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Damn this looks high
Trad climber
Temecula, CA
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Sep 18, 2011 - 10:06pm PT
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Adventures not possessions.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
 Twain
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
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To the victors goes the spoils
NOT TWAIN
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Where are you bound?
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:50am PT
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"That jam's lousy, but at least it's awkward." ~ Donini
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steve shea
climber
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Sep 19, 2011 - 09:03am PT
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"It's so crowded, nobody goes anymore" Yogi Bera
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
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The pen is mightier than the sword... OK, you take the pen and I'll take the sword.
Excellent.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
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Not a tear bedims the eye
that time and patience will not dry.
-Bret Harte
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Sep 20, 2011 - 01:19am PT
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"If ya wanna quite drinking coffee.....just keep drinking it"!
Dave Bircheff at the Grill in Tuolumne 1973.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 20, 2011 - 02:06am PT
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"Hold my beer, watch this..."
Bubba
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
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We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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"you have to watch how you get"
very true philosphy from a book by william heat leats moon called blue highways,
anybody read it?
Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.
In 1978, after separating from his wife and losing his job as a teacher, Moon, 38 at the time, decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to only the "Blue Highways." Heat-Moon had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).
He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks. Referring to the Native American resurrection ritual, he christens the van "Ghost Dancing," and embarks on a three month soul-searching tour of the United States, wandering from small town to small town, often just because they have interesting names. The book chronicles the 13,000 mile journey and the people he meets along the way, as he steers clear of cities and interstates, avoiding fast food and exploring local American culture.
Well-researched and intriguing stories and historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as verbatim conversations with characters such as a born-again Christian hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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It’s hard to bitch but sometimes I still do, Life’s been good to me so far.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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"Everything in moderation...including moderation.
-Delhi Dog
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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"When the music's over, turn out the lights."
a fine biotrope to live by
a fine epitaph, too (think I'll use it if I have a chance)
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WBraun
climber
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Asshole of the century quote:
Henry Kissinger -- "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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"If you don't know what it is....throw a rock at it"
Grandpa
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Love Betty White!
"If I had a d*ck, this is where I would tell you to suck it"
The movie Lake Placid, talking to the sheriff.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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"we're here to put a dent in the universe" -steve jobs
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2011 - 09:19am PT
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Schopenhauer
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MikeL
climber
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:15am PT
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Climbers' quotes, some romantic, others ironic.
• What can this rock give you?. . . . Nothing. . . . and what will you hold in your hands on the Summit? I can tell you now: nothing. It’s all lunacy. (Reinhard Karl)
• [Mountaineering is] ‘the conquest of the useless’ (Lionel Terray)
• Many sages have said that a creative life requires . . . . [an] arena where men and women have risked all (John Long).
• I came to find my own mediocrity and that of the world intolerable. I recognized that I . . . was degenerate. . . . I realized that I was not a man in the full sense of the word, . . . and the realization was so bitter that I often wept. . . . If I undertook The Shroud, it was precisely for that reason: to submit myself and my life to God’s purpose . . . . it was, of course, a wholly egotistical act (Ivan Ghirardini).
• I was strong. I could have done anything. I seethed with desire. Believing in my self-importance, I stroked and blessed my ego. Ambition was so precious. I worshipped it and stole for it. I rationalized every evil thing I ever did by weighing it against my ambition. I wanted to be a god without the boredom of sainthood (Mark Twight).
• I used to be afraid that I would die young but after living for a while I got scared that I wouldn’t (Mark Twight).
• I find I want this loss of control. I want to feel very small in very deep water. I don’t want to know what I’m doing, but to learn it (Peter Croft).
• Deprivation [Mt. Hunter, Alaska] taught me about the existence of this mystic path in the mountains . . . . How can I be tired while climbing on the mountain when I have become the mountain? I have searched within myself through both passive and active meditation, for the tools to open this ‘door’ whenever I will it. I still search (Mark Twight).
• The whole notion of ‘deep play’—the gambling theory of extreme risk taking when the gambler stands to lose far more than he could ever possibly win—may well be an apt description of some levels of climbing, but playing the game in reality now seemed a conceited and ridiculous enterprise (Joe Simpson).
• When we undeniably see that we create our own misery, we stop. The force generated by this insight changes anyone. Even Mark. His internal struggles for personal freedom, outwardly manifested through his climbing, eventually transformed Dr. Doom into Dr. Om. (Brian Eno about Mark Twight)
• After my ascent, and typical of other climbers before me, the accomplishment and rite of passage were partly why I could bow out of the central camp scene [a climber’s camp and hangout in Yosemite Valley] and its infinite loop of harder and harder climbing . . . . Perhaps thus enlightened, I turned to new thoughts and still deeper ways of looking at my life, as I grew older (Peter Haan).
• My whole psychology believed it was right to cultivate risks to achieve success. This led me to take terrible chances. Because I was soloing, in my self-centered world I could talk myself into it. Without being conscious of it, I behaved as if summits were worth dying for. I don’t buy that anymore. (Joe Beyer)
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