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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 10, 2013 - 02:28am PT
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Meanwhile, back on the Chariot Track in Butterfly County--
I wonder if Boo Dawg's place is this neato?
Mariposa Creamery and Booksellers.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 10, 2013 - 11:06am PT
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E interrupt this broadlycast to show you the weather, and whether you like it or not, it's raining.
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And I just saw some lighning out of what appeared to be a clearing sky (just outside my window!).
To the Roof!
Typical thundershowers. Huge dump, then nothing.
Good day to just DO NOTHING!
Bella cosa far niente.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 10, 2013 - 04:32pm PT
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Relax, Throwpie. I know the way to Raynor Ranch like the way to the toilet in the dark.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 07:05am PT
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This is a shot of Jim and Maureen Shirley taken sometime early in their relationship, not sure when. Jim is my main old time climbing partner and my best man when I married Liz. He's the picture provider for lots of my posts.
They are the parents of twins, Catherine and Mary, age 16.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 09:43am PT
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this sign was on the west end of town on Hwy. 99, just before the "Bear Creek Bridges" for the highway and the railroad.
The getaway to Yosemitay.
Which is what I'm a-gonna do.
Throwpie, I have an address emergency. I lost most of my addresses and phone numbers. (Temporary, I hope. Have you seen a yellow spiral tablet, 3 x 5, anyone?)
If you'll kindly post them to me via email, Pie, I'll be one part back, and maybe I can come visit soon. Would Thursday be OK, or not OK?
It's the second time in two weeks the thing's gone missing.
Agggh!--Charlie Brown
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 12, 2013 - 12:09am PT
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"Or pick it up after he throws it"
junkyardAngel is very helpful when doing car repairs
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 13, 2013 - 05:13am PT
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Yeah, Brown is now recognized by the establishment. I don't know what year this happened or when he made these comments...
Joe's in his eighties and still hitting it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-england-manchester-12095518
I believe I posted this earlier, here, proving that twisted minds think not at all alike but come to the same concussians. Russians. Speed climbing contests.
Really, about the same time as I was realizing how the history worked in earlier climbing, Joe and Whillans were just past their prime and conswquently not "headline material" for Mountain, who chose to write about how the Russkies were promoting climbing on winches up a cliff for TIME! How untraditional can you get? Joe would've laughed his ass off at them, both the editors and the Russkies.
Now it's come full circle. We are idolators of NIAD and "Dream Teams." The seconds are gonna win these duels in the sun; and, too, the leaders will always "fall," someday maybe for reals.
Meantime, do you want to go to Tom's Thumb? It's gonna be a happy toprope party (me, THocking, and maybe Ronola) with Fizzies. We'll be heading there about the 22nd, and hopefully Ron A. will make it. Sounds like you will be busy with family, though.
sand gets in the eyes
tears
someone close dies
tears
someone picks up a thrown tool
tears
and I look in the mirror, crying
an old fool
more tears
time for a Happy Fizzies Party
The dater's best friend, put one in Chele's glass...
Great shot, BTW.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 15, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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Here's a couple of warnings I received. Don't know how seriously to take them. Sure glad I didn't fall.
Warning: Mssql_connect () [. Function.mssql-Connect. ]: Message: Can not open user default Database. Using master database instead. Using master database instead. (severity 11) in D:\Websites\nokindustry.com\httpdocs\include\connect.php on line 21 (Severity 11) in D: \ Websites \ nokindustry.com \ httpdocs \ include \ connect.php on line 21.
Warning : mssql_select_db() [ function.mssql-select-db ]: Unable to select database: nokindustry in D:\Websites\nokindustry.com\httpdocs\include\connect.php on line 22 Warning: Mssql_select_db () [. Function.mssql-Select-DB. ]: Unable to Select Database: Nokindustry in D: \ Websites \ Nokindustry.com \ httpdocs \ include \ connect.php on Line 22.
Connect Database nokindustry Error Connect Database nokindustry Error.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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What ye hae there is a dearth of communication, nae message, lad.
Na this be a message!
Get a grip.
Better yet, a good old reliable BD fastener.
And come up for de feesh fry at Mel's this after de noon.
Bring yer blues sunglasses.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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A flying trip to the Valley to ask Tom Evans to help with my camera settings, which he did. Many thanks to the old pro.
While I was taking some shots of a Trifolian above me, Merry joined me for a pipe.
I spent some time over near one of my favorite spots along the river beneath Lower Brother, at the intersection of 'Positive Place' and 'Positively 4th St.'
Lilabiene knows the spot: she spent part of her first day in the Valley cleaning it up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WvtYgPKlw0
I spent lots of time watching the river flow. The river does nothing fast, at least in this state, yet it does everything eventually.
Bobby D., John Fahey, The Dead,
playing on the banks of the Old Merced
to the tide of history
should be no mystery
for Mother Merced makes music with every molecule.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 05:54pm PT
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These are from yesterday.
So is this one.
//For five days and four nights John Salathe (“Top”) and Anton Nelson (“Red Cap”) clung to the sheer face, one of America’s severest climbs. During daylight they inched their way up; at night they bivouacked on tiny ledges, tying themselves to iron spikes driven into fissures [experto credite]. Buffeted by cold winds, racked by thirst, and barely sustained by raisins, dates, and nuts, they achieved the summit after 103 hours of climbing, on September 3, 1947. they were the first to climb from the base of the spire to the peak.
Yosemite Falls trail zigzags through the trees at upper left.//
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 15, 2013 - 11:56pm PT
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Phenominal output there mousie. It makes a fella wonder where his efforts should be expended.
Budgeting must be the key - I suppose.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jun 16, 2013 - 12:05am PT
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I finally read this epic from page 1 until now - and I have to say with all seriousness that this experience has brought about more flashbacks than I thought possible given that I only took Owsley's finest about 25 times.
Note to newbies - if you wish to gorge on Mouse's feast of funk by daring to click on the Show All link - at the least, get really high on some good Indica and cue up the Dead's American Beauty album on slow repeat.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 11:31am PT
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http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2149435&msg=2149435#msg2149435
"Oh, Little Big Man! You look tired Little Big Man. Would you like to come in my teepee and rest on soft furs? Come and live with me and I'll be your wife!"--Little Horse
"Grant me the power to make things jump and boogie around here. It is a good day to fry. Are you hungry for some catfish, my son? She Throws Hard Rights has a way with those whiskered water persons that makes me want to have more than is good for me."--Old Likes Skin
The Band at Mel's was Mike Hammar and the Nails, professionals from Merced, Winton, Atwater, and Mariposa.
[Click to View YouTube Video]The Drummer for the Nails, Greg Merino, is the brother of the Jazz Drummmer, Rudy Merino, who owned the Partisan Bar before it was called that. It used to be known as Rudy's. Before that the Trail's End.
zBrown, we amigos have come full circle, seemingly, from the FNPWD epic last year, where the Partisan was first seen here on the pages of the Taco.
From the Partisan Bar to Mel's Old West may not seem like a circle, but it's metaphor for, for the past few years, Mel Pruitt has had health troubles and has had to forego the celebration of Juneteenth. (You know Juneteenth could have been any date ranging from June 13 to June 19 and it wouldn't have made any difference, it's still gonna be celebrated.)
YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT JUNETEENTH, DO YOU?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VReHM4pXwFA
The Nails played part of the last set with Kenny Craig of the Merced Blue Notes singing and on sax. Mellow!
Mel Pruitt hails from a town near Grambling, LA, and his fish frys are like a Planada homecoming without the Latin flavor, if you can dig it.
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