would have to soar a distance of nearly 90 feet
In this study, we compared the morphology, jump performance and lactate production of twenty species of female grasshoppers ranging in size from 0.2 to 7.0 g to determine whether interspecific scaling of jump performance followed vertebrate or ontogenetic grasshopper models
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/21/6/A1398-b
Very white men can jump, but I think they are better at guitar.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 28, 2013 - 06:36pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 29, 2013 - 12:40am PT
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Uh, Cristowise, isn't it just as important to ask, when does Cristo's Yosemite Falls close?
I don't think Hank done it thisaway.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Mar 29, 2013 - 12:43am PT
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Looks like Vernal Falls
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 29, 2013 - 04:39am PT
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Vernal's Easter than Yosemite Falls, Upper Case, lower case, and the Casecades, as well as Yosemite West, and lost more. I can't say for Yosemite Yeast, there's a bad moon a-risin'.
In obscurity is pride rekindled--we never change.
No Hamm for Easter.
Bow our heads, remove our hearts.
Hope he rests in peaceful parts.
Under a rock or in the sky.
Randall Hamm was quite a guy.
Peace, Gypsy and Ariel, in year thirty.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 29, 2013 - 05:04am PT
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and hearty birthday wishes to the Rev.
And Happy Easter to all my fine friends in good Taco Standing or not.
ChristO!
pics, synch. and Cinemouse Prods. announce, for your edification and special thrill
Traipsing the Southside coming to the Tijuana Cafe/Cinema soon at a theater near you. Bring your bright things and lots of balloons. Light show! Derring-do! Sports celebs on the EC Ten! Tree-mendous amount of artful arboreal appreciation! Musical interpretation! Expert commentary! Someday! Someday! Someday!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 29, 2013 - 05:51am PT
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hey there say, mouse.... love those mulberry trees...
i tried to grow one from twig... did not work though...
will try again, when i can... there is a huge one, near corner where i used to live... but:
my neighbor where i used to live, just a few blocks away, by the way... well, she had the best one ... it hung in her yard, from the neighbor, but, sadly, said folks cut it down for being a 'too messy tree'... :(
love the neat pic of your mom...
my mom had a similar type outfit? well, perhaps not the print'exact, but it was so neat to see her pic, too...
not sure if i can ever find it though... it may be in her house...
thanks for sharing, made me think of my mom, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 29, 2013 - 12:01pm PT
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Trees of a deciduous nature are more apt metaphorically for living. Pines are not. --Life is a Fruitlesss Quest for Mulberry Tea in the San Jaoquin, a lurkette's email to me
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5589358_fruitless-mulberry-tree_.html
Don't try to use the leaves of the fruitless mulberry for tea unless you like adventure. Just cuz I ain't did it don't mean you shoudn't or maybe should try it. I found raking fruitless mulberry leaves quite a chore. I hung for many slothful hours from ours watching the ships go sailin', somewhere beyond the sea...tryin' to be cool in the shade like an upside-down thermometer hangin'.
I just realized...ChristO's fence is due to open in less than an hour. Work to do.
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