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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 23, 2015 - 03:52pm PT
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Mrs. Kool.
The Peanuts and Diane Hour.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 23, 2015 - 03:57pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
skip ahead to 13:30, or so - then back to check out the other fun.
seems like last i looked Jimmy Chin was doing well filming the Meru thing, did you miss that?
it was front page only last week ? I think? a cool video that was a tease for, an upcoming
Conrad Anker, climb of a climb envisioned by migs stump, the thread was about the thinking of it being a bit of a nod to the MUGZ . . . .i shared a grapefruit with him at a desert bivy along time ago. need i say that? need kept me re watching and so hearing the posts shinning, contribution; J Chin's fine eye for a great shot.
From the 70 year old thread:
jogill
climber
Colorado
Aug 1, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
78.5 now and I climbed up until shoulder arthritis and questionable inner-ear balance made climbing (all solo) too risky - age 74. I chose not to continue if it meant being put on a top rope and jollied along by youngsters. But then I had a fall-back in bodyweight exercises that I have done since my days as a gymnast 60 years ago. Puttering Around
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Aug 3, 2015 - 08:19pm PT
I am 71 and by now have a shoulder that needs to be replaced, so the docs tell me, but from what I hear those replacements are not so good and the recovery time is very long
I ruined my shoulders 55 years ago working the still rings but it only caught up to me about 10 years ago. The surgeon presented three options: shoulder replacement (no more gymnastics stuff at all, ever - including difficult climbing), resurfacing (he said sometimes the person is left with a lingering ache - I declined), and doing nothing. I chose the last.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 23, 2015 - 04:06pm PT
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the thing is right now I am up a bit having sold some approach shoes that never fit me but i had hoped to use as wall shoes,
now that maybe someday baby maybe some day..
I need to go pawn shop shopping for a camera, the internet is full of them I also need climbing shoes with rubber that fit.
really wanted to hear this song here, a lot, Wasn't Me,[Click to View YouTube Video] i hope this takes if not
i'll post the double dose.
seeing these all in a row[Click to View YouTube Video]
The draw that is, training and the lure of other like minded people working to maintain fitness, while pursuing the act of being a good YO-YO, did entice me a few times.
]Prison, version sounds better,[Click to View YouTube Video]. I was sad to see the sea-change in rock climbing that, that indoor climbing led to.
the form and function of indoor, simulated to copy the things that occur on real rock, led to people gaining skills beyond the learning curves norm.
threeseys[Click to View YouTube Video].
Often, after three sessions indoors, males, with a natural upper body strength, are climbing juggy 5.11. There is no suffering. No learning curve in gear or form. No going from a rope wrapped around the waist thru tied webbing swami, to tied diaper, to harness.
No finding the amazing weight difference, between the old gear, pins and hamer, to a rack of nuts, both spiritually and physically Up-lifting.
The ability to find the rocks, and other climbers, was part of the gumby gate, if you wanted to rock climb, you had to get to the rocks, if all you did when you got there was stand around and look up, no one noticed, no one was there to stand around and stare. Going Climbing Meant something different then.
Now it is a sanitized world that leads to 'climbers' wanting clean trails, lines up the rock marked by every passage with white dots and smears, so that no dirt - environmental hazards - exist.
bring in the security of bolts, anchors or protection, and many people want to have more , not less. The thinking was that the Gunks needed bolted anchors, the thing is that the placing of bolted anchors opens the question of why not be as safe as can be, why risk at all.
Not me ... by choice, I climb in the woods on fresh dirty stone and try not to use chalk, ever. Trying is easy if you have no chalk, bring it around me and I dipp. Chalk is a white powder and every hippie used to know from caffeine to heroin, the white powder habbits are the hardest to break.
And that Is another thing about gyms they teach all the bad habits, instilling the wrong lessons and making important the things that in long run do not matter.
Sleep as was the order of the moment when I posted the tunes.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Aug 23, 2015 - 08:44pm PT
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Mouse, the persimmons by Linda Abbott are beautiful!
Thank you for sharing.
An image I will savor in my mind's eye for a while.
ff
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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 24, 2015 - 07:02am PT
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I wasn't too sure what those hanging fruits were.
Persimmon cookies were one thing my father baked!
And here is the Daily Sun, just now come up.Without the Duke's influence, I wonder, who'd be wearing those insane Hawaiian shirts just to look cool?
Beach Boys - Wipe Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCszcc-FLg
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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 24, 2015 - 07:30am PT
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Then the DC-10 made its appearance again.Bienvienidos, DMT!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 24, 2015 - 08:19am PT
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the circus was in town and carry a big stick...
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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 24, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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Boy, howdy!
No more persimmon cookies for me before going to sleep...
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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 24, 2015 - 12:22pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 24, 2015 - 05:41pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... just SAW that posted recently today...
so you are okay, but someone is not, :(
do you know any merced folks that travel far, by bike ??
Sierra Star Online
5 hrs · Edited ·
A Mariposa man was arrested for allegedly killing a bicyclist while driving drunk, authorities said.
Ruport Wayne Harrison, 72, was driving north on Highway 49 near French Camp Road Sunday when he allegedly slammed into a man from Merced riding a bicycle on the highway, the California Highway Patrol said.
Harrison fled from the wreck, CHP officials said, and was later found at his home on Bear Valley Road. Harrison was booked into Mariposa County Jail on DUI, hit and run, and manslaughter charges.
The name of the 63-year-old victim was not released.
very sad... it seems like it was shared five? hours ago...
thought i should share it here...
please take care, as well, if you are still out riding, these days...
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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 24, 2015 - 05:58pm PT
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neebee, that is a stretch of 49 that is a kind of steep grade coming out of Mariposa to the north and west of town, heading toward the landfill.
I've not seen anything in the media yet.
Still pedaling slowly about here in the flats, getting slower day by day.
The hernia is getting more painful day by day.
I need a dental evaluation before they'll do anything more for my heart, whether a valve replacement/repair or a bypass. And they need that before the angiogram to see whether i DO require a bypass instead of the valve fix.
Then I have to wean off the blood thinner, about a week.
So I'm thinkin' any surgery won't be until after the Facelift.
I'm gonna be twice as slow up there this year as I was last year.
That bike is a gem. Thank you again, dear neebs.
How's that Windows 10 treating you?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 24, 2015 - 06:30pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... thanks for the update...
say, it is 'a computer miracle' here for me, wow:
wonder of wonders...
i can hardly fathom all this yet... in the morning, i almost dread to turn it on--but THEN i remember it NOW works and is fast, and that it will NOT eat up, or, waste my time...
wow, :)
hee hee, NOW, i must be disciplined to not over indulge using the joy of it, instead of be disciplined to force myself TO waste time with it (course, time not wasted, when used for friends and study) ...
youtube even works smooth and there is not stalls or robot voices, etc...
wow... :O :)
thanks for asking... well, got to get busy now, :)
hang in there... still praying for you to get all this done, and have more time to enjoy your life in NEW ways, then, as to just having 'normal' or adventuring, days, again...
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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 25, 2015 - 07:56am 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 25, 2015 - 09:48am 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 25, 2015 - 02:19pm PT
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Yosemite Valley from the talus way above Camp 4.
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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 25, 2015 - 02:27pm PT
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Back at "Ground Zero."
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