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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Jan 22, 2019 - 12:36pm PT
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“Without risk to life and limb, there is no adventure “
Yvon Chouinard
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves”
John Muir
“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end”
Edward Whymper
“We climb for so many reasons; the sheer beauty and grandeur of the mountains, the soothing balm of solitude, the satisfaction of exploring new ground, and of exploring our own reactions to new exacting experiences. The climber gains satisfaction from going into potentially dangerous places but the, through his own skill and experience, rendering it safe”
Sir Chris Bonington
“ The last step depends on the first and the first step depends on the last”
Rene Daumal
“Solo climbing is like life; a mystery, unpredictable, risky, often dependent on chance, and somewhat illogical “
Reinhold Messner
“For once I stood in the white, windy presence of eternity “
Eunice Tietjens
“The barriers we encounter in realizing our potential are, more often than not, self imposed. If we start by removing those, we find far fewer barriers than we had expected “
Cathy O’Dowd. (first woman to climb Everest)
“Life begins at 10,000 feet”
Will Unsoeld
“ The greatest asset of a good mountaineer is a bad memory “
Mark Jenkins
“ There are only three real sports; Bullfighting, Automobile racing, and mountain climbing. All the rest are just games.”
Ernest Hemingway
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 22, 2019 - 12:40pm PT
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“The greatest asset of a good mountaineer is a good bladder” - moi
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 24, 2019 - 04:06pm PT
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Thanks to all who took the time to contribute. Cheers!
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johntp
Trad climber
By decision or indecision we are where we are.
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Jan 24, 2019 - 05:20pm PT
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Back atcha Lynne.
From Royal:
"By decision or indecision, we all control where we are".
OT: as a side note to Lynne, I am glad you have found a new life in this community. We've not yet met but have common friends. Glad you are at the campfire.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2019 - 02:21pm PT
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Thanks for that quote, johntp. The past 11 years (yes, already 11!!!) have been a wonderful adventure around this campfire called Tacoland.
I may have met you briefly (try 2 minutes). Didn't you deliver the fresh fish to Todd Gordon's when we had the Sushi Fest there?
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Bale
Mountain climber
UT
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Jan 25, 2019 - 02:47pm PT
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johntp
Trad climber
By decision or indecision we are where we are.
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Jan 25, 2019 - 03:24pm PT
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I may have met you briefly (try 2 minutes). Didn't you deliver the fresh fish to Todd Gordon's when we had the Sushi Fest there?
Yes, delivered fish to Todd's two times. Once for tarfest and once for Birdfest.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
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Jan 25, 2019 - 05:25pm PT
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Sent you some stuff Lynnie. Gotta get over here, look at the stuff I have, eat some grub and drink some wine! Bring The Yerian when he gets in.....guitars, harps and anything else that makes music.
Peace
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2019 - 07:49pm PT
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Thanks my friend, Ron. Your info was spot on.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Jan 26, 2019 - 09:32am PT
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums (1958).
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Jan 26, 2019 - 09:52am PT
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"I'd rather be in the mountains thinking about God, than sitting in church thinking about the mountains."
Unknown author
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clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
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Jan 26, 2019 - 10:34am PT
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Chief Seattle's Letter
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.
We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to the same family.
The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.
If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted with talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is to say goodbye to the swift pony and then hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.
When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?
We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it, as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.
As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you.
One thing we know - there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all."
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/seattle.htm
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Bluelens
Social climber
Pasadena and Ojai, CA
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Jan 26, 2019 - 02:45pm PT
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"The forging of friendships too deep for words is almost never the reason we set off into the wilderness to probe the unknown. But in the end, it is what glows in memory."
David Roberts Limits of the Known (2018) book
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jan 26, 2019 - 04:11pm PT
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Of course there is the quote attributed to Eric Beck:
"At either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class"
Or something like that.
I was on a gunks weekend trip with DanaB years ago and quoted this ( Eric lived with us for a short while).
Dana’s version was:
“ at either end of the social spectrum people live behind high walls and steel bars”.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jan 26, 2019 - 04:29pm PT
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Up high you all look like bugs. What a cool spot. I’m cool to even be here. I’m better than all of you.
~Jebus in the mountains (what a d bag)
+1
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 26, 2019 - 04:44pm PT
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When I die, spread my ashes across the Sierra Nevada, the mountains or the brewery, it won't matter.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Jan 26, 2019 - 07:05pm PT
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Indeed there has been no time in human history when mountains and mountaineering have had so much to offer... We need to rediscover the vast, harmonious pattern of the natural world of which we are a part-the infinite complexities of its myriad components, the miraculous simplicity of the whole. We need to learn again those essential qualities in our own selves which make us what we are: the energy of our bodies, the alertness of our minds; curiosity and the desire to satisfy it, fear and the will to conquer it. The mountain way may well be a way of escape-from cities and men, from turmoil and doubt, from the perplexities and uncertainties that thread our lives. But in the truest sense, it is not an escape from reality but to reality.
That men have climbed the Matterhorn and Denali, Aconcagua and Nanda Devi... means little. That should want to climb them and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp, and there is no conquest worth winning save that over his own weakness and ignorance and fear."
-James Ramsey Ullman in "High Conquest" 1942
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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Jan 26, 2019 - 07:28pm PT
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Sent you some stuff Lynnie. Gotta get over here, look at the stuff I have, eat some grub and drink some wine! Bring The Yerian when he gets in.....guitars, harps and anything else that makes music.
Peace
I wanna play!
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ron gomez
Trad climber
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Jan 27, 2019 - 06:31am PT
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Well hell, E get down here! I’m at best a hacker on guitar, but Yerian can make me sound good.
Peace
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 27, 2019 - 10:30am PT
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A quick pass through Galen's version of Muir's The Yosemite.
"I drifted enchanted...gazing afar over domes and peaks, lakes and woods, and the billowy glaciated fields...In the midst of such beauty...one's body is all one tingling palate. Who wouldn't be a mountaineer!"
"Yosemite became to to Muir what the Galápagos Islands were to Darwin: a place where personal experience and visionary thought came together to influence broader concepts pursued for decades thereafter in other parts of the world. Both men looked closely at the primordial struggle for existence long observed by others; both saw something not life-threatening and destructive, but rather a creative, life-giving process. Darwin liberated biologists from looking at species as fixed entities. Muir freed first himself, then generations of his disciples, from the venerated tradition of adapting land to human needs, urging instead a new ethic of adapting human behavior toward preserving the natural state of the earth.
I believe Muir made this leap of faith precisely because he was not pursuing a tangible goal in society, such as a college degree, a homestead, a pioneer trail, or even a national park. He inadvertently put himself into a situation where he spent long periods of time in the wilds without trying to change his surroundings to fit his needs. When he climbed mountains, the essence of his experience was the natural character of the terrain. Applied on a larger scale, the new way of viewing the world that he discovered for himself gave birth to the environmental movement as well as to forms of self-propelled outdoor recreation virtually unknown in his time." Galen Rowell on Muir
"The Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light. And after ten years of wandering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it seems above all others the Range of Light."
"Look well about you wanderer! There is but one Yosemite on the face of the earth, and through the myriad moods, the shifting cyclic patterns, will always sound your need, simple joy and certitude, the face of life itself." Michael Borghoff
"The Sierra, instead of being a huge wrinkle of the earth's crust without any determinate structure, is built up of regularly formed stones like a work of art."
"Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned...their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidently at their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light, while the snow and waterfalls, the winds and avalanches and clouds shine and sing and wreathe about them as the years go by."
"These beautiful days...do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the wall of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will...They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always."
"The Master Builder chose for a tool, not the earthquake nor lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent nor eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers, noiselessly falling through unnumbered seasons, the offspring of the sun and sea."
After gaining a point about halfway to the top, I was suddenly brought to a dead stop, with arms outspread, clinging close to the face of the rock, unable to move hand or foot either up or down. My doom appeared fixed. I must (italics) fall...Then my trembling muscles became firm again, every rift and flaw in the rock was seen as through a microscope, and my limbs moved with a positiveness and precision with which I seemed to have nothing at all to do. Had I been borne aloft upon wings, my deliverance could not have been more complete." Muir about climbing Mount Ritter in 1873
"The power of modern photography is not unlike that of old Victorian prose. At its worst, it overwhelms the viewer with visual stimulation that does not truly reflect what the eye of an observer would see or, more important, care to see. At its best, by holding moments still for all time, it shows us something more than our eyes can see. This unswerving ability to hold true to reality while stimulating emotional sympathy is not built into the mechanics of the camera, but rather into the heart and soul of its user. This very quality of Muir's prose infects countless visitors to Yosemite with a new appreciation for both the scenes before their eyes and for the man whose vision created such a national park." Galen Rowell
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