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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2009 - 11:09pm PT
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I'm glad you asked that question aspendougy. That 1st pitch is so high quality Eric is doing a 2nd lap on it after we cleaned the pro.
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reddirt
climber
da subarwu
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:16pm PT
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both stories are horrific... esp the 2nd. I am able to remember things from when I was four. I just can't imagine it was like the little girl crying & tied up as her sperm & egg donors were climbing.
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here's a good example of good vertical parenting
http://www.arleneblum.com/keynote_alps.html
In 1987 Arlene Blum, Rob Gomersall, and their four to six month-old daughter Annalise Gomersall Blum made a traverse from hut to hut "Across the Alps with Baby through some of the Alpine regions of Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France. This slide lecture about the challenges and rewards of parenthood in high places transports you to verdant alpine meadows flanked by towering Alpine peaks.
"Carrying Annalise and all her baby gear, nursing and diapering our way across the Alps was as much work as climbing Mount Everest," Arlene reports. "But it was lots more fun!"
and here's a selection from this collection of bad ones:
http://let-the-love-glow.blogspot.com/2009/11/nomineringarna-for-arets-foraldrar-ar.html
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Wack
climber
Dazevue
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:26pm PT
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In TMeadows a buddy got up to hit the head which was clearly visible from camp so he didn't bother to bring a light even though it was pitch black. Upon exiting a little girl told him she was lost. The good Samaritan walked around in the darkness trying to find the girls campsite. They stumbled upon the girls father who gave a suspicious thanks and left. Leaving the now lost and confused climber to stumble around in the cold darkness for 2 hours. Sometimes doing the right thing has a price.
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TripL7
Trad climber
'dago
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:44pm PT
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Thanks for posting this story.
The wilderness(let alone anywhere else)is no place to leave an infant alone.
One summer, away back when, I was working on a construction job outside of Bishop. And since it was a little cooler than town and I could do a little bouldering in the evening, I would spend an occasional night in the Buttermilks. I had just a few weeks earlier bought myself a puppy(golden retriever)and the both of us would sleep in the back of my open truck at night.
Early one morning(about dawn)I was awakened by a loud whoosh-whoosh sound and sat up to find myself looking into the eyes of either a huge hawk or golden eagle(probably the latter)with a wing-span wider than the width of my truck(6-ft). In retrospect, I am sure the bird was a startled as I was. And averted itself with one thrust of its powerful wings. A second or two later and my pup(oblivious to the danger) would have been gone.
Looking at the picture of the little one that you two rescued/saved the life of that day, I would say my dog at the time was twice that size. And yet the eagle could have easily(by my estimation)carried it away.
Coyotes/bears/eagles/snakes etc.!! What was that "dude" thinking? Super-self absorbed no doubt!!
Bravo to you and Eric!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2009 - 11:46pm PT
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TripL7 - great story. Thanks for sharing that.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Those shoes are older than the kid.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Way to go, Tradster! I know it's kind of old news, but any number of things could've happened to that baby. Truly unbelievable to leave someone so vulnerable like that. Unbelievable. And same with the Needles story. Words escape.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:55pm PT
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TriplL7 - A guy I kayak with watched a bald eagle (here in Seattle) swoop down and pick up her Chihuahua and fly off with it, leash hanging down, flapping in the wind.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
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reddirt: that photo of the kid with the rifle in its mouth is disturbing.
Chaz: that photo was taken ~ 15 years ago and Sascha was about 7, so you're probably right.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 12, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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Nice work all you guys who helped out in these stories.
When my daughter was little i used to take a folding playpen in the back of my truck sometimes when we would go bouldering, that kinda worked for a while...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2009 - 12:32am PT
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hey there all, say....
this one thing is very very wrong:
a person's time-as-to-be-inconvienienced...
a person's chores, agenda, or fun...
a person's immediate needs to go something...
a person's self, self, self...
are all MORE important than...
a helpless baby.... :O
this is VERY VERY WRONG...
my mom was just the best, she never left us alone, and she taught me never to put my self and my needs first, over a helpless baby in my midst...
if she had NOT taught me this, who knows what i may have done with my kids... one never knows... :O
if the baby is in the bath and the phone rings (we had no cell phone in those day) you take the baby OUT no matter how much trouble it inconvieniences you, no matter how much mess it makes, no matter IF you miss the dad-gummed ol' phone call so seemingly important... no matter how tired you are of doing "baby stuff" all day, no matter that you may less time to yourself, by haveing to restart the bath...
and the list goes on:
a baby is NOT an animal to be left to the "nest" and risk it being "part of the food chain" ...
a baby is a gift of life, one that took nine months to make, and has a soul that can suffer, and it feels pain, and fear, and neglect... it is helpless....
who does one love more, oneself, and all one's desires for the day...
or:
the helpless baby...
oh my... how many more folks are like this, the world over... :O
THANK YOU FOR SAVING THAT BABY...
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*SORRY all, i have very very strong feelings about babies...
edit: also---people treat babies and kids like "things"...
and, they EXPECT them to act "predictably" or "in pre-planned ways"...
but, they are living beings, not yet developed and totally unpredictable, as even adults can be, when tired, hungry or upset... how much more so, at such an infant-age... oh my...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2009 - 01:16am PT
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Good point Tami. I didn't have the presence of mind to do that.
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Dec 13, 2009 - 01:20am PT
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Does any guy out there have a picture not wearing short running shorts?
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rotten johnny
Social climber
mammoth lakes, ca
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Dec 13, 2009 - 01:30am PT
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largo does in the largo thread
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 13, 2009 - 02:30am PT
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Tami, you were never arrested for some of your cartooons, and really that should have happened.
Bad humor is no joke!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2009 - 01:44pm PT
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it also occurred to me that the child could have grown up to be a mass murderer or serial rapist
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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Dec 13, 2009 - 03:26pm PT
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or worse, the kid now works for Goldman Sachs
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Dec 13, 2009 - 04:11pm PT
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Even climbers can be complete idiots....
Just to think if the baby did "bite-it"..
taking for granted the fact that you have a human life in your care does not make for a better life.. for anyone....
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Dec 13, 2009 - 04:19pm PT
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put that baby in the river and watch it float downstream,
it will turn into the Baby Jesus, i swear,...jus sayin...nuff said...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2009 - 04:22pm PT
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no climber in his or her right mind would take the sharp end knowing that his or her belayer would exhibit as much disregard for their safety as that Dad did for his son
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