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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 26, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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Thanky, Jim. That little stroke should keep me goin' for another couple weeks plus! Nice to know someone's lookin' in.
Actual climb done in '47.
That pushy donini kid ain't here. We should all just go for it. What say, Warren?
Such a wonderful website
http://www.yosemiteclimbing.org/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 29, 2015 - 01:18pm PT
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The loop trail concept escapes some people.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
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Ralph Anderson photo for USNPS.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2015 - 07:30pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2015 - 07:33pm PT
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"Frankly, Susan, I don't care how they do it at your mother's clinic. This is MY clinic, so STFU."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2015 - 07:35pm PT
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 22, 2015 - 07:35pm PT
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M from M....keep them coming!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 22, 2015 - 08:32pm PT
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As they turn up, Jim.
Always have my nose in the air...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2015 - 07:45am PT
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Just got tuned up on the August installments.
So mouse, photo at the top courtesy of Harriet Anderson: how did you source that picture? Did you meet her in person? Good stuff!
bowline on a burl, ha ha.
The Salathe/Nelson 1948 Christmas card is paydirt.
You the man who be holdin'!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2015 - 08:02am PT
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Roy, m'boy, I found Harriet's picture using Google Images while I was searching for images using search words like "vintage Yosemite" or something like that.
I guess.
It's been some time, so I'm not certain; and the brain drain is accelerating as I age, incrementally, step by step, slowly turning into stone, but that's my best guess.
"Visit page" prompt led to the blog below.
http://www.athleta.net/
http://www.athleta.net/2011/06/13/yosemite-my-first-trainer/
For this morning's edification,
as I down my meds and eat my edible comestibles,
which are last night's vegetables and victuals,
we are entertained by Pinterest,
in order to maintain and to stoke our climbing interest,
which provided these pictuals.
Who claims this VW bus, gang?
http://www.pinterest.com/jonathantarbox/classic-climbing/
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jun 23, 2016 - 04:11am PT
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BBA
Social climber
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Jul 23, 2016 - 04:01pm PT
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Here's a couple about time passing...
My grandmother and the Sentinel Dome tree in 1934
My daughter and the dead, but not forgotten, Sentinel Dome tree in 1996
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 23, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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Wow, Bill. Those are priceless. Thanks.
Looks like an old rope scar around the base of the tree.
The well-known Ansel Adams photo of the Jeffrey pine on Sentinel Dome was made in 1940.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Jul 24, 2016 - 09:19am PT
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Tarbuster, thanks for the thread. Hope this is of interest. My Granddad received this letter years after a 1907 climbing trip to YNP. It explains itself, though abit hard to read due to the quill pen.
"Mr W. T. Black
Dear Sir, considering the years that have passed since the enclosed name & address were written it is doubtful whether this reaches you, and if it does, perhaps not probable that you will remember it. I was on the top of Sentinel Rock yesterday & took this from a tomato can. Your name with the other members of party were on a separate sheet, & was the only written record. It was dated July 11 - 1907
Your truly, F. L. Hohman (sp?)"
I showed the family original to Ken Yager in late 80's and asked,"could this have been the first ascent"? He said "No, has to be Muir, I'll check". A week later he got back that indeed "Muir is credited, but...there was no date or journal entry he could find, something Muir was accustomed to".
Any ST YNP historians can help here? (or any interest?). I've not come up with an actual date when Sentinel Rock itself was first climbed, just individual routes. The HisStory I know was a living one told to me by granddad in the late 50's. It's a douzy, and explains why they made no mention of the ascent back home in Oakland.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jul 24, 2016 - 09:43am PT
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The HisStory I know was a living one told to me by granddad in the late 50's. It's a douzy, and explains why they made no mention of the ascent back home in Oakland.
well?
Tree probably died from everyone pissing on it
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 23, 2016 - 09:25pm PT
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Some of you know this beauty quite well.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2016 - 07:23am PT
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Happy Cowboy!
That is pretty darn cool. Possible FA of Sentinel Rock, documented in quill pen no less.
So, what IS the story?
It's a douzy, and explains why they made no mention of the ascent back home in Oakland.
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