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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2018 - 07:43am 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 - Sep 14, 2018 - 07:53am PT
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After the flames died.
Gettin' burnt out on mules, bro.
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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 14, 2018 - 08:03am 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 - Sep 14, 2018 - 09:09am 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 - Sep 14, 2018 - 09:15am PT
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Sep 14, 2018 - 04:39pm PT
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Horse pie
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Sep 14, 2018 - 04:40pm PT
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Horse pie too
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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 14, 2018 - 04:54pm PT
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Smells like it. Glad I didn't step in 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 - Sep 14, 2018 - 04:57pm PT
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And one of their horse string.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 14, 2018 - 06:04pm PT
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Oh mama, can this really be the end? Cheap Thrills!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 14, 2018 - 06:14pm PT
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Rolling Thunder Struck
Hunter S Thompson loved it.
If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares? He's the one who is rumoured to have shot at Luke Stink.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Yeah, but what about Juan? And the "sheep" dogs?
Trickle Inn? Hope the angels leave the lights on for us!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Please Please Please
-James Brown
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 15, 2018 - 06:03am PT
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PHISH - the real thing[Click to View YouTube Video]
then the phake*
https://youtube=08tdWi1U45U
*When The Live streaming Is so good
I can't see any reason to leave the neighborhood
No point in gettin' out'a da the Lazy boi....
skip way in(%45:00) to get past the gin & tonic bit
(Not you, Psilocyborg, this is Mirror'magic'0man !)
does look like fun
(From, as now as there can be, 9/14/18, In my neck o'da wood)
- the 2nd set,
Lizards tribute, for some reason I have Richie Copeland on my mind?
Just another gone Lizard of&for-tha-stone
climbon my friend climb on,
tears here? really? w0W
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 15, 2018 - 07:05am PT
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^
HeY HEY ! ! A Lady Scarlet Blam! !( DoH!, that shoulda' read BALM* eslyxdia iz a ditch!)
Thea proud.[Click to View YouTube Video]**
Ah Ive gone all grey, timz-uph? &
Let's Call her Libby Sahluter, gettin' the Baton & Herdulz Green
For us Krispy-crusty onez (moldie-oldy, by the by would prolly be better wording to describe Uz?)
The Frost'z!! 4/27/85
a 2-3 day wiggout,
one of the,
-hi ther' how da'hell R ya-
showz for sure
This one I was In the crowd for, when a sticker mayd it my way
I was so conflicted it was such a great dayz$ In The money
https://archive.org/details/gd1985-04-27.mtx.haugh.78504.flac16
A pass on a pass was un-heard of, An Insta-Gack,
- I got my Heineken, and went back to mid-taper stand.
Hadn't happened for me since, '83 in the midst of my home town,
when again some one had laid the hammer down,
com-on back
they broke out the St Stephen for me; Ten Eleven Eighty-Three
https://youtu.be/VofpUWKmWKg
#Well,Worn, Doug Robinson,
"Seven pitches up,The North Face of Half Dome on the 1st clean ascent in '73,
when Galen Rowell suddenly decides we need a hammock photo.
He pulls it out of the haul bag & jumps in, grinning like he means it.
I snap the photo - It lets me brag that I'm a National Geographic Photographer-
I didn't know till way later that Dennis Hennek, standing behind me, took this shot . . ."
An' now ya' remember the `for climber's only' part of story . . .
Oh yeah, THROW AWAY "OLE' FAITHFUL"
I SEE YA' FIXED IT TO KEEP YOUR LIPS AWAY!
aT LEAST GET A PIECE MADE OF GLASS
i'LL SEND YOU A NON-POISONOUS SMOKING UTENSIL
THAT GREEN & RED WOOD IS NO GOOD
& SMOKIN DA GLUE WILL KILL-YA'!
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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 15, 2018 - 08:28am PT
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One for Contractor.
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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 15, 2018 - 08:36am PT
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After supper they went home and watched a movie about mountain climbing.
In the movie, an avalanche had caused a party of climbers to either choose a daring new route to the summit or to bag the whole expedition and return to base camp.
“Are you snow-blind? It is madness,” insisted the scientist.
The handsome lead climber said, “If it is madness, then I am mad. But I say go for it.”
“And I share your madness,” said the bold woman with the white fur collar.
“If the entire world shared that view, it would still be mad,” said the scientist.
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Fiona sat on the edge of the bed and worked her shoes off, saying, “Gosh, I wonder what they’ll do.”
“The scientist dies,” said Ray.
--excerpt from Mike McTypo's The End of The Beginning: A Ridge Too Far
credit edit: You could do worse than reading End of Vandlism by Tom Drury.
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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 15, 2018 - 09:02am PT
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The insurance wonks have no explanation for why this guy lived as long as he did. And they've seen it all, if you believe their TV ads.
Too stupid to be able to figure out how to open an umbrella (or even how to spell the word), he was eventually dispatched to the other side in a grisly accident involving a garage door opener gone haywire.
To this day it is a mystery how he ever was issued a driver's license.
His demise at the hands of a garage door gone wild was preceded at intervals by no fewer than six non-fatal, single-car traffic accidents, three of which resulted in totaled vehicles. He spent over four months in traction following the event in which he ended in the Merced River and was saved by the SAR team.
And despite this dismal record, he was never seen to fall or to make a wrong move on a rock climb. Ever. He became a totally different person in the vertical plane.
Never seen the like, not even Floyd with his Dolt Blue Boots in '70.
Floyd was his opposite, able to perform wonders (balancing an ice axe on his nose, twirling it like a baton for hours) while standing on the ground, but he went to pieces if he got three feet off the dirt on a boulder.
And then there were guys who could do all this and more.
It takes all kinds, don'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 - Sep 15, 2018 - 05:28pm PT
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RIP.
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