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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 15, 2016 - 07:21am PT
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i learned that if you're waiting for blades to arrange themselves aestheticly you'd best pack a lunch
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 15, 2016 - 07:51am PT
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Naitch, you got your blue ridges, we got our brown hills. :0)
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Cogged
Social climber
Merced, Ca
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Jan 15, 2016 - 11:54am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 15, 2016 - 12:10pm PT
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Thanks for the photos. I now have both a NY Times account and a viewing of the slide show and the photos of well-known Central Villains.
Stark and not so stark.
Thankfully you're free to ride around in your machines and make a photographic record.
When is the book due out?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 15, 2016 - 02:12pm PT
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Never could figure out what crop these ground-hugging vines were. Genuine Yosemite sand.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 15, 2016 - 02:18pm PT
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Meanwhile, back in Bakersfield...
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 15, 2016 - 08:03pm PT
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This is off then end of Alonzo [sic, should be Alonso] road in Vacaville in 1969.
The current site of Will C Wood High School is just over the rise.
Our family farm is/was the land in the foreground,
and the buildings are on the Marshall Ranch.
I worked on the ranch right after finishing Berkeley High.
All this land is wall-to-wall houses now except for Padan Park,
which had been ours but ended up being a park attached to an elementary school.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 17, 2016 - 09:00am PT
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Wouldn't you like some of my purple berries?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Sailor take warning.
A red sky at dawning.
Farmer Dennis, breaking his fast of a Sunday morning.
Country breakfast and coffee is a daily start for him.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 18, 2016 - 12:55pm PT
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Springtime view west from top of Guadalupe Grade above Catheys Valley, Hwy 140.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 21, 2016 - 07:21pm PT
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It ain't Central California, but who can resist the Chatanooga Choo Choo station.
Photo on the right: Confederate Prisoners at the Chattanooga Train Depot - Submitted by Phebe Morgan
Nice set of photos here. Not to mention some interesting namez.
http://www.hctgs.org/photos/photos_places.htm
Chickamauga Boat Harbor - 1938
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 22, 2016 - 01:58am PT
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Site of the Huffman mansion. Charles Huffman and Charles Crocker (one of the Big Four) were the men who brought Merced River water to the croplands out on the plains starting in the 1870s.
His mansion burned and was replaced by this Georgian home built by C.Ray Robinson, big-time land lawyer and son of pioneer settlers in Merced County. It now serves as a bed and breakfast.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 24, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 24, 2016 - 08:16pm PT
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Jan 24, 2016 - 08:17pm PT
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Lakeview gusher Midway-Sunset discovery well near Taft CA
The Lakeview Gusher, which blew out in 1910 at Midway-Sunset oilfield near Taft, California. The Lakeview is the largest gusher the U.S. has ever seen, blowing more oil than either Spindletop in Texas, or the 2010 Gulf oil spill. With 1 well they depleted a tremendous amount of reservoir pressure...
Midway-Sunset field today where much of the oil production is from steam flooding...
South Belridge field where most of the hydrofracturing in California is taking place to stimulate oil from Miocene diatomite deposits..
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 25, 2016 - 02:01pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:53am PT
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The Western American Dream, the ranchette.
Or the next thing to it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 26, 2016 - 07:11am PT
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Does an electric horseman dream of battery-operated cattle?
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