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Rill
Social climber
Ireland
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Jun 25, 2015 - 09:19am PT
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Nicely said Chalkpaw
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ryankelly
Trad climber
Bhumi
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Jun 27, 2015 - 08:17am PT
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fly free
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jstan
climber
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:05am PT
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I watched the Alan Parsons video. Well put together tome on flight one of the two intrinsic human desiderata. I spent my life in the other, the desire to see at night.
I will make comment on the tangled straw shown in the link's presentation. I have done a bit of scything. The link shows what you get when the scythe is flat out dull. If you dress the blade adequately with a stone the cut material lays down slick as a whistle.
I was incredibly lucky. At about three I followed my mom as she shocked oats behind a horse draw cutter. 1850's technology. The oats fell on a canvas surface and the follower swept them by hand into a group that was held together with a twisted strand of the oats. Then we leaned three of them together in a shock.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jun 29, 2015 - 11:46pm PT
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From the book of Hebrews: They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy)...
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 30, 2015 - 12:31am PT
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^^^<They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth..
11:38
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nsteve
Mountain climber
Venice, CA
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nsteve
Mountain climber
Venice, CA
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nsteve
Mountain climber
Venice, CA
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nsteve
Mountain climber
Venice, CA
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Is this the notch they were trying to shoot?
Not clear on this.
thanks,
JL
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nsteve
Mountain climber
Venice, CA
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Yes, i believe so.
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James
climber
My twin brother's laundry room
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Jul 23, 2015 - 11:50pm PT
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Last year, the Dark Wizard, Grahmbo and I were all in Zion when Stanley crashed. Stanley's family mourned. The climbing community gathered and wept.
I spent the days after Dean's and Graham's death at Stanley's El Portal trailer. The air felt the same as a year before.
A few days later, a friend of mine crashed and nearly died jumping in the park.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab or In What Time Zone Am I?
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^^^^. Goosebumps.
Susan
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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What scares us about death is the finality....
I think the old 5.10 ad said it best:
It's not that life is short, it's that you're dead for so long.
I had a history teacher who spoke of romantics as those with ground-breaking inspirations who leave us at an early age. We can think of many romantic musicians and artists, but few romantics in sports. Sure, there are those alpinists who are overcome by objective obstacles. But the ones who perish because they pushed past the edge of "reason" are remembered with an asterisk next to their names--they had a screw loose somewhere.
In activities such as climbing and flying, the idea for many is to seek the edge, to feel that razor shave. Bystanders watch from afar, and brush the whiskers on their own faces, content with having a beard.
It all comes down to livin' fast, or dyin' slow.
This wisdom, sung by Robert Earl Keen, speaks volumes to me and I imagine all my bros and sisters who participate in the sports of climbing and flying. We just don't want to die slow.
Dean, what a fellow, what a soul.
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WBraun
climber
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It only takes 9 months for the soul to be reborn again in another material body ...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Werner, I don't doubt that. But then I think, where are all these new people coming from? Our population keeps growing!!
Maybe as other life-giving planets are consumed by their suns, the people there have to pack up and travel here. Or maybe there's another "China" planet that's overzealous in producing souls. Obviously I have no clue. But I do hope Hendrix pops up again soon.
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