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couchmaster
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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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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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I'll be over dat shining sea tomorrow.
The only cliffs there are distinctly not sea cliffs though...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 2, 2018 - 09:12pm PT
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Yowza! Great way to get Ed out on local rock. Cheers to all.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Well I contemplated the opening moves, but couldn't pull the trigger, I have a lot of excuses: 1) low tide revealed the barnacled rock landing awaiting a failure to unlock the opening sequence, 2) I should have worn my board shorts so as not to worry over the possibility of the "unlikely event of a water landing," and 3) the inability to focus on the climbing with the sea splashing up on the foot holds. But these are the excuses of a timid old man, and part of the challenges and the charms of the problem.
I have to say I'm intrigued by such a glorious boulder problem, a long traverse over the shining sea, in the northern suburbs of a glorious city. And the fact that this problem has such a great history, establishing "deep sea high ball bouldering" way before its contemporary popular instantiation.
Thanks for the gracious hospitality of the climbers in that picture, and to the inestimable effort of Tami to guide me to a yoga studio for Sunday practice after a busy week just preparing for the conference.
Anyway, I have another Canadian climb to add to the tick-list.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Does high tide merely obfuscate the awaiting barnies?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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yes, but sometimes all you need is a bit of obfuscation to maintain the fiction...
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Gaby coming down from (I think) an old Hans Zack/Wolfgang Gullich route on the Wall of Acids (Parede dos Acidos) in Rio
Gaby climbs a sea wall in Mar del Plata
Mellow traversing at Fleming Beach (Victoria). This place had the hardest 5.10 boulder problems (guidebook grades) I've ever seen.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2018 - 11:47am PT
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All of that is a lot of fun for me to see.
I was cruising around not long ago and found the old totems and talismans, but not the new stuff that frostback shows us.
The traverse presents psychological challenges. Over the years I've found it better to let people find out for themselves. Ed and the group he was with found the right approach. Good times.
And the imagination is happy to contemplate yoga, about which I know nothing.
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And the name Gaby brings to mind a good story by the brothers Strugatsky.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I can definitely see a day of being out there and just getting used to it,
the moves aren't physically hard, the traverse is mentally committing.
But what a great spot to just sit and ponder the seeming infinity of the ocean, and the rock.
yoga is there to explain itself to you whenever you want to know more
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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^^^^^^^^
I think I remember that piece of rock. If so, after futzing around at a point somewhat lower than the climber on the left-hand side, I decided I'd be better off hiking around to set up a top rope. Turns out I was right about the meaning of "better off". My confidence was restored at Mt. Macdonald/Mt. Wells where 5.10 felt more like how I remembered it.
With respect to the changing (changed) character of the climbing scene, the same day we went to Fleming Beach, we first stopped by a local gym to have a look. It was pretty full. We didn't stay. At Fleming Beach, and the next few days at Mt. Macdonald/Mt. Wells we saw just a small handful of climbers, in spite of the stellar weather and easy access. Not to say that's a bad thing.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 10, 2018 - 12:30pm PT
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By the shining sea on the SE corner of Gambier. Somebody must have climbed on these by now?
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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May 10, 2018 - 02:17pm PT
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I know Tim and Jimmy climbed some stuff with SUP access on Anvil. Never heard of activity on these though but I know Barley kayaks.
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