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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 07:38am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 14, 2015 - 07:42am PT
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The walking' bridge too farThis bridge leads to the other way onto the Rockefeller Grounds. that secret home to a perfect
5.12 top rope cliff, with twenty lines, that sits on an old carriage road,
right at the end where it loops around a full turn of 180% in the space of a 500 feet. I once walked two black dogs up to the Rockefeller estate and upon being denied access, I stated
"It is because they are Black Isn't IT"?FUM ONDER DA' BRIDGE
thirty year old, Temporary, fencing.
Black streaks from contact with tires at high speeds.and weeds growing
Both horror zanily & vertically for years , poison Ivy.
Pullin' pics from the web is sorta' disapointing,The closed to climbing greatest location for a cliff to climb; the Palisades of NJ!
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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 - May 14, 2015 - 10:00am PT
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Crimea river, Gnome.
Yer gonna drive me through the Lincoln Tunnel if you don't stop climbin' on that hot-rod Hudson. :0(
That sounds like a cozy little area in the loop of the road. One pitch routes, right?
Was that the Jersey side on the other side, or what? I can't tell which way the water's flowing. Oh, wait...you said it's NJ. Must be the whisky.
Pass the peat on, Piton Pete. Ahhh...
Peat also mellows whisky or whiskey.
Old Sphagnum. Aged two months, seven days, six hours...
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"By six o'clock they had finished the gallon of whiskey and were buying half pints of Old Tennis Shoes at fifteen frogs a crack..."
--John STeinbeck, Cannery Row
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 14, 2015 - 10:04am PT
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Mack and the Boys were early Flames indeed.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 10:45am PT
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reminds me of something about a dead horse
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 10:47am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 14, 2015 - 10:49am PT
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DEAD HORSE ?
You SAY!?
FREE The Palisades !
Dead whores Leap,DWL, is the name of a climb, that could get you a fine & jailed,
( it climbs past the spot where she/n'He hit the wall his arc interrupted when the noose around her neck broke/came apart and splattered his heavy make-up along with blood on the wall in three or four spots.)
Below needs a chainsaw to remove the Oak
No whores leap.
or
Snore , No sleep.
she's the one I want to meet
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 14, 2015 - 11:08am PT
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hey there say, zbrown, wow, for ' peat's' sake, THAT was a non-petering out, share...
:)
and mouse... was fun to see jaques mahoney, step up into be jock mahoney, on the whole western scene :)
http://www.westernclippings.com/stuntmen/jockmahoney_stuntmen.shtml
http://members.shaw.ca/mahoney13/jm1.html
awwww, he even had a princess, for a daughter:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0572633/bio
fun note:
Other credits include acting roles in five of THE THREE STOOGES movies :
OUT WEST (1947); SQUARE HEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1948),
FUELIN' AROUND (1949), PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS (1950),
KNUTZY KNIGHTS (1954) and HOT STUFF (1956)
An endearing clumsily heroic "Arizona Kid"
was created here by Jock inside this series.
hmmm, we got to hunt this arizona-kid down and see what else, he was up to... :))
Quote Here
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 14, 2015 - 11:18am PT
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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 - May 14, 2015 - 02:03pm PT
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Where in the WORLD...
is Lodi?
History
When a group of local families decided to establish a school in 1859, they settled on a site near present-day Cherokee Lane and Turner Road.
In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad was in the process of creating a new route, and pioneer settlers Ezekiel Lawrence, Reuben Wardrobe, A.C. Ayers and John Magley offered a townsite of 160 acres (0.65 km2) to the railroad as an incentive to build a station there.
The railroad received a "railroad reserve" of 12 acres (49,000 m2) in the middle of town, and surveyors began laying out streets in the area between Washington to Church and Locust to Walnut. Settlers flocked from nearby Woodbridge, Liberty City, and Galt, including town founders John M. Burt and Dan Crist.
Initially called Mokelumne and Mokelumne Station after the nearby river, confusion with other nearby towns prompted a name change, which was officially endorsed in Sacramento by an assembly bill.
Several stories have been offered as to the origins of the town's new name. One refers to a locally stabled trotting horse that had set a four-mile (6 km) record, but as the horse reached the peak of its fame in 1869, it is unlikely that the notoriety would have still been evident in 1873.
Alternatively, Lodi is a city in northern Italy where Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796 and won his first military victory. More than likely, some of the earliest settler families were from Lodi, Illinois, and they chose to use the same name as their hometown.
In 1906, the city was officially incorporated by voters, passing 2 to 1. The fire department was established in 1911, and the city purchased the Bay City Gas and Water Works in 1919. Additional public buildings constructed during this period include the Lodi Opera House in 1905, a Carnegie library in 1909, and a hospital in 1915.
--Thank you, Wikipedia.
Northern Italy. Better wine? Better ask Wayno.
zBrown, is that lion in your kitchen housebroken?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 02:36pm PT
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Not unlike the stories surrounding Stagger Lee and Billy (Lyon, Lyons, Delisle, DeLion ...) there is not a lot of detail on the lion (actually a lioness named Elsa) hanging out in the guitar player's kitchen.
Did it break into the house. Not likely, since it is being fed.
Even more confusing is the Lee part of the mystery.
"Stack-a-Lee" and "Stacker Lee"; "Stagolee" and "Stagger Lee"
"Stag Lee" or "Stack Lee"
"Stackerlee", "Stack O'Lee", "Stackolee", "Stackalee", "Stagerlee", and "Stagalee"
Staggering, no?
Maybe we should Ask Sam!
Dick Dale and his Bengal Sumatran Tiger "Sam" circa a long time ago
Obligatory climbing content. Bouldering.
I'll tell it to you just like Dylan said it to me, "Dick Dale taught Jimi guitar". When I asked Dick about it in Glendale (at where else? the car show). He said "yes, I've heard that story before".
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 06:38pm PT
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Where is La Rumorosa?
Bouldering content.
Orale y mira, Pito
rocy mendez
Así pues yo soy muy libre de opinar lo que se me de la gana y aunque me odies me vale, lo que si sigo pensando es que me vomito en tecate ok? y si ni te paso pues que pena, pinche pueblito bicicletero. ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 14, 2015 - 11:14pm PT
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The one pitch Chockfull of Rock Block, is on the Rockefeller; Sunny Vale estate, in Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, in New York Exit 23 "east view" off the saw mill parkway.
If you wanted to find it and drew a line from the gas station next to the Wendy's across the double lanes and past the paved walking trail, about a mile and a half of up the hill then down till you hit a wide Forrest road, on bridle trail is this, the CRB is on the right you could belay off your horse.
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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 - May 15, 2015 - 12:18am PT
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Mountain travel is so much FUN! Why spoil it with modernized 4-lane roadways?
In the name of progress.
The video of los camiones de carga at the hairpin, with a bus thrown into the mix, now that was FUN TO WATCH!
I admit to being thrilled when Hwy 120 through Groveland to the YNP boundary was straightened in the seventies. It cut the time en route by probably twenty to thirty minutes. I was not driving that route much, as I really preferred the more southerly route through Merced when I lived up in the Bay Area.
And the old way to Tahquitz from Oxnard was a pain, too, before the 210 (Interstate) cut out the need to travel on Colorado Blvd. through all that traffic to get to I-10. But that was not mountain travelling.
As a matter of fact, tonight I was checking out the histories of both State Routes 74 and 243. NO KIDDING! I really was.
243 is the one I always took, the more scenic of the two to get to Mountain Center and Idlyllwild. I think we drove 74 twice when I was climbing with brother-in-law Ike. Jim Shirley and I might have gone that way once, but the route from Banning is just more fun to drive.
The route has been in existence since 1910, first as an oiled road, then paved sometime in the very early fifties, it seems. It has the name Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway, and in 2007 it was named Esperanza Firefighters Memorial Highway in honor of five firefighters who died while fighting the Esperanza Fire in October 2006.
It seems longer, but it is only 29.66 miles from Banning to Mountain Center.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2015 - 04:35am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Heavy day BB king was It !!
The first rocker that my kids ever heard.
why couldn't it have been my mothe?
well some day as she has all but shrunk away And I still love her in an annoying itch sorta way
another Box of magazines she has bestowed one me
Get It that my belongins are streched from Mass. TO NO MUSS,
man I quit.
so like the carrot on the sticki
get led and find a box full of rock &ice and climbing and a few old ,from the '70s jim! issues.
it is a lot a lot of old news
that was the glossy siht to follow back in the day ( that is as easy to type as BITD!!)
I really wanted to include[Click to View YouTube Video]but the video is blanked out the music rises though. so i picked it please take a moment as the mouse and i do today to say
SO LONG JAKE ! The celestial choir has gained the great BB KING!
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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 - May 15, 2015 - 05:12am PT
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This day in history, 1941:
The E.28/39 was Britain’s first jet powered aircraft. The seemingly strange name comes from the fact that it was a joint design between the Gloster Aircraft Company and Frank Whittle (later Sir) who invented the jet engine.
The ‘E’ means that it was an Experimental aircraft and it was ministry approved design number 28 of 1939.
This aircraft still exists and is on permanent display at the Science Museum in London.
Is this the date assigned to BB's death or did he pass on the 14th?
"Listen to the blues."[Click to View YouTube Video]Good night, BB.
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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 - May 15, 2015 - 05:26am PT
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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.--A beatitude.[Click to View YouTube Video] Never make your move too soon. Good advice for climbers.
A very understated and serviceable rendition of BB's signature song.[Click to View YouTube Video]
There are no muddy waters when it comes to the king of the blues.
Albert King claims the title, as well.
It's like Merced and Madera, each claiming the title Gateway to Yosemite. It's all in what you are used to, what you are more familiar with, and the historical facts as we each see them.
But here in America, we have no actual kings. Let us bow our heads and thank the King of Kings, with a nod to Tom Jefferson and friends, even though they were slaveholders.
It's all in what you're used to.
We tolerate Madera's claim as they tolerate ours.
We must tolerate the idea of the founders of our country as slave-owners.
The blues would have been the blues with or without slavery, which imparts a certain je ne sais to them.
What gives the blues meaning is its simplicity. We can say, "Why, that guy's got it worse than me."
That's compassion. And that's a good thing.
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