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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Jun 12, 2016 - 03:51pm PT
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Is Table Mountain as flat on top as it looks from a distance? Is it possible to walk it from one end to another? It looks as there's a bit in the lower end which isn't connected to the rest?
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 04:03pm PT
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doughnutnational
Gym climber
its nice here in the spring
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Jun 12, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
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McKenzie table from Fresno County table mountain, Pretty flat but not very smooth.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 12, 2016 - 05:14pm PT
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mike shaw created the best image i found googling "boney mountain" for you dingus.
it anchors the west end of the santa monicas. didn't you 'splore the PCH out past malibu on one of your forays
... deer creek rd. ring a bell? the last through breakout up and over to the conejo valley before pt. mugu.
the backdoor to newberry park has access too. not central valley but that's flight life for you
edit: gimme five, up high
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 05:30pm PT
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Dingus,
I think the Geology here was a Catapillar D-8 pushed a few yards around
for the sunset pic
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 05:59pm PT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 06:03pm PT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 06:13pm PT
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Jun 12, 2016 - 06:21pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 17, 2016 - 06:51am PT
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Above Merced Courthuse before daybreak.
6-17-16
Here's one, Dingus--'nother dawn bird.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 17, 2016 - 07:04am PT
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Workers on the comm tower at City Hall at 0h Dark Thirty this morning. Hills in Madera County in the distance.
Yet more dawn birds.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 21, 2016 - 10:42am PT
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Two sides on everything.
So as not to confuse, since foreign posters and lurkers are prone to misconceptions about this country,
the "eastside" pictured is not the Eastside of the Sierra Nevada,
which is really more akin to the Promised Land in the Middle East.
That is a photo of the west slope of the Sierra Nevada,
which form the east side of the Central Valley.
It is called the Central Valley. What it is the center of is debatable.
I'ts like unto the problem people have with defining SoCal and NorCal.
What's the middle? It depends on where you are not at all. It's up to cartographers.
I could ask the cartographer of the group to come say a few things, but he's off surfing this morning.
Some days he's off climbing with thebravecowboy, or that's his excuse, anyway.
HEY, LOOK OUT!
This is my idea for the homeless center.
Let them camp here in this quiet spot next to the freeway north of the creek and out of townsmen's sight.
This is a SW aspect of Freeway 99, truck in southbound lanes entering town.
Bear Creek RR bridge from next to Old 99.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2016 - 09:14am PT
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Where Old Tractors Go To Die (Bright’s in LeGrand)
driving down Plainsburg road
just off the 99
on an overcast, early eve
miles and miles
of orchards, fields
from a distance,
could make out shapes
long lines of something,
ghostly silhouettes,
in the middle of nowhere
I stopped, for a better view
and stared
at rows and rows
of old tractors, lined up
solemnly, tires flat, treads broken, rusted
a once mighty army
chugging, clanking loudly,
silenced,
brought to a standstill
no more ground to cultivate,
a final resting place
just before the sun sank
into an ominous,
dusky haze,
I thought about all the old farmers
gone now,
on these great machines
who bled, sacrificed, worked the land
under that brutal, central valley sun,
side by side,
with my father
--C. Mariano, from Piece Work
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 16, 2016 - 09:34am PT
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Heartland
i realize
after decades away
thousands of trips home,
Highway 99,
that stretch of road
between Sacramento and Merced,
is now part of me
and constant
holidays, family events
numbing, traumatizing
funerals,
on the 99, always the 99,
i realize
the winding rivers of my youth
flowing all directions
in Merced County,
are also constant
like the river
by Henderson Park
family gatherings,
rafting
or the river in Winton,
by Shaffer Bridge
where we swam,
just down the road
from the sweet potato field,
where Daddy worked
and later, as a teenager
drinking, driving
the backroads through Snelling,
along the river,
that led to Mariposa,
and higher,
all the way to Yosemite
from there
the powerful, mesmerizing
Merced River
that rages down the mountains
from Yosemite,
caressing rocks, boulders
to glistening jewels,
flowing wildly, mightliy
to the lower valley,
that feeds into all the streams and rivers
of my childhood
i realize now,
it's always been,
the Merced River
and the 99,
that binds,
connects,
converges,
takes me home
-C. Mariano, from Piece Work
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jul 16, 2016 - 10:37am PT
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^^^^
More Mouse, more!
Moving, that last one.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 24, 2016 - 12:13am PT
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Colusa rice at the beginning of June.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 26, 2016 - 11:18pm PT
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This track runs the entire length of the Central Valley. This train is doing forty-five or fifty following a turn a quarter-mile back and is heading northward.
It's gone by the names of Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, and now runs Union Pacific schedules.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 28, 2016 - 09:27am PT
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The redness of last night may have been from two separate fires my brother told me about over the phone this morning.
One was just across New Melones from his place, which is on Rawhide Rd, more or less.
Thanks, Jebus.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2016 - 08:04am PT
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谢谢你，天朝。
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