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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 - Apr 26, 2016 - 08:41pm PT
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Angling tip of the day:
Action figures can enhance your pathetic catch.
I favor Wonder Woman.This one was caught using a Wooly Buggerer.
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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 - Apr 26, 2016 - 11:57pm PT
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Rough and Ready
Furry & Blurry by neebee
I'm a bit fuzzy on which is which
If one's a male...etc.
Nicely done view of the Bridalveil Bunch, neebee.
Mutual admiration, social networking, posting on KMFM on CMAC's dime...
It's time to get back to reals.
And reels.
The menu up at John's was hours of Ken Burns, non-stop, but definitely worth it, as Dr. Spock hast said in this prehistoric thread
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1826766&tn=20
"The National Parks: The Best Idea America Ever Had" is now on my list of Ken Burns' best five and close to the top there. "The Roosevelts" is the other main contender, but I have never tried to view the entire thing all at once. I'm sure that I could not.
How much of the Burns' NP opus I watched is open to question, as it could be just a segment, but it was a two hour segment--very much info and not a note taken. I managed to learn a lot, though.
I imagine that I feel that way, but my gut tells me my mind had a good time trying to classify and remind and build memory cell clusters...
Shelton Johnson's part in it helped, because I know him from bus rides to Mr. Posa from YoVill. And the last and first Film Festival in March/2014.
And the story of Muir and Teddy, and of Teddy's magical ability at the stroke of a presidential pen to create a national monument or to preserve millions of acres of forest, and of how Devil's Tower was the first NM, and so on, through the Cliff Dwellings and the ladies who tried to preserve them, and I was hoping to see something of Gabe Sovulewski or Galen Clark, but no dice.
It was like sitting around a campfire, in a way, in the manner that Shelton describes in his video.
Enjoy it and dream of buffalo, bison, but no bulls, amigos.
This has been a
BLUE DREAM PRODUCTION.
Shelton Johnson - The Best Idea America Ever Had
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28x3MtDe3s
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 12:24am PT
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Conservation.Conversation.
Preservation.
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 12:40am PT
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The Sentinel in Winter in a Year of Drought.
MFM
Book a double room at the New MGM Grand Sentinel Hotel, coming to YoVill as soon as someone puts up enough money.
"Um, dear? Your cynicism is showing."
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 12:43am PT
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The old Superintendent's house out near the mouth of Yosemite Creek.
MFM
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 03:57am PT
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is all well in Hell ?
or have we more work to do?
--GOTD
More Bad Poetry
from Wednesday Morning Live
The Voice of the Sleep-Deprived
on KMFM
Hey there, neebee saynow!
How I Stopped Fearing Death and Began Living Up to My Potential As a Human Being
I’m just jiving,
For I’m someday gonna die:
I’m gonna stop living--
I’m goin’ up to the Spirit in the Sky.
Fixin' to.
Sometimes you just want the hell out. Like today.
The phone bill got paid, AT LAST.
And I took care of the Scrooges at CONCAST.
I hate going incommunicado,
But sometimes you just goddo.
And that rhymes with avocado.
Which brings us back to "DOH!"
That was mortifying enough for one die, as they sigh down under.
The horrifying part was the letter posted on the door to this old hovel.
It informed me that in two months my rent is going up 14%.
Terrible news, but I've been sort of expecting something like this, just not that much.
This will mean that, for the first time in my life, my monthly rent will eat up more than half of my net income.
I'm not complaining, just explaining.
This clown's just laughing it off, otherwise.
Yuk yuk yuk.
Whoopee.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
There is so much on which I'd like to spend my little "extra" pension from the Teamsters, but it's really just a month-end catch-all for emergencies like forgetting about paying the phone bill. It qualifies as an emergency in my yellow pages, maybe not yours.
Extras, like the merchandise advertised on the Taco sidebars.
http://www.vineyardvines.com/kentucky-derby/
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!
Give me a ball cap with a Giants logo and I'm headin' for le cercle des gagnants with old Charlie Sheen!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 06:10am PT
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I want you to know, I know exactly what ya' mean.
As for a comment from the New Dad? Hen faced to face he said HE is trying to direct traffic here. That's queer, his honey must be ready, his kne on the better side of temporarily mended.
Diapers or no
high here Adam!
We almost could get along if you can be reasonably nice
Not throw flames or ice
I for one would value your contributions to the Flames. . .
No Hillcricky or trump rumpin' but some of that doggy locals only braj
Woodson anti-beta, would be fine or kick it with Guy or Dwain , it is all the same
Now my nuts came in so to make the birds coo, I'm off to see a Jamaican abut
Some stemmy schwag, = 7grms stemz n' SEEDS!?
Do you rem'ber weed wid seed? Or are you lucky enough to be to young?
Gone down the doggy hole zB?
That share over there sent the fixation queen, the one with the 5.14 moniker, you know,
I need another f ptpp fame? Ya posted the sad 3day olds demise at the muzzle of a Fido.
If that was the dog that done it it knew & has sad eyes, as if to say, oops! That squeaky toy
Meant more to you than me? Woof woof.
The funny thing is that as you shared there I was thinking posting in a similar, even more off thread topic, vane
(?)( or is that Vein? No matter off topic spinning was the goal too.)
to add to the - The Owens River Gorge, is gonna be wet all the time again after 2018, thread - that took more than 120 posts to get to.
a similar post and a vicious spin to add climbing into a climbing area thread,
about a dogon doggy tragedy
I was gonna point out that I climbed a dozen routes on gear in the gorge.
As has been my way, I left a single nut and down climbed.
every one if I could, not trusting one Bomber,( always), nut, to lower & clean off of. . .
I've never thought about them, six were at least 5.10.
I caught hell from sport climbers for raining gravel down
And leading on pro, instead of just clip n' go.
The -we only sport climb here- thing was real 20 yrs ago.
The one with
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 06:46am PT
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Hey yes
Akin to Oregano, as cheap as it can be but I must still pay, full for a crappy snuffle
A bundle or a bindle, a sac or a baggy, some 'moke , but 5 hit shjt,
So stems & seeds
the seeds I gorilla grow randomly
where ever I may be
but little to any, no yield grows,
that &
that often, the baddies wither before I return to water
or protect, as a dad ,
it is what it is,
random plants at a chance that providence will let them bloom?
Hit or miss, it is what it is . . .
Still illegal
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Apr 27, 2016 - 07:07am PT
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Rogue seeds. A quickie.
I moved into an upstairs apartment in an old house on Olive Street, Bozeman, MT.
This tree had a massive, I mean massive, oak tree in the front yard.
A "free" couch was procured from an alley. A beautiful couch, like your grandmother would keeped wrapped in a protective cloth.
We hoisted the couch, via ropes and pulleys to a nice perch up HIGH.
Being very poor, much schwag was used. The seeds summarily tossed from above to the grass below. For weeks on end.
My mother visits. "Nice starters you have in your yard. Under your couch."
The house was yellow and the tree seemed more massive. It was epic, 20+ years ago.
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 07:19am PT
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^^^Kinda tale of which we all approve.
Folk tales of the plains and prairies.
Muchas gracias, WyoRM.hesay wesay
but it's all otay
...if it's all that you can afford.
Since SENSE came to town
I hate to bring you down
Weed prices went through the roof
If I bought today
What I smoked yesterday
I'd be REAL otay and bulletproof
But there is this rent thing that's gonna put the KIGH-bosh on spending for such comestibles. Which has been pretty much where I've been here lately anyhow.
Static equilibrium: not an ideel state at all.
One needs a twist of lime for Mexican beer. Limes haven't gone up.
Beer has gone WAY up. I don't drink beer much anymore, less and less, in fact. My machismo has shrunk to the size of a peanut.
It's a Yorkie in comparison to the mastiff it once was.
U2 & BB - When Love Comes to Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3wgoaONzwo
I'm bettin' you ROGUES listened to some U2 up there in the oak branches.
NOT the Rooftop Singers.[Click to View YouTube Video]May Yosemite walls be with you, Even if you've still not found that for which or whom you're looking.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 07:31am PT
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If ya want ta call me on my cell, yer' gonna haffta' yell
& Yell real loud, that is that I'm off belay, we don't call or get called by anybody anyway.
'Cept maybe, those we haven't paid yet, and one or two who why they still try a decade on is beyond anyone's understanding.
Also now a decade latter after a car rear-ended us on the Tappan Zee, the fool never slowed and hit us going 60mph. Then said so to the cop, but we got Butkus and a ruptured disc that ended a climbing partnership of twenty years. The case has dragged on, and just now the wife took the call and it is all settled?
A call from the attorney ? I'll bet he got paid to blow soft warm breezes up my squeezes,shorts.
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 07:46am PT
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Seventh and Main,
Where the streets supposedly are nameless.
Back-busted and in pain,
Where the streets have no name.
Bushman can tell of his days in hell,
Where the trails are full of his pain.
Or the bear in his rage,
Suckered in by a trap,
So bummed in his cage,
While the streets fill with EVEN MORE RAGE!
Outrageous and egregious,
Shut down and shot down,
Raymond Burr and Godzillia,
Dreaming of justice.
But justice never comes,
Except only in the movies.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Yamada from Camp Granada.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Apr 27, 2016 - 08:07am PT
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It's all relative...
Pain, brain,
Weed, shrooms, acid, tripping, moaning and groaning,
Early in the morning,
Visiting yer in-laws.
Why, speaking of trips, I'm not gonna reminisce about my four days ascent of the Nose BITD.
No, I'm talking about a real adventure...
On the Surface of Venus
My first trip to Venus
The heat was stifling
At eight hundred degrees
I managed to get in one pic
Before it melted my camera
And alhough it was more than balmy
My nine thousand block sunscreen
Was tearless and still did the trick
The pressure was insane
I mean nine times that of back home
If that's how it feels when I'm ninety
Eighty nine might be all I can manage
I haven't felt that kind of pressure
Since I went to visit my in-laws
It deflated my astronaut sized ego
Which might have proven to my advantage
On my last trip on the surface of Venus
The lack of breathable air was way more acute
Being heavily carbon dioxide
I was constantly short of breath
And the acid rain was giving me acne
I could only stay fifteen minutes
And was less worried about doing my taxes
Than I was about cheating death
I don't think I'm going back to Venus
Rocket fuel is at a premium
NASA has ceded it to the Russians
And they didn't appreciate a stowaway
I didn't mind not getting any medals
But they photo shopped me out of their pictures
Venera 13 was definitely my last mission
I've got my heart set on Jupiter now anyway
-bushman
04/27/2016
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 27, 2016 - 08:20am PT
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HTS (for you mousie - hey there, say) neebee
The last time I was in waves that big at that place was in the 1970's.
There were no "hard" boards in the water so it was a bit safer, though a human body propelled with that much force is just about as dangerous.
The waves break in a couple of feet of water, so the danger of injury is more from hitting the ocean floor.
I don't recall anyone ever dying up there, but there have been a lot of injured and broken necks.
All that being said, being on stage with Mr. Hendrix BITD was also a dangerous proposition.
After being properly flamed, this guitar too wound up with a broken neck.
Amendment:
At leas one guy is reporting deaths and it seems that my day was 1975 (no stinkin' wetsuit and the water was cold).
What are some of the worst injuries you've seen at the Wedge?
Deaths. The talent pool is much better now, so you don't get as many inexperienced riders out there as we used to. Still, you can definitely say the Wedge is a bone-crushing wave. I've seen compound fractures, dislocated knees, broken ribs, hyperextended elbows, dislocated shoulders, multiple-fractured ankles. You name it, it's happened.
What were some of the most memorable days?
Thursday, September 25, 1975. It was bordering on unridable. Faces reaching 30 feet. It was so big and the sets were moving so fast that surfers couldn't get down the face of the wave before the lip would pitch out over them.
You may want to turn the sound up!
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SuperTaco, will a plain one suffice?
Second Amendment:
Thanks hB
"And that is the very truth because the mind creates the world ......"
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 08:33am PT
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Wild smokin duck incoming from Largo's Mind
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WBraun
climber
Apr 27, 2016 - 08:22am PT
The western gross materialistic mental speculators remain clueless after aprox 10 thousand posts.
They are afraid of real answers and if given they'll cry we lost our wonderment, OMG!!!
They cry daily NO one can know the answer but in the future "WE" will know!
They remain insane !!
They are like women who's business is hair.
Tell them their hair is fine and they'll keep messing with it forever because their mind thinks it's not.
If we know then the world will end they say!
And that is the very truth because the mind creates the world ......
Good question. Was climbing at Seneca Rocks, WV. Local developer was really sad that a lot of quality but R/X routes never get traffic due to lack of climbers willing to get injured or die. Perhaps, when FAs die off, the routes can be reopened. There has to be something said about a developer climbing at 12+ level and put up a 11- R/X rated route, a route that he, most likely, can free solo anyways.
Yes,
In free climbing the changes in just about everything ,
from who is climbing to the mentality of the individual,
safety concerns priorities of the horde & what defines climbing.
makes the old death routes the point of the spear.
The super safety mentality is as important to mention in aid climbing,
The coming horde , is what is beginning appeased at the expense of a generation of climbers.
The need to learn from experience is being lost. Expediency over experience. This is something
The way the guide businesses worthy of respect do it , is to strive to balance ( Not so much, ES ) the
use of abundant protection for safety & conveyance with a the careful use of the natural environment
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 08:43am PT
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seems that at about 30 ft up on the climb on the outside corner, or aréte
I found, a smashed in RUP?
wow now who'd done that ?
and did 'Whitey' (Mac) free this?
it was only he and Siacca
that had the skills and traveled in these hills
Back in the day.
Anybody recognize this Standing rock?
It sits in what would have been a housing development of mansions, under construction back in the day.
so if you were framing or roofing, laying tile, in say 1985, on a cul' de sac of a drive,
where no one had ever seen two such sized houses next to each other,
on sub substandard lots, 7 in a row like it .
and climbed 5.13,
that line is a gem.
did it go free or use there that smashed in RUP?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 11:40am PT
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That Turd? what he has done there is take care to miss quote every one of my posts to day.
I have a stalker. . .Yeah
He is just jealous of all my art and ratifies it by his stellar attempt to copy me
wooooosh Ah ah inhale deeply as Frued would say. . . Ahha
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Apr 27, 2016 - 12:44pm PT
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It's good to be invisible
The upside of being invisible
Is no one really cares
Who you were or what you did
If you speak from your heart
Or if it's your soul that you bare
No one can insult you
If no legacy is worth
Battling the world for room
For a place in Vahala
While you're here on this earth
It pays to be invisible
And oblivious to most
As oblivious as we usually are
There's hardly enough time
Just to live let alone boast
The upside of being invisible
And what's invisible to me
Is hurtful words roll off your feathers
What's ruffled pride to Rumpelstiltskins
When you're six hundred and three
-bushman
04/27/2016
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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 - Apr 27, 2016 - 02:00pm PT
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"The Sam’s Point Preserve is in the highest section of the Shawangunk Mountains on the southern part of Minnewaska State Park."
It's good to see some concern over fire today. Calf Ire, the state agency charged with reducing emissions from wildfires, may or may not be practicing take-offs and landings today at Castle Airport.
It's hard to say who is flying the four-engine prop plane which looks like a flying fish (a guppy, specifically) with orange markings.
Hoping the fire's contained, soonest, Red Swami. Thanks ever for posting.
I slept through Musical Migrations. I was really zonked for a couple hours. Been pushin' it and worryin' my beads over that which I cannot control.
If rent was a turnip I'd wear it by my side and know the time anytime.
Me name's Banks, Ernie Banks. I've a rare cloud banner in me pack from a GREAT BIG MOUNTAIN near Mammoth.
I hold and am spreadin' the banns of marriage tween Mariah and Tess--the scandal it's caused in their family, it's just a buggerin' mess. But they're in love, what can ya do?
It's just too effin' bad they're sisters. Two lads are out of luck somewhere.
I've a list of ALL THE BANNED, too. I'm settin' it aflame at forum twenty today in the garden of mirthly delights, also known as the old Bannerjee place out on 140 East. Banishment is too good for some, not enough for others. Again, what can ya do?
I'll make a wee suggestion: Try listening to Gypsy's Musical Migrations on Asheville public FM radio.
http://www.ashevillefm.org/musical-migrations
Each of yez open a can of Merced County almonds to relieve the munchies; unzip a yallow bannanna to attract the wee flyin' boogs awa from ya.
Then tie a yellow bandanna around yer head and kick back with a hooter or bowl and watch the still waters rise around ya. That's not all ya can do, but I'll leave ya to yer own devilish devices.
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