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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 - Aug 15, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
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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 - Aug 16, 2015 - 06:59am PT
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Looking at the skies above the Walker fire near June Lake/Lee Vining Canyon.
Thank you pilots and firefighters and dozer operators.
This sunrise shot is aimed further south towards Mammoth.
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zBrown
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Aug 16, 2015 - 08:00am PT
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C'mon now, you got famous for this?
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
-not Dewey Weber
Where is the didja loop?
I cannot remember how many of the 117 pages I read, but I'm sure it was enough.
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zBrown
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Aug 16, 2015 - 08:20am PT
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There is significant clamming over there by Stinson.
Appropriate caution is recommnded.
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zBrown
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:21pm PT
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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 - Aug 16, 2015 - 01:42pm PT
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Bienvenido a Tucumcari! Pero no vienen en mí.
And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed
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Climbing, but no Clampers.
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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 - Aug 16, 2015 - 02:17pm PT
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Diana joined running fanatic buddies in Morgan Hill this weekend for a 100-mile run.
I'm not sure of the route, nor have I heard how she fared on the course.
I just wish her well.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 16, 2015 - 05:38pm PT
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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 - Aug 16, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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The Daily Poop
Sunday Editon
Travel Section
Avoiding the Via Turista.
by Ken Shoes
Here's a bike route some may like to check out next time they want to go to Yosemite, especially on a bicycle tour.
It is a scenic route, not heavy with traffic like 140 or 120. And it is flat and straight as all get-out most of the way to Hornitos Rd., which is a well-paved and wide boulevard-in-the-boonies ascending gradually through the golden foothills of the southern Mother Lode.
From Turlock, head east on J-17. Stay on this route until you get to Hopeton and SR-59. Follow that into Snelling, then to Merced Falls and a couple miles beyond, where you turn right, crossing the Merced River on the bridge. You will be on Hornitos Rd. Follow it to the hamlet of Hornitos. Okay, village.
http://www.google.com/maps/dir/Turlock,+CA/Hornitos,+CA/@37.4588844,-120.423661,12z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x8091064c6d1a32c9:0x811fe75ca576e690!2m2!1d-120.8465941!2d37.4946568!1m5!1m1!1s0x809135efbd903781:0x9dfc39055ff8293a!2m2!1d-120.238241!2d37.5021592!3e0
From Hornitos the route over to Mariposa (it gets hilly in this section) follows Hornitos Rd. out of town to a Y-intersection. Take the left-hand way, following Old Toll Rd. to the town of Mt. Bullion, where you will take a right onto Hwy. 49, leading into Mariposa at Hwy. 140. Turn left and you are heading for Midpines, Briceburg, and El Portal.
If you've had enough, there is YARTS bus service into the park, avoiding the yahoos on the tourist route. It's less than $10, I think. They can load your bike into the luggage bays, providing there is sufficient room.
To find a YARTS schedule, simply Google "YARTS."
http://www.google.com/maps/dir/Hornitos,+CA/Mariposa,+CA/@37.504381,-120.0653402,15z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x809135efbd903781:0x9dfc39055ff8293a!2m2!1d-120.238241!2d37.5021592!1m5!1m1!1s0x8096b0aac3ff60c5:0xb0ab002eb339644e!2m2!1d-119.9662843!2d37.4849377!3e0
I would take lots of water, regardless of the season.
The trouble with this route is that you'd need to get to Turlock in the first place. You might consider just bussing it or taking Amtrak to Turlock, mainly to avoid the stress of riding on busier roads in the country, which is another thing altogether.
As I said, the best thing about this route is its relative lack of traffic. And Hornitos Rd. is a jewel, with excellent vistas of the San Joaquin Valley.
One establishment you should visit is Bud's Place in Snelling for a beer. The Merced River is two blocks down 4th St. from Bud's, and it's hospitably shady and cool over there, a nice break.
And when you get to Hornitos, don't expect much. The graveyard at St. Catharine Church is fun to visit, though. I'd rather head for Mt. Bullion and the quaint and Clamperful Airport B&G. It's next to the Mariposa Airport, duh.
In Mariposa, the only place I would recommend to eat is NO PLACE! Pony Espresso is a friendly hang at the intersection of 49 and 140 (the one with the four-way stop). Did you know there are no stop lights in Mariposa County but two, and they are at either end of the Ferguson Slide bridge on 140 in the Merced Canyon. FACT!
Have a pleasant evening.
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zBrown
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Aug 16, 2015 - 06:49pm PT
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I will pass on the hatz and vizors, but it is dinner time. So why not. WE always preferred the Mexican version. The El Salvador brand is tainted.
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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 - Aug 16, 2015 - 07:04pm PT
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It must be beer-thirty! Looks inviting.
I been sittin' here in the breeze flowing through the studio and it ain't half bad today. The open door to the hall and the open window and the fact I'm way off the ground promote this pleasant-but-warm aeroduct.
There is a lot of smoke today, though. I should shut it down here and adjourn to the coolity of Reinero's, but I won't. I get my beer at the ends of the months, having reformed.
Sweaty bottles are sexy. It's sooo tempting!
I wouldn't mind a dip in a canal instead, but the shower will do fine.
Temperature is 101.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Aug 16, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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The flames put and end to play this week.
I've been up at TM fishin and walkin for the past couple of days. The plan was to go back the way I came out the east side and say high to Lynne at TPR and then go out of Saddle bag lake and fish those upper lakes tomorrow and the Upper Owens the day after.
Road still closed due to the fire this morning.
And hot!
105 all the way from the bottom of Priests grade to the SGV!
Then another fire and smoke covered skies to greet me when I got home!
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zBrown
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Aug 16, 2015 - 08:07pm PT
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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 - Aug 17, 2015 - 01:58am PT
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National Mechanics Magazine.
A Flames Publication.
This month's feature article, replete with photos--
Blockheads: Marvels of twentieth century engineering they said couldn't be built, made to work, or sell profitably..
Next month--
Werner Braun explains most everything there is to know about decals, with comments by Merry Braun.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 17, 2015 - 06:06am PT
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Grugckffff, the sound as I collapse on to the desk chair at my table of a disturbed mind, physicaly wasted from trying to be a climber in the heat.
My victim and I tried to follow my own directions
and missed the rock by a mile, - that sucked.
but worse was my pathetic inability to climb in the 90 degree heat plus humidity.
This is chalk weather but I try not to use chalk .
now I regret that but I have found that for the past ten or so years,
all the holds have enough built up on them.
Mostly I climb new lines, on fresh rock, where there is plenty of dust around, and the holds are sharp.
LOOKING DOWN ? or do you see
(2) faces one in each pic. Looking up.
The day started off, off a step, before getting lost in the woods,when I pulled rank in a parking lot by a highway exit.
where I saw he had gone and overnighted a mini-haul bag style pack.
I had absolutely said to him not to buy anything damnit,
so the guy spent almost two bills to get a $99 dollar metolius crag sack.
I coulda smacked him, then I saw the Tan floppy 'mall crawler' 'fake' work boots
Boom/Cazap, I remembered what, in the heat of leaving, I had forgotten;
The approach shoes he would need. So 1st as the sun grew higher and hotter,
we had to drive the wrong set of rolling Connecticut hills,
passing 4 small but worthy climbing zones.
that was the start of a split trajectory
as the noob was dead set to climb
and my full stop meter was almost red lined.
More may be I m h o t stroke....
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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 - Aug 17, 2015 - 01:59pm PT
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A few more pix from Cousin Kevin of Diana's 100-mile run. They are running on a set course on this trail.
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