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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2013 - 02:54am PT
5.10, Let's go to the Bistro.
5.10, Let's go to the Bistro.
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Who's my little Banger?
Who's my little Banger?
Credit: mouse from merced
Cruisin' slow and ridin' low.
Cruisin' slow and ridin' low.
Credit: mouse from merced
DARK PINK?
DARK PINK?
Credit: mouse from merced
LIGHT.
LIGHT.
Credit: mouse from merced


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2013 - 02:57am PT
Credit: mouse from merced
This little honey took a ribbon in the kiddie's race.
This little honey took a ribbon in the kiddie's race.
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Tom's just been hit by the Thunderbolt!
Tom's just been hit by the Thunderbolt!
Credit: mouse from merced
She has her mind elsewhere, however.
She has her mind elsewhere, however.
Credit: mouse from merced
The announcing team, two dedicated followers of passion for the 'Big M...
The announcing team, two dedicated followers of passion for the 'Big Mac.' (The downtown race is called the McDonald's Classic, after all.)
Credit: mouse from merced
The Sun-Stroke gets it right! The PeONY ESPRESSO IS COMING BACK! <br/> ...
The Sun-Stroke gets it right! The PeONY ESPRESSO IS COMING BACK!

And Jacque-Mayne leads the pack.
Credit: mouse from merced
Ben Jaques-Mayne, left, finished second in the final race, adding to h...
Ben Jaques-Mayne, left, finished second in the final race, adding to his overall lead.
Credit: mouse from merced
Here is the yellow jersey given to him as overall leader.
Here is the yellow jersey given to him as overall leader.
Credit: mouse from merced

I hope you all enjoy one common thing in these.

The smiles.
Gene with Middle Earth in the background.
Gene with Middle Earth in the background.
Credit: mouse from merced

"Ciao, Papa!"--Breaking Away
More cowbell!
More cowbell!
Credit: mouse from merced


This race interlude is dedicated to the memory of my good friend and a huge fan of Townies everywhere, Zoe Bishop of Berkeley and Merced.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 08:23am PT
The Letter X. A flamboyant one from a family of literary figures.
The Letter X. A flamboyant one from a family of literary figures.
Credit: Yahoo Image
X-treme form.
X-treme form.
Credit: GI
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
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Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
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Credit: mouse from merced
Credit: mouse from merced
NO! Which part...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 09:28am PT
XoXoXo.


http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/webcams/half-dome
http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/webcams/high-sierra
http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/webcams/yosemite-falls

Clouds. Always in the way...

We are soaking it up here in Merced.

Yosemite's gonna be real wet today.

The Flames blame the rain, Mary Jane, and Cain, who was no Boy Scout, or he might have bothered to find some dry wood. His brother was able to. Cain blamed the rain. Gotta blame it on somethin'.

Hook me up with some words, man?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQW4Zfu9T4

I'm goin' where the sound keeps shinin' through the pouring words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6nBh22gUdo

Like a Stone.
El Capitan on a rainy Saturday
El Capitan on a rainy Saturday
Credit: Vitaliy M.
Thanks, Vitaliy!
Perfecto!
XoXoXo...
lostinshanghai

Social climber
someplace
Mar 6, 2013 - 06:14pm PT
Mouse: It is a G---GG----GGG----G—GG—GGGG Go for that Monday.


Credit: lostinshanghai

The only thing missing or on the right of these dishes is the salad and bean soup with red sauce to put on top, already ate the beef tongue they bring as well. If you ate the last of the rice they will ask if you want more or salad,bread,soup or the rest of these dishes.

They do or have sandwiches especially lamb and garlic on the lighterside.

Credit: lostinshanghai

Then this is dessert : typical Pyrenees bread and blue cheese.

Tried to get Ben into smoking ciiiiiigars on the way back. No way he said: guess we could ride on the top, will ask if he has a rack.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 6, 2013 - 06:19pm PT



Exene Cervenka




L.A. X
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 6, 2013 - 06:24pm PT
no equis




es una zorraBrown
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 06:29pm PT
Hey, that sounds great. We can do it.

I'm reading Trevanian in preparation. Watching the Eiger Sanction again.

And pondering the lyrics of Lambchop.



Credit: GI
zBrown item #59858
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 06:54pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCI1HVLgBI

If total darkness is the absence of light, then what is total light?

"Blues are born
out of the darkness
with the help of light."--Al U. Nedano from this film

In the heart, in the idle mind,
in the eyes, in the daily grind,
in your want, in your need,
therein lies the bluish seed.


They have the blues in Chico,
They get the blues in Redding,
Both are lucky they're not flooded out
When Shasta's tears are shedding.



Piss on my grave when I'm gone.
I won't be there, son.
I'll be playing the bluest blues. No, son, I can't lose.

It's a cryin' shame about Alving Lee. I haven't listened to him in like ten years.
T Hocking

Trad climber
Redding, Ca
Mar 6, 2013 - 08:23pm PT
I haven't listened to him in like ten years.

Good one Mouse, I get it!
How ya been my friend?
Good news, I get to work tomorrow
Bad news, I fuk'd up my back xersizin.
Thunderstorms in shastaland as I speak.
Tad
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 6, 2013 - 09:33pm PT
I haven't listened to him in like ten years

Kinda begs the question, what did you do thereafter?


On the way up to Joe Herb park I stopped in here for gas.

Gas was a much better deal in the old days.
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Mar 6, 2013 - 09:42pm PT
Fun doesn't stop on this thread! Thanks Mouse and all the contributors!
Nice people!

Susan
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 6, 2013 - 10:22pm PT
hey there say, .... been busy...

had to stop by, on the fly...
after a sleepy-by... and a speedy buy...

well, bye for now...
:)

this note, by me, and how...

:)


*will have more time later this week, :)
so, i do speak...

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 12:36am PT
SCSeagoat, very nice to hear.

I suppose it might be the height of discourtesy to remind ANYONE that nice is a seldom-used word that fell out of use about the year I was born--the French, sacre bleu, have bequeathed the word and we seem to have forgotten it originally meant "foolish" or "stupid."

Credit: mouse from merced
It has been modernized by hipsters to "grooby." Interesting, isn't it?

n.b., thanks for cheeking in. Peeking + checking = cheeking. :)

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 01:26am PT
Terrible triffids troubled Toledo till Terrible took the tiller.

Things went from Terrible to Worse, Worse, and Worse, Attorneys-at-Law, when he had to defend himself from the results.

Toledo tanked and thanked Terrible not at all.
All in all, it was quite a thriller.
Credit: mouse from merced
Holy Toledo!! Was that Boris I saw, alive as you or me?

Ron Kauk on Thriller &#40;V10&#41;, Yosemite Valley.
Ron Kauk on Thriller (V10), Yosemite Valley.
Credit: Shawn Reeder
Ron loves to hug the rock using Xtreme form...

His formula for success might run like this:

X(treme) > (O, o)(0 + 0) = Nothin' to it.

Xcellent photo, Shawn.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 02:33am PT
Credit: mouse from merced
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 07:17pm PT
My apology to Clint.

Credit: Jim Shirley

Here is PROOF that I AM WRONG!

This goes back to the very first page of The Flames.

I need to explain: had I found this shot earlier, or noticed it, I should say, My Apology would have been extended that much sooner to Clint Cummins.

It is easy to see the top of the cliff is Pinnacular in form. Sort of like this knuckle-head's brow.

My chagrin is controllable, however.

As in previous posts, here I stand with pie in the face, the fatal finger in place, and still having fun doing it.

In fact, I may have learned something--just what I will need to process.

Just another day behind the grill of the Taco Wagon.

Ya want some Taco Sauce with that disculpa, Old Gringo?

Also, FTR, that is moi on the rope. Mathis don't do face climbs if he can help it. And that's m'style, too. Toesies.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 08:57pm PT
These are photos I fished out of Jim Shirley's file tonite.

What colour is this duvet?
Blues in the Chianti Bottle.
Blues in the Chianti Bottle.
Credit: Jim Shirley
Posed.

What colour is this man's liver?
Ya want us to go down there? What's down there? I like it here!
Ya want us to go down there? What's down there? I like it here!
Credit: Jim, surely you jest, Shirley
Posed.

What colour are this man's eyes?
Rambling on Mt. Conness, oh so long ago.
Rambling on Mt. Conness, oh so long ago.
Credit: Jim Shirley
Xposed.

Tad, you gonna get well or better yet, better than you were? Tell us about this injury.


What kind of shoes are these dang deals? Robbins with no red laces? Pivettas?
Credit: Jim Shirley
Neat position.

Not done. What's the name of the gentle-looking peak?
Sawmill Cr.
Sawmill Cr.
Credit: Jim Shirley
The cousin of the Fickle Finger of Fate, Fatima the Fatale, waiting for you.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 7, 2013 - 09:51pm PT
Nice color scheme there Mousie - all the way with the Green Bay Piano-Pickers.
T Hocking

Trad climber
Redding, Ca
Mar 7, 2013 - 09:52pm PT
Tad, you gonna get well or better yet, better than you were? Tell us about this injury.


The intention was to get better than I am now.
See this thread for the story:http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2086616&msg=2086616#msg2086616
Don't know what I was thinkin, never trained for climbing BITD.
Feels alittle better today, I'll give it a week and see how it feels.
Tad
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