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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 14, 2013 - 04:08pm PT
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In the Calenviroscreen rankings, Merced warrants three:
Note that "high" scores are not considered good here.
95340 - highest 11-15%
95341 - highest 1-5%
95348 - highest 6-10%
Chula Vista
91911 - highest 6-10%
These rankings appear to be based upon about forty variables which range all over the map [pun].
Lost my place, i knew I shoulda saved that spreadsheet. Will return with Yosemite.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 06:09pm PT
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Hey, Doll, freakin' at the Fresno Balls takes a lot of gall.
The "Hook" name was inspired by Sawyer's eyepatch and a reference to "Captain Hook" of the Peter Pan fairy tale, though, humorously, because Captain Hook was neither a doctor nor wore an eyepatch. The "medicine show" and "doctor" (referring to the shows common in the 19th century) were intended as tongue-in-cheek warning against drug abuse. Ray Sawyer lost an eye in a near-fatal car crash in Oregon in 1967, and has worn an eyepatch ever since. To this day, Sawyer is mistakenly considered Dr. Hook because of the eyepatch he wears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Hook_%26_the_Medicine_Show
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A feel-better Hawaiian tune for ya, zeebee.
...Who remembers three-dot journalism?...It's been too long, Herb. And then Art Hoppe quit the biz, too...Di Fi is still cranking, though...The Hungry i lost its dot the other day, but it was returned to Enrico Banducci by a homeless man who shall remain homeless as well as nameless...Enrico bought him a drink and gave him a fin, ending the story...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_i
Do you suppose there just might be a place at the virtually empty Fresno climbing area called The Balls, and that there might be a route or dome named the Freakers' Ball?
Further, if one were to climb it, it would it be as a solo climb, correct?
I could milk this turmeric topic unmercifully.
But it would take a lot of gall, but no galls. I used to think oak "puffballs" were oak tree seeds, not tealizing I'd been put on by a friend of my brother; it did not occur to me for years and years that they produce acorns. I just found it out that these balls are galls.
Oui, c'est vrai.
Oak galls, a twofer.
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/science/gall-botany.html
when I contacted this website, a bear came tearing through the web-page's print and calmly walked off. No shut.
The Valley of the Dolls was one movie I wish I'd never seen, back in 1967. I used to go into SF for a movie, seeing that and Bonnie & Clyde, among a handful or them. Just a short time later later on August 8, 1969, the hippies from The Valley of San Fernando used their gall to fuel the Tate-LaBianca slaughter. I was in Yosemite that week.
The world is twice as full of freaks now, as I wee it. The internet stockings are at fault. They are so sexy and everyone wants a pair of something.
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I finally got some sleep last night. It's what I was looking for.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 07:34pm PT
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The magic elixirizer.
Lots und lots of zees, bubby.
Dreaming about climbing again, I realized the slides that Jim Shirley sent last were still in the little electronic storage device, so I looked them over and we really need more climbing content, so...
MAGENTA WARNING ON MONDAY MORNING!!!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 07:45pm PT
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It escapes me, the name of this climb on Tahquitz. It could be the Innominate and I would not be surprised were it to be that. Who can tell me the name of this route? Is it The Gulp, The Swallow, or Opening Post/Nasal Drip Continuation?
Somebody throw me a rope here!
Shirley, someone knows.
And then we climbed over on the West Face Route, a stout Robbins 5.7 which seemed harder than it had ten years earlier. I was a weekend warrior by this time, not a Yosemite resident climber. It's a long, slow slide to inactivity.
Back to the climbing.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 07:56pm PT
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I'll run ya for the pink slip to that pedal ride, zB, or any lingerie item you choose. But you have no chance, just like Superbird.
Said come out zBrown with your hands held high,
Drop your guns, baby, and reach for the sky.
I've got you surrounded and you ain't got a chance,
Gonna send you back to Chula, make you work on your ranch,
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 08:39pm PT
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Posted yesterday to the Mouse/sushi thread on TVTV, this plate is my spur-of-the-moment nouvelle cuisine effort, using found kitchen comestibles. The beets could not be beat. Best Beets Ever!
I have myself on a Riley Wyna kinda dining kick (it's not a DIET, for X's sake) that includes many things which are good for me. Layton's ideas on cuisine would be odd only if he were not healthy and vigorous. There is no reason to argue. Layton was right to eat to satisfy himself.
I may not be very strong and my aerobic capacity limited by asthma, but there is no denying the call to climb. There is no denying the call to pee several times in the course of one night,either. Age is not my enemy, but inactivity and lazy eating habits.
How many times must one fall off a horse or a bicycle before he realizes why? The answer is rhetorical as well, but my point is that if you lose your focus you may be bucked off the horse or lose your balance. Mr. Chimpanini says "consistent diet;" Doc Wyna says "full-on vegan."
The yoghurt mouse is non-Vegan. I gave Jimonini a jar of special pickled beets put up by Geri "Jerry" Brown from the Farmers' Mkt. I finished my own jar yesterday, but before I did, I had added carrots slice into sticks. They are hiding under the beets in the photo, which are hidden by the red-colored pepper ring and the parti-colored mouse with pickle ears and celery stem tail.
Jim, the diet consistency tip is brilliant. Thank you.
Riley, the vegan style is a bit more than I want and thank you for the tips and your concern for our health; but I love buttermilk and Greek yoghurt is a classic, especially with honey added. It makes a wonderful dressing for Waldorf salade a la Souris, which adds cranberries. I follow my instincts with recipes of this type. I care that cranberries are good for me and you. But the bottom line here is they taste great in many salads, where raisins lack ZING!
A man should not eat only tacos, but Taco Sauce is good on most things.
The Cranberries/Animal Instinct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V8kov4sNew
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 14, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
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The Boast Guard has issued a statewide MAGENTA WARNING which affects the entire state of Taconia.
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MisterE and JustTheMaid, THIS was how we traveled to Tahquitz from Canoga Park (with no wasted time, believe me!) before the freeway went through. Colorado Blvd. really sucked.Chevy rocks!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 09:20am PT
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Yesterday.
Old Glory seems slightly off-color because the sun was so bright and at such a low angle and filtered by cloudage, etc, etc.
Yesterday.
Today.
Hope your day's as bright as that sun, everyone!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
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Timid
here's the tree you mentioned earlier just after the Fourth, the foxtail pine. These seem to be some righteous specimens. And it's a quality photo, like you'd expect crap from a Muench.
I know, the trees are not foxtails.
Muenches handing out crap, after all.
I haven't got a clue, really, except that I was checking "Olmstead Point" on GoogImage and this was there and the trees looked VERY familiar, like I had just looked at the top photo and went, "Look big for foxtails" and "How does fire get started way up there?"
So.. .. .. ..
Comment?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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I just wanted to get to the top of a new page.
zBrown,
First things first.
I don't know what comes next.
Help.
Calling all cars: help.
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[Click to View YouTube Video]In commiseration with anyone who loses their homes in the current fire season for sure anyone around Idyllwild; and in like commiseration with anyone who loses a pony this next winter, absolutely.
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howard Damn hippies
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amber I'm 13 and obsessed with this song lol!!
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Brian Its a good song to be obsessed with Amber...
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clayton Farthest thing from a hippie there is. Do your research BEFORE you comment.
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Some dude Those were the days when love was real......
Where's t*r? Anyone know? Just curious.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 03:24pm PT
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JT Smith/Fool's Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avfpsHLWikQ
Six months!
God seemed unhappy, but He was patient, infinitely moreso than old Job.
He wondered, though, as he sipped his Keystone Light, "Jesus! How long must he hesitate?"
Jesus replied, "First, you know the answer, so just answer me this: How long before you get sick of swilling that devil's piss?"
His Pop grinned and chuckled, then said, "It's free swill, jackass. Why drink if it costs you? Remember that trick you pulled at Cana? And I choose to drink it. Free will and swill. Killer!"
Hat Tuno/Hestitation Blew It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfhsLuOEWI
Get better now...why hesitate?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 10:35pm PT
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http://alligator-sunglasses.com/
rSin,
when I came across this, I naturally thought of you...
Your screen name fits right in, Mr. Firestarter rSin.
Welcome to the Flames clubhouse.
You should keep trying, by all means.
If I were you, I'd check out macebook.
or macespace
Except it's gotten so commercialized you want to go back to macebook.
It's a vicious circle.
Cheers, bro.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
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I'm lost in a fog of a forest of bristlecone, juniper, and foxtail. So it goes.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 17, 2013 - 12:16am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]If you want to get a person's attention, this method, conceived by Elmore Leonard, can work well.
It can be taken to the limit at times, but the point is that it DOES help to get pissed off on occasion.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 17, 2013 - 01:57am PT
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Beets art thy friends.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mangel-wurzel
They are not, as some feel, just to feed to cattle.
BTW, who remembers the Hwy 99 Manteca Stockyard next door to the Spreckels sugar beet refinery? Stinky-poo x 50!
Mice are made of yoghurt, a wholesome but bland-tasting food.
Carrots, celery, pickles.
What's so disgusting
'bout what we're discussing?
Don't go there, sistah!
In all truth, I know many don't care for beets. I'll take yours. You eat my hummus. But wait--I haven't got any for you because I never buy it for myself. It's not disgusting, it's revolting!
See? We all got likes and dislikes.
No need to get upset,
Just talk about it, you bet.
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So sue me over a dead duck, Werner!
Better now. :-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 17, 2013 - 08:33am PT
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In roaming over threads I've never visited, I checked into the Aerobic Workout Thread this morning. I want to say that I agree with Jogill. You said it, "Hard core thread."
I have asthma, so it's the killer-be-killed thread, to me. But I wish I could partake in the rigors. I used to ride to work and home eighteen miles. It's beyond me now, as I can't get up to speed on my bike any more. Just cruising around YV takes much more effort than such easy terrain used to take. And the rises aren't tough, they are exceedingly gentle. Even Merced is a pain, because riding a bike in traffic you need to be on top of your game and I can't speed up fast because my knees are so dang beat up.
I alxo have heart issues.
Atrial fibrillation and many forms of working out are incompatible, I have read. Lying down, bending, a lot of positions can trigger problems.
I really got stoked for a while on taking a class with Eileen.I saw this exhibition on Saturday the 29th of June. I decided that I was not capable of keeping up with this crew of sweet No-Sweat-Hogs. I was too old.
I was bummed and decided to do it myself. I'm only doing stairs in the building, but regularly. The pace is my own. I don't compete or show off. Just git 'er done and rest.
Leave the rest of it for the younger crowd.
Cheers, everyone! Have a great morning.
Going to look for some more birds this a.m.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 07:44am PT
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Short story.
THE DREAM ENDURES/THE DREAM ENDS
Sometimes, the end of a dream is the best part, like when you realize that you have to pee, and NOW, because in the dream you were drowning in the upper Merced River and about to go cascading over Vernal Fall at the same time. And who wants to make an ass of oneself as well as putting and end to same? Not I.
This all began as I was begun myself, with sex. I must say, first, that in this episode yours truly is aged 26. By this time in my life I had accomplished two or three major climbing goals. I had gone up the Salathe and managed to stay alive and in one piece and my partner didn’t feel like killing me at the end of the route. Major accomplishment here, and one to crow about in the years ahead. We two had eclipsed the speed record of the second ascent party. We crushed their time. We spent six days up there in all kinds of weather. We also smoked way more Colombian than they had.
Well, the sex came after that, and it was okay, I guess.
I knew I wanted more, so the NW Face of Half Dome was next on the tick list. Maybe I could get some more sex, too.
This came about the end of August that year, and Coco and myself raced up the world’s oldest Six in just over sixty hours. A modicum of effort got us safely down the treacherous descent. We skipped down the trail, knowing we were about to get very WET, very soon.
We came to Emerald Pool.
Emerald Pool is a small, shallow lake located immediately above Vernal Fall in Yosemite National Park. It is named for its deep green color, which is caused by algae living on the rocks at the bottom of the pool. In the summertime during diminished water flow, the Silver Apron (a smooth granite slope over which the Merced River flows into the Emerald Pool) is frequently (albeit illegally) used by hikers as a water slide. Swimming or wading in the Emerald Pool or entering the Silver Apron is prohibited by the National Park Service as waders or swimmers have been swept over Vernal Fall. This prohibition is clearly marked with signs.
I had been a competitive swimmer in school, nationals and all that, and so I slid down into the water in violation of the rules. It was shocking after all the heat. My body immediately went into cramps. I stiffened and could only move my feet, legs, arms under the water with great sweeping gluts of pain engulfing me, the small back spasms incredibly painful.
As I realized I was still underwater, I also sensed a powerful current tugging me irresistibly in the wrong direction. Ooops!
I had not stepped in this one, I had slid boisterously down the slab into the water like an otter oughter. I was no otter, gamboling. I was suddenly a poor drowning victim and a falls fool to boot! I thought to myself, just before waking, there goes the sex, and I WAS GONNA DIE!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 07:52am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 18, 2013 - 10:10am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 18, 2013 - 01:40pm PT
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ACUTE BACTERIAL SINUSITUS
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Gives a boy pause, start looking past instead away down Gower Avenue.
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