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Grippa
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 25, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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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.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
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Grippa and Dingus.
They are our close relatives.
Excellent thread. Keep posting!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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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.
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micronut
Trad climber
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:31pm PT
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I'm a bit of an aficionado of the little critters. Some of my favorite photos are of the Jackson Pollackness of nature.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:42pm PT
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This stuff from N. Carolina (courtesy of gneiss pirate and mp.com) looks more like something you should scrape off your boat.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:54pm PT
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Wizard West Face, Needles (Sequoia NF)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jun 25, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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Jun 25, 2013 - 03:07pm PT
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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
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benzo
Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
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Jun 25, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 25, 2013 - 05:01pm PT
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benzo
Big Wall climber
tacoma wa.
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Jun 25, 2013 - 05:18pm PT
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eKat, sure is. Middle east wall. Ran out for a day of solo aid practice a couple months back.
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Jun 25, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
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City of Rocks got some gems in this department (that first photo is great!)
couple contributions:
Cochise:
Not Cochise:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 25, 2013 - 05:33pm PT
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jun 25, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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I be liking the Lichen you folks have posted!
I took this one in 1972. Knew I'd want it someday.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Jun 26, 2013 - 02:28am PT
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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
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Jun 26, 2013 - 03:15am PT
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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!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jun 26, 2013 - 08:30am PT
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Ran into a fair amount last weekend at a new area. Lotta that black stuff as well
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 26, 2013 - 09:07am PT
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Whitehorse Jeff
Trad climber
Fairfield, CT
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Jun 26, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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Cathedral Ledge, NH lichen, with a frog-- he "f@*kin blends"!
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