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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2010 - 01:49am PT
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On Topic??
Definitely!
I'd sure like to see some alpine rock get climbed the way those kids play. The whole symphony instead of riffs.
Bruce: shhhh...9 views is way too many. It's a secret location, man!
Plus, I haven't figured out how to compress my video and still like the result.
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sac
Trad climber
spuzzum
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Mar 31, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
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Climbing!!!
SUUUUN!!!!
Spring!!
By the Sea!!
Yeeeeaahhhh!!!
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
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Mar 31, 2010 - 01:46pm PT
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Definately not lighthouse
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bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful, BC
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Mar 31, 2010 - 06:53pm PT
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went thru sansum narrows by boat this past summer, its still sporting a few of my stainless steel do dads ... i wonder who goes there now ? i think i have old pics of gf working an overhang there
dvernon might claim credit for the FA of the traverse at lighthouse
sac photos may be from cortez island ?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 31, 2010 - 07:05pm PT
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Dave Nicol and Dave Vernon first did the traverse, I think in the late 1970s. My first time was 1986 - expo summer. We also swam out to the islands, and perturbed the seals and birds.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 15, 2010 - 11:12am PT
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A salty little bump!
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asa desmet
Trad climber
huntingtion beach
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May 15, 2010 - 06:13pm PT
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 15, 2010 - 11:48pm PT
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Aren't those pics at the top of this page, Stillwater Bluffs?
I have such good memories of being 24 and smoking a bowl and cruising the traverse at sunset
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2010 - 12:33am PT
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I have such good memories of being 24
You must be, what, 24 and a half, now?
Sunshine is great when you can't take it for granted. And maybe when you can; I wouldn't know.
clouds moving in again
Thanks to Ed H for pointing the way to vimeo. Maybe this this file should have been compressed more, so that downloading could stay ahead of playing, but otherwise this is an improvement over the previous one.
http://vimeo.com/10119675
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - May 26, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
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Reviewing a previous theme and extending it:
You step blind round a corner of sheer rock and move carefully down into the vast, dank mouth of the cave. It seems as big as a cathedral: a black, thundering dome, like a lunatic's skull, water boiling along its floor, birds flitting in the dark air.
Al Alvarez in Hard Rock
Of course in a cave it may be bats instead of birds flitting in the dark air.
“The Bats of Remorse hang upside down in the Cave of Grief.” Discuss.
Model Answer : It is a fact of nature that bats, sometimes many hundreds of them, hang upside down in caves. The author is making use of this image to comment upon human frailty, specifically the emotionally disruptive lacerations of remorse and grief. Bats are linked with remorse, the cave with grief. As we read and digest the phrase, tears well up in our eyes, and we begin to sob. Our past griefs may come tumbling back inside our heads, the inside of the head very much like a cave, if we think of the skull as stone, with crags and dents. The flutterings we feel inside it, synapses snapping as we are racked by remorse, can be thought of as bats swooping in to the cave to take up their perches. Once in place, they hang there twitching occasionally, just as the lashings of remorse twitch within the porale of grief. Crucially, the writer is implying that when we stop blubbing like girlies, and dry our eyes, and grasp our Alpenstock in readiness for a healthy hike in the mountains to wash all this mawkish drivel out of our heads, the bats remain hanging there, upside down within. They do not go away. The lesson is self-evident, and is imprinted upon our consciousness, even when we are atop the mountain, panting, buffeted by a high freezing wind.
Note : Extra points will be awarded to those who correctly identify the text as a line from Dennis Beerpint’s magisterial piece Versified Outpourings From The Batcave, recently reissued by Twee Threnodies Ltd.
Frank Key
http://hootingyard.org/page/2
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 26, 2010 - 04:21pm PT
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I was on Quadra over the weekend. Overhanging seaside solid limestone, day-amn!
The constant sea lion chorus was a bit offputting though.
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2010 - 04:18am PT
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I'm glad to hear that the place had good company, Greg.
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 09:44am PT
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Eloquent pictures, Jim Lawyer.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jul 22, 2010 - 10:49am PT
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By the sea, the shining sea.....
Hey, I just wanted to be on your ultra-cool thread!
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 09:16pm PT
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Sand is a religious experience.
Thanks, survival.
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