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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 30, 2015 - 06:55am PT
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Wow !!
I might be paranoid but this page and the last did not appear (re-fresh) for me till after dawn your time,
Nine am my time.
The wife and family let me go and play all day yesterday. I owe rugrats 'n wife my unfocused focused attention for what ever amount of time they like to over come the deficit
If I would climb at the outdoor gym; the Gunks, they might join me for a pitch or two.
I feel the specter of age and I fear it too!
That I am climbing at all is so good, I do not want to be trapped in N00B hood.
I ve got raisins to harvest - prunes - things I still dream about thirty years on. The place is wild, with huge in potential, and now a prohibitive drive away from where I live.
The drive also takes me across the Hudson River, by way of the **Tappan Zee Bridge" where a second spann is under construction. . (Hey there. .DMT)
Also that means that I sit in traffic mesmerized not by the barges and full on water bound erector set but by those cliffs beyond.The Palisades! Free the largest climbing area of un tapped potential in the midst of humanity that exists in the country!
Argh I hate the drive, I can't believe that it has not happened in the last ten years? How do they get to call themselves climbers? We were adventurers, striving into the forbidden and unknown. They are sheeplike they only follow and are standing on thee still living shoulders as if we were already dead.
Yikes oops
And then you post up cookies ?
I'm so fat they need to grease my butt to squeeze it into the 'Final Exam'! Well that's how 5.10 feels . . . ?thanks for the munchies, I'm trying the liquid diet thing now, but tomorrow night the menu calls for roast pork tenderloin wrapped in Perrsutto, with russet potato, broccoli ect.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 30, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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LSMFT, but just gimme the filter.
Missing California hiker rescued after nine days
"They found her in a very remote area in the Sierra Nevada mountains on a very rocky location," Mims said.
Harwood had some broken bones and was taken to the hospital and was expected to recover.
California Highway Patrol officer Rusty Hotchkiss said Harwood had only planned on hiking for the day and didn't have any food.
"She basically crawled from where she was injured down to a creek," Hotchkiss told CNN.
"It took her about two days to do that. And then she was able to drink from the creek with the water filter to stay alive."
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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 30, 2015 - 08:22am PT
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http://www.superchevy.com/features/sucp-0008-1958-chevy-impala-convertible/
You sound like normal people to me, Gnome.
Torn twixt your passion and the fruit of your loin and that additional rib, you bitterly take it out on the innocent n00b who don't know better.
They are who they are and are products of modern social practices, so make adjustments.
The rock abides, dude.
You are surprisingly mellow and focused in your rant this morning, I must give you that.
And you like prunes? Have I got something for YOU!
As bonus items, the Advice and Cheese Shop is giving away (for as long as they last) prunes with your "purchase." Take this free advice, the n00b must pay his own dues. Along with it, you get these two small examples of a California product, home-dried prunes from my buddy Skip the Agronomist.
Here they are on a recent excursion to a local boulder. The prune, of all the drupes, is remarkably tenacious and effective as a laxative. They are shown high-ballin' here. They are "nuts" about stone. Their level of stoke is as high as yours, easily.
And the size of their individual stones indicates nothing. It's in how they reinforce their partner's commitment that they arrive together at the top. See?
I'm tryin' to be helpful. Finding a partner of one's own age and experience is great, but it happens seldom if all you got is gym climbers to pick from and if you're an old traddy laddy like yourself.
The thing I like best about Skip's prune crop is that the stones are just the perfect size for "shooting." Their diameter fits my pinch factor. And they come speeding out of my thumb and index finger's squeeze like pellets if I do it right.
Makes for interesting good times on the lunch rock, see?
Bouldering with the California Prunes.One and a half quartz per man per day, too.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
So does this help? Does it soften you TFU, Hardman?
Have some Raisin Bran for variety.
That's my free advice and I'm stickin' to it.
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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 30, 2015 - 09:22am PT
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Sunrise clouds over the Sierra Nevada.
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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 30, 2015 - 01:57pm PT
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Hey, lookit!
We got what's called an imprimatur:
a "person's" acceptance or guarantee that something is of a good standard.
It derives from ecclesiatical Latin, a language no longer used by the RCs, to denote that some work in print is "decent" and worthy to present to the audience.
It used to be that it was given by a "prince of the church," a cardinal or an archbishop if you could get one to buy into what you were selling.
The world's RC press would present the imprimatur, along with another arcane goodie, the "nihil obstat." This implied that the work had been scrutinized by a man versed in the faith's creed and that there was "no objection" to the ideas presented by the author.
Well, it means something to Catholic Boys and Girls and the nuns who spend ridiculous amounts of energy to pound education into dull minds, to equip the young with a sense of right and wrong, to make purses out of sows' ears, BUT NOT TO IMPROVE ONE'S CRITICAL THINKING.
Imprimatur and nihil obstat serve only to keep the faith "PURE," and to prevent its pollution by Protestantism.
Yet it has this wider, more secular meaning when not applied to works in general.
I'm proud to have Tami Knight's approbation.
For, not only is Tami a CLIMBER, but a non-Catholic as well,
one whose G#d allows her enough slack to attend the CHURCH OF THE OUTDOORS,
allowing her to more perfectly understand the wonders of nature (without which it is impossible to know one's true "supernature"),
but she is "undeniably female" (a terrible sin!),
her work is irreverent as shinto (HO-MAN! is it ever!),
and she is @ 100% Canadian (a nation with a proud lineage of rock 'n' roll stars).
THANX, TAMI!!
MFM
[Click to View YouTube Video]
(I miss Leggs.)
Just what we needed. Thanx again, Tami!
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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 30, 2015 - 05:11pm PT
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That East Coast feeling
Has got Gnome reeling
His rebel yelling
Has been quite telling
With every rock in Connecticut on his radar and much of New Jersey and the Gunks, he might find an old copy of John Harlin III's book helpful.
A review from an impartial critic from 1987.
And remember your prunes, Gnome.
Part of a balanced diet is the proper amount and shape of poo, according to Dr zBronner.
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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 30, 2015 - 05:32pm PT
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MooseDrool has to try the prune standard, as well, if he's not on it.
From the same files, Polish greats who swear by prunes, especially at higher elevations and in winter, suspecially.
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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 30, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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Did you know Marvin Gaye is partially credited with the words to this song?
He also played the drums on the original hit by the Marvelettes, which is properly titled Beechwood 4-5789, not Beachwood.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 30, 2015 - 10:21pm PT
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Chastised and duly so, say no more say no more,n' it's all good at half past mid-night.
With all the things that I feel the need to climb , I don't need to find anyone else finds.
You sly xof to post the review from hot Henry, that's all I need!
Others, get divorced for going off to climb walls in Alaska or the greater ranges. I know three guys from the Gunks who failed to keep married on account of climbing but I am aimed at blowing it in search of ant-size rocks ? Piss on that, I have a life time of projects -
FREE THE PALLISADES !
I just might start something this last kid wants to open up some super urban rock. The place was incredibly dangerous. You could get knifed and left for dead , if the watchers saw you stagger off they often ran you down and beat the blood out of you before calling 911.
Climbing wise, the rock was trapp rock. Diabase is best when bolted ~ ho well ~ I have top roped a bunch and tried the local cook up. Dangerous, but less so if you squatted down and offers a hit back .
This was good in many ways if you did not end up stuxk, you were assured that the poison wouldn't kill you on the spot if Vanderess Kahmal, ~ just call me Leroy ~ Took a hit.
Also it marked me as that crazy guy climbing rocks not smoking them, much.
It also allowed me protection from all sorts of rats of desperate and disparity different types.
The working women were the most un welcoming of the lot. Paying for their services was not going to happen and they had their spots.You know it! damn if the spots weren't the best looking climbs that started from shallows created by overhangs,
I tried to buy off a few girls with rock, so buy from Leroy get his girls high keep an eye out for the cops, ignore gun shots and stabbing someone might have been a real need, but I was young, the rock is great.
it is a National historic site. A historic site that due to the economy, white flight, crack and its comet trail of other drugs and woes, had been taken over buy almost homeless
zombie like for real.
When I can or if you can the place is a photographers, dream
Paterson NJ's Great falls.
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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 31, 2015 - 07:48am PT
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I almost got to Fresno today for a dental exam appt.
The VA ride service van pulled out of the lot and headed out of town as I walked onto the lot. I was falbergassed that the driver left and it was JUST seven o'clock by the clock at the bus shelter there.
So be it. *sigh*
The Dude must abide.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
All this means is I get to go back to sleep, if I want; otherwise--
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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 31, 2015 - 08:06am PT
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Take me to my happy place
To where I won't have to face
The fact that I'm a mental case
Happy Place first choice.
Happy Place second choice.
Happy Place last choice.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2015 - 08:48am PT
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Car NEWZ: What's the take-away?
don't drink & drive
don't work on your car at night
If, however, you have a choice, choose car_werk. Driver dead, worker alive.
Witnesses told police officers the driver of a speeding Toyota pickup truck apparently lost control on eastbound C Street and went airborne before rolling over and striking two parked vehicles near 4th Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a Chula Vista police statement.
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A 44-year-old man who had been working beneath one of the parked vehicles when it was struck was taken to a hospital with potentially serious injuries, police said. His name and condition have not been released.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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Did anyone notice where Herr Obama is considering changing his name to Teddy Muir?
Can anyone spot the fakes?
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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 31, 2015 - 09:05am PT
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A blue heron at Lake Yosemite.
A picnic at Lake Yosemite in 1940...the local sailing club.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lake Yo is the "holding pond" for irrigation water out of the Merced River. It is now drawn down, this early in the year, due to the drought. In a normal year it would remain full until nearly the end of October.
Lake Yosemite is one of my local happy places for sure.
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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 31, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2015 - 01:58pm PT
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Some may conisder this offensive, though [the] chief isn't one of the sum.
I was mildly wondering what would happen if one were to Google "spic & span"
What surprised me, was the number of these that popped up.
Now this is more like it.
Sweeping the nation?
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