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couchmaster
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pdx
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Oct 21, 2013 - 10:45pm PT
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Nice shot Jim.. saw this Keith Richards Nora Jones song that Emmylou Harris and Gram parsons made famous and thought it would make a nice thread bump.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 21, 2013 - 11:21pm PT
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ROCK SCARS
with apologies to G. Parsons
Rock hurts
Rock scares
Rock wounds and marks me in my heart
Not tough nor strong enough to take a lot of pain
Take a lot of pain
Face is hard to climb
Small holds your strength will drain
Crimps hurt
Crimps hurt
I'm young I know but even so
I know a thing or two I've learned from you
I've really learned a lot
Really learned a lot.
The rock is like a stove
Burns you when it's hot.
It hurts
It hurts
Some fools rave of long run-outs
Sketchiness
Wilderrness
Some fools fool themselves
I guess
But they're not fooling me i know it isn't cool
(Cuz they’re all gonna die)
No
It isn't true. Rock is just a lieback that makes you blue.
Rock hurts
Rock hurts.
Rock hurts
Rock scares
I never climbed Lost Horse Wall--how unkind my fate.
I watched a video in '83 of John B. on it.
The very first time I watched someone free-soloing anything anywhere.
And how unkind John's fate.
Two of the very best at what they did, Bachar and Parsons.
Both departed early.
edit--bluelens is right. Life is very good literature from a genuinely surprising source. The story of how Keith bumped his head getting out of the tree and then just "let it bleed," so to say, is a medical journey you want to avoid in your own life.
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Bluelens
climber
Pasadena, CA
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Oct 21, 2013 - 11:22pm PT
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Toward the end of his bio ""Life" is Keith's story of camping with his family in a "battered Winnebago", where he uses his boyhood scouting training to start campfires in the rain. Due to rain flattening his hair he remains unrecognized. It's a great read.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 18, 2013 - 09:46am PT
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70 years
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 18, 2013 - 09:49am PT
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What's that square thing in the middle?
Old skool photo shop to cover up the pipe!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 18, 2013 - 09:55am PT
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Amazing!
KR hits 70!
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RtM
climber
DHS
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Dec 18, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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Autumn Cannibalism?
Just because the doods standing there touching a rock doesn't mean he's "bouldering".
sheeezz
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 23, 2015 - 04:43am PT
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bump
[Click to View YouTube Video]Enjoy this documentary on Netflix.
I AM NO LONGER UNDER THE INFLUENCE
nor am i on top of it
--weej 'cliff' richards
'Let he who is without sin (similitudine absque peccato) cast the first stone at an original rock star like Richards.'
--Sin Sin
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