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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 07:18pm PT
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Some places in Mariposa you need a Jumpin' Willys in four-wheel drive.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 07:55pm PT
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I did the shimmy shimmy
Then I did the twist
Now I do the swim
And you spell it like this
S-W-I-M
Come on, baby, take a chance
Losers drown and winners dance
We're doing the S-W-I-M, whoa
--Bobby Freeman, 1964
Hopsquatch alert!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 07:59pm PT
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If you're vewwy, vewwy stiw and quiet, you can heah the wippwing water wolling down MY WEG!!!"
Pillars of society. Notice the cruddy dried mud on this one?
Sowwy, campers. It's weawy spiders' webs.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 09:38pm PT
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Like Merced? "It all ended here."--new (temporary) slogan for Bagby Boosters
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 15, 2013 - 10:17pm PT
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Aren't there serpents in the Merced River?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 10:19pm PT
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Hard Rock Mine rock.
This is not a joke.
Low-brow, high-brow, we all enjoy a Lowenbrau.
And some enjoy a class of climbing called Second Class.
The "Unroped Ascent" of the northern-facing Bagby Parking Lot.
It is a direttissima under ideal conditions.
It's coming, it's coming. I need to eat.
Join me? Wiley made this.
The utensils are clean.
We have no fish, since we snatch and release hereabouts. Mostly.
In answer two of your question about serps, I assert that not a single ssserpent has dared to cross the path of Mus musc. since I have begun my roundabout tours. No Roctalus, no non-venomousesss nasties, neither.
Here's my so-called "Secret."
It's just like Zog's, it's not for everyone.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 15, 2013 - 11:03pm PT
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Jason Strohmenger, an employee with the California Department of Fish and Game, takes a California king snake out from beneath a boulder the department was moving next to the San Joaquin River near Gustine Tuesday morning. The snake was moved by Strohmenger to a safer place where the water wouldn’t drown it. MARCI STENBERG — Merced Sun-Star
I wonder if that snake ended up in the Merced River? And where did the boulder end up, Colorado?
Uh-oh. The Turlock/Merced/Gustine Triangle, snakes, Kings, drownings, Jason (where were the Argonauts?).
I wonder too, if Mr. Strohmeyer might have moved that snake to safer place where it would not be drowned in boiling fat instead. The so-called California King fry.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 15, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
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"Marci gets all the good shots. She's a pro, but I know mo' 'bout snakes and reaction time than she knows about sh-shutter speed. Be-itch."--Ms. Melonsulker
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 05:02am PT
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Day Trip to Camp Katie Perry.
The LIFE magazine with Gary Cooper's photo on the cover had this preparedness for war feature.Amid all the strife surrounding automatics and semi-automatics and all the grief and groaning over Syria, most people still go about all their lives with little or no exposure to the smell of burnt gunpowder.[Click to View YouTube Video]
This is a shame and a pity but they should have grown up in the city, learnin' 'bout country ways...
"Sweet Martha Lorraine...
She's the one who give us all those magical things...
One of the angel band...with the power to become a man..."--Country Joe
And back in your grampa's day, there was no shortage of brass, though the production of bras suffered some in the war to end democracy.
One thing never changes, though, and that would be the fact that you need to squint one eye to shoot. Some of us can't hold down the right eye or the right job, either.
No one told Annie Oakley that she shot like a girl.
But the question is, "Why should they tell anyone that?"
It's stupid.
A mouse on a wire.
[Click to View YouTube Video]That crawlin' king snake might be thinkin' how he hates muddy waters.
He might could be thinkin' LIKE Mucky Waters, the "Serpent of the Blues," that he don't want to go back to Cali.
"Go back? What I want to go back fo'?"
Colorado does its level best to send its boulders down to Mexico.
Bussing our boulders to out-of-state sites is stupid, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 05:56am PT
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When drying yer boots, put them outdoors. If not possible, put them in the bathroom and turn on the ventilator fan! I had to do this.
It's like spending the night in a tent when it's raining, otherwise.
Word for the day: redolent.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 08:31am PT
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More on ballistics using found objects to demonstrate physics.
Replaced in situ.
Hauled out.
Left to rot.
Replaced, but further away from the water. No idea what this is or if it's even authentically Bagby junk. Some old boy might have dropped it off the bridge one hot dusty day.
Spike number one, away!
The object is in the upper left quadrant of the target rock.
Splashdown, number two object!
No witnesses to our madness. Just STFU, and the RR won't find out I have a stash of spikes to sell at FACELIFT to the tourons. It's apparently fine-able and prosecutable to take their iron from their tracks. They manage to leave a lot of iron behind (for ballast, maybe, or don't care, likely) when they replace ties.
Droppin' sh#t from great heights, like peeing from great heights on your enemies or trundling boulders, is stimulating and not a readily-available experience.
Things go down hills naturally, and not up them. We unbalance nature by climbing, but what goes up must come down, so it don't mean sh#t what we do IN THE LONG RUN.
But some folks get panty-twist just thinking about litter and sleds and dead bodies. Just toss 'em down the slope and hope for the best rest possible, I say.
"Why spend time here when I could be climbing?" you purists might ask.
I don't know the answer to that. You'll have to work it out by yourself.
Or read on. Maybe you'll learn something.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 08:31am PT
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As for MYSELF, I did a climb when I was there, so the point is moot as far as it concerns me.
I'll show you.
It was Class Two, not second class, mate, if you don't know the nomenclature.
You need good shoes for the terrain. This was mixed riverbed and foxtail field and choss slope. But I sent it with no trouble, mostly due to proper footwear from La Sportiva.
Very nice route and direct, too. I have an idea it's been repeated often in drought conditions. Otherwise it's covered by the lake water, duh.
The string of orange floats looks like a serpent. Ooooh! I'm so scared!
Nearly a third of the way already!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 09:22am PT
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I'm wearing my St. Chris, too, so no problem here, just a bit of a thrill!
A snake is hardly an obstacle, let alone a silly line in the dirt.
Frankly, I was having more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
A barrel of monkeys floated down the Merced.
One of the crew was heard to have said,
"Something's not right and we may meet our fate--
That's Merced Falls up ahead--stop going straight!
This is easier with ski poles, but that's like using chalk on a Class 5 route under my personal code of Class 2 rednecky ethics.
"Oh, mamma! Does this really have to end?"--Thx, Bob.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 16, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
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Somewhere back upstream (or are we still rolling on the river), I was about to say "that nails it", but I guess I would have been wrong.
Jesus was nailed, but you don't see many folks wearing spikes around their necks. Just an innocent observation. WE know from history that there were 13 Innocent Popes, as to the rest, you be the judge (good name for a TV show, eh?).
If your're looking for towers to climb I have the locator just for you. This isn't new here, since it has been shared with the Mr. Greene searchers, but it is a different slice.
http://www.antennasearch.com/sitestart.asp?sourcepagename=reportviewer2&prevsessionidnum=525400415&prevordernum=
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You are most welcome.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 01:35pm PT
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I can hear you, man, but I'm not hearing you, dig?
It's a hole in my shoe.
And I can't get me none.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
A little water in your shoe, hah!
Oh, the water--Oh, the water--It's gettin' in me Vans!
This water's not rising to the bait.
It worked on the electric Eel, but the Merced's
much more intensely-focused.
It learned from the likes of Warren and Royal and TM and Fossil Climber,
who all have pissed in it at one time or another, betcha.
"The river's alive to and aware of most ever'thang in it!"
--Judge Dredge Judy, JP of Sodajerk, out in the desert eastwards of Mono
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 16, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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It wasn't as heavy as granite, being choss,
but it trundled down off the other side of the road pretty far.
I was aiming at George but missed.
then I had to come back down.
Aw, nuts!
Hah! Peace on you, Mouse!
A precipeace with a token safety guard. Hah!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 16, 2013 - 08:11pm PT
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I'm sure glad you didn't fall ... er ... didn't get hurt when you fell down.
That helmet looks a little weak. Maybe consider one of these. It also keeps the knats off yo'ass without even using the laser sword.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 17, 2013 - 01:04am PT
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We have learned that Gypsy Flores went to the GSM Elk Preserve and was SOOOO impressed that she went out and bought one of these.
It wasn't a '71, though.
:)
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