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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 13, 2010 - 11:19am PT
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Sitting here in my office in LA, that wonderful bunch of prose took me back to Colorado, my home state for 48 years, better than anything I've seen or read in a long time. You elucidate the exact feelings and visions that draw me still to those wonderful ridges and peaks that are so accessible to the Front Range. I haven't been back in a year, but I'm going to visit my daughter in Oct. I'm pretty sure that you've helped seal my plans on what we're going to do when I'm there....Thanks!
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
ColoRADo
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Aug 13, 2010 - 11:57am PT
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Hey Roy. Did you happen to see if Superstar had any snow in it?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Aug 13, 2010 - 12:13pm PT
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What a beautiful story!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Aug 13, 2010 - 12:15pm PT
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Nice stuff Roy,
Glad to see you getting out for a day in the mountains.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Aug 13, 2010 - 12:31pm PT
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magnificence comes at a cost.
that cost is mediocrity.
tarbuster shows me that this is a worthwhile investment.
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J. Werlin
Social climber
Cedaredge, CO
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Aug 13, 2010 - 01:01pm PT
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cheers Roy!
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Aug 13, 2010 - 01:05pm PT
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very nice post!
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 13, 2010 - 01:06pm PT
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Your writing transported me... I was right there with you.
Beautiful stuff man.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 13, 2010 - 03:55pm PT
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Hey Tar! Thanks for reporting in.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 13, 2010 - 04:45pm PT
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nice one Roy.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
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'Glad to know everyone is enjoying my noodlings.
Beatrix: I'd guess superstar is long gone, though it is hard to see into it.
Most of those things are starting to become leaned out by late July.
You can get a fairly straight view from the top of Sugarloaf; last time I was up there things looked pretty attenuated.
Nice one Cosmic!
Watusi set that one right up and you knocked it over good.
'Gonna get it up under the refrigerator magnets shortly...
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Prod
Trad climber
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Aug 13, 2010 - 06:04pm PT
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Nice work Tarbaby.
Uh, how are those arms feeling now?
Prod.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Aug 13, 2010 - 06:27pm PT
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Nice! Thx!
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Aug 13, 2010 - 06:40pm PT
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Thanx, Tarbustah!
Dang, that was good for the soul!
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 13, 2010 - 06:52pm PT
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we're all in recognition, but few have your gift of distillation. the authority you wield here is ever so justified in one fell swoop.
with some luck, you will inspire more careful prose, where words are chosen, chiseled, and reflective of sober deliberation.
i count you among the post processors, yet currently venturing forth into the realm so that the resulting mindfulness
is built upon broad experience, and it leads us to a particular vantage we recognise as matured.
thank you for taking the care, and letting us witness the pushback against physical challenges, performed as if it didn't matter,
yet conferring the vicarious knowledge that the deal is raw.
the theme is timeless. sadly, needs to be reconstructed for each generation to witness such a mix of defiance and accomodation. when you depict so clearly that the themes that propel us will continue to abide, we are strengthened.
ya those old scouts are sweet, got a couple. plus i emptied a glass jar of $35.00, and my dad took me up to gerry in sf for my first major capital outlay for one of those kelty framepacks. amongst everything else, i dig hearing that those caught your eye.
"merrily toeing and clawing," "trotted off some shattered rocks..." sh#t, there's a dozen of 'em
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Aug 13, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
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cheers for a literatus. photos are only worth a thousand words if you don't know how to write.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Aug 13, 2010 - 08:35pm PT
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whenever the hills come alive i usually limp home in the dark with a bruised knee and humility.
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hossjulia
Social climber
Eastside
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I'm bumping this because, well, it's EXCELLENT.
makes my recent serious attempts at prose seem very, very weak.......
I know the area and could see it all unfold before me. Stunning.
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