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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Apr 24, 2013 - 12:57am PT
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Thanks, Bolte, yo are correcto!
Love to groove with both those blues wizards. lynnie
Edit and LOL: But what do i know. Maybe not blues, maybe......????
Miles of smiles.....but, hey, isn't there a jazz man whose name is Miles? Are we cooking on the percussion yet?
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Yosemite, ca
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Apr 24, 2013 - 12:59am PT
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Lived here for 29 years! Love it.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 24, 2013 - 01:14am PT
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hedge nailed it. all we gots is grainite.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Apr 24, 2013 - 02:51am PT
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I am born and bred Californian who is heading to Azerbaijan on Monday.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Apr 24, 2013 - 05:45am PT
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used to be fourth in GDP, then fifth, then...
Used to probably have the best education system in the world, certainly in the 1960s and 1970s was number one in the States, now I believe it is 50th.
I was born and raised in California.
Area wise, Cali is larger than Japan or New Zealand.
Dad was from Olympia, WA, mom was a 'Mountaineer' from West Virginia, the state motto is Montani Semper Liberi", ("Mountaineers Are Always Free).
They say that if you could flatten out West Virginia, it'd be larger than Texas.
But, not many places have deserts, temperate rain forests, Redwoods, Sequoias, Bristlecone Pines, Joshua Trees, San Francisco (Jennie loves The City), Mediterranean climate, mountains, did I mention Yosemite?
Back when my late brother Mac was at UC Davis, first studying medicine, then viticulture and enology, I went to an 'open campus' day. One professor told me that, apparently, in the 1950s-1960s, California was responsible for one-tenth of the world's agriculture. I couldn't believe that and still don't, but that is including forestry, fisheries and the like.
Now it specializes in cement, asphalt and housing estates.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 24, 2013 - 06:01am PT
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A generic greeting, a la Locker condole or CC birthday wish:
"Welcome to California, pard.
Pick up after yourself and we'll get along fine."
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Apr 24, 2013 - 06:11am PT
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1,999,797...
would it be wrong of me to post 203 things separately of things I've done in CA that make me love the place?
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Apr 24, 2013 - 06:15am PT
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wow, that one post cost me 3 replies...somethings fishy...
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Loomis
climber
Svět
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Apr 24, 2013 - 09:42am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...
Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!
[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!
[Chorus]
Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.
DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
[Chorus]
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Apr 24, 2013 - 09:58am PT
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myself it has a little less to do with the GDP, but eh, i'm young.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 24, 2013 - 11:08am PT
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No limestone though,
You need to get out into the desert more.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 24, 2013 - 11:44am PT
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Sucks., except for Yosemite, the Eastside, and Jtree. I will be outta here soon
A common sentiment, I think that about 33% of all folks I talk with share your view and they usuly don't even know where the valley or Josh or the eastside is.
I always tell em.... "Ill come over and help you move, if you promise never to return"
I have lived in the Midwest and Europe and all I can say is California is MY home sweet home.
Oh to answer the OP... Jim, I think you are correct. We don't travel far for climbing. We don't need to.
Why go get hassled by UTAH, TEXAS, etc, LEOS who
hate you cause of whats on your license plate?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Apr 24, 2013 - 11:57am PT
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There really isn't enough Munge climbing.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 24, 2013 - 11:57am PT
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One place, many perspectives. As Anaïs Nin said, "We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
I've loved living here for the last 20 odd years and would likely not have become a climber if I'd lived elsewhere. But I've always loved and appreciated wherever I've been (and I've moved a lot). Lot's of other great places in the world to experience.
Eric
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jopay
climber
so.il
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Apr 24, 2013 - 12:29pm PT
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I have always had a theory when it comes to California, growing up here in the Midwest it seemed every cool thing emulated from California, hot rods, custom cars, drag strips, beach parties, music you name it. California was just the center of the universe for a Midwest youth. The mindset was just different, always new ideas or way of thinking, and so my theory is those hardy souls who were brave and adventurous enough to leave the relative safety of the East and venture forth across the new frontier to California were a different breed to start with and so that's the DNA that made up the California mystique.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Apr 24, 2013 - 12:32pm PT
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California has so many strong positives and also huge negatives. Both lists are too long to detail. Having been raised these and having left and returned a couple times, I do not see myself going back ( to live). Have lived in the North and South. Personally, I have been there done that. I figured I have wasted enough of my life sitting on either the 405 or 580. Better places exist ...just sayin.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Apr 24, 2013 - 12:52pm PT
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Why is it so many Colorado climbers dislike/hate/slag/u-name-it on California? It's just such an obvious rehash oh their geographical inferiority shizzle, they've been hurling since I began climbing
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