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jogill

climber

Colorado

Aug 5, 2018 - 11:45am PT

Wayne, you are older than me (and better looking). Keep up the good work!

;>)

Fossil climber

Trad climber

Atlin, B. C.

Aug 5, 2018 - 01:00pm PT

Thanks, all! Shared some great days with many of you. Some of the best.

Some people say "You're older than dirt!" Well hell, you can make dirt in a composter in a year or less. I claim to older than gravel.

Yeti

Trad climber

Ketchum, Idaho

Aug 5, 2018 - 01:13pm PT

Wayne: Happy Birthday. Thanks for all the memories.

"El Condor Pasa (If I Could)"

I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes, I would
If I could
I surely would

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes, I would
If I only could
I surely would

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
It's saddest sound

I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes, I would
If I could
I surely would

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes, I would
If I only could
I surely would

Cheers.......Yeti

Jim Clipper

climber

Aug 5, 2018 - 01:47pm PT

Don't know why I'm telling this story. We had an old lodgepole pine in the backyard, almost hollow. The carpenter ants and the woodpeckers loved it. I wondered if a ground fire could smolder long enough that a crown fire might develop.

Some people recently, from Mesoamerica, told me they made canoes from trees that were hollow. I dont know if the grain in the hull would be more sound, those trees more rare? I can only guess, when trying to put it all together. Most of the rain forest is second growth, technology changes. I tried to tell them about the lodgepole pine, they may never get to see the mountains here. Canoes and rivers, beautiful valleys.

Thanks for sharing stories of some of your adventures in one at least. Hope I recognize you if I'm lucky enough for our paths to cross.