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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 21, 2015 - 06:01am PT
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Randy's dad was a combat correspondent during World War II and later a professional photographer. He was in Hiroshima about two or three days after the bomb. I never met him as he died at age 45 of cancer when Randy was 18.
This is one of his photographs. I thought you would like it Mouse since you seem to like old photographs. And even though it is in The Flames thread, it doesn't seem too inflammatory.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 06:21am PT
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It's da bomb, Gypsy!
Tanks!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 21, 2015 - 07:57am PT
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Sorry sir I am so sorry to have used the flames as my palate over night,
Trying to fight the good fight with the Shablet I had hoped to move it out here before even you saw it!
but pipes burst
life sucks and this had, as it should,had to take a back seat
I am out of towels and the shut off is frozen under two feet of snow
Ignor the holy boulders rant every one
I will take it down !
I will soon as I can copy it by hand to Daddy'O's note book!
Anyone else use books of paper?
Why, why, why
Nancy Carrigan cry!! After Jeff Tooley smacked her in the knee with a pipe.
And big Jim is like my uncle Hans or grandpa Fritz, not to worry his sense of humor stil, well six years ago was tolerant of puney me
I have a call !!
Let's bastardized it though
Grockenhasseblad!!
It is a special
A sandwich at Charlie's deli? I don't think so!
Strange guide book referance ment to insult the father of fee climbing FEE or a pitence to
offset the threat that big Jim presented
That was Mohonk '61 or '62, then it became a preserve
Big Jim has no sense of humor about that I know !
Oh no I'm still raving mad and the pipe the pipes are calling
Me impercuneum, will bang a gong befor a bong although
I am clearly out of my mind now!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 10:36am PT
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pipes are froze
I'm all a-doze
don't freeze yer toes
yeh, you got woes
good luck widdat shuddoff
don't be thinkin' schmirnoff
it's a ridiculous 52 here
it's all overcast uncleare here
Doc Plummsit.
My jury duty is done for another year...the guy plead to a lesser charge and they sent us home without even seating us.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 21, 2015 - 12:37pm PT
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Temperatures are cccccccccold here in the Blue Ridge. I would rather be hiking in the rain in merry ol' england again...or better yet lost in the maquis of Corsica...
The brown thrasher is a migrating bird and the state bird of Georgia. I never see them in my garden except in the summer. Looking out my window today, there was a brown thrasher sitting on the bird bath. One very confused bird I would say. Or perhaps he wanted to go ice skating on the water in the birdbath. Dunno..
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gypsyflores/4519627764/in/photostream/
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 21, 2015 - 01:03pm PT
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!Gee gnome, ice climbing using only hands and feet. Where do we send the news vans?
Gotta watch the slippery stuff, this guy went postal on it. Maybe they'll just Skype ya.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 21, 2015 - 01:19pm PT
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You will love this one my kids got me a subscription to a rag and it never comes Can you C I need to keep
My anonymity cause I'm known for going postal.
if I can track my mags down I might try and make a stink
The best description of me came from Yabo who said if you ever get to full size that guy is gonna be in real trouble,
He was explaining not who he was but why he came up on the end of my line like a big Blue Marlin as opposed to the rainbow trout I was expecting, he said I laid the fvcker out in front of the girls he was flexing for instead of belaying you when you started hanging off the anchor I thought he was gonna drop YA!,
(I was goofing around celebrating the send) I thought he was gonna drop Me too!
What is the whole green dragon,> Mr Natural >Point beyond>Cosmic Comedy to the top three pitches called? That is what we did.
As I read it the apron and rockfall help keep smokin duck's employees very busy??
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 21, 2015 - 07:14pm PT
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Anjuna Market in Goa 1975
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 08:21pm PT
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Life is precious.
Is it wise to risk it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbzvn0umEo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfHnLHUhdA
All this swearing and violence on TV has sent me over the [expletive deleted] brink.
And the lyin'. Don't forget the lyin'.
aH HuMPBuG!
It’d take too many hours
Too many ice cold showers
To take away the pain
In the end I’d still be retchin’
Over truth that they be stretchin’
Cable news is so darn vain
They seldom take the middle
They’re biased just a little
And stupid in the main
With the lies that they are spreadin’
You’d think that we are headin’
As a species down the drain.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 09:23pm PT
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With out the possibility of death there is no adventure.
--Words to that effect from Reinhold Messner.
Adventure has dumbed down
It’s sad to see things like Big Mike and Sandra’s epic on Sunnyside Bench.
It’s even sadder to see the lame attempt which I made on Boxing Day in 2013 with my niece.
The route-finding there is the main problem, the descent is the adventure.
On easy routes there are lots of roots, trees, boulders, some worn hummocks and really greasy holds and WAY TOO MUCH CHALK, but that’s understandable IF chalk really combats grease, which I don’t think it does.
I might talc about chalk later in a rant somewhere but this is about how not to cheat yourself of the possibility of adventure on your next climb.
First of all, choose a route you’ve never been on before. This should be obvious and it has unlimited potential.
Second, don’t choose a route which has a lot of high numbers. Why? You want to spend all morning on one little sequence or do you want to get up the thing? And you may be glad because there are only so many daylight hours.
Which brings us to the fun stuff. When did you last replace the battery in your headlamp? Or do you remember? If you don’t remember, then by all means toss the thing into the ruck. Rely on your native luck.
Do you have a head band? You should. They are cool as f*#k [expletive deleted]and if you take pictures even on easy climbing you’ll probably look better in the shots. Helmets are basically anti-adventure.
Plan on getting off the climb in just a few hours. This works better if you are a week-ender. There are more excuses for screwing up and no one will expect any better showing from a WEEK-ENDER.
This will mean going with minimal water, no sweater or wind-breaker, and no tennies for approach and descent.
Take just one rope.
Take a large rack, of course.
You bought it, use it as much as you can.
The more pro you stick in the more time it takes and the more your chances for adventure increase.
NO GUIDE BOOK! De rigeur.
NO CELL PHONE! Sheesh [expletive deleted] Criminy!
GO-PRO if ya got one and if ya never used it before.
Leave some food in the back seat of the car for luck.
Have a good time.
Cheers, berg heil, and don’t forget the bum-wad.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 11:57pm PT
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Adventuresome duo.Ready for adventure.
No helmets need apply.
Do it all on the fly.
Charge ahead you'll find the way;
If not there'll be another day.
Fail to plan or plan to fail,
Let's just do it!
Oh, no! It's hail!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 03:21am PT
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Why homeless Britons are turning to the Sikh community for food
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31557192
Article on line and passed on to me by a Sikh friend of one of my cousin's daughters.
And my story about an encounter at the library.
On the way home from the county jury selection process a few days ago, I stopped into the county library.
I had not been into the place in quite a while as the card they gave me was stolen along with my wallet last summer.
It was not a top priority to replace it.
However, I really wanted some books on the International Exposition from 1915.
The computer catalog listed several located in the Stoddard Room, which houses Californiana and some of the older and better-known California authors' first editions.
There were none of the ones I needed to look at on the shelves.
I took my problem to the circulation desk and spoke with a woman about twenty-five years or so younger than I.
It turns out that Sheryl knew me well enough through my wife Liz to let me go ahead and waive the California ID business.
She issued me a new card with a key-chain dealibob and now I can check out books again.
She had to charge me one dollar out of the two that were due in fines, however.
What nerve!
She remembered Liz fondly because they hung out with the local bikers.
Sheryl came to our wedding! I didn't know her, nor did I know her and Liz's biker buddies.
But it was like always, with Mama Liz, she had befriended Sheryl back then and had given her much thoughtful advice and helped her out a few times in sticky situations.
It's just amazing how little acts of kindness and thoughtfulness now come back on you years and years later.
So we can thank Sheryl and Liz for the sequence of images from the Exposition and the rest: of the Solomons, the last century's notable events, etc. that have appeared here in the last few days.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2015 - 04:09am PT
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The stink in small rock hell tells me my rant
Was needed and justified, the remains of a burst pipe and the timing !
Man it went down so strange as this time yesterday day this whiny BIOTCH
Was sitting on me
Why
I cannot say
My , I have spider sense it has saved many things and people
SPIDEE Sense, not crazy
Meditate on that!
More to the point
People have died when I ignore a very specific feeling
Bad things at shows were an early learning program
Years go by
Tons of times
to prove me right is hard but not
Impossible
Nuff said!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 04:20am PT
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I need to post these two images from the art thread.
They are each rather disturbing in some vague way.
Share the joy, share the vaguely disturbing, I always say.
No offense to either Alison or to neebee.
I feel better now.
These two and the other 20th C. B&Ws earlier are from
Through Our Eyes: The 20th Century as seen by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 06:54am PT
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Bang Zoom
Meet the Chula Vista woman chosen as a finalist to go to Mars... and never come back
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/17/chula-vista-woman-finalist-mars-colony-mission/
However, there are a few challenges, not the least of which is that there may not be enough donuts to go around.
Crew starvation
Crew caloric consumption requirement is greater than calories available within food store
Crew dehydration
Crew water requirement is greater than potable water available within potable water store
Crew hypoxia
Partial pressure of oxygen within crew environment is less than 15.168kPa13
Crew CO2 poisoning
Partial pressure of carbon dioxide within crew environment is greater than 0.482kPa (0.07psi)13
Cabin underpressure condition
Total cabin pressure is less than 20.7kPa (3psi)13
High Fire Risk
Molar fraction of oxygen within crew environment exceeds 30%14
Table 2: Failure conditions employed within the Habitation Module
35 page study results here:
http://web.mit.edu/sydneydo/Public/Mars%20One%20Feasibility%20Analysis%20IAC14.pdf
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:03am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:16am PT
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Climbing content-wise, Olympus Mons, on Mars, is the largest and highest mountain in the visible Universe. Rumoured to be much higher than Mt. Everest. {The central edifice stands 21 kilometers (around 13.05 miles/approx. 68897 ft) high above the mean surface level of Mars.}
OT (and not), just who is your favorite Martian. Also, I wonder how many sherpas made it onto the final 100 list.
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