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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 30, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 31, 2015 - 03:38am PT
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TrOoll? Front page ? Say hey what?
Can't say who ~ Cosmici ~ is ?. . . . . not me ?
Did the lack of personal computers keep this rumor a myth?
Another ~across the planet plan~ that I 'mocked away ?
Ya' had da gotta wonder?
What I might have climbed if I'd spent all my time at it
more than I did
and since I climbed almost no stop . . . from when I could walk,
All that & The cash that went up in smoke ,
had it been saved and applied to travel?
Would I have had the chance to go here?
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Added in (edited for effect or inclusion here?)
Strange flame at 2 minutes in
Would that you turn down the sound if it disturbs ya'
I did not mind it on the 1st view till at 2:45 in, the noise stopped.
Replaced by the sound from the climbing
With th exception of some of the ' go for it' crap I watched it a 2nd time at low volume.
I think I liked that five minutes ~ the last dawn of 2015,~ better quite than funky
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 05:19am PT
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
"Wolverine!"
De Witt Clinton HS on Moshulu Pkwy. in New York City had, during the 1930s, over 12,000 students, making it the largest High School in NYC and the world.
It's most famous grad is Bill Graham.
Representing.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 31, 2015 - 06:45am 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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 07:19am PT
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From left to right in the photo is: Billy C. Taylor, Dennis Steffenson, Ed Groth and Jay Sousa (local photographer). Behind the camera is Ronald Mayfield.
From Jay's FB page this morning.
Four days--pretty epic, Jay sez.
Epoke skis.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 31, 2015 - 07:21am PT
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Hey, ! Hooblie, 1st ther was a mountain ( that fixer upper at post # 3201) then ther was no
'mountain'(the 'fixer upper was gone)
Then there was a 'mountain' at post # 3203,
I Love some sweet decay; that fixer upper,
Glad to see it again I hope it stays.
I like to think that playing with gravity on rock is serious(deadly) and fun.
I find that it is ironic that after having risked life and limb climbing on rocks, always
adhering to the arcane and sometimes arbitrary rules. Now it is all just a 'safe' pastime where the most active are willing to let drop the seriousness, reducing and lowering the bar - bringing it all down to, the lowest common denominator. (just who can pull the hardest.)
In almost every case it is about trying to monetize my(our?) Cathedral.
That climbing is constantly under attack by people who have little to no appreciation for
what has come before, & to allow for what it has become, is hard for me to 'get' . . .
Or
I hate the way some run down an activity that has given me so much that I value,
even though I know in the big Picture it is all a meaningless 1st world entitled activity that is about having fun.
That is Why that you also find these ( ES, JJ Yosh ? the Wesley Summers?) smiley faced schiesters, are wrecking the place.
& Happy New Year.
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 08:01am PT
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Freezing. Humidity 90%.
Through a dirty window.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Dec 31, 2015 - 09:01am PT
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The Heartless Highway
There's no safety on the highway
The roads of our life do not care
And those traveling days roll by one by one
Till the birds in the sky and the widening sun
Say farewell to a road both heartless and unfair
Those miles we pass just a memory now
Those moments we cherish as love would allow
All the faces of those like the bright shiny signs
Are noted and stored deep away in our minds
Tucked like charms in our hearts to protect us somehow
So cherish those memories held close to your heart
Like photos of loved ones of which we'll not part
Like those stars that are all just far away Suns
With such distance and time till the new days begun
A new day with promise to make a new start
The road doesn't care what we do or we say
Not the bridges or even the lonely byway
With your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel
There's no guarantee there will be a fair deal
So don't turn your back on the highway
-bushman
12/31/2015
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 31, 2015 - 09:02am PT
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I never competed against Allison Stokke, but I did live within walking distance of Newport Harbor High and Cal.
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This guy didn't go to Cal and became known as an offensive player, but people I talked to who played with him at UCLA, said you just did not score near the basket when he was on the court.
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 12:11pm PT
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Signal Hill to Noise Ratio
The world is collectively selective about what it wants us to know.
The traffic from here to the next place is inconceivably slow.
So take blankets and bedpans and a pretty young nurse
And pen a long novel about the "New Universe."
Mail it in with a postcard to your Aunt Louise
And then tuck your head down between your two knees.
Take a long breath and then lift your head
By the looks of things here you're now Gratefully Dead.
--MFM
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Samoa and Christmas Is/Kiribati!!!!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Dec 31, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
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Poet Bushman wrote:
There's no guarantee there will be a fair deal
So don't turn your back on the highway
And, having just sat for a few days with a friend who was sure she was going to have very, very bad news following a "procedure" while I encouraged her to give optimism at least equal time (it can't hurt and it may help), and being with her when the really good news came, I want to offer a slight revision, dear Bushman, if I may, this New Year's Eve day:
There's no guarantee there won't be a fair deal
So don't turn your back on the highway.
May our fear yield equal time or more to hope and faith.
Happy New Year to the poets, photographers, philosophers, and piton haulers who share and lurk here.
feralfae
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
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So we're going, on the Taco, from no guarantee there WON'T be a fair deal, to leaving one's keys in the ignition.
It is no longer a big world, it's a HUGE world, now.
I get it.
I wish more of us did, but I must defer to the quote from Mario Puzo at the head of this page.
I would like to toss this into the New Year's Eve Bash Mix.
What may sound like the clarion call of geese on the wing through your closed window may only turn out to be a yapping dog in someone’s locked car. But are you thinking that way when you open the window?
And what about that little dog? It's a HUGE responsibility taking care of Master's stuff--that ski mask? $350. Those hiking shoes? A whole week's wages. All tasted good and held up to the little dog's teeth.
Except for that dog, I'd never have written anything today, maybe. Something to think about when I'm not drinking tonight, a Friday, NEW YEARS' EVE, fer Chrysanthemum's sake.
The Real Dawg came to town today, though...he just blew in and laid cash on me for the Red Roadent he's buying from me.
I'm talkin' about Brother Vern who's now up in North Fork.
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Hunters-Moon-Battle-on-the-Heights/t12167n.html
Well, his dog got hit on the road outside the trailer park. He's a young scamp and Vern hopes he's learnt his lesson about the highway.
Vern's looking very slight, significant weight loss, more rigorous exercise than he got down here where the air is more like smelling urine, according to Vern's wife, and the more mountain-y air...
up there near the "treeline" favored by young Coloradans of recent mention.
So he laid some wizard-smoke on me, we all had a group hug and they got in the car and left, their little dog yapping in the back. That would be Lady, not the Scamp, who sat this ride out.
So Happy New Year to Dawn and Vern, not to be confused with any other Dons, Castenadas or van Vliets.
And zBrown, there's the feral you don't wanna touch.Then there is the feral that's hard not to want to touch.It may be just me, but I see two different catty looks here. This is Roofus new playmate, by the way.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Dec 31, 2015 - 03:57pm PT
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A Tears free New Years!
Happy Happy New Year
Now go and drink a beer
Unless you like the wine
Then that will do just fine
You really shouldn't pout
If you like the Guinness stout
Or drink a glass of scotch
And spill some on your crotch
Or do tequila shots
Until you've got the hots
For a woman drinking Heiney
Then sneak up from behiney
No wait a minute Kimo
You'll be swimming soon with Nemo
Who only drinks the bubbly
While he's swimming in the tubbly
That might be the decider
To drink some sparkling cider
Then you can stay aliver
As the designated driver
That's what I had to do
Because I went "achoo!"
And puked up on some cops
While I was drinking schnapps
So whatever you want to drink
Before you do just think
And listen to this jive
If you want to stay alive
Now go and have some beers
And a safe Happy New Years!!
-bushman
12/31/2015
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 04:04pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Here's another of those recordings which sound great when played in one, two, or three "rounds." Reminds me of Alvin & the Chipmunks.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 31, 2015 - 04:05pm PT
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I've been sick as a dawg, or perhaps a feral cat, so the New Year is looking to me to be a step up.
Best Wishers to y'all, you know who you are.
Pantera si,
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Hand jive? Likeable guy, probably why he was never banned from the ST.
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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 - Dec 31, 2015 - 04:13pm PT
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Sorry to hear that, brujo.
It wouldn't have been so bad if that poor girl had died at home & all I got is gone.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 31, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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Had to look it up (I am after all sick), but Delia Green was actually shot by Mose (aka Moses) Houston in Savannah on Christmas Day 'round 1900.
Never heard a version I did not like, but Bromberg has migrated to the top of th list of late.
Double-seated hack
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 31, 2015 - 05:13pm PT
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May have slipped by unnoticed, but Renaud Lavillenie, altered the world pole vault record to 6.16 meters in 2014 after it had languished at 6.14 (altitude) and 6.13 for ten years.
Delia is indeed gone, but she was replaced by Patty Hearst and the SLA.
Good thing this is copyright controlled to keep it from spreading.
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