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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2013 - 10:41pm PT
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Downhill's a bitch, of course, with bad knees.
Wingsuit!
Die fledermaus!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2013 - 03:23am PT
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DaMightT,
Back atcha.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2013 - 11:29am PT
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She gnaws a mean rib!
She's a lawyer, knows what you mean before you might.
Like Lilabiene, she's oh so sunshine bright.
Two East Coast gals of whom I would like to see more.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2013 - 02:19am PT
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Nobody does better than Adsell.
We can only dilletate, imitate, and seal our fate
As wannabes.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Sep 22, 2013 - 11:15am PT
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Nice pics. Some of that rock looks worth climbing... if it weren't for all the snakes and poison oak.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Sep 22, 2013 - 05:36pm PT
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So when ya comin' out to visit?!!! :D
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2013 - 07:09pm PT
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Lilabiene, sooner or later, hopefully the former.
Mechrist, sooner or later I'll run into a snake which can harm or I may get into some PO and regret it, but I haven't yet this year and until I do, I'm not gonna lose sleep over these things. I have enough of a problem with insomnia as it is!
Thanks to you both for your concern.
The Lord will hold us in his hands when we include him in our plans.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 22, 2013 - 10:40pm PT
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Well,
the river kept on rolling
and ...
never heard a word it's said
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... WOW, glad you got this back from being lost...
always loved this!!!
thanks... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 03:50am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2015 - 12:41am PT
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Way further down the river.
Back to the center.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 22, 2015 - 11:40am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 22, 2015 - 04:05pm PT
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hey there say, mouse and frumy... great to see this on the front again... wow, these pics are just the best...
i love the merced river... thank you for doing this photography plan...
keep the river rolling, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2015 - 08:58pm PT
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Thank you, miss.
And Frumy, YOWZAH! THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT! Is that the venerable SToneman Bridge? Sure looks like the old river campgrounds on the other side.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2015 - 02:12pm PT
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Bumptious bubbling beauty bump.
http://vimeo.com/67617279
WATER RAT'S VISION
I never tire of the Merced's water
I wish I could be a river otter
I wish I could visit there with my daughter
Or with the spirit of the late Dean Potter
Be the captain of a cruising yacht or
The generous magnate who gladly bought her
So we could all party on it like we oughter.
Sometimes, scratching my Coulda Been Itch
I envision our Valley being a Big Dammed Ditch
Holding acres and acres of smooth water which
Are cruised on by tribes named Dirtbags and Rich
While I gaze out from some tiny niche
With my Fun Companion the High Water Witch
With whom I go swimming wearing nary a stitch.
--MFM 12/21/15
No big concrete feat in this dream, only a magnificent HUGE cataclysmic rockfall to block the stream enough so there is a smooth-water, shallow lake covering the works of man, except that the Ahwahnee Hotel's upper floor rises as a reminder of what there once was.
The cliffs and waterfalls are featured in reflection each morning with no ripples or wind ruffles. It is so like a mirror that some want to name the lake Mirror Lake. This is not going to happen, simply because the new lake's level does not rise so high that the old Mirror Lake has been covered. It still sits, silted and silent, below the dark side of Half Dome. Its outfall is only a few yards higher than the new lake's surface.
There is a splendid cataract at the western end of the lake, emerging from the rockfall's debris. It has no name in my vision, and so it must not exist, while my vision has a name, and therefore it does exist. Duality is calling, a mixture of real and not real.
Don't fault me for imagining names like False Falls or Water Real Falls. I cannot help myself any more than I can for loving Yosemite.
It makes me feel sad that This Just In has no interest in climbing there, but to each his own. He's good where he is. We should all be so content.
A very merry solstice to all of you.
MFM
edition: Thank you, Stahlbro! That relfection shot on the next page is so beautiful!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 21, 2015 - 02:18pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 21, 2015 - 05:41pm PT
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well whiskered brother, you aced this one. and stahlbro my thumb is up, my ears imagining the pattern of kerplunks as the ice shelf melts out
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:22am PT
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Thanks MFM and hooblie. New Years Day 2012.
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