Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
|
|
|
Sep 30, 2015 - 05:12pm PT
|
drone agnostic?vantage driven, carbon/techno/emulsion enabled. give a guy a venue and he goes all gallery on you
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Sep 30, 2015 - 05:20pm PT
|
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Lost significant effort drivel trying to run up hill
This was from Lurkingtard
I'm guessing this dude is like 5'2".
With a schmecle to boot.
No No They were not talking about me
it was on this time around so you placed bolts you bad bolter you!
I shake all things gross in you're direction, the entertainment was good then schmall fry
Deleted , his is weaker sauce for it too , man it was cook in' flame broiled him
they did ?.
Well but good dose fit
That had me laughing I played with those words and added schmaltz ,& gouy,
Snapped with the shanah tovah
- Ever notice that Jews don't traditionally wish each other “happy new year”? Instead they use the Hebrew phrase “shanah tovah” which —fFF .?
in spite ...
Missing. . . , . , , ! L .F LOL
: anglicized of the Hebrew for happy new year.
[Click to View YouTube Video]A work in progress
To start I'm not big on tight spaces for climbing in or on[Click to View YouTube Video]
R
S
I
I always like three word route names and in keeping with an awfully juvenile ugly tradition
of bad names conjuring up worse experience
that my or may not have something to do with the crux.
R
S
I
P
Rapture Silly cone In Plants, the tight squeeze that stops being a climb and becomes a crawl,
In about two body lengths, has three or four variations
all play on the name of the pure plumb line that has a sit up into a tight squeeze,
then by pressing up into the slot deep in the back of the cliff! like this, the most famous one [Click to View YouTube Video] if I had shared another 8 minute long shaky hand held it mentions at 6 minutes in that there is a mile long one of these slot chimneys. . . .
A place called Sam's Point, ice caves mountain, Ellenville nY open space institute ? closed? . Or open? Only to a few ? It is a second Mohonk!! [Click to View YouTube Video]This is why - as much as it pains me , - ,given that I no longer live anywhere near enough to be able to go there any more than a few times a year
[Click to View YouTube Video] I love it in winter! but this sort of silly shjt,in sneakers with a storm coming in, is why it is only open to a limited few, I wonder Who is in that special crew .?[Click to View YouTube Video]
Funky #seven
This is another one of these type of chimney climbs that I've climbed over the years .
They are an exercise in control of claustrophobic panic . More than others I did one once in the
of course gets s second ascent but this time heading right instead of left to a stand up into a
corner that
I was going somewhere but I see it was no where[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 08:24pm PT
|
Sewellymon
Dec 9, 2009 - 03:10pm PT
Wikipedia on Robbin's kayaking
"In 1978, Robbins developed psoriatic arthritis, which prevented serious climbing. He took up adventure kayaking instead, completing first descents of challenging rivers from high mountain elevations. His early kayaking partners included Doug Tompkins and Reg Lake. In 1980, the three descended the San Joaquin River Gorge from Devil's Postpile to the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, 5000 feet lower and 32 miles away. In 1981, they carried their kayaks over Mount Whitney Pass at 13,777 foot elevation, into Sequoia National Park and descended 55 miles down the Kern Trench. In 1982, joined by Neusom Holmes, they descended the Middle Fork of the Kings River in Kings Canyon National Park, the largest and steepest of these three High Sierra descents. In 1983, Robbins descended the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park from Tuolumne Meadows to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. He was accompanied by Reg Lake, Chuck Stanley, Lars Holbek, John Armstrong and Richard Montgomery.
He then developed an interest in descending smaller mountain creeks by kayak during their flood stage following heavy rains. His first such project in May, 1984 was the descent of Sespe Creek, which runs through the Los Padres National Forest. He was accompanied by Yvon Chouinard, Reg Lake, John Wasserman and Jackson Frischman. Robbins called this type of trip "flash boating", and later used the technique on the Fresno River, the Chowchilla River and the middle fork of the Mokelumne River."
so that is what he was doin' Roy. Flash boating.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Sep 30, 2015 - 09:35pm PT
|
hey there say, mouse... say, neat share, thanks so very much!!!
:)
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 10:14pm PT
|
I was becoming the slab agnostic. I didn't know what to believe.All that needs doing now is hauling off the plywood covering the slab, the sawhorses holding up the yellow tape, and the large metal plate and heavy gauge chain they left sitting there to be ripped off.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2015 - 11:39pm PT
|
the Rev came by and woke me from my mid-day nap. No rest for the fitful. I was just dozin' anyway.
He had fifty pounds of onions in the truck from Smart & Final, and he paid far less than normal. They only get these big sacks once a year. He's good for the winter and I traded a couple of jars of Chiloe's Chile for a dozen fatties.
We decided that we'd go take a ride. I said, "Delhi." We came close, missin' the place by just a few miles. But we got to see several of the rest of the small towns in the county, and some in Stanislaus County, too--interspersed with various ag enterprises.
We headed west out 140 to Lincoln Avenue. That got us to Livingston.
Then we headed NW and got to Hagaman County Park on the Merced River.
We went across the bridge at Hagaman and went into Irwin, Hilmar, and Turlock, turning off east and south at Denair and coming back into Merced on Santa Fe Avenue.
Round trip about three hours. Low and slow, shooting as we go.
Break time for MFM.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 12:54am PT
|
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Back at Hagaman, we saw only one person, a blonde lady on the other side of the river.
I yelled over at her to see if there was a ford to the other side.
She yelled back that she didn't know and said that I was already on the other side of the river anyway...
Down by the river...
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 01:45am PT
|
Rest stop.
Hey, it's a three-hour tour, buddy.
I gotta pee.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 02:36am PT
|
The damage done...
Serrano's in Winton. HOT STUFF!
That's all folks.
Thank you for taking Jeff and Mouse's tours once again!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 07:33am PT
|
If I had not gotten out of the sack to check this out, I'd have missed all ten drops of rain!
WHAT DROUGHT, ME WORRY?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 08:52am PT
|
Those are some beauties, Former Brews. I'm humbleded.
Just a technical note on my photos from yesterday's ride--most were taken through the dirty window glass of the Rev's pickup truck. The shots have a greenish cast that is just a filter, basically, so colors get washed out.
It's a pain in the behind for the Rev to pull over so he can humor me, so I just roll with it. If nothing else, it gives the shots some special 'flavor.'
And it's hard working back into auto-focus mode after so long after using manual focusing only. Oh, and we are traveling at speed, so that will blur the shot even if the speed setting is at its max.
I'm learning bit by bit and the quest will never end.
Reach a new horizon daily.--Boy Scout slogan for today
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
|
|
OK, but can you dance to it?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
2-20-2014
The man shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been identified as a Mexican national with a criminal past, officials said Thursday.
Jesus Flores-Cruz, 42, was shot twice around 6:40 a.m. Tuesday along Otay Mountain Truck Trail near Alta Road, southeast of Otay Reservoir and east of State Route 125.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent said he fired the shots because Flores-Cruz was throwing rocks and boulders at him during a foot pursuit.
San Diego County sheriff's deputies investigating the shooting said the agent feared for his life when he fired at least two shots from his duty weapon.
Officials confirmed the identity of Flores-Cruz using fingerprints from a 1996 arrest by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency.
Flores-Cruz died at the scene.
The agent involved in the shooting was treated for injuries to his face from one of the rocks.
3-30-2015
An admitted human smuggler who caused the death of two undocumented immigrants will spend seven years in federal prison.
Nicholas Zakov told a federal judge that he "takes full responsibility" for the deaths of Tarcisio Casas-Blanco and Jose Aurelio Quiroz-Casas, who suffocated in the trunk of Zakov's car while he tried to smuggle them across the U.S.-Mexico border at San Ysidro in August, 2014.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 11:39am PT
|
Taking a leaf from the literary side,
a current ST bandwagon,
I would encourage you all to
"Exterminate all the bruts."
--Hearts of Champagne
That is, drink them all up!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 11:47am PT
|
WOOT-WOOT!
It's still falling.
I'll let you know when and if a flash flood hits, but don't hold your breath.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2015 - 11:56am PT
|
Updated Health Watch for MFM
For the surgical record:
Patient is vetted for surgery (open-heart) for mitral valve replacement/repair.
Patient's teeth are all clean and tidy.
Patient will report to Palo Alto VA Hospital on Monday, 10/19/15.
Patient will undergo angiogram that day and perform a pulmonary function test the same day or the next, time permitting.
The patient will be admitted on the 19th to the VA Hospital following the angiogram. He will be given Lovenox as a substitute for the blood thinner Warfarin for five to six days prior to surgery, potentially scheduled for Monday, 10/26/15 or Tuesday, 10/27/15.
--Ji Lee, surgical planner
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
|
|
You're gonna sail through it dude. You're a young man.
Although he got shot in the war, The Bull didn't go in for any cardiac work until he was 85 (pacemaker, then stents) and he's never done anything more than class 2 scrambling.
The guy who wants to work on my eyes, promised he would show up for the surgery rested and sober.
I would accept nothing less from your team.
Gotta go. The Bull is headed back to Washington, D.C. (dare I say come hell or high water) on his "Honor Flight".
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!