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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 29, 2014 - 02:06pm PT
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Well this was gravity at work. Today the sun came out and the mercury dropped.
So I took off to try and spy the ice that almost snuffed me. It should be starting to set up.
The thing is the cliff is basically in the kitchen cabinet /counter showroom parking lot.
Dinettes ala 1957 cubicles all in a row
Showing how this or that style of square box will hang on your wall.
With a fancy ubiquitous pull nob and color pattern,
Insuring
conformity if not comfort
and
Meisen pla'ce.( a place for every thing and every thing in it's place)
I was digressed because the Gavity test was just so typically s00pid of me.
A Charlie Brown moment that is worthy of calling me, Chuck.
That is if euw did not already have an eechuckawacca, to worry about.
I slipped and rolled and bashed into a scrapy tree at the edge of the same thirty foot drop as what i fell offt already once in 20 out 14! knott that the number of the year makes a difference.
It was a longish patch of ice
Glazing the top of the eastern moss choss top of a parking lot no place to die kind of moment!
Again !
This time in day light with the kids at home and the Holidays and all. . . I was going to die!!
I tore a slash on the pocket of a soft shell style jacket trying to self arrest.
I really didn't hurt any thing this time just bruises and scrapes and such.
Lucky. . .
I was doing the recon to see if this year I could get a Fat Ice At The Top situation.
With an added couple of thirty gallon cans to provide water to drain over the mossy choss at the edge and all over the top to create,
Ice all the way to a safe spot.
Plans were not entirely formed before I got to the top of the cliff,
as the conditions would dictate what was the best line to the edge.
The wet spot was not running, maybe a trickle.
In the sun you could catch the shine of the verglass on the rocks.
The approach down to the edge is boggy and not frozen.
To stop from getting wet feet I was rock hopping.
I was twenty feet from the edge when the long step to a flat rock took me out.
Scrappy tree done saved another one!
Huh, where have I heard that before?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 29, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
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gravity sucks...standing in the vacuum of his sighs
weej contemplates his image in the pee pot
he thinks he drinks cuz he has nothing maids
mostly in a row but some escape like drops over the rim
and some fall down his leg resembling dead drunk danish dames
that have been punched by r.carter
himself a victim of paterson (or patterson)
innocent man gilded with golden liquid
poured into shots by amber the tender
and the rest lined up at the other end o the bar
[Click to View YouTube Video]
"u c the little baters, the reprobates or the bates boy too late and it's curtains"--janet leithal
i'm not brother-keeping for no one
i have problems two
one, too much beer
two, not enough beer
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 29, 2014 - 04:15pm PT
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For our Chico correspondents, TimidTightrope and nita.
I know you like Long Song Dylan, TT. This is the short version here.Happy New Year to you both![Click to View YouTube Video] Cleaning out the files from 2013, readying for 2015.
And a Happy New Year to Eric and Vicky,
with a hug and thank you for the veggies and work at Facelift and the vibes.
Epic Rap Battle of Religious History I would like to see.
The Finderversus
Contrary Mary
Gene! I'll call you tonight, brudder-pal!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 29, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
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Nobody gets a word in edgewise.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 29, 2014 - 05:06pm PT
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So I had this freaked out dream last night.
I was IN A CLIMBING GYM and that's freaky enough by itself.
As I was between laps on a HVAC route (the Brutish rating ssysstem), resting, this weirdo lady comes over and starts up a conversation, mostly about her new slippers.
I'm wearing old school RDs in brown split leather with red laces.
Her topic changed to the habits which she enforced on herself to insure her safety on the gym walls. She'd never led anything, hated the thought of drying wind and sun, and did yoga before her t'ai chi which she did before roping up.
I took a pic and she didn't strike me as too awful.
Then I had to go and ruin my prospects when I began telling her about doing wide cracks in my heyday in Camp 4.
As I launched into a story about Generator Crack, she interrupted me and said, SCATHING ME WITH A VENOMOUS LOOK,
"Why, you're on of those TRAD CLIMBERS! One of those BING BONG PEOPLE!"
I laughed at her back, saying, "I'll bet you can't say it right the second time, either, sister."
HAPPY NEW YEAR, MooseDrool, dicoverer of Cyanetski (patent pending), the revolutionary new product for all downhill racers.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Dec 29, 2014 - 05:53pm PT
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Best advice I can give is to follow the advice of the medicine man and stay out of those chlamydia gyms, stop all your weeping and swallow your pride.
You will not die, it's not poison.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 07:38am PT
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Speaking for trad climbers, "Do gym climbers hate us cuz they ain't us?"
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Dec 30, 2014 - 07:48am PT
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Probably better to speak for them than at them. Alternatively, you could sing to them.
Towards that end I've included some lyrics and chords for you. Get yourself a satellite (forget about all about that macho shit!!) and bombard them from outer space. Siriusly.
(G) I'll sing you a true song of (D) Billy the (G) Kid
I'll (D) sing the record of (G) deeds that he did
Way out in Merced a long time (D) ago
When a (G) man's only friend was his (D) own forty- (G) four
On another front. "Comments for this video have been disabled", but feel free to have at it anyway. They haven't been together that long and you can't really dance to it (unless you're an uncoordinated chlamydia type) but I'm still giving it a 6 on the Brown-O-Meter.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
2,127,694 19:01 12/29/2014
2,127,907 08:04 12/30/2014
Rate = 16/hour
Who is hogging all the bandwidth?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 08:08am PT
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"We don't need no stinkin' bandwitdth...just the right runners."[Click to View YouTube Video]
I over-stepped. Trad climbers are too proud to let another speak for them.
I over-slept. Bad climbers are too many to get another crack at it.
Every one of them knows it leads nowhere, but do it all the same because their friends did.
Mothers universally ask their babies about cliffs and friends.
"It's all right, Ma, it's not broken. I only fell 35,700 km at an angle of 1.157 degrees, HVAC."
"Wait till your father gets home, Keester."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 08:27am PT
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It is mighty tempting, but only for "arf a mo," to bring Rotting Johnny's name into this, but it IS Gravedigger, shown above.
Respond to the satellite thread, Fall Potential, see the man by the name of Reilly. And be glad for a bight of rope.
What is daring doo? Trad leading.
"My pants are only seven on the Brown-o."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 09:01am PT
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I'm so relieved. "Not that RJ."
It was some other sprout.Conor is Jessica's oldest, the saxophonist.
Michael is one of the local Santa Claus fakes in Sonora.
This is a fake egg or a fake sunrise.
The Wide Band has left the building.
Shockwave has crashed.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 30, 2014 - 10:58am PT
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Blows air over the grave on freezing nights, helps prevent Jack Frost damage. Smoke pot. Used to be deplored as well.
Works for me, DMT. :0)
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Dec 30, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
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The smoke may be getting in my eyes, but the instrument Rod is playing sure looks like a banjo to me. Which way is the wind blowing, because Ron seems to be on guitar.
RE: Cochise Stronghold
Whenever you go, use care. This rock fell from the sky nearly crushing this guy. I will also note that Cochise himself no longer frequents the place. Why? I really do not know.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 30, 2014 - 04:00pm PT
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Z the spirits of Indians haunt that place both sides middle up and down!,
I do not spook easily but dreams and experiences in the zone have me convinced of the hauntedness of some places.Cochise's Strong Hold is one such place.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Dec 30, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
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^^GnOfDi
I'll check Castaneda's field notes.
Brujo de el Baluarte, Ph.D.?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 31, 2014 - 02:47am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Immense moist-eyed thanks, Virginians. There is a Santa Claus and he loves to cook.
You are too...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 31, 2014 - 05:59am PT
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As we last left lieutenant Idiot On top Of a chossy wet hillside having slid enough to tear just
the pocket of the off brand K-Mart Soft Shell.
The composition of the rocky hillsides where the
best east cost ice sets up is apparently some sort of secret.
Ridge crests and steep wet, rocky
Hillsides that run with water set up with the best climbing what secret ?
This year I am going to cry About Not Climbing Ice?(I was going to not.)
ice was nice it kept me young, c. . . . . . . when it wasn't Trying To Kill! Me!!
Same hillside, if any One cares, I found a nut in a rock I kid you not !
On Hallowed ground almost, I found the first booty I have bootied in years!
No 'Biner, ...here,if you please, the best Austrian accent you can muster
The Klagenford(sp) dialect,
Zwest uon smmaall nhutt!
Depending in the amount of snow, the rock that the nut was on catches the sun and drain and drool sets up a three move steep step of vertices of ice(if there is such a thing).
This is a small rock, no high ball at all what the EF. . .A one point retreat? is that nut to giv some sort of pro for ice bouldering ?will I see foot prints in the snow?
The thing to point out, Is that ten minutes out in the middle of the highest density of humane congestion that you can imagine, is a cemetery that has hit hard times after corruption.
This means that bold gets gold but I also tracked down Gerry don't Call him that,
Who is the care watcher and chief, head bottle washer and theif of good bouldering.
Any way the rock is also available from the condos that are up hill, as well as down hill near in the cemetery. The parking in the cemetery is less potentially problematic,Silent witnesses, mostly.
These are not the best of the small rock hell climbing options.
Far From it, the hillside is wet and the condos changed the natural run off. The hillside sits facing Northeast over looking three hi way exchanges providing a constant hum of passing traffic.. This all adds up to not even a single summer time, yo lets go there, when passing, vist. It would not make the book if not for three years of five foot snow seasons in a row.
The search for something to climb and the cemetery access, is something.
I have been buildering on moseleums from day one.
The dog B. Rip, happy new year!
We would walk to climbs some where twice a day for ten years.
So here's to the great late dogs all also sadly gone,but their spirts join as all dogs live on
Just the last half vanished that is the good part the you can't trust this Shablet is areal drag
hmmm I hpe to post all kinds of stuff but I lost some cool prose that's how it goes I'm going to get coffee and read weedge!
I used to wear the sunflower and turquoise Marrmot Alpinast; Wolfgang G style. Where is that Jacket?
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