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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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couchmaster
climber
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Stand back folks, professional writer at work. Let her work...!!! LOL. Classic Tami, I had to read it twice and I'm still laughing - so funny. Tami noted: "I've spent enough time by the sea to know that barnacles don't have to run around like raccoons on a double espresso to cause you real damage..."
So true. side note, has anyone eaten the barnacles they cook up in Spain? Suppose to be awesome.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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More often than knott if there are barnies there are mussels. Case closed.
Then there was the time we were kayaking up the west coast of Vancouver Island, merrily eating mussels and cockles all the day long.
Then we pulled into some bucolic vestige of civilisation and saw the DANGER - RED TIDE! posters. Oops! Luckily, they were crankloons.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2017 - 12:21pm PT
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has anyone eaten the barnacles they cook up in Spain?
No.
But I did take a course from a neurophysiologist at the University of Chicago.
There were only 3 of us in the course. Our friend from Japan once amused us by calling our professor Spiro-u-op-or-us.
Constantine S. Spyropoulus liked to study axons from lobster. He did not like to eat lobster but he generously gave the non-axon parts to other staff.
We 3 thrown-together students of a clearly eccentric, or off-the-rails teacher were told we were going to be putting our micro-electrodes into the vital parts of giant barnacles, once the barnacle got delivered to Chicago.
The 3 of us were joking about various things one day, probably the day our Japanese colleague showed his understanding of our understanding by launching his non-Western pronunciation and immediately laughing, allowing the other 2 of us to laugh also, and then 3rd of us (not me and from a place stranger to me than Japan) memorably called our briefly shared experience, Waiting for Barnacle.
It's odd what we remember. Thanks to the age we live in, I found a bit of corroborating evidence that my story might be true:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/03009738009179192
edit:
The barnacles never came.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2017 - 08:40am PT
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Thanks, John Okner!
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Nov 29, 2017 - 09:50am PT
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IF you climb ice on the west coast you may recognize this Brit - always taking the cover shot.
Two questions,
1) how do you get G to wear bright coloured clothing?
2) how do you get him to agree to wear bright clothing to match the rope?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Actually it just looks like the sea. It’s Lago General Carrera in Patagonia...our front yard.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 03:16pm PT
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We hear about Vancouver having a wild back yard, but it's nothing like Jim's front yard.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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The John Okner photos say many things.
Having them appear temporarily is a welcome concession from a working photographer.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Good posture exhibited and some are even doing curls with their beer....must be the highly nutrient Canadian hops.
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