Trip Report
Joshua Tree, The n00bs View, In Bloom.
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Wednesday April 22, 2015 11:23am
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Outdoor people are happy people!
In celebration of Earth Day.
First off thank you to everyone who gave advice and helped steer me around a little. I appreciate it.
Some factors either in my favor, or against it!
* Never Been There, check.
* Limited Time, check.
* Women 'n' kids, check.
* Desire to see a wide view, check.
* Having a photo jones, check.
* Askeert to climb, check.
Something to listen to while you peruse.......
[ Click to View YouTube Video]
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window!
Bansel Fladams
Shadowed By Sentinels is the name of my new album!
There be intruders about.
Selfie Alert!!
Beach babes.
Lotsa purty stuff.
I begin to get inspired by all the blossoms everywhere!
The famous plant its-own-self.
Rock.
Kid alert!
Son's out, guns out.
Spring Break, Woot!
Lotsa windows round these parts.
Y'all know I'll be back in a bit with more wanderings and musings!
survival
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About the Author
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Comments
Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Apr 22, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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Sick photos Bruce! Love the moon ones.
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter, Little Rock
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Apr 22, 2015 - 12:19pm PT
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didja get any skiing in?
oops, wrong thread.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 22, 2015 - 02:18pm PT
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Thanks gang!
eKatWTFMama, me DMT what? Desert boys? I guess so! I've even spoken to him about doing a desert trip sometime.
johntp, strangely enough all the lifts were closed. And we were so ready to bust out some long boards!
Micro blossom, trying to hide from me!
Friend with the ganked knee, but fully on board with the photo shoot!
Flower Dragon!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 23, 2015 - 08:07am PT
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Tad, yes the scouting trip was very successful! We hit Monterey, Cal Poly, UC Santa Barbara, Ojai, UCLA, UC Irvine, San Diego State, UC San Diego, BEACH!!
This kid is 6'1" BTW, just to give you and idea of scale on that alien blossom!!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 22, 2015 - 03:16pm PT
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Apr 22, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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Killer Bruce!!!
It is a real pleasure to see your life long love affair with the rock, your family, and life!!!
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Bluelens
Social climber
Pasadena and Ojai, CA
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Apr 22, 2015 - 08:37pm PT
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Flower Dragon, great shot, thanks for sharing.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 22, 2015 - 09:41pm PT
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Sharp crystals
Sharp plants
Sharp family
Sharp images
from a sharpshooter
Yeah, I'm sharp, I'm really, really sharp
I sure do earn my pay, sitting on the beach every day
Yeah, I'm real real sharp, yes I am
I got a Corvette and a seersucker suit, yes I have
--The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
A lot of work and play went into this TR.
Very special, Bruce.
My vote for "Best of Show"
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 22, 2015 - 11:26pm PT
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Thanks a lot you guys.
We really had a lot of fun exploring, and I specifically tried to not get focused on the biggest rocks, and climbers. It was more about trying to find some quiet spaces for me and my people. Plenty of them around there.
I'll fire up some more photos tomorrow, I've got quite a few good ones left!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 23, 2015 - 07:37am PT
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Beautiful pics! I've always thought that the scenery trumps the climbing there.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 23, 2015 - 07:54am PT
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Thanks Jim! My head is so filled with composition ideas sometimes my family has to wander off and leave me walking around the same formation three times, ha!
With only two days I didn't want to be stuck looking at the same two rocks the whole time, so I opted for playing tourist and moving around more.
One of these days I'll get a real camera, and then after a couple year learning curve I'll be bad ass!!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Apr 23, 2015 - 07:57am PT
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Joshua Tree is a magical place. It's great you got to experience it with your family.
Beautiful photos!
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Apr 23, 2015 - 08:07am PT
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Damn Bruce, so many great shots here. You don't need no fancy camera. Thanks man.
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L
climber
Just livin' the dream
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Apr 23, 2015 - 09:57am PT
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Your amazing photos are making me amazingly homesick....:-)
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 23, 2015 - 10:35am PT
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L, just let it always be..... in the back of your mind.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 24, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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I wonder if anyone listened to the Zappa while they were looking? Was it too much to ask? HAHAHAA!!
Stravinski did a beautiful rant about the music industry ramming the same stuff down our throats until our minds were numb and didn't want to hear music we hadn't heard before.
Of course we all know what we like, but I make a conscious effort to listen to something I've never heard, almost everyday. This morning I had on a Pandora station that had my own well schooled family looking at me funny!!
I realize that these pictures aren't standard climbing pix from Joshua Tree, but I really was looking through n00bs eyes, but honed stone gazers eyes.
L is the only one of our Joshua Tree pros has chimed in though? I wonder if I misrepresented the park in their eyes somehow.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 24, 2015 - 08:46am PT
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Thank you dear eKatZappaOpenCraniumMama!!
I really like the B&W of the palm trees just above.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Apr 24, 2015 - 08:46am PT
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Survival..
Beautiful fotografie!...Grazie.
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Alpinista55
Mountain climber
Portland, OR
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Apr 24, 2015 - 02:07pm PT
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ZAPPA!!!
Nice trip report, Bruce!
Listening to Frank and looking at your awesome photos took me right back to some time I spent up in the Bong Cave at JT with Jimmy Olson back in '79.
Trippin'
J
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Apr 24, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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I'd have to agree with mouse, great pic on that cactus as well as the other ones, looks like good ties with the fam.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 29, 2015 - 12:42pm PT
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Wow! Amazing photos! I was in the field, a different desert, and totally missed this!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 29, 2015 - 01:37pm PT
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Thanks Jaybro, and everyone. I got a post from Alpinista55, woot!
Always a major moment in my book.
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Ed H
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Apr 30, 2015 - 08:23am PT
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Beautiful photos - TFPU - one of my favorite places - how do you post large photos? I assume they are high res taken with DSLR - but what is posting process?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Author's Reply
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Apr 30, 2015 - 08:57am PT
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Ed H, thanks for looking!
My camera is no big deal, it's just a small Olympus, but a nice solid little metal job, I really like it.
Here's what I do. I use a free version of Irfanview so I can juice up the photos. That's where I play with colors, black and white, contrast, gamma and such.
Then I load them into photobucket, where there are "share image" links, and that's how I bring large photos over, rather than using the Supertopo add photo function. It's kind of a cut n paste thing.
I hope that helps!
The real question is did you listen to any Zappa?
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Ed H
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Apr 30, 2015 - 10:59am PT
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Ok - got it - thanks for the photo bucket cut and paste beta - I'll try it
Yes - I listened to the Zappa soundtrack while viewing the TR - nice touch!
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