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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Hey Mouse, shall we meet up in Merced at Robbins' shop, oh wait, that was Modesto wasn't it.
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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 - Jan 5, 2014 - 12:38pm PT
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Be there or be square.
I'm buyin' if yer flyin'.
Do you smoke the same pipe tobacco as me?
I got a million cliches lined up if you've got the time.
What's the currency exchange rate between cliches and the EUR?
If and when you get back here, look for los dos palos in downtown Merced.
I'm right there.You went to Acalanes, right? Then you should recognize a California roach clip like the one in SF on the hill, what's it's name? It rhymes with Sutro or something or other.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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I'm not quite sure what to do on this thread. Anyhow: Here's the start or the end:
First Mouse, his soul stolen by Timid Toprope
Then Marlow, a picture of Keith Richards taken by Marlow from a picture of Keith Richards seen on the cover of Classic Rock 2010
And at last an ape. I can identify with something I read into the eyes of this ape... and it stands well to the two former souls captured...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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You went to Acalanes, right?
Actually, Del Valle HS (now closed "thanks" to Rossmoor), but it was one of five HS in Acalanes High School District (Jaybro went to Campolindo, a lookalike for Del Valle - same plans, same buildings, but more boring as it did not have The Grove to party in during lunch period and it was built on flat land, whereas Del Valle had several "levels".)
Okay, aside from Indian Rock, UC has some great buildering, like the hand and fist 'cracks' on Memorial Stadium. But there are dangers, namely, the campus police if they caught you.
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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 - Jan 7, 2014 - 11:33am PT
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You're out of the loop, Partrige. The UC Memorial Stadium is history as of two years ago. New digs for the Bears.
Campolindo, pretty country for a suburb. Moraga is where I hung out in my freshman yr. I worked in Rheem Valley at T-Bone's Drive-In.
A B C D
Can I bring my friends to tea?
Brought to you by Playhouse Merced and its satellite, ACT.
Can you dig it?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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I'll have to google Memorial Stadium. Is it demolished? If so, earthquake safety issues perhaps?
Moraga eh? I used to party in Canyon among the Redwoods. While there are several trees with flattops, there is only one Flattop in Canyon.
Also worked maintenance the summer of 1993 at St Mary's College after I was asked to leave Britain by Her Majesty's Government. School buddy, Gary, who was supervisor of maintenance, got me the job until I started back at Cal State Hayward (East Bay).
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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 - Jan 8, 2014 - 10:27am PT
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Here is the loop away from which you have been, Patrick. It's a fait accompli and there are no good cracks in the new one yet.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/09_architect.shtml
The Cal Stadium was transfigured much like Blind Joe Death.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Alameda Co. east of the Caldecott, that's some real beautiful wooded hill and dale country. Exclusivity abounds. You need a car. Money is de rigeur. They all want their daughters attending Holy Names.
http://www.transfigurationacademy.org/tfa/
ST. MARY's got transfigured from all-male to coed in the seventies, maybe the eighties. I attended one year and bailed for the Navy. One year later I was climbing in Yosemite pretty regularly. They had been coed for only a while back then, with the appearance of Beverlys, (can I manage to spell her name right the first time?) Miss Hechtel, and that other unforgettable gal.
That was MY experience, MY take, and nobody can take that away from me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6meY6DG9TUE
In the nineties, working at that job, did you get to the hills to climb much? I lived in Merced then and my climbing suffered, actually.
But getting BAK ONTOPIK is lots more rewarding than transfiguring, actually, too, as well. Once you've done it a few times, like many things, transfiguration comes easier and there is no real satisfaction, it's just "monkey see, monkey do."
Getting back on to the topic seems to be an unwritten rule around here. If we stuck with just climbing topics and climbing videos it might not be all that on the ST. Spice is nice and it's interesting when things get JAZZED UP.
Marlow knows.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Saw these guys in Rheem theatre spring of '73
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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 - Jan 8, 2014 - 11:17am PT
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They saw you and were not impressed. :)
Today it would be different. They would be wearing hearing aids and they could listen to you tell about the Balch Fest and you could show off your scabs. How are they, BTW? You looked brutalized.
That muffler's the bomb, the one that came from neebee. Thanks.
Here's a shot of an outsized book that won't go in the scanner. What to do with this kind of shot?
Use mice. They are the cheapest models you can get, if you can get them to sit still. This took a lot of effort. Two tries. I held the camera dead steady, tight against my eye. I waited. I held my breath, then let it out slowly. I breathed once more. I clicked.
I had missed.
I reloaded and changed the setting.
They still hadn't become alert. The Gouda was too aromatic and hypnotic. I had the range, I composed myself, breathed, and this is the result.
It's easy to become overconfident, though. You never know when the subjects may choose to react violently. Most just leave. Some just could care less and ignore you.
Like these behemoths, absorbed in their urgent need. Try getting all that in one shot that says, "Buy it here. Your wife will love you."
Sometimes, and this happens more than some might think sometimes, the subject invites intimacy, like a cold shower after a hot bath. You need to risk that little extra that titillates and piques the eye' interest. The brain will follow. Sometimes. It's risky, like I said. Use your bed. I do. Technically, it's the upper bunk, but that's not shown, is it?
s-Stop
The soul of thunder rolling
echoes like lightning
flashessssss in my brain.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Stealing Chris McNamara's thunder!
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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That MAY be climbing chalk.. ;)
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