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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 16, 2014 - 10:10am PT
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Rainfall total for the month of March 2011 was just shy of 5.0" compared to the .37 of that December.
This is a video (excuse the fact dude ran out of crappy music at the R Street bridge) showing the local watercourse, which runs through mid-town, from the north side on Bear Creek Drive.
To lose crap music: Hit the floor and the volume control!
Something's got to give.
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At 2:00 is the R St. bridge. The old YVRR bridge pilings are right next to it under about ten feet of water.
At around 4:00 we come to the Scout Hut in Applegate Park, and the Big Damn Flag near the M St. crossing.
Beyond that is Mercy Hospital and the bike path, which used to be just willow scrub and berry bushes before we got some good old federal funding.
Turning onto G St., you can look downstream. (I coulda filmed this better than this dude--I'd have gotten out of the car, too.)
I imagine Bidwell Creek in Chicotown is like Bear Creek in its ways, somewhat, but the fact is that the water in Bear Creek is also water civerted from Black Rascal Creek diverted at high flow levels via a canal into Bear Creek so that the north side of Bear Creek is never in danger of flooding any longer (hence the federal money and Corps of Engineers project in the late fiftties).
As a result, homes and children are safe, life continues apace, and we can still drive around looking at the creeks rising, saying, "Wow, look at that. I wonder from whence it cometh and to where it floweth."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 16, 2014 - 10:23am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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May 16, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
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Oye! Jose y Trini de San Antonio
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Naia de Hoyo Negro, Yucatan
Her almost complete remains, including an intact skull and preserved DNA, were lying 130 feet below sea level near a variety of extinct animals, such as an elephant like creature called a gomphothere.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 17, 2014 - 03:22am PT
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My favorite quote of the last twenty years, courtesy of Jaybro:
The more wyde that comes, the more it gives.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 17, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
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“I remember looking over a sea of people and everyone was really
happy and full of enthusiasm,” remembered Hackworth. “The music was
the catalyst that drew us together. It really was a time of believing
in love and peace for humanity.”
Stepanie Minasian article from 2009 on the October, 1969, Amador Rock Festival near Ione, CA.
http://mercedmusic.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/amador-from-the-amadoreans/#comment-1236
Santana was there.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Missed out on this one. First I've ever heard of it was this morning!
It was in my email from Mike Kennedy of MercedMusic today.
Fits with the earlier posting about Altamont that was written by Steve Cassady, if one could only find it...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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May 17, 2014 - 03:47pm PT
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It is rumoured, but not established that Santana was also here.
Popotla Baja California
Al Capone's house near Popotla, though he hasn't lived there since at least when Santana moved north to Merced.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 17, 2014 - 04:02pm PT
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I may need a temporary assistant.
zBrown quick fox jumped over the lazy yellow dog and zBrown one for good measure.
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Skills: Ya gotta have some to get along.
Like Google Earth navigation.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 17, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
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La familia.This family was out last night on Main St. during our annual CAP & TOWN Friday. I did not see them perform and don't know what style they dance.
While looking for possibilities, I struck this article, which may be of interest to Terpsichoreans out there. As usual, there is more to the subject than I ever thought might exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_dance_of_Mexico
CAP & TOWN.
Camping Town.
Camperdown.
Camp 4 Clown.
Denise's School of Dance was well-represented, as was the Tahitian Dance School, Pacifica.That's not all, folks!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 19, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
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Today's 'Modern Dance.'Basically the same as forty years ago at this level, but this young woman's got it down.
This performance was by the oldest students from Denise's School of Dance.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 19, 2014 - 08:02pm PT
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There was a climbing tower set up across the street from the used bookstore, the first one I have ever seen in Merced. It was from Auburn, where they have two auxiliary towers, all connectable to the air on this one, for larger crowds.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 19, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
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A few more random shots from CAP & TOWN.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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May 20, 2014 - 10:26pm PT
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Merced is the ? capitol of the world?
Certainly not bullfighting.
-El Cordobes (Not El Capone)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 20, 2014 - 11:40pm PT
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Our time has come, lazy brown dogs!!!!
World dominion any day now...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 21, 2014 - 08:28am PT
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Good old Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, as noted today by Google, discovered a fossil known as "devil's fingers" in the local shoreline fossil beds.
They were abundant, shall we say.They are the Official Fossil of the state of Delaware
As you may have learned and of which you're very well aware.
I'm not so devilishly fickle
I really just want a motorcycle.
So I took off looking for Jurassic Choss on Google Images.
Came up right away with a video of a string of misbegotten attempts on a route in Colorado that, admittedly,
had never registered with me as a route, let alone a famous "Classic" route until someone posted a pic of it this week.
http://www.coloradomountaineering.com/2014/01/video-finding-and-climbing-petit-grepon.html
Fame is fickle, dudes, what can I tellya?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 21, 2014 - 09:17am PT
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My vision is poor and my glasses are old. These are a blurry bunch, but I can only try.
The autofocus connection on my telephoto lens is not functioning, so I must use the manual focus instead.
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