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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 27, 2013 - 05:29pm PT
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This was Tuesday at about eight o'clock a.m., sorta light of nine, maybe.
Maureen is queen of the island, but their princess has married and must leave for the Kingdom of Olives.
"Oh boy! Oberti!"--Al Radka
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 27, 2013 - 05:43pm PT
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Mount Lassen on another ho-hum Memorial Day weekend.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 27, 2013 - 07:13pm PT
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What kind of loser-ranger pulls over a mouse? Or couldn't the mouse's feet reach the pedals?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 27, 2013 - 08:17pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, i love that preston road photo! perfect timing with the bird-life there... very nice indeed...
thanks for sharing your whole memorial day weekend with us all...
:)
we are all cold and windy and rainy-almost here...
sun too a hike, it seems, 'round about saturday, put peeked in for a tiny
bit on sunday...
will see how the week goes now... sure do miss it...
but the day is brisk refreshing cold, not that damp dreary cold,
:)
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 28, 2013 - 06:40am PT
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local chapter of the flames...
the fanciest car in the club:
The '35 Duesenberg Model SJ was owned by a friend's father, Ben Hudson, in purchased the car in 1947 for $1,500. It is pictured here with a stock 8 cylinder engine that produced 320 h.p. Mr. Hudson sold in in 1958 for $12,000.
In it's speed record setting configuration it looked like this: and had a 12 cylinder engine producing 400 h.p.
In 2004 it sold for $4.5 million at auction in this configuration:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 28, 2013 - 10:05am PT
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Fast world out there in the world.
I was in only two state capitals yesterday, the that of NV and the which of CA.
Driving thru Carson City, meh.
At eleven of midnight in Sacto on !-5 at seventy mph after having no driving experience to share since 1983...still meh.
Actual representation: WHITE-KNUCKLED HORROR, regardless of sexual orientation.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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May 28, 2013 - 05:39pm PT
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Another in an occasional series on fasteners.
These little bastards should not be included in the class of fasteners. Shouldn't be in the strawberry or lady bug class either. They are evil.
They are in the same class with these guys.
But maybe not, these other nine guys at least appear to have a sense of humour.
Stick your screw driver in the slot whilst on your back getting who knows what kind of toxic crap falling in your eyes and they just spin, spin, spin. I'm very persistent so I got 'em out, but they shoulda had they ugly little head chopped off.
That's about it for now. Next step pull the radiator out. Should be a piece of cake compared the first step.
In other newz, Fierce Battle on or about (as the lawyers like to say) Everest, no one's ear is bitten off. I hear what you're sayin'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22691415
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 29, 2013 - 08:50am PT
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Bay, you need warm congratulations on Everest.
Shaking hands is a useless, even pointless gesture, not to mention dangerous process at altitude.
You never want to shake the hand of a yeti.
They are just hillbillies, after all, and enjoy hell out of squeezing city folks' hands for yucks. Rednecks all over the world, if we only knew more culture.
I blame tachers. They never let us listen to Gypsy on Musical Migrations.
In the first grade, you learn the essential difference between No. 1 and No. 2. And then in the second grade, you learn how to count the number of toilet tissues squares you need to use each time. At least that was the progression I learned.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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May 29, 2013 - 09:38am PT
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I was wondering if that was counted down 10, 9, 8 ... you know the drill
I am informed that this is an iconic photograph and it should be posted here without further comment, since it speaks for itself.
I will observe that there are a bunch of guys in the background in a circle. Perhaps the first well documented exemplar of the climbing circle-J's that have become all the rage in climbing forums of late.
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name (Mick Jagger said that, but I'll use it)
Half the people can count half the time
So that would be about 25% accountability
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 29, 2013 - 11:40am PT
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Circa eight thousand, one gets very cirques-cirques, a probable effect of going around trying to find the right tent to which to deliver the Sherpa-Sherpa, Large Size, regular crust, and olives, pimentoes, pine nuts and cranberries.
The munchies at altitude. Torture.
On a different map entirely, I was driving all over this weekend and had no map. This has been corrected.
I also was thinking of my dad's driving. His most favorite "run" was likely the Sacto to Redding, he knew where he was heading, he just had to get on the right 99N. There is now a 99S as well. Back when, we had a 99E and a 99W.
I prefered the one that got us there fastest, generally the 99W. Long before the I-5. Or any "Business 99s" came to be.
Boomer carted us around in a Chevy deluxe from 1950, gray and white, three on the column, and cords on the back of the two fold-forward bench-backs in the front seat. No seat belts, kids standing, looking over the front seat.
there was a hanging strap on the doorpostssssssssssssssssssssssssssss SMASH!!!!!
One way to wake up on a long drive...
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 29, 2013 - 01:00pm PT
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Here's the current Flames (Berkeley Chapter) fleet. The 69 MGB and the 77 RD400 Yamaha are in the garage. The Westfalia is across the street. I think we have a vehicle hoarding problem here.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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May 29, 2013 - 01:08pm PT
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These two were drag race buddies back in 1956. The Chevy still hauls ass.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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May 29, 2013 - 03:05pm PT
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Nice rods!
Here's the one I didn't buy and which is now gone
Here's the one still available, which I also didn't buy, but might
Neither one say DeLuxe on the fender, but isn't it actions that speak louder than words anyway?
Here's the one I've been cussing at
BTW Timid, I haven't made it out to La Jolla yet to see the mural but I will and I swapped out a couple of ratty Pepper Trees for Jacarandas. Purple Haze.
This isn't one of mine, but it's a nice one.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 29, 2013 - 11:21pm PT
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You gotta be just like the neighbors, huh?
The view up Gower with Flower Power.
Yesterday the grand-boys and their dad Scott came out to Mike's on the Merced just as the squall started up, but we didn't get damp--we had a covering of oak leaves.
Of course there are pics, some of which are taken by the oldest of the two, Noah, and one by Jake (not Jacob).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 30, 2013 - 01:07am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 30, 2013 - 08:17am PT
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I'm a monkey's uncle,
Climbing up your tree,
Up your tree.
I like TO SAY:
HOCK-a-RON-da!
Jew know, like we all like TO SAY:
SAL-za!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 30, 2013 - 08:29am PT
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South of Janesville, north of Piru.
Just more faux WHITE-KNUCKLED HORROR!
Faux, False, Facetious
You must know by now that in the Flames the truth is found, but the truth is also stretched.
Lies are brittle. The stretched-truth has malleability.
Plausibility. Undeniably Jackie.
You want the truth? I'll give it to you, but it's likely to snap back.
It rarely looks like itself when it has "readjusted" itself in yet another mind. It likes to roam. It likes its various guises.
No sh#t.
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perswig
climber
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May 30, 2013 - 08:53am PT
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Whoa...
How the hell did I get here?
And why does it feel like I'm back on the school bus doing Quaaludes?
Dale
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