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seth kovar
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Bay Area
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Mar 14, 2010 - 03:38pm PT
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seth kovar
climber
Bay Area
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Mar 14, 2010 - 03:44pm PT
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Mar 14, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
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Just bumping through cuz this thread is cool.
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seth kovar
climber
Bay Area
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Mar 14, 2010 - 06:04pm PT
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 15, 2010 - 11:36am PT
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I love the images Rich posted above, the sepia toned ones. The last image seems so much a quote of the Asher Brown Durand painting Kindred Spirits painted in 1849 as a homage to the another "Hudson River School" artist, Thomas Cole.
In the book, American Sublime; Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 by Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer there is the quote from the poem Thanatopsis by William Cullin Bryant:
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
It is part of the climbing experience in the east to be so close to the artistic expression of the 19th century. While there are many expressions of western landscape in painting, photography and literature, the subject seemed to overwhelm, whereas the eastern wilderness was familiar and manageable, and could be expressed with artistic control.
Is there such expression of our western "wilderness" that could be described in terms of American sublime?
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richross
Trad climber
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Mar 15, 2010 - 11:44am PT
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Boymeetsrock
Trad climber
the east
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Mar 15, 2010 - 07:10pm PT
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So... I woke up late this morning, and it threw my whole day off. Daylight savings :-( bah humbug! Then this afternoon I managed to find my way into a real funk. (wwhhaaaaa, I know, but here comes the point!)
Stumbled into this thread earlier today without time to peruse. So when I got home I peeked back in. That Sh!t day I was talkin' 'bout? Faded away.
Thanks for all the GREAT photos!!!O!!!N!!!E!!!!!
I love them all. The lady's slipper takes me back, Happie!
Here's a crappy one from my phone. (hope this works)
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Boymeetsrock
Trad climber
the east
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Mar 16, 2010 - 12:36pm PT
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Bump 'cause the Gunks is cool.
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richross
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Mar 16, 2010 - 01:19pm PT
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mtselman
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 16, 2010 - 04:40pm PT
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mar 19, 2010 - 10:41am PT
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Funny how last year during the meeting on the Master Plan, that when people said "How are all these changes going to be paid for, in these economic times?" and here we are half a year later facing a budget that supports outright closing of Minnewaska.
What, actually, would a full closure involve? The workers there would be moved or lose their jobs. That in itself is awful. But what of physical access? Would the state actually spend money guarding and keeping people out? Is there a possibility the land would the land be sold?
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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I was just at a party for a friend of mine and saw the original of this painting. THE CLOVE by Thomas Cole. It's really hard to make out, but there is actually some guy in a kilt standing on the rocks in the stream bed.
http://artchive.com/artchive/C/cole/cole_clove.jpg.html
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Mimi
climber
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Apr 10, 2010 - 02:29am PT
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Gunks bump. What a place!
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Morgan
Trad climber
East Coast
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May 19, 2010 - 10:53am PT
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Thanks John, it was cool to meet you as well. You are doing some awesome work artistically and technically and in terms of being there to get THE shot. On Sunday, I met Rich Ross, who is also posting up here with some cool photos and stories. Thanks to rgold for not only starting an awesome thread, but for providing a basis for connecting with our fellow gunkies and gunkies in spirit.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 19, 2010 - 11:16am PT
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Beautiful picture Morgan, couldn't help but notice the raincoat which is why I moved west about 40 years ago.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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May 19, 2010 - 12:13pm PT
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Back when you could leave a car at the upper hairpin overnight without raising any eyebrows we'd walk out and bivy right at the lip of the Millbrook Cliff.
This is the only place I have been where, when the sun rises, you can clearly observe that it is the earth which is rolling through space while the sun is the (relatively) stationary object.
Music cue: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss...
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cliffmama
Trad climber
Noo Jerzee
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May 23, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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And I won it!!!!
I'm thrilled!
Big thanks to John Okner for donating it to the GCC for the raffle prizes. It will hang proudly in my house along with another of John's gorgeous photographs that I got last year. John - you do beautiful work!
Jannette
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Tan Slacks
climber
Joshua Tree
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May 24, 2010 - 12:28am PT
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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May 24, 2010 - 01:11am PT
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