Unplanned Bivouacs: Dreadful or Delightful?
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
merced, california
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2012 - 06:27pm PT
Jim, Oklahoma is OK for the same reason. There are really good jokes to be made about the okie invasion, but the best is that the realized they were closer to SLC than they wanted to be.

An okie once named his daughter Nina May so he wouldn't forget her birthday. When Nina May had her own daughter she named her Ada May.

Git it?

For the record, I hate seeing California's name being shortened to "Cali." But I understand WY the posters here do it. Most cannot spell it, let alone the name of the Golden State. Kind of the same logic in calling the greatest governor we ever had "Arnie."

Doh. How's that for a nickname, Jim?
Rick A

climber
Boulder, Colorado
May 3, 2012 - 09:20am PT
Came late to this thread and it’s filled with good stories.

Stich-you were in a cave and when you tried to get out the entrance was sealed? What a horror! You should sell the movie rights.

Blakey- Blimey! You put socks over EBs to improve traction on wet rock? That is something I’ve only heard about in the ancient lore! Didn’t Joe Brown do that on the first ascent of Cenotaph Corner?

Jan-Sherpas going barefoot to handle treacherous ice? I’ve heard of barefoot rock climbing, but ice? Now that’s hardcore.

MFM-Count me as another curmudgeon who does not like "Cali". I wrote a piece in Climbing when Bachar died and the editor substituted "Cali" for "California" without telling me. Still irritates me.

Jebus H Bomz

climber
Reno, Nuh VAAAA duh
May 3, 2012 - 09:33am PT
I'm going
Back back
to
Cali Cali
with a
banjo banjo
on my
knee knee
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2014 - 09:41pm PT
Bu-bump.

How did this get past us?
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=155563&msg=155563#msg155563

Going up, by Joe Fitschen, in the story about the FA of Liberty Cap b...
Going up, by Joe Fitschen, in the story about the FA of Liberty Cap by Powell, Robbins, and JF.
Credit: mouse from merced

More bivvy stories lurk round here--
Let us stop to lend an ear
To tales of woe from yesteryear.
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