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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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waste not want not
i have no snapper
wink wink shove shove I liked 'our number : 2333 then it went. . .
I am also sickend by the demise of school safty but This or that thread is at post number
782? come on and give it rest already, I am an old pal of the Boltin' Bob, and he is an incredible roll modle,
that I should have followed,
but
I did not get an Invite to LH's first wedding ,
a slight, that I took deeply.
the game became an attempt to climb my way into the same false fame that they seemed to enjoy.
so as for following in his shadow or hers(Impossible)
I took to hanging' around with Locker types instead.
(this is along and kinda' dated thing[Click to View YouTube Video])
where the jail bird are all of them?
some dead yeah.
but
Kondaci's? there were two of them & Hauser you hoser you are lurking or if not should be.
and then the Luhan, the Lanmhans. two brother and one xe-wife,(Z-Wife?)GINA!
Big Sal-fromVegas. . .
this has been a sad thing that after 40 years of roped climbing No One but
Da Free Ryder has gotten in touch.
The Calli boyzz?
and the girls?
HEY VICKSTER? [Click to View YouTube Video]
all right I musta been an arogant schmecele but still it was good times way back then
lets leave the dead heads outa' this[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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Broderick is the name of a dinky li'l, kinda run-down community the other side of the river from Sacto (where Pito lived). It was always hard to get a ride there hitching through.
This man doesn't live there.He makes too much money.
Remember, not even Smokey can prevent ten-car pile-ups and hazardous chemical leaks.
Sometimes, if I had my own driveway, I wouldn't feel safe even there.
Gee, the rain was nice...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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The wall in the background is a good way to aggravate the elbowsThey just built this place on the edge of my favorite climbing zone it is a mile or two as the crow, um. . .
Ravens fly.
Just off Rt 7 Danbury Ct and if you plug in that Wooster heights address,
you can fly by MY rock using a map function of your choice,
I like 'em both Bing and Google.
I have yet to be thrown off or noticed but I wonder if they have surveillance?
The real News is that while I can't see what i'm shooting
I do have a camera! Fall Foliage to follow and more small rocks Too
Hey that guy hanging, wet ,in blue, looking terrified? wheres that from?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2015 - 04:29pm PT
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It's from Valley Uprisin'.
Well, I was standin' at the bridge, contemplatin' the Captain, when a voice come up next to me and asked, "Hey, how do you fellers get your hopes up there?" And a voice comes up on the other side of me and says, "Yes, tell us. Do you have some sort of a 'magic book' telling you how?" She held her fingers up and wiggled them on either side of her head to illustrate the supposed silliness of such a notion. She did not know I called it my "bible' and had done so for many years.
As God is my witness, I had my old battered, post-bound Roper Green in my duvet pocket. (It's the same one I got at Ski Hut in '72, just a lot of patches but still warm. The book resides there permanently, so it's no lie.)
I answered their questions politely and they were forthright about their intentions. They were genuine, bible-thumpin' Jehovah Witnesses and were just keeping in practice, they said. They were a married couple and they'd watched me for a day and they'd judged (rightly) I was a mild type with no particular grudges or foibles and was knowledgeable about climbing.
They said that they wanted to learn to climb and would be glad to pay me for my time and use of my equipment. This was a moral decision. I would be an outlaw. What to do?
Pray, for starters. Next, see the cash. Take it from there.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2015 - 04:46pm PT
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These are all 'developed' on Digital Photo Professional. I finally uploaded the program off the CD just recently after I got the CD reader replaced. I like it and it's fine enough for me.
BIG MIKE, it's fun to shoot in the RAW.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2015 - 05:43pm PT
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Even Chiang Yee has things to say about the HP.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Beautiful images, thank you Mouse.
Thank you as well for posting the Updated Health Watch for MFM so we know where to find you in case someone needs a citation on some subject of Merced history.
We will be holding you in the Light. :)
So, Palo Alto on the 19th. Then through the end of the month, while you are healing. At least that long. Maybe you will be home in time to be entertained by the cute little princesses*, goblins*, elves, astronauts, and dinosaurs.
*A fleeting hat tip to George McDonald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald
Be Well, Mouse.
ff
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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This is an unedited mess full of typos and auto correct foibles.
The camera has no display and now I know it has a small memory.
Enough on that
Let it be
I was again trying to find someone Alessandro small rock hell
This guy that my wife feels is a completely duplicitous tool with a chip on his shoulder like so many once young men who put years into climbing only to be flamed off by a recession and the Gym rat explosion. He and I got off on such bad footing that I started a guid book. In Ernest all the publishers that I talked with were equally duplicitous. They all wanted info with no contract. The communications from three was in a form letter sort of email.
Given that I am three to four years behind in the 'New' find: it is a three mile discontinuous
40 to 200 foot high cliff band in sight of three main high ways and a bunch of residential streets dead end at the base of the talus, new find my arse!
So I can only justify going if I have a competent second, a more competent climber than myself would be a good idea.
I tried but the heat really conspired against me.
the boob was all fretful one grassy ledges that I climb up & down and when he looked down
After following me to this ledge wher I was setting an anchor he asked if we could go down to belay.
I was stroked and felt his lack of comfort
the 90 feet of climbing was not worth adding 60 feet of third class.
I set the anchor and offered to lower him off -he repelled when he got to the ground he looked back up at the first 60 feet and thought like I did, that it was a silly start or climb or both.
We set up top ropes he was a modern gym fat so paranoid that he told me shoe laces were just to dangerous for climbing shoes. I can pick 'em.
Really we all climbed in also rats of altered conditions it was de regular, I never got dropped or dropped any one we pushed harder tripping than when we were just mildly high.
Today if your thumb is up you don't no what you are doing and some of these punks won't say it but they won't climb with you.
Oh oh all this is rambling babble. After not finding for the third time stupid and small even compared to what I've posted. I'm sure that there are 25 to 35 foot rocks in the woods and I'll post a picture or two of the one that was in full sun light.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2015 - 07:33am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2015 - 11:33am PT
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I heard from the heart surgery team scheduler this morning and there is one small change. Instead of being admitted on next Monday, I will have a pulmonary function test after checking into the Defenders' House, where I'll stay for a couple of nights.
The angio will be done on Wednesday and I'll be admitted right after that, with surgery the next Monday.
I don't have a time frame for rehab as it's different for everyone.
I expect to be really off my feed for several weeks, though, if not more.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... just sent you a few word puzzles... for whenever you are up to it...
i just saw the dates and update... for your medical stuff... will sure be praying... will email you, well, later in the wee hours ... i got a few gals i have to get in touch with, later, meaning, beforeeeee the wee hours...
hang in there... we will be here to encourage you...
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