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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 21, 2014 - 06:14pm PT
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It was no such thing, sir.
I put the most blame for my yen for climbing on Tom Hornbein, who wrote about the West Ridge of Everest.
I blame Wilfrid Noyce secondarily, who wrote the World Atlas of Mountaineering, published posthumously in 1970 and given to me for Christmas that year by my brother and his wife.
I read it cover to cover twice and kept it as my main source for info on what I was reading about in the mags--Rocksport, Mountain, Summit, Ascent, etc.
I particularly liked the maps. They were simple and explanatory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Noyce
http://www.everest60.com/team.php
Wilfrid Noyce, supportive of Hillary and Tenzing during the 1953 Everest Expedition, FA of Machpuchare, died in 1962 in the Pamirs with Robin Smith.
As for his book, South Col:
Wilfrid Noyce recounts his involvement in the 1953 British expedition in his South Col. It's a much more personal account than the official Ascent of Everest, by expedition leader John Hunt. It's nice to hear some of the finer details of the expedition that would make official accounts less tidy, such as George Lowe joking around by removing his dentures, or George Band telling a newspaper man who was haggling him that their summit assault would commence with Spitfires circling the South Col. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin famously complained that NASA never sent a poet to the moon, but the British were intelligent enough to send one to Everest. Not only does Noyce include poetry at the end of the book, he writes in a contemplative style that adds some wonder and beauty to the process of climbing the world's highest mountain. It takes him a while to get to Everest, but his writing makes it well worth the wait.
http://everestbookreport.blogspot.com/2012/06/south-col-by-wilfrid-noyce.html
I am finding that the writing of Clarence King has much the same kind of old school charm, the same appreciation of the sublime and of the mundane.
I remember and always will remember, I suppose, Millis removing his bridge to reveal his missing front teeth. And he could tell a story well. This was King's main attribute in society, that he had a million stories and told them all with flair.
Noyce was pretty much the same. Only he's the one I'd let marry my daughter.
"Bevin, if there's a choice, make it Willy Noice."
"It's Wilfrid, Dad. And his name is Noyce."
"Well, that's noice, child."
Today's sponsor has been:
Noicely's on Hwy. 395, open year-round.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 22, 2014 - 08:30am PT
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Don't flash the birdy
Well okay then
yhatben said that I went to recover CB Box is BIG
The Darling wife upon moving in with me 20yrs ago
She still claims it was an axe I dent your fun and keep you home she threw away my stuff all my notebooks and betty addresses across the western half of the world to me
Is this even making sense?
Now like a pree ejaculator I am spewing at thee
GREAT BASEBALL GAME
Not even close Ha lets see if they get it won in 5
the ol' dog she's 14
" they get along" ...It's happening to you J Prine
MR. mouse sir please I’m not done
This, repartee has slated juices and taken me away from an odious task of chronicling my Chossy past. And I am wondering am I in the fair company ‘cause got no Idea what Z brown is trying to say the same exact post to say good hello goodbye to ‘D’antonio??
Both Bob and Z are great in my book
Does the name ‘ Kyle Merriam ‘mean any thing to any one or you??
She beat my butt against the Granite for a month one fall or summer turning many moons ago
So fine ‘sur ley cusz’ is it your belly? as it is mine, & tomorrow I go to doctor and again he’ll poke it and say it is time. Sorry too for not just myself, and for you too, to not be younger.
That is why you have the dead head around although I am a big ol’
Dead head too.
Really hope that the Norwegian and I are or can be buds ??
what do you think is there any thing I should do?
Well okay then (not plain ya with ‘otay)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 22, 2014 - 09:49am PT
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brother on a mission to GOSH DARN IT ^^^
take some lessons in norwegian
i sent u pms but maybe better via ups
istherenojusticeinrenotopo?
answer or die strangled by a saw chain
prine minister my back if u have one or two on the table
maybe that old dog-dog ate 'em?
i would give u jug band music were i a doc on the hudson
then we could go play on the palisades
how much more obvious or two the pointless do i have to BB here?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 22, 2014 - 01:38pm PT
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Pm this time with some time comin
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 22, 2014 - 06:25pm PT
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GOD is "dead," Good Buddy. 10/4. Come back.
We've solved our comm prob with crows counting down to the sixties.
"Oh, Gnomez! I love it when you make me think!"--Mortizzya
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 22, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
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I was Stills Young and my trailer was full of juice,
I took off with Young Ross to do El Cap.
We got mighty high on Hiway 99,
On our way to The Yosemite.
The year was seventy-three and we tried the old 3-D,
We got shut down on pitch thirteen.
And the captain said you need jug band music.
So come back next year, boys, and forget that CB noise.
And forget your boom boxes, too.
And the Whites and the Bulldogs and the Kennys kept on truckin'
While we nursed our hurt in the same old way.
We smoked haikus in a bong, and it wasn't long,
Before we knocked off Salathe.
It only took six days, and my lady was amazed
That we handled it with apparent ease.
I had patched the hole in my soul, and I felt like a demi-god,
I began the fad of holes in Levi knees.
They were Lee Riders, actually.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Peter O'Nutoole at his absolute best, just like I was then.
Black in the day, White in the night.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 22, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
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Something that was said up post made me think about the beats the mad free form poets from the fifties and how the formative experience in a couple of the men's lives was a hiking trip.
That Kerouac describe as a climb. It was a climb to them but as a climber it was and read like a steep hike. The perception thus is of course in the eye of the reader based on that persons
own background and experience.
It has been twenty years since I last read "On The Road".
That seems sort of sad and amazing at the same time. The book was some sort of validating
tome that I would reach for over and over again.
If a girl left me I would reach for the book that I do not have a copy of at this moment. The staccato sound of the writing style some how gave an over active mind something to follow and a calming effect took hold.
As I think back on that younger me it seems that I was not the same. Back then my lack of true passionate experience defined as the conflicting feelings of extremes; emotional lows and highs made, "On The Road" and its description of living with passion for every adventure seem vital and important.
I will have to see if as a feeling generating book, a story of more or less directionless slackers, young men with no point or aims and in such a different, world holds any of it's former allure.
Today's world and my place in it and perspective gained from living highs and lows; a passionate life that often seems to overwhelm. Makes the ideas that were already old hat in the seventies when I read it, seems less validating today.
As long as I had a direction to head in and was in line to accomplish something even just a rock climb. I felt equal to or superior to the aimless Neil and sensitive Sal ne. Kerouac.
say what ?? some times you feel like a nut and other times you send an email
casting a stone into a still pond and it being dark not seeing where the ripples go
did I just put the retrograde into quick silver or is it safe to run out side to cover a leaky car witha tarp in a blowing........ rain storm ........(Ne gale)
and
what about
Gail
some times you wonder and some times you are lost
but wondering around lost is not good for your health
Especially in a rain storm looking for Gail at night
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 22, 2014 - 08:20pm PT
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zRoxing is not the mother of invention nor either perhaps the instantiation of the double helix.
Rather it's a simple artifice
Brother I can spare a dime
Not a dime bag mind you
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 23, 2014 - 07:12am PT
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Happy Birthday to mice sister Lenna of the LLayback.
Swanny go brawny go up and come down.
Swell. It's tomorrow, the 24th.
But I may have gone south by then, as Who knows:
What?
Might could happen.
Take that back to Kerouac, Jack.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 23, 2014 - 01:18pm PT
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Paradise...
To try and sustain
Hold place ...Back from doc need Rx and so off to pharma college
right back at you Z my mothers got no match.
not in a good way she has perfected eternal life
she shrinks a bit every day
if she drinks it is absolute ly
split person ality day
and mouse why for
ANONYMITY
All please read not the mother of the year or deca
octogenarian invention aha 'adees
Any one climb in the sun
She is inaugust seriously
Cosmic no clownin, like your avatar pic she is
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 23, 2014 - 01:50pm PT
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To Psilocyborg, whose thoughts might could be recorded on the fly,
let me recall to you the Zipless F*#k of Erica Jong, the Dickless John Bobbitt and his Lorena, and the Flyless Flawless Canvas of the Rev's first tent (olive in color, drably damp in the rain) of excellent dimensions where at times there were light shows and hula-hula girls pretending to be Pretty Lodge Maids all in a seeming row.
On the count of three, mass delete.
zBrown, Kool-Aid, if you please.
On that note, let the eclipse begin.
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Gnome, the sun is inscorpio, and she's a hottie.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 23, 2014 - 02:36pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 23, 2014 - 06:47pm PT
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ywhew ...getting it from more than one called buttstain on the thread about the vandal thread
lets keep it clean is my pro an poetry sticky runny ca ca?
what did I say? funny thing, ironic really, I like white sauce
red sauce makes me bLLLL
hmmm how can I say this tact fully .....well here goes
from the age of twelve or thirteen women ovulate ......see where I'm going Man?
if you or I start 'showin red' then as I did today go see the doc be fore your dead
now in me it is some lack of tolerance to tomato ,acid .
mixed with over use
eating et all the time because Of the stress of Impecuniousness I ate the ragoue fresh made daily twice a day
until ((we'll hide the children)) I bled.
so white sauce is in fact now what replaces my once
favorite spaghetti topping but as the bank now informs me electronically ...
((I knew that this net thing was just a trap ))
I'll be going suave' that is sauce less can't afford no savigion' Blanca, a try at French
may be the yard clippings from after tea ??
that's it I will go green.
I do grow basil.
which also was the name of a bird, who we sorta saved
Ironically, again,
that dove was white.
die a rear ?
not the lst or this one
budastalin that is an affront
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 23, 2014 - 08:03pm PT
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kimosabe - chemotherapy
take your pick Frankie boy
neither of them are what they claim
ten years ago on a cold dark night
or Saturday October 19
foisting - festering
might be something to you
ain't nothing to me
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 23, 2014 - 09:05pm PT
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of all my big mistake bets at the track, Santa Anna 8to1 to win place or show woulda coulda shoulda paid big,.,.,.Roshot yup dead gambler.
bucks not to be. that's me. picking to be tied to the wrong Zebra.
before jolly ol' a bad guy named Al and after him immylen back broke into lots of the wrong horses arzzes summer time climbing in sight of the gates of hell.
and so if in this drye drought stricken stream who's tied to who correct Whom to whom
which is more the dead and which is more the dieing??
throwpie needs to get the hell outa there the other side of the river is the most climbable.
big big not allowed but if you get the chance throw go see the Palisades.
that I have done 20 days on that Alcatraz
Ten ten tens and at least three elevens. and unfinished can you begin to understand when I tell you why Dia A base !
the east is full of lemmings but ones who would not jump at the chance to be the first...well second.
this rope gun had ax Es still they putzes stayed away fools wimps
as big as my did not send western dreams, that miles of rock across the Hudson sits to full of cracks to mention makes me mad insane.
and now it is all to late!!
so Z Who is the dead cowpoke and is the dead horse him here the M.o.M or Me??,</;+D((
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 24, 2014 - 01:29pm PT
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So yesterday I went to a doctor
That I have a doctor for nothing a free yearly check
Up my U know what they sadly said they had to look
That was done back in the first week of July..So
the doc he says, "are you depressed? “I am getting older and Lipitor
Has wrecked my vocabulary spellchecker but- NO- the doc looked crushed
The next thing I know he is asking wife" Is it still hard enough In bed "?
Say what, and why, and just a golly goshdarn minute doc!!
The only questions that Peter (that is his name)
Asked
Was would you like the Pink pill
Or
For your peter the Viagra blue
The idolatry of happy happy, hump hump
Is a national obssesion
I do not need, and took neither
We, wife and I, left Peter scratching head.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 24, 2014 - 03:52pm PT
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Just like the Hells Angels came to Mountain View whilst The Beatles were no-shows, now it seems The Flames have visited Antarctica.
Fire is a major risk in Antarctica because the air is very dry, says Ian Dunn of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK and neither a Hells Angel nor a Beatle. As a result most Antarctic bases have widely separated structures, built from non-flammable materials.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 24, 2014 - 10:54pm PT
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yeah ha
thanks to the flames for letting me and all see the birds of cosmic
Cosmic photo treatment of the backgrounds and then a
history shot dirks are prehistoric ...what ..Shablet auto correct
that rings a bell weren't we recently discussing history and historic
Where am I?....". if I could just turn the platter over to side two "why and who is this thing quoting?
can not post up pics from this
and system sucks and could not see the birds on my email
if I could
I would spread my wings and fly out west where my hart is but schools for kids
the residual of sex thems I love em but end of things like late 70's cunsumption fun
window pain all colors of the rain bow but especially purple and barrel shape pills mescaline
climb climb climb and climb some more autumn rains put a stop to a great season and damn no one here not even the wife wants to play those darn residuals
this is how guiding starts to sound like a good idea some one to take out on the road. get paid for it and drag new pals to points south and west just south and just west
cheeky bridge reply
cheer up it was a good game but not a good result
cosmic do you know Clean Dan ? Denver widow washer climber
Road Warrior and stiff winds in Denver flung me about the body harness left marks
free association mad tonight
lazy
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:36pm PT
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holy.
shit this is now just going to send ME off the sheets wax ing man W A T da PFHK
REST IN PEACE pH:#%^*¥!¥CKyst
Just when. I was able to suck breath again
R ICHARD HARRISON
speechless
fully rocked
grief is this year's color
He of all the imagined gods of rock
Richard was ever huge in his open stealth
and he seemed to have never stopped
He was It all
I am
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as the word was getting out I was getting up
I tried to act my age today playing brick layer
go to doc get told all about Orbital Ambilacle Herneia
Wife is sitting in right there
Two days Latter this stupid stack plus sixteen pavers
Honey, I do ,I love you, but this can only be seen as a try, albeit your first,
If you become successful, and you need to drive the car.
remember the peddles RIGHT. IS THE GAS NOT THE BRAKE "mmK
oh I keep your set of car keys in the green blue & gray book
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 27, 2014 - 09:54am PT
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No bull.
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