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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2016 - 07:58am PT
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Pets from long ago.
Why, as I grow older, do these guys seem more special?
Tigger had the perfect fur and the perfect purr.
Spot was Nana's Corgi. Cows beware of this cocky little guy!
It's the same with Yosemite Valley. The older I grow, it seems more special.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 01:22am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 22, 2016 - 02:55am PT
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To
I to
First thing in the mornin' I have a favorite g'itar piece
Before coffee, or amidst the draw, a flash of a riff or a whole song
often the music and some dream inhabit the point of my mind most lost .
The spot that, as if the mute button is pushed, where dreams lay
I know something is on my mind . /free wife , happy life
locked down spouse,.,.,.,.,.,.,., WARNING, HIDE THE WOMEN, + children just in case,
CLEANER HOUSE! ( just saying )
What ever was on the tip of my tongue,
the tip of " oh yeah gatta write that down"
Is gone.
Resonance, ya'kno, kinda' a distinct thing,
but at just this minute I can't find it.
I too, went to the front list, with out glasses un- refreshed,
saw 'blaze spark' and opened it 1st ,
maybe a move made in haste,
Is every move made in haste is a waste?[Click to View YouTube Video]
Split board bindings, ?
What a waste,
of the 10 minutes till teenager,
off to milk the coffee machine now
Seems de ride is split,
porcelain train, & dog walking.
Catch the bus game @ to early o'clock
so I will be back
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Given that I'm waking up
to news of explosions in Brussels,
bombs in Brussels full of muscles
When I paint my master piece. .
What?"???Quackanator deactivated? Chief, & WBraun may be making an all to deserved appearance at the celebration of
Cozs' life, this weekend 3/26 at JTree. . . No needed trumpeting here, hear,
Anyway, I'm sorry that the slipping, away of great climbers of their day Scott, was
Iconic in his day.
This is true to for posting as some get fed up . . . . No one will ever compare to the singular WBraun, rare duck -odd duck a singular old buck
Rarely are we treated to new blood that is on the par of, or shows the potential, to have the staying ability as those with the pedigree of the decades of experience.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 06:29am PT
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You might have seen the Google Doodle for today on the way in?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/d-c-student-wins-national-google-doodle-contest-with-art-that-invokes-black-lives-matter/
Tommy Townsend was here yesterday, cadging another shower from me. He'll be going up to Mariposa today to "work for the lady." He's in and out of yours truly's life on a hit or miss basis. He was wearing this t-shirt yesterday. He leafs me a small sack of "schwagg" (pronounced sh-vag) for being able to shower here. Apparently, he says, but I don't know, but he insists, that he's growing it up the hill on "the lady's ranch." It's pretty stout for schwagg, I'll admit, but is he actually growing it? I am more inclined to doubt than belief. But dude likes his air of mystery, then I'll give it to him.
Tommy spent too long in the joint to be able to trust everything he says. It has taken me a while to learn this. I just go along with him. It's better that way, and he gets some respect. He's an intensely proud man in spite of the long prison term. And the dude just keeps coming up with these neat bicycles, too.
The set of photos above show the rain we had yesterday, though not a drip drop fell in earnest in Merced. A couple of dots on the road and concrete is the only evidence of rainfall here yesterday.
While on the subject, there is the awning over the sidewalk out front of middle earth.The two fire escapes are favored by smokers, though the management forbids smoking there. Ashes or the butts, they end up on the awnings, leaving holes. It's not a terrible problem. It just makes the expensive awnings look like heck.
This was a terrible sight, though, back in the nineties along Hwy. 120 heading to Crane Flat.It was our own Black Forest. Is that name trademarked?
The quality of life is strained by little annoyances,
failure to believe life is all that wonderful is eroded bit by bit,
and the blues creep in.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 08:03am PT
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Not a drop of rain overnight.
All these clouds are over the mountains and are moving east.
It's gonna be a beautiful spring day here.
Have a good one, guys! I'm off to have my blood drawn.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 05:07pm PT
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Slices of small rock hell in Alaska,
but no pizza for miles and miles.
"lord almighty god the crankloon generals in my head marching to bippety-bobbety bass lines burning with nausea"
--climber named Allapa on suffer-festing
http://kigsblog-allapa.blogspot.com/
Here's the thing: x < y This is the very enzyme action of T.O.T.O. Syndrome itself, turning a crap crag into gold through the rendering process of beauty. Were the East Fork Solomon Crags located in California they would be nothing, figuratively and literally. As distinct rock entities, they would not garner enough perception from climbers to carry any psychic weight. California has such an abundance of rock, the Solomon Crankloon would not stand out as worthy of notice in any way. In California, they'd probably just bulldoze a piece of schist like the Crankloon out of the way...
But here on the coast of the Norton Sound, tucked into the subsistence, gold, and reindeer country between Council and Nome, the East Fork Solomon Crags are a gold medal finalist of a Beringian rock garden. James is probably telling his friends about the killer bouldering he did at the fantasy climbing area in Alaska. I am spraying to my friends about my 5.5b "proj", confident they are paying no attention to what I am saying. The abundant flows of SINH TALA earth energy in the region, combined with an absence of psychic interference from any appreciable human population in the surrounding area, plus the harmonizing influence of massive beauty, amplify the psychic power of the stone arrangement into a sum that is greater than its choss.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2016 - 05:39pm PT
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This was a long page. Not close to a record, but gettin' up there.
I want to thank all who post here.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 22, 2016 - 07:50pm PT
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"From Broadway to the Milky Way
That’s a lot of territory indeed
And a man’s gonna do what he has to do
When he’s got a hungry mouth to feed"
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Got that old travelin' bone and a black cat's tooth, eh.
Is Pico and Sepulveda really any different from Telegraph & Haste or Broadway and Main or Av. Revolucion & Carillo Puerto y o Tercera?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 23, 2016 - 10:24am PT
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So I get a phone call this morning.
Me: Hello
Them: Please continue to hold ... followed by some really crappy music
Luckily for me, Them (was that a gigantic set of spiders?) didn't say for how long, so I continued for one second, then I hung up.
Them has not called back.
I know it wasn't these guys.
For those of you who are Northerners and haven't been there:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 23, 2016 - 10:32am PT
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Mhhh...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 23, 2016 - 12:35pm PT
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I actually worked on Sepulveda North.
Someone from St. Louis had to mail me something.
OK I'll send it to "sepple VEE duh" then.
Right.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2016 - 12:39pm PT
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book / "bewk" / noun: 1. a bound set of printed pages
2. a corner or dihedral on a rock climbing topo
3. the definitive 411 on a subject
"He wrote the book on dihedrals."
Verb: 1. to study
2. to make haste
"The two coeds having booked for hours, then booked, diagonally crossing the intersection of Telegraph and Haste in their haste."
I feel like I have a lot in common with the late Glen Dawson, "this old boy." Native of California, bookseller, history buff, and all-around good Joe. :0)
I wish I'd known a bit more about him. To have met and talked with him would have been mellow, and there might be hundreds who wistfully think that, too.
The attachment to the past that Glen Dawson represented by living so long has gone and we are the poorer for that. We cannot forget him, fortunately, for his name will always be associated with the highest peak in the USA (excluding Alaska, of course).
I try to place myself in the time of pioneering days in California rock climbing, and there has been this misty vision of guys freezing around a Tahquitz campfire and wondering about tomorrow morning, when they will be expected to put their newly-acquired skills with ropes and belaying Underhill-style, as some of them call it, to good use.
This kind of adventure is special, since there was no real precedent here in this country for what they were trying to do. The gulf between that group of earnest young lads and the motley Flames is vast. It's a lot to think about, so I'll let it rest until I've done so.
Chris Jones, a climbing historian we all appreciate, supplied the names of these gents to his best ability.
He lists them in this order:
back row, two unknowns, Glen Dawson, and two unknowns
front row, Robert Underhill, Norman Clyde, Jules Eichorn, and another mystery man
I began this thread back when. You may like to view it.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1946444&msg=1946444#msg1946444
A Word for Marlow~
Big Waste on Telegraph and Haste
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/12/07/sequoia-fire-aftermath-cause-rights-future-under-scrutiny/
Caffe Mediterraneum sits just down Telly from Haste, if you want a pick-me-up or a tete-a-tete or a place to be hip.
Neighborhood artists aren't shy.
The longest East Bay boulevard of which I know (and I know it well) is San Pablo Boulevard, also known as Highway 123.
It runs from Oakland's City Hall all the way to Crockett, having become Pomona Street.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_123
I don't have a shot of Crockett;
but DMT is holding shots of the CAR-Queenezz Straits bridges, so there's an off chance that he may be holding a shot of Pomona Street.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 23, 2016 - 04:52pm PT
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Dedicated to your friend and mine, Herr Braun, though I don't think Werner done it thisaway.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Quotes de Hermano Brauun.
Yep "All along the watchtower", wicked, we played that and Hendrix’s stuff “LOUD” out of Peter Hans VW Van.
That’s where Astroman came from …… later, .... Hendrix .....
Do I know Jimi's favorite brand of gum? Why yes I do.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Mar 23, 2016 - 05:26pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 23, 2016 - 05:32pm PT
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Nice group photo of Steve McQueen et alia.
No spiders?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 23, 2016 - 06:01pm PT
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hey there say, ... awwww, fun with words...
thanks DMT and zbrown...
say, we KNEW a few families with the name--sepulveda, so we
were up, on that one, ...
south texas, tex-mex name, country, :)
and, before that:
well, in calif, i have a great spanish teacher when i was in 6th
grade, so learned fast how to say stuff, :)
now, up here in michigan, my friends, the McKeown, have lots of with folks trying to say THEIR name... (they say it, mac Q 'en)
then, though, a family, we know, up here DOES throw a bit of spanish to the folks up here, at times:
izaquirre...
folks call them: IS guires ...oh my,
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