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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 13, 2012 - 04:10am PT
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"Hey there all,"
Looks like neebee's hitting the haiku sauce.
I knew she'd do so
Poet from ruidoso
More likely Kyoto
To quote Alex Trebec, "Boy, howdy!"
I could do with a Lone Star, I suppose......
Or one a them big-ass old Sapporos......
Or two.
Edit: Gotta try new stuff. Like Rogue's Dead Guy Ale from Oregon, "Dedicated to the Rogue in each of us." It celebrateds the Mayan death myths.
The first is for thirst, the second for pleasure, the third takes your measure with pleasure. It's still Friday ight in Hawaii. The pineapple pricks rival the pineapple princesses for gaiety. Grass skirts one day, muu-muus the next. Delightful! I have no desire to climb in the rain, I'm kicking back and lampooning, verbal cartooning, shooting my mouth off, and reefing the sail.
The Sloop John u sank
The timbers they were all crank.
Please let me go home.
It seems to be working....
Pensylenvy, how's that ale of yours? Mine's delicious, nutritious, and it might just get vicious, but that's the price you pay at 7-11 at 1:30 a.m.
It's too bad old Weej lives in such a tinderbox. He needs your services badly!!!!
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Oct 20, 2012 - 02:03am PT
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no alcohol for me tonight, only hippy lettuce!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 20, 2012 - 02:19am PT
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I had one beer and the keg blew. I was hoping I could get a few more but hey, I can figure something else out. No shortage of weird shite to drink around here. I have a few bottles of some expensive hard stuff but I don't even drink that stuff much anymore. Good old wine just might be the ticket. I'll report back later.
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skywalker
climber
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Oct 20, 2012 - 02:32am PT
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O.K.
4 Dales :-) Just posted to someone about penny bouldering. Way Homo! Sounds like a fun sport with my 3 year old but I've had 4 dale's and I thought...well...
Just ran outta work. Fed said 3 yr old, went to Reel Rock Tour saw a bunch of kick ass climbers doing all the rad sh#t I could never do sans family resposibilities, etc. With said family.
But it was fun, inspiring, and keeps me "blowing some sort of "gascket" everytime I try to man up and pretend to be 20 and as close (miles away) to as good as these folks are.
Check this thing out!
As for the penny bouldering dude/dudess I'm just bein' a 'player hater'.
But Cheers!!!
S!!!
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inde_rida
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Oct 21, 2012 - 01:41am PT
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1. three 7.5% IPAs
2. I want some rat soup from the valley!
3. Have not found good partners yet to hit up the crags since i just moved here!
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Oct 21, 2012 - 01:45am PT
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kick ass climbers doing all the rad sh#t I could never do
Obviously, Penny Bouldering is out of your league. But it's not for the faint of heart. Especially if you've had a brouhaha. :)
Or maybe 2.
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skywalker
climber
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Oct 21, 2012 - 01:48am PT
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awe hey man,
KabalaArch,
Meant no hard feelings. I do think that its a cool idea about "penny bouldering" the more I've thought about it. Seems like you really have got to think about the faces of the boulder you want to go with. Thinking about it on my hike tomorrow.
It was just a response to the topic.
It is really a cool idea for my kid...
Cheers!
S....
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Oct 21, 2012 - 03:28am PT
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No hard feelings intended, felt, nor accepted, BluSky.
This is ye old POFNWD thread - that was just a spontaneous thread of one of several Climber's games which creative people have come up with over the years.
It's actually a cool game to play with the children. I've never met anyone who's ever known about it. Clearly, it's origins remain enshrouded in the misty mist. Perhaps Scottie's father, Leo, himself a respectfully good Climber too, played it during his son's early childhood. Who knows? Maybe we could score for a Guggenheim fellowship as needed to research the misty origins of the game?
I've yet to google Wikepedia, to see if this actually has any kind of a historical background.
Surpassing entirely new levels of weirdness, the Game does, in fact, seem to help us to "get small," like building a scale model of an auto, train set, aircraft scale models from desktop display to RC flight replicas, ultimately to scratch build models of my own building designs. And, depending on your boulder's aclevities, you're going to be forced to closely examine the stones features, to identify edges which offer purchase, upward advancement...and "no hands" rests.
It seems as though the Climber's diversions tend to reinforce peripheral skill sets. Skiing for eamplem helps with balance in a high paced scenario; helps, too, to rationalize the exposure of a 50-55 degree slope
of steep windpack.
It seems to help indentify the utility of improbable rest points on micro edges, particularly principles of opposition.
And, it's a good bit of quality fun time with your youngsters, competitive by nature. Jusr remember to bring a small thickness article of sponge, or what have you, for a crash pad.
And, remember, while in the field tomorrow, to boost a small stone to bring home with you.
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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Oct 21, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
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sunday mornin' while still drunk?
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Oct 21, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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im totally 9.5 percent,
coming down from an epic, though
bitchen mountain holiday
filled with a sub-freezing,
tentless bivi with young chilren (6, 9);
howlin wind!
suffering together at 2:00am,
midnight bare-asses pees,
a wonderful meteor shower;
grateful sunrise,
skippin lake surface,
a powerful and dramatic stormfront
entering our range,
stopped by kirkwood and
hadda grilled cheese with sliced tomatoes
on then childrens / mom's mind
and a double bach tall ale or two upon
popa's graceless being.
salud, a ti.
..."honey?"
"yea."
why is there a wheel barrow in the
living room?"
"oh. i had to wheel myself across
the threshold, sweets."
"oh. okay."
off we go in gleeful company
to the local theatre's production
of ....
"a sleeping beauty."
which is exactly what we weren't the last eve's.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Oct 21, 2012 - 04:42pm PT
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Ganja on a cloudy, cold Sunday is better than a Friday night drunk, IMHO.
Hey Norwegian, your daughters let you take them camping? Last I read, one was resisting.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Oct 21, 2012 - 04:47pm PT
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marlon brandon,
we revampired our plan,
instead of leaving friday night,
we left saturday morning..
which was actually a damn blessing,
considering it was 29 degrees overnight
and there is not a wayward way
that we coulda endured a second bivy.
we're talkin, like
borderline reckless, there, eh.
(hey pete, that last, eh,
was for you and yours)
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Oct 26, 2012 - 09:32pm PT
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O.K. here we go.
1) Three 'banquet beers', One glass Alamos Malbec
2) For all of those 'non rascist' Repugincans I keep meeting : I hope that nigger is your president again bitch
3)Chasing the legal tender has it's mental, emotional and physical costs; gonna chill at the casa tonight, cut some much neeeded firewood with hopefully an epic MTB ride tomorrow then Sunday/Monday to Powell company party with 3 houseboats at least two ski boats, jet skis, sea kayaks , paddle boards, campfires and booze ! Wish me luck . Happy Friday night !
edit 3a) for my out of towner friends: I don't post in the What Did You Climb today thread but rest assured I climb about a third as much as Todd Gordon every week maybe....
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 26, 2012 - 09:59pm PT
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A bow to Lolli, and thanks to all that posted during the last 3 Fridays.
I let you down. My apologies for climbing and/or socializing off ST.
I'll try to make up.
Sluuuuuuurp!
I've been celebrating "cheating death."
sluuurp!
Glad I still have my eyebrows-----and hair, after dumping a pint of gas on a pile of soggy weeds this week.
After I threw the lit stick-match in from 6-feet away, I backed up a few more feet and enjoyed the huge "WOOOOOOOF----BOOOOOOOM!"
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 26, 2012 - 10:43pm PT
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1. Your current consumption
1/2 bottle Yarden (Mt. Hermon, Golan heights) red.
2. At least one inflammatory comment
PTPP is a tosser.
(but he repented, so all's good)
3. Why you are drunk and typing on McTopo instead of doing something worthwhile, like driving to the crag.
i'm in San Diego on a Friday night, for a Saturday PR event for my company. I'm watching "Gold Rush Alaska" on the hotel TV. I work 60-70 hrs/week in mines, then watch a TV show about mining when I have a few hours to relax. I'm a sick puppy, I know.
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S.Leeper
Social climber
somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'
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Oct 26, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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only mota tonight
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Oct 26, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
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Mixing & matching, also known as playin' with fire!
There were some beers until I remembered that there is Rum!
Up yours!
Still debating the pros & cons of a Breitenbach attempt. Snow holds scree together, right?
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