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MH2
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Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2017 - 08:52am PT
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You are right, frostback, but it is a long story. With foreshadowings, literary references, illustrations, botanical and zoological meanderings, and flashbacks to scenes of sex and violence. I have been intending to add it to this thread, and the photo above was a good ending. It will take a while to put the other elements together.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 30, 2017 - 10:10am PT
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Ghost you need to keep traversing from that pic to get to Moss Mtn
Thankfully dogs make gud encouragers
Then there's our northern zone. No photos from that shining sea yet?
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
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Thanks, Oplo. That dog looks smart.
Maybe now there is a photo or two of the northern zone?
When Roscoe first showed up he/she was hanging low in a tree where non-climber passersby might go.
I took it for a child's creation and re-located it where it was less likely to be disturbed. To me it resembled a Tami Knight cartoon rat and a good mascot for the traverse.
Roscoe has made it through storm, heat, cold, a fall and loss of tail, and a neck fracture.
This Spring I had to revise my opinion of Roscoe's origin.
I now guess that Roscoe plays a part in weird ju-ju. This Spring I have seen things at the traverse which 25 years of regular attendance did not prepare me for.
What is going on, here?
Answer coming later.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2017 - 04:53pm PT
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And a reprise of a video Harry posted:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
with the spiders
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
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Foreshadowing.
Upcoming Yosemite TR.
If so on and so forth...
My internet-assisted guess: Erythranthe tilingii
Probably a cousin beside the trail to upper Yosemite Falls:
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 11:12am PT
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The park in which the traverse is found is a place of quiet beauty.
WARNING
SOME OF WHAT FOLLOWS MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS
CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
My eyesight is not sharp. I noticed something unusual out in the water but it was too far off, about 400 metres, until I looked at the tele photos. It was drifting away and this image is a sequence collected over several minutes.
Maybe the root system of an old-growth stump upside down and mostly submerged?
Doesn’t account for what looks like a head on the left with a mouth that opens and closes.
Later in the sequence
I could not visualize a geometry that would shift and rotate to present those views.
What I could visualize was this:
A plesiosaur grabbed a seal and then got attacked by a shark. Pretty cool!
RETURN TO REGULAR PROGRAMMING
Adult program will resume after a short break.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 12:22pm PT
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I was told by the paddle-boarder that these are sea lions.
They yell OORT! OORT! OORT!
I never noticed them before, if they were around, but they are hard to miss.
Out of the corner of my eye:
Next day, confirmation.
Passing directly off shore from the traverse:
Sea lions in same location but different angle, doing idon’wannaknowwhut.
Whale nearing the same place:
And the answer to it all?
Small fish.
Many of them.
Maybe recovering as pollutant sources go the way of the past.
Bringing back whales, dolphins, sea lions, and eagles trying to shake down sea gulls.
And people.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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I was not aware. Being an adult is not easy.
Do not approach sea lions.
Do not feed them.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 29, 2017 - 07:04am PT
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The lure of the sea to earn a living. 18th century copper and tin mines in Cornwall. Would you dig a vertical shaft down in order to dig an adit out beneath the sea floor?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'm damned if I can find something to climb here next summer.
Maybe I'll just go fishing.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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I recall doing the traverse at Lighthouse (not Kmans) back in the early 90s on many a spring/summer eve to be greeted by the chuff of a sea lion surfacing below me. never seen that many though! bitd you were lucky to have one.
Let's hear it for the herring and for SES doing the herring mesh wraps of creosote pilings. As well as for the remedy of the Brittania toxic discharge and for the shutdown of Woodfibre toxic discharge. Those three things seem to be giving us the livelier Sound. Huzzah
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2017 - 04:35pm PT
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I prefer warm water, too. And dry rock.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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The Runner.
Nearby.
I ran away soon after this, but it was a sketchy retreat:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Cool... That's no sea for old men...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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Dick Culbert well remembered. Thanks for putting that here. The Rock itself looks ghost-like in the last shot.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2017 - 11:25am PT
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Beautiful shining colours and an arrow pointing to The Rock.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:35am PT
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I prefer warm water, too. And dry rock.
Gotchya covered, braj! Capri’s yer game!
The approach is sano and the apres-send ain’t bad neither!
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Oct 10, 2017 - 09:30am PT
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The original S'i'lix seems like a much better name to me from here on out than Siwash
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2017 - 07:52pm PT
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Perfect time, Greg.
We may live to see the park re-named.
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Hoser
climber
Vancouver,Rome
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IF you climb ice on the west coast you may recognize this Brit - always taking the cover shot.
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