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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Apr 24, 2015 - 08:08pm PT
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zB,
Yes, NASA shares some great data, and SpaceWeather does a good job of organizing some of the data.
If we are at home (wherever you go, there you are) as we breathe, I think that we do not leave our home, in the ice and clouds or the valleys. Just perfect Hobbits. Or chambered nautili, come to that.
Great graphic.
Thank you,
feralfae
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 24, 2015 - 08:22pm PT
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The start was mellow the cold was exciting, the pet hawk that screeches when it should be quiet flew thru the yard on a raid dive patrol.
Them first thirty miles went well at 80-88 mph.
The traffic closed in and seventy minutes of white knuckle NJ rush-hour driving ensued, with a lite dusting of snow, not sticking, but making the drive bumper to tail pipe,
This is the Sawmill River Parkway, red lights are announced by billboards, red light notices, 500 feet before the intersection of six lanes funneling into two, fun.
Does any one remember, the legend, "Mr Sir", Jack Mileski, and the description his driving in NJ traffic?
People do this every day !!? The crux of the day will be the rush hour drive home ! Friday !
The rush starts at three and so no way to beat it and when I get home thin rations and no beer!
The blind photographer, wants to deny that he had a conniption and more than once told me
The equivalent of - get down from there & your gonna die , what will I tell your wife?
So
The name; Stress Test seemed to fit. Also this climb climbs right off the base of an old ski slope turned convention hall and park.
The climbing here at this part of the area is the lesser of the crags as far as difficulty but the ease of the approach and the availability of parking along with great view from the family park area, also were part of the name, the climb is center stage in front of old ski area ,
but no one climbs here.
That is to say, climbs here the way it needs to be climbed - as in throws up new routes with volleys of 'Trundle Thunder' 5.10/b r, the other part of the Stress Test was to see if we raised any buzz.
The likely hood that the seam had been top roped was not borne out by my search for, any moved rock, dirt, brushing or anchors , rope cuts thru dirt etc.
That said, the base was clear and the slab start had a very easy step up. It was 5.7? easy 5.8? Three moments of really don't mess up here, 5.9? It is hard to tell until some more gardening, any-way, very R/X the way I led it but with three pins/bolts it could be G I left a four foot long 100 pound block shaped like the head of a Marlin. The thing was so loose! that I feel bad that I left it. The thing sits at the end of some thin face moves over hollow rock, and a bit of a stand up Leaves it in your face. Don't grab it! The block sits with the spike side blocking good gear, . . . . it should go it is a death block!!
(I did not touch it but it is a perfect 'handle bar' hold if you only climb in a gym)
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Apr 25, 2015 - 07:16am PT
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Newz of the UCSDaze
The festival has been disruptive to the school's academic mission in other ways, according to the vice chancellor’s notice: "Over the years, faculty have complained that students have skipped classes on the Friday of the Sun God Festival."
BITD students didn't have to go to class because the Fybate* company would go for you and then provide you the class notes for a small fee. Then the Profs wised up and started copyrighting, tradmarking, and otherwise protecting their material. Is this fair, fair use?
Apparently "just saying no" did not work since drugs still appear to be a problem on campus.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/apr/23/ticker-no-sun-god-class-dodging-professors-told/?google_editors_picks=true
*later (1987)
At Berkeley, the service is run by Black Lightning, which sells notes for $17 to $21 a course to 10,000 subscribers each semester. Black Lightning pays note-takers from $6 to $12 an hour, with the higher rates paid for technical classes. Most note-takers are graduate students.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-12-06/local/me-27031_1_note-takers
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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 - Apr 25, 2015 - 08:19am PT
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Chas. Dickens was a note-takin' fool. He became successful as a journalist simply because he bothered to learn a shorthand for taking notes during sessions of Parliament.
Note the abbr'd Chas. How, I wonder, would one shorten the man's surname?
He probably did not bother himself overmuch with using surnames of the floor speakers, so I'm thinking he may have just used a single cap, as in "Chas D."
He was the Boz of a one-man press corps.
One would come away with a paycheck and more knowledge than one needs, I think, were he to become a post-doc note taker.
[Click to View YouTube Video]The men at the press conf. were having fun. But they were not badgering the steno.
I didn't know that the word zysygy was pronounced as he said it.
I've always used "zie-ziggy" as the way to say it, myse
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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 - Apr 25, 2015 - 08:39am PT
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I wish we were having stormy weather.
My words the day before yesterday.
I make no claim to be a weather profit or a rain dancer-necromancer using arcane ritual like sacrificing pigeons to effect pluvial response.
Weather just happens.
Whether it happens because of something we humans do is the topic on many peoples minds, much of the time.
Maybe I should post a climate thread...hmmm...
It began raining overnight here. Imagine my surprise. It wan't all that shocking, really, because I was out taking photos of the weather last evening.
It rained pretty steady all morning and it just cleared off about forty minuts ago, right after it really pounded down for ten minutes.This drenching reminded me to try to find the restaurant which nita asked about, Noah's.
Here is my prize from last evening's shoot-out on the street.The moon has been seen and photographed sitting on the wire ere now. Like a bird on a wire.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Apr 25, 2015 - 08:52am PT
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If the man knew the protocol, which he apparently didn't, he would have opted for cD, especially since in script there is no extra key press required to get the cap (even higher movement penalty for bold).
Economy of motion.
I am currently working on the algorithm for determining how much height wearing mismatched shoes adds to one's high jump. Hopefully I can acquire a patent and utilizing Herr Braun's famous boombox photo (yes, he will receive a huge royalty as will Mr. Gaines (get it), will market it to the masses of high school high jumpers out there aspiring to greatness. I do wonder why he switched to matched shoes for the championship jump.
This would be dF (not degrees of freedom and no known relation to ff).
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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 - Apr 25, 2015 - 09:28am PT
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Oh, we're talking sports again?
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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 - Apr 25, 2015 - 12:16pm PT
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Hah! Missed it. I went and listened up to the Raconteurs, then posted some sh to weej but it got wiped.
Pulled a fast one on myself. I forgot to go out and check at ten for the parade--all I saw was a few families walking back from the end of the route.
So the traffic cones were all gone and what few people who may have showed up had left.
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That's a mellow song, Mouse.
Why thank you.
Love this guy.[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Apr 25, 2015 - 01:22pm PT
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Here dude, I know how much you love a parade. I think the visual equiv of orale is mira.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 25, 2015 - 05:09pm PT
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Second times the charm,
Gremlins & Trolls, will not lift a finger to help.
but never let it be said the same of Gnomes,
especially rock gnomes.
They can be counted on to pull at least their
Own weight plus more !
The frontier cable keeps us all guessing will the service blink? Send the computer crashing mid down load? Oh this just is the twist to top a topper? The visit that climbin' ya' all got treated to up thread was fun and funny is under review it is a worthy story but I need my crutches, the twin vices of weed and alcohol, just a thimble full of each to wet the whistle and grease the mental gears, but such is my life that waiting is such sweet sorrow. It also makes that first consumption of the month sweet in it's relief.
while there is cake in the trough (that would be wear the pigs feed)the Jamaican me crazy who won't climb but is ripped from his stin.. .
I digress, seems it is hard hard to do a trip report justice.
Without a net - [TR] Jaybro Apr 25, 2015 04:59p 7. . . .. .. . hmm well I will fix that too.
The time and effort that it took to preform and turn out a short attention span classic, like Jaybro's seems to be eluding me and some nine pages needs to be beaten down to less than three, less is more in today's meme world
Hey look at me . . .
A great YoYo and I am not dead yet,
Surprise
Stan?!
See spot in eye? see spot , ehey
The need to continue upward as the world pulls it down to the lowest common denominator !
The cliffs in NJ are still wild and pristine. The trash and tagging is minimal and the small rock hell is vast.
Thrown together as the last of a few home boys from the northeastern woods who climbed everything that was vertical that stood in their world.
We were the last two. After my ga'fawr and posting my past up for the interest of climbing history in NJ,.
I called "de free rider" "We need to talk, let's get together" I said.
Hey well I was the last to still send half hard and from the sound of the old boys I was the only one who still climbed at all !?
"Well yes let's do, do you still dubee?" " Hell yes my friend", I said loud an' proud thank god he was still the same.
He is not the same and suffers from MS. His climbing history is one to marvel at though , thanks to the Crypticlly named Stanley Smiegel. Stan took him up the desert towers and spires a few routes in Zion that they made good progress on, were all now fifteen years ago.
I said;
we would get together for pictures,
I had said;
just to stroll in the park, talk of the old days, and get high,maybe a ride on a top rope.
"Okay Im in, lets meet at the rest area on 23"
Now this was a problem for me was he joking!?
The saying, 'blowing me off' would be a dangerous phrase in this case.
Did he know that he was asking to meet at a well known , world wide known, homo pick up spot?.
The ex-governor of NJ had used the same spot and then outed the rest area as a no-names place where men of that kind meet up, and some for pay.
What the EF john ?
Are you gonna not be there and when the cops pull in to ask why am I still hangin' out?
I will tell them your Name, the type of game played on me and if that fails to convince them'
I will leave as instructed.
I have to admit that after all of those thoughts raced through my head I almost said no. That I said yes & I will be there at 8 am, started the stress.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 25, 2015 - 06:08pm PT
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GThe list is just the sweet spot)( so I have transported it to the flames
Apr 25, 2015 - 01:07pm PT
*** 5.10-5.11 routes with 4+ pitches:
Demon's Delight 5.11a *** 4 pitches
The Good Book 5.10d *** 6
Freestone 5.11c *** 8
Serenity Crack - Sons of Yesterday 5.10a or 5.10d *** 8
Royal Arches 5.10b or 5.7 A0 *** 15
Astroman 5.11c *** 11
Crest Jewel 5.10a *** 10
Crest Jewel Direct 5.10d *** 15
Half Dome - North Ridge 5.10d R *** 10
Half Dome - Regular Northwest Face 5.12 or 5.9 C1 *** 24
Hall of Mirrors - first 7 pitches 5.11b *** 7
South By Southwest 5.11a *** 5
Middle Cathedral Rock - East Buttress - regular 5.10c or 5.9 A0 *** 11
Central Pillar of Frenzy 5.10d *** 10
Stoner's Highway 5.10c *** 10
Middle Cathedral Rock - Direct North Buttress 5.10b *** 17
Ho Chi Minh Trail 5.10c *** 20
Morning Lumber 5.11c *** 7
Black Primo 5.11b R *** 5
Freewheelin' 5.10b R *** 5
Annihilator 5.11c *** 8
The Rostrum - Regular North Face [closed] 5.11c *** 8
Hotline 5.12a or 5.11 A0 *** 7
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I don't have Voyager in there at present, as it's tricky to assign stars to newish routes.
If you add the ** routes, the list will expand, of course.
For example, Ribbon Candy, El Cap - West Face, and El Cap - East Buttress are **.
(It's subjective, of course).
But the list above might be worth looking over, too.
The list is from a thread that asks, what are the 'best' as if the word had any meaning,but Clint is the Man!
The need for this shows that, apparently looking up, and going, "that looks good let's climb it", has gone out of style now it seems the cell phone app is not enough.
It is the great list ! One or two others come to mind a t reeds and the cookie ,
Elephant rock??
Anyway
I must say. . .
THANK YOU CLINT CUMMINS
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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 - Apr 26, 2015 - 12:53am PT
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T H A N K Y O U G N O M E O F the D I A B A S E
Trip Report was enjoyable. Micockles warm in my heart.
Friendships are gold.
Boldness is goldness.
What songs were you listening to on the ride to the climb?
This TR is useless without MUSIC!Damned foliage gets in the way of all the shots, huh?
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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 - Apr 26, 2015 - 01:28am PT
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Swinging about on vines and branches to get up the dangthing is cool if you're an apeman. That's your urban jungle there, TarZ'n.
Bo knows.[Click to View YouTube Video]
This pic is for neebee to appreciate.
It's a different view of Middle Earth than the one we looked at from 'googled earth.'
MFM lives in the apartment with the Venusian vines, the rocks on the window sill, and the Venetian blinds hiding the rat-hole.
Middle Earth to Google Earth, download in progress.
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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 - Apr 26, 2015 - 02:19am PT
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Marlow posted Bassedou Koyate & Ngoni Ba on THAT MUSIC THREAD and was full of exclamations on how beyond perfection those guys are.
http://bassekoukouyate.com/
http://uniontheater-greenroom.blogspot.com/2013/12/from-mali-to-madison-bassekou-kouyate.html
So I'm goin' "I know that rhythm and it's from jolly old Mali, because it's just about like unto Habib Koite." He is a bonzer guitar player from Mali who is solo but who has a band--Bamada.
That's what Wiki says. Solo. And has a band. I'm still wonderin'.
Anyway, Habib is lousy with talented friends because Bamada is a supergroup, not just a group. They are all West African musicians.
Kélétigui Diabaté plays this marimba-like African instrument with Bamada.It is also know as also known as balafo, bala, Balani, Gyil, and Balangi, is a type of tuned percussion instrument. It is played by using two padded sticks to strike the tuned keys.
Habib's playlist. The first selection, Din Din Wo, is a feast of sunrises in West Africa, I suppose. Check that one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4vV5_ViE4w&list=PLOrS4CyT-
gLbDPGwjRwWWss6m_sjZOBtf
It's all too indescribabble. Words do no justice to good music.
Exceptin' nonsense rhymes. They're all over the world, too.
"Keemo kaimo, kaimo kee
Way down yonder in a hollow tree
An owl and a bat and a bumblebee
King kong kitchy kitchy kaimee oh!"
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Shoo lie loo. Fly away over yonder.[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 - Apr 26, 2015 - 03:15am PT
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The Okie Poet
VALLEY FOG
By Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
She arrived
fashionably late this year
cloaked in classic trailing gray
dripping with diamonds
so many
when she even moved a finger
they fell by millions
teardrop perfect on houses
lawns
railroad tracks
wasted their beauty on growling
trucks
and gave the water tower
a noble tiara
All rights reserved ©Back40 Publishing/Stone Woman Press, Joshua Tree, Calif.
http://sanjoaquinhistory.org/blog/?p=1245
CHANGES OF 1936
by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Poor girl
with Oklahoma straw
Braided in your hair
forget back there
The dark blue call
of whippoorwills
slow purpling skies
of warning
Here is here
California night falls
instantly
draws a black curtain
over vineyards
not a single firefly
will light your way home
This appeared in Man With a Star Quilt, Chiron Review Press, 1995.
Same rules apply to copyright per the Stone Woman in Josh.
I should say, "These are posted for amyjo."
But I'm sure she'll know.
By way of thanks, amyjo.[Click to View YouTube Video]"If that mockingbird can't sing maybe he can count."--Jay Scrub
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 26, 2015 - 04:13am PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, lovely greenery photo shots!!
say, will have to look into that colorado river stuff, through the
grand canyon... :))
oh my, that you missed the small parade, :(
well, the photo of the street, was done very well--on a good note... :)
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