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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, 2016 - 07:22am PT
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Rock STeady at KMFM.
We're STayin' the Course
Like a long-winded Horse.
Don't want to be Coarse.
Better summon the Force.
It may come to pass that this thread will be accepting ad copy for placement herein. Rent increases in July by sixty dollars; I'm filling up the free space in Photobucket so I'll have to pay them; these are but two reasons why this may need to happen, barring some outrageous fortune coming my way, but first I'm going to need to check with you know who to see if he needs to wet his beak.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
It so happens that Madam Sophia and I go back quite a ways; almost as long as I go back myself. When we were kids she'd always say things like look to the future not the past it'll be here soon but it won't last--things like that, not really in rhyme (that was me, MOUSE FROM MERCED/Have Rhymes, Will Travel) but in time it sunk in that she was right. But that was like forty years later. But all that is another story.
Like my suggestion for Madam S to accept phone calls from seekers. All she needs is for them to fax her a copy of their palms and she can then predict their futures. She says she hasn't a fax machine. Oh well, just tryin' to be helpful to an old friend.
Sunday morning in the a.m.
Pictorial for you fans of Ron Fawcett.
(I've always been fascinated/fastenated by Darkinbad the Brightdayler as a name, not so much as a hard climb WAY beyond my ablility.)
http://www.rockfax.com/databases/r.php?i=33190
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=39283
MFM the Dayrigger
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 15, 2016 - 08:03am PT
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We know you have a choice in psychics and we want to thank you for psyching out with us. Gracias!
-La Catalina
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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, 2016 - 08:20am PT
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What a cow!http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/transf129.htm
Don Shoe cry no mo'.
One doesn't wonder, but it occurred to me, at least, that nobody (apparently, bu who knows other than a psychic?) does sole readings to determine futures.
Toe jam, toxic foot odors, rough, scaly skin...La lectura del planta del pie.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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What are we talking' about, slim?
I am without a doubt suffering thru drought,
but find relief in re-living feats of daring do,
unrepeated variations, the direct of many lines,
and early repeats, some first ascents too.
this is fun if you've done some. . if not this is your chance to see what we were all always chasing as the sun went down some times the colors stayed hotSome TimesKnott
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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, 2016 - 10:05am PT
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Deut. 31:15 - Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud,
and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
A Head In the Clouds
I've looked at clouds my whole life through
It's never tiring and always new
What Joanie sang is true still
I don't know clouds and never will
I sit and dream and shapes drift by
From Them irradiated ants to the world's smallest fry
There's cars and boats and trees and planes
Elephants, chameleons, and lions with manes
I once saw Marilyn kissing Jack
No, he kissed her, I take that back
I'd go on but you'll soon be bored...
But wait...there's Ghengis and his Mongol horde!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 15, 2016 - 10:08am 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 15, 2016 - 10:16am PT
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Et voila!
Just a small footnote:
Add one brief aside:
And we have TRULY RANDOM commentary, not criticism.
I LOVE REILLY!
I'm writing him in on the Demo ticket in the California primary.
(I'm pretty sure he woul refuse the nomination or I might not.)
edit: Unfortunately, MooseDrool was not born a US citizen. But he earned it. Just another attaboy for MoosePatent MooseNemo I, king of western Poland.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 15, 2016 - 11:22am PT
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hey there say, ... just stopped in... some neat things to see here, today... thanks for the shares...
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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, 2016 - 02:01pm PT
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^^^Thanks for visiting, Miz neebee. You've just raised the real value of this acreage. Glad you got out-of-doors to smell the spring tulips!
(Yes, indeed, I do watch some Facebook sites... :0)
A more postcard-looking Yosemite image than I think that ever I have seen, by Mr. Postcard himself, Spider Savage. Notice the threads of water indicating high flow.
And another one from Chickenskinner which sort of gets the point across that
THE RIVER IS UP!!
Decker was in the valley on Friday, said the water's everywhere, some meadows are flooding, and that the water is brownish. He even showed me a photo of a full Lehamite Falls, up the right side of Indian Canyon, which is a rarity.
He brought back several images on his father's Nook, which he inherited and is gradually learning about. He went to B&N to ask questions about the device and was told by a staffer, "Don't be afraid to push buttons." Well, I have news for him. The Nook does not have buttons...you swipe, squeeze, push, prod, and cajole, but you don't push any buttons.
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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, 2016 - 03:00pm PT
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Poster baby for Brucelllosis Awareness.TY, Reilly.
And a shot of an effigy of dear Rocinante, randomly acquired.
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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, 2016 - 03:10pm PT
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Cuz we can barely see ya.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
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I'll match ya' with this about 'jack'In 1981, John Bachar visited Germany to participate in an international climbing festival.
During his visit he claimed the first ascent of an open project on the right side of the cliff. The line followed a discontinuous groove with an intermittent crack that climbed over several steep bulges.
He graded the route 5.13a, which made it the hardest route in Europe at the time, and one of the hardest in the world.
[While ultimately the route was downgraded to .12d, it would easily rate 5.13 anywhere else].
He called the route Chasin’ the Trane, the title of a John Coltrane album.
Many have taken this to be a not-so-subtle dig at the European climbing scene,
Bachar denied any double meaning.
According to Güllich’s Biography (the must-read A Life in the Vertical),
Bachar’s ascent was a huge deal in Germany.
It made Bachar an instant star, and the route an instant test-piece.
Streitberger Schild, at the far northwest corner of the Frankenjura,
is where to find the climb "Adolf Rott Memorial Route",
a discontinuous crack system up the leaning west face of the wall.
Like many routes in Germany, this was originally an aid climb.
In 1975 Kurt Albert freed the route, at 5.10a .(well within the standards of the day.)
This was still at the time when aid climbers painted a red circle at the base of the cliff to mark the lines that had been climbed.
Kurt (Albert) made climbing history by filling in the red circle to create a big red dot—the world’s first “redpoint”—
The variety of climbing that exists within the Frankenjura is made clear at the different areas like
Luisenwand, an old crag of vintage techno test-pieces from the 1980s.
Gullich left his mark here with ascents of several climbs,
especially Kaum Zeit sum Atmen( 5.13c) & Kamasutra 218,(.13d )
That were among the hardest routes in Germany when first climbed.
a Gullich 13a called Team Motivation.
It’s a technical masterpiece, weaving up a vertical wall of poorly featured limestone.
It’s quite out of character for the Frankenjura .
The entire crag is, with few pockets, generally very shallow ones at that, super thin and, unfortunately, over time, the footholds have gotten quite polished, as well.
Elbsandstein, from the Schrammsteinaussicht overlook
“Saxony” sits to the northeast of Bavaria,
sharing its southern border with the Czech Republic and its eastern border with Poland. For climbers, the main attraction is the “Sachsiche Schweiz” (literally, Saxon Switzerland),
known to American climbers as “Elbsandstein” (literally, Elbe (river) sandstone).
Hey Hey I like 'Pinkified' Garcia in Random. . .
the compensatory training grounds For eventual Matriculation to the Flames.
The graduation of the lurkers here to becoming posters over there is a bit of a thumb in the eye .
Putting words to an uncertainty -
There is room for both but knott enough ROAM in the imaginations of the constabulary.
"85" Has a hit though. RANDOM huh, go figure. . .
If It will wither is a wonder ? can we keep that jive alive while still surfing this ?
Inquiring aye & aye Mindless wants to nose....
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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, 2016 - 04:22pm PT
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Not Reposing In Peace, Not Guilty, and Not a Bad Actor, though he plays one much of the time.
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/the-good-the-bad-the-badass-christopher-walken-258
Walken the Walk
Drove his daddy to drinkin'
When he wouldn't stop drivin'
His hot-rod Lincoln,
You'd best believe cuz I ain't jivin'.
Ran Burt Reynolds off the road, somehow,
Finished the job and away and away he drove,
Then he went after a slow snow plow,
But I wish he'd been aimin' for old Karl Rove.
Bowline
Takin' up slack like a good crew do.
Hurry back, Bushman. We miss you.
To the Fallen Bachar/Sorenson/Gervasutti
The candle is in the window,
The rose has lost its bloom.
The gloaming is in the shadow,
There's a chill in the room.
cr. Marlow
cr. Bushman
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 15, 2016 - 07:03pm PT
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If you get it you may want to up your dosage of Falstaff and Seconal to five quarts and five capsules.
I don't want to break it to the statins@70 guy. Any takers?
http://sezermilking.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/penyakit-brucella-pada-sapi.jpg
"Fever–usually prolonged, arthralgia, myalgia, back pain, even sacroillitis. It can also cause epididymitis – this is Brucellosis and comes from the consumption of unpasteurized animal milk and exposure to livestock. Careful – this may look like malaria at first. The treatment is Streptomycin and Doxy" [and apparently not Falstaff and Seconal].
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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, 2016 - 08:36pm PT
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More from Bowline Tales by Splice S. Nice
"Is it 'way back' or is it 'weigh aft,' Skipper?"
"It's 'Captain, Sir,' to the likes of little bilge rats like you, sonny. Now go and weigh the friggin' anchor, then hoist the blasted spanker, watch that water tanker, and fetch me Mister Anker."
Jack London's old ship of romance, the ROAMER, and Capt. R. "Matt" Peasley, immortal hero of Peter B. Kyne's sea stories, was the rare combination that, according to some national news, would lead ten Seattle youths along the paths of adventure in Alaska, the summer of 1931.
The trim auxiliary sloop, renamed LINDA, was casting off en route to Alaska on a scientific expedition that included stops near Glacier Bay and Mount Fairweather.
The latter named places are haunts of the Killer whale, that they wanted to hunt with cameras, instead of harpoon guns.
They had also made plans for trips inland to study the flora and fauna of AK. The photo was taken just before departure.
And now,
Even more way back than way back.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/alaskan-boundary/alaska-1908-photography
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