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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2015 - 04:41pm PT
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Werner to Jeff..."don't worry, that role in Quest for Fire is yours!
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 11, 2015 - 05:44pm PT
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Actually I would rather roam the maquis of Corsica and sleep under an ancient chestnut tree in the Castagniccia than go back to those ol' Camp 4 daze. They hold fond memories for me; but I prefer my present life that floats between Appalachia and Corsica
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gypsyflores/sets/72157626428029347/
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 11, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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but I prefer my present life that floats between Appalachia and Corsica
And thus you are very very ALIVE
Cheers ....
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Feb 11, 2015 - 07:06pm PT
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And thus you are very very ALIVE
It's called "the present" because it's a gift.
Susan
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 11, 2015 - 07:18pm PT
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Who would have thought that a plaque on a rock could be that heavy.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 12, 2015 - 12:54pm PT
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Corsica is an island of beauty and mystery and granite.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 04:18pm PT
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They came for her in late August, on the island of Corsica...
Beyond the village, the road was little more than a singe-lane track bordered on both sides by thick walls of macchia...
"I wish to see the don."
"The don is a very busy man. I'll see what I can do," said the guard in the Corsican dialect....
Most Corsican men were more than willing to do their killing themselves. But there were some who needed others to do their blood work for them....People like these relied on professional killers known as taddunagiu.
Early stages of The English Girl by Daniel Silva (Merced-born int'l novelist).
The populace of Corsica relies heavily on the mixture of brush known as macchia when they need to hide from the current plundering hordes--Viking, Saracen, the French, etc.
The true Corsican is able to smell the macchia from miles and miles out to sea, so Silva writes.
For Blakey...the horror of Hammer-less climbing!
[Click to View YouTube Video]Cheers to Bron and your good self!
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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Not Corsica. This is an authentic accidental photo of the Camp 4 parking lot. Circa 1972
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 13, 2015 - 09:30am PT
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So all these memories of Camp 4 and Yosemite. Here I am today in "photobooth" on my mac.
Where are you today? :D
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 13, 2015 - 09:38am PT
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Where are you today?
That's a question for the Science and Religion thread I'm afraid. Or, at the least, one
to be answered by Gil Sott Heron, or Souris de Merced.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 13, 2015 - 09:49am PT
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Exactly, thank you. :-)
Or as my old friend Tony from Haines, Alaska was wont to say
"you won't even see me when I'm gone."
edit: Hey, Gypsy, you just hung me out to dry with yer delete! Bad form!
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 13, 2015 - 09:53am PT
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sorry, I was going to edit and I hit the wrong button.
what I had said was "How can you be in two places at once when you are nowhere at all".
I had wanted to find the original Firesign Theatre reference. duh on my part.
or bad form--whatever.
but it really is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCzgdF_WjOg
How can you be in two places at once when you are not anywhere at all?
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2015 - 10:23am PT
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surrounded by a thin thin thin sixteen millimeter shell.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:48am PT
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"no anchovies? I spell my name, Danger!"
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:54am PT
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No, the horizhon izh moving UP!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 12:34pm PT
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I've got dirt on my fingers
And dirt in my bags.
I live in a tent
And I dress up in rags.
I scarf at the caf
Over at the Yo Lodge
My best friend's a muskrat
Who drives an old Dodge.
Ironsides, shown here with Millis, was really not a Dodge, but a Chevy truck.
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