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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Jul 30, 2015 - 03:57pm PT
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There was a recent thread. Authored by Steve Grossman , I think,
that was titled Climbing Songs. - I am much to shy to try to recreate it over there but here in the warmth of the Flames,
choked, with ashes as the dwindle has dwindled down to what has already been burnt.
Sung to the tune of the wizard of Oz song if I only had a brain, and written out in long hand
by Phil Scalachi (spelling?)of the Gunks ?
I only know - what I do - which is none of it - but it went along the lines of. . .
A small wire is all that's in - and no crack for any cams, - it's getting pretty thin. .,
Perhaps if I move up some, - I could wiggle a hex in? - Oh heck if I were taller. . .
If I only had a brain.
Or
I hope it's only five ten. . .
I was never good at that stuff, and when Phil laid it out it was as bind blowing
as when Andrew McArthey sang Love potion number nine, and did an Elvis impressions,on the front steps waiting for the folks to get done talking.
Anyway I was thinking that it is an easy to rhyme iambic pentameter, thing but I am in the lazy glow of heat stroke and as I said and (nod) demonstrated not good at replacing the words. Any one here want to give it a try?
Tuff ankle treatment huh?
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his photographs are always the best.
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 28, 2015 - 10:14am PT
Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa
Time & Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM (Social hours and free beer for members at 6:30)
Directions: From Highway 101 at Santa Rosa go west on Highway 12 to Stony Point Road Exit. Go straight from the middle lane at the light onto Occidental Road. The Round Table Pizza is on the right just down the road.
Jerry Dodrill - Evolution of the Heart
As our community grieved the loss of Brad Parker, two of his climbing partners hiked into the Sierra backcountry on a mission to take their fallen friend on the climb of his dreams. Along the journey they discovered the healing power of climbing for a greater purpose. Join us for an enlightening evening as Jerry Dodrill and Rob McKay re-trace their climb of the High Sierra’s Evolution Traverse and highlight the strengthening of a community.
Jerry Dodrill is a photographer, writer and climber living near the Sonoma Coast in Bodega, California. He is a senior contributor to California Climber Magazine and sits of the board of the Rock Ice & Mountain Club. His photographs have been widely published in magazines, books, advertising and feature stories. He leads destination-based photography workshops across the West. View his website at: http://www.jerrydodrill.com
Rob McKay has been climbing for twenty two years with numerous big ascents across the Sierra, Utah desert, and vast ultra-light backpacking experience in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. He and his wife Sarah McKay are co-owners of Vertex Climbing Center in Santa Rosa.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
Jul 28, 2015 - 10:19am PT
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
Jul 28, 2015 - 10:49am PT
Jerry is a Great Friend and a most Excellent Photographer. . . df
johntp
Trad climber
socal
Jul 28, 2015 - 11:04am PT
Jerry's photos are beautiful.
mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
Jul 28, 2015 - 04:39pm PT
His photos are great. But he's also a fun and funny speaker. It ought to be good.
drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
Jul 28, 2015 - 04:47pm PT
noice!
splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2015 - 12:47pm PT
gnome - you and your rock pictures. not sure what to make of it. :)
It's gonna be a really great presentation.
something to look at in case you can't make it
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Time-for-an-Evolution/t12133n.html
Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
Jul 30, 2015 - 01:50pm PT
gnome - you and your rock pictures. not sure what to make of it. :)
+1
Wish I could go. Will be away at least 15 miles from the nearest road on that day though...
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zBrown
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Jul 30, 2015 - 04:14pm PT
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These guys are not going to finish this bag, so It's all yours.
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zBrown
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Jul 30, 2015 - 08:09pm PT
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woof woof
I did not recall Michael's twin brother. Could he sing and dance?
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zBrown
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Jul 30, 2015 - 08:15pm PT
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Get you motor running, head out on the highway
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feralfae
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in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 30, 2015 - 08:47pm PT
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zB, Ins't that the guy who threw a KO at racial segregation?
(I'm for the right of association, but the color of someone's skin that they are wearing today is certainly no indication of character, creativity, or charm.) Wait, can we still use charm without referring to tiny particles? Anyway, isn't that him? Ali, right?
Mouse, the sunrise photos are beyond heavenly. ("No, fae", says Mouse, "the sunrise photos are part of heaven, not beyond.")
Neebs, if you see this, I'll be awake another hour or so. Or until I fall asleep. Whenever comes first.
On a happy note, the license plate holder that I knocked off the MG while trying to push it with the Honda was re-installed today using self-tapping screws through the bumper. I tried to put the holder back on, but apparently the expansion posts have failed. They were only 36 years old! I did not know there was such a thing as self-tapping screws. Now I know. :) The garage fixed it, not me, but I did learn something. :)
Happy Full Moon. Plant happy dreams tonight. :)
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2015 - 11:24am PT
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GDP of the DR Congo (formerly Zaire) is $32.665 billion.
Pro fights don't sell a lot of popcorn at the stadium,
but in the theatres which are set up to carry the fights, different story.
It was in Zaire that the Rumble in the Jungle took place.
The tonnage of popcorn consumed that day was better than average because of it.
Muhammed Ali fought Joe Frazier and KNOCKED HIM OUT! So maybe more popcorn sales would have happened, but not enough to worry over, given the KO was in the middle of a scheduled 15-round event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle
1977 interview with Muhammed Ali and the Jackson Five Pt. I & II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMrmd-hPJg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8IP5d9GO8
Part I explains black community and why the home of the president is called the WHITE House.
"BURT B., I'M COMIN' FOR YOU!"
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2015 - 11:58am PT
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Gnome, I was just thinkin' this manip of CC must give a new twist to the song from Wizard of Oz,
"If I ONLY Had a Brian."
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
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At the wheel of my yellow submarine.
"Captain! Captain!"
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zBrown
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Jul 31, 2015 - 12:47pm PT
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I was wondering if there are boxing cards (not that kind). The ones that resemble baseball cards.
There are and that was Mr. Ali on the bike.
Boom Boom
You'll probably recognize him by his hat.
Hurry on home or at least to hdqts.
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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 31, 2015 - 03:09pm PT
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That has a nice 'ring' to it.
Just don't forget who is khōlō ka ho fetisisa.
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feralfae
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in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 31, 2015 - 04:48pm PT
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All else pales:
There is a Corvette in front of Woolworth's.
I am smiling at the memories.
Mouse your photography today is beautiful.
Thank you zB, I thought that was Ali. I did not know -- or forgot -- that
the fight was in Africa. How fascinating to see all those early photos!
Gnome, I have been liking your rock faces, and it has
inspired me to begin to look for more faces in local places. :)
Hot here today and through the weekend. A perfect
time to get back to sorting books in the cool, cool library.
ff
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2015 - 05:25pm PT
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Now, you mentioned Woolworth's and it is a block down from Reinero's, which was Reinero's Trophy Room from the forties. I don't know about the place's earlier history.
The wooly wisps of memowy,
How WY is short for Wyoming
Maybe F. W. Woolworth would know.
That Woolworth's building was the property of Cliff Blauert's father after the variety store left.
It is the building which houses Second Time Around Used Books, from where I retired.
It is right across the street from where I had my first job in town at age fifteen, for Valley Stationers.
"I have the heart of a lion and lifetime ban from Knowland Zoo."[Click to View YouTube Video]
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NGR/Metric Lips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcjerPXgpQ
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 31, 2015 - 05:46pm PT
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Heard about 6 pops about 4:15. Thought it was someone banging on something with a hammer.
Turns out that about 8 houses up the street a car pulled up, guy got out and shot into a house.
I reached for my flame thrower, but by the time I got to it, they were gone. Helicopter is still here as well as about 11 cop cars.
Where is rDog when you need him?
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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 31, 2015 - 06:17pm PT
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Think carefully, sir. Was what you heard pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop or was it more like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop?
Why?
The difference between automatic and single-shot weapons. See, the first sound, that's...
I know the diference.
It was the second pattern, but it could have been more like pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop, too.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 31, 2015 - 06:38pm PT
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Kind of strange, it was more like:
pop,,, pop-pop-pop-pop-pop
The Pug rescue lady up the street tells me that there were three guys and she thought that maybe someone in the car had been shot so she started down to help. She changed her mind and turned back.
No cops were harmed in the production of this story, but an awful lot of gas was wasted by idling police cars.
Spose it could have been worse:
boom,,, boom-boom-boom-boom-boom
Music to my ears? For what? fun! This is rated R (not X) for sketchy language.
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Popcorn, corn pops - all the same to Buster Douglas.
Just in - the shooter lives about one block in the other direction and they got him surrounded, ain't got a chance, send him to Donovan to work on the ranch.
Then you ask why I don’t live here
Honey, how come you don’t move?
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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 31, 2015 - 06:53pm PT
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Fetch the ball, girl!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 31, 2015 - 06:58pm PT
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So much to report but unlike zB it is not a shooting
No shooting.
nor a shooting star,
and it is climbing that I am talking about.
this as someone trolled for me, saying
Does anyone know when the New Connecticut falcon press guide is due out ?
when No One responded the rube posted an answer to his own question.
if there are climbs just off the fare-way but not in the guide book?
seems like the guide will be lacking a bit. . . like
the hardest boulder problem on a golf course
with parking in a town park,
a two minute approach
and a cart driving around selling cold frostees.. . .
. . . . . . . .In the state.
I did a small mini guide - lets see if the climbs; a quick dozen,
(with almost as many V too hards & sitting variations)
in Richter Park, - make it in the updated edition.
only one spot is higher than 20 feet, and most are under 17 feet! short!.
PPH =Perfect Pad Height.
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I should have seen this coming , the golf course is at what is one end of the neighborhood.
the course is home to some good rock.. only one is in my quiver of pictures we'll actually the twowhen I saw that in the start of the spring the course was under a new plan of beat back the wild,due to a reasonable fear of tics.
I would never have dreamed that they would cut down trees and expose the best of the rock.
A raised up on a ledge, at the top of the 14th,
overlooking the hole (infact the onlybad thing )
where before there was shade and foliage,
now it basks high and dry almost a pinicale that is split by a few different cracks
One awesome past vertical wide stem whith a 6 inch wide offset crack,at its back,
is a fine 5.10 or maybe 5.9 if it is on top rope.-
a corner with three 5.8s and as many 5.10s!
the defoliation means the view of the rock is clear from all around.
I will reactivate the old pentex and try to get a belay too
. ('cause the cut back all of the anchor trees ,bottom and top.)
There is a bunch of stuff this morn a day after this post . .,.?.
Richie Coplands thread ?
Yes dancers make the best lovers and and climbers ,not the best life partners though, do to the drive and eventual demise of physical fitness. . .
As to the AAC camp ground at the Gunks . . .
Well ....
I will say too much, just short of ....we'll see below,
The time to insist that the Palisades interstate parks commission answer the questions:
Why do they persist in the restricted use of our parks, ? what are they going to do ?
( nothing is mostly the answer)
Open the ice caves / Sam's point to climbing and camping, bring back the camping to the meadows of the Peterskil climbing zone.
Open up the multi use area, a clean loop road and the folks who live in those new developments pay lower taxes and bought with full knowledge of the cliffs and the very active outdoor activities, that are the areas ice blood.
the state police should patrol, what else do they do but set up road blocks? Loud parties? Not so much, any more. I left the area 12 years ago, after finding that the Curuption was county deep and state wide.
The powers that run the Mohonk gulag try to steal land by moving boundary lines that should be addressed and reparations made, bring the light of day to the annenberg coruptoin. This is not a vacume . Many others are aware of the things that I hint at here
They closed all of the camping in the megalopolis .
I grew up climbing and camping in the Ny & NJ highlands, the parks all fell into ruin and then a family ( the Castro family ) organized all the parks under one flag and banned all the activities that had been the draw to the outdoors for 100 years.
There was some story this was after a family member drowned ? (Hamilton Castro?)
I have no idea if that is true, but No swimming , no climbing, no bike riding,( horses? They are ok!) but the parks all close a dusk.
The history of land grabbing by the wealthiest people continues, as has been said , that the gunk'sg ridges stay free from private development is a wonder , and there are always pressures to change the better than worse Status Quoe.
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