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Grippa

Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 25, 2013 - 10:53am PT
Climbing all over the west I've noticed that no matter where I go there's always brilliant color schemes, and natural licheny paint jobs to entertain my eyes. Post some of your favorites.

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
Grippa and Dingus.

They are our close relatives.

Excellent thread. Keep posting!

Mark Hudon

Trad climber
Hood River, OR
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
I had taken some lichen photos at Smith Rock one day that we later used as the color palette for the Hood River Coffee Co. building.
micronut

Trad climber
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:31pm PT
I'm a bit of an aficionado of the little critters. Some of my favorite photos are of the Jackson Pollackness of nature.



ydpl8s

Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:42pm PT
This stuff from N. Carolina (courtesy of gneiss pirate and mp.com) looks more like something you should scrape off your boat.

Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:54pm PT
Wizard West Face, Needles (Sequoia NF)
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jun 25, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
ladyscarlett

Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
Jun 25, 2013 - 03:07pm PT
Lichen salad...Gunks specialty!

Straight to your mouth, in the vertical lane, all you have to do is look up. The black stuff flakes off just looking at it, let alone when some newb comes up pawing around.

Great fiber, great for your heart rate, encourages a calm balanced mind...

mmmm!

cheers

LS
benzo

Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
Jun 25, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 25, 2013 - 05:01pm PT
benzo

Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
Jun 25, 2013 - 05:18pm PT
eKat, sure is. Middle east wall. Ran out for a day of solo aid practice a couple months back.
fgw

climber
portland, or
Jun 25, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
City of Rocks got some gems in this department (that first photo is great!)

couple contributions:
Cochise:


Not Cochise:

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jun 25, 2013 - 05:33pm PT
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Jun 25, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
I be liking the Lichen you folks have posted!

I took this one in 1972. Knew I'd want it someday.
i'm gumby dammit

Sport climber
da ow
Jun 26, 2013 - 02:28am PT
soooo much around here. have many many more. often thought about an art form where i take the rock background around kirkwood/carson pass and photoshop tropical fish into it




Willoughby

Social climber
Truckee, CA
Jun 26, 2013 - 03:15am PT
Had this recited to me this very morning:

Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen
BY LEW WELCH

All these years I overlooked them in the
racket of the rest, this
symbiotic splash of plant and fungus feeding
on rock, on sun, a little moisture, air —
tiny acid-factories dissolving
salt from living rocks and
eating them.

Here they are, blooming!
Trail rock, talus and scree, all dusted with it:
rust, ivory, brilliant yellow-green, and
cliffs like murals!
Huge panels streaked and patched, quietly
with shooting-stars and lupine at the base.

Closer, with the glass, a city of cups!
Clumps of mushrooms and where do the
plants begin? Why are they doing this?
In this big sky and all around me peaks &
the melting glaciers, why am I made to
kneel and peer at Tiny?

These are the stamps of the final envelope.

How can the poisons reach them?
In such thin air, how can they care for the
loss of a million breaths?
What, possibly, could make their ground more bare?

Let it all die.

The hushed globe will wait and wait for
what is now so small and slow to
open it again.

As now, indeed, it opens it again, this
scentless velvet,
crumbler-of-the-rocks,

this Lichen!
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
Jun 26, 2013 - 08:30am PT
Ran into a fair amount last weekend at a new area. Lotta that black stuff as well

MisterE

Social climber
Jun 26, 2013 - 09:07am PT
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jun 26, 2013 - 11:46am PT
Incredible colours.
Here you will get mostly green.

Moss forest in the rain:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Whitehorse Jeff

Trad climber
Fairfield, CT
Jun 26, 2013 - 11:52am PT
Cathedral Ledge, NH lichen, with a frog-- he "f@*kin blends"!
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