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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Jan 18, 2019 - 01:50pm PT
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Not sierra oriented, but one I've always been fond of:
Tired and Lonely by Dag Hammarskjöld
Tired
And lonely,
So tired
The heart aches.
Meltwater trickles
Down the rocks,
The fingers are numb,
The knees tremble.
It is now,
Now, that you must not give in.
On the path of the others
Are resting places,
Places in the sun
Where they can meet.
But this
Is your path
And it is now,
Now that you must not fail
Weep
If you can,
Weep,
But do not complain.
The way chose you --
And you must be thankful.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 18, 2019 - 03:11pm PT
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Appropriate to the Sierras:
“Nobody goes there any more, it’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 18, 2019 - 03:14pm PT
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Don' fck up and die. me.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Jan 18, 2019 - 03:22pm PT
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+1 for the Anatoli Boukreev quote shared by Ruppell.
as to his fate, pre-envisioned by Boukreev himself, he said:
"Mountains are my life...my work. It is too late for me to take up another road."
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Mark Sensenbach
climber
CA
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Jan 18, 2019 - 07:31pm PT
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"It'l go"
By my buddy Davey D. as he drags my scared ass up sh#t.
:)
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Jan 18, 2019 - 08:12pm PT
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A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure.
Anything less is just working out.
--Jim Bridwell
I guess that means I'm just Sweatin' to the Oldies on the Bridwell scale. Meh, probably always knew that anyway...
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jan 19, 2019 - 09:06am PT
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Not a quote, but in the spirit of...our beloved High Sierra
Jon of Roc
At the Battle of Dark Star
he pulled the flag out of the stone
from the top of Temple Crag
he took it down
for the people there
and made
Third Lake
his mountain home
In the Siege of El Capitan
he fought the tourists
and the rats
then retreated
to Tuolumne
reflecting on the golden domes
a tired warrior
sun kissed
In Desolation
he was counseled by
the angels as they spoke
his trek along the Pacific Crest
twenty six hundred miles
or more
with celestial guardians
on high
At the mountain hall near Mendenhall
they slew him where he slept
their piousness masked
their jealousy
of nature’s love
and free spiritedness
their vigilante law
inept
-bushman
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 19, 2019 - 11:03am PT
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hey there, say, lynne...
sierra...
SEE air...aahhhh....
see AIR...aaahhhh...
sierra... sieRRa... sierra...
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....so very nice!
:)
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Jan 19, 2019 - 12:31pm PT
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Lynne Hill on completing the FFA of the Nose:
"It Goes Boys!"
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2019 - 02:40pm PT
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Keep them coming...Super Appreciate! Anyone know any John Muir or Norman Clyde's worthy words that are meaningful to you?
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TRo
climber
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Jan 19, 2019 - 02:46pm PT
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"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are made for."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 19, 2019 - 03:22pm PT
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“It’s nice to be dead” - Iggy Pop
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2019 - 03:45pm PT
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Was Iggy speaking from experience? :)
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 19, 2019 - 04:17pm PT
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My favorite:
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." — René Daumal.
More of these from our old friend at the wreck:
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesClimbingSerious.html
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 19, 2019 - 05:23pm PT
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Lynne, I suspect he was speaking in an existential sense. Quite à propos I just read an
interview of Michel Houellebecq by Susannah Hunnewell in the Paris Review. Houellebecq
is a very polarizing writer.
“How do you have the nerve to write some of the things you do?” I asked him.
“Oh, it’s easy. I just pretend that I’m already dead.”
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 04:15pm PT
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Reilly, thanks for turning me onto some new people, ideas....for me at least.
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johntp
Trad climber
By decision or indecision we are where we are.
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Jan 22, 2019 - 05:56am PT
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Of course there is the quote attributed to Eric Beck:
"At either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class"
Or something like that.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jan 22, 2019 - 10:42am PT
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I've always been partial to a quote from John Salathe' when referring to the difference between free climbing ("hiking") and aid climbing ("climbing")
Enough of this hiking. Let's get on with the climbing.
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