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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2015 - 09:40am PT
Looks like they even raked the tire marks out.

I like the 3rd from the left. Looks like our old stay-wag.


The other left.
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 7, 2015 - 09:51am PT

I liked that 1968 Dead clip. I put it on the dead collector's site.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 7, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
Foops is easier for short people up till the move just past the lip,
The reach or stab to the slot, or what ever, (each move had a designation.)
That said you can climb it out to the lip and past it to the stab (Right hand?) to the slot that took a Lock off & reach that was harder if short, then a just as long throw to the mantel into the
sentry box & anchors. but many times one just took the ride; not clipping the stuff we called an anchor .
zB that thread of yours may bring the heat posting an ariel view of the wek sauce storage, is it ok? I have to say this as an aside to hope that Home land security is not the joke that our silly airforce location and confirmation of target was at that hospital.I think the GPS coordinates,
were sent thru a hack by the ruskeys giving the fly boys the wrong info and so . .

As far as good conspiracies;
NASA has been hard at work retouching all the fake moon shots from the first lunar mission that claimed success.
Changing the pictures with modern CGI so that the old photos (have all but disappeared) look more real than. and the new ones Prove that the first moon shot was not fake,


to much . .
Time on my Hands
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 7, 2015 - 01:23pm PT
I'd be more worried about Google buggin' me than the Home Depot.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 7, 2015 - 06:56pm PT


The jungle approach was quick and simple.
Simple if you think that parking at Bald Rock Road., t
is direct !, Not!
It was a strut up the first hill and I was out for maximum pump, the neighborhood
Dogs had nothing to do with my non-stop sprint up this 2000 feet of 35 to 45% hillside .
I really just realized that I need to draw right on to two maps .
I'm Nackerd
That was and is an evil bush-wack up and down in those woods
I was up and down three ravine like places,
not the usual woodland stroll. As to more of a reason as to why bother ?
Sadly it stared out of that I received an e mail that I included the end of,
So that led to that schmo tacking the high road getting it closed, and the kids to day need to know that the woods hold old roads.

You hit on it with the peachy and oh so jaw dropping Tisdale road sing!
The hills here were clear cut and very little real old old growth has survived.
When every tree The jungle approach was quick and simple.
Simple if you think that parking at Bald Rock Road.,
is direct !, Not!
It was a strut up the first hill and I was out for maximum pump, the neighborhood
Dogs had nothing to do with my non-stop sprint up endless steep hillside .

I really just realized that I need to draw right on those two maps .

I'm Nackerd it is an evil up and down in those woods I was up and down 3 one hundred foot ravines. Not the usual stroll in the woods.

When I got to the 85+% backside of the marble quarry it was no relief . The rock slab is covered with moss and climbing poison ivy vines mixed into the matrix of dirt and trees blow downs , hanging garden style
.
Three sections of good? Rock split the jungle, each only accessible from a different way, the pit is filled in and mixed with blow downs blocking the way. The 1st section of Rock has super steep overhanging, crisp edged white marble. Short and at the very outside only just climbable.
Starting ten to twenty feet off a grassy area.!!
I surfed over the deer bed looking lawn by clinging to,and traveling under the
ceiling
The holds look like they could go after the things are scrubbed to remove the natural scale on marble?
There are two cracks filled with woody inch and a half thick vine the cracks continue to the top
At the opening of the ravine I used a third such vine to climb out the fifty feet.
The next or middle section was vertical to 120 degree point at the true summit of the almost cave like spot.
but the base was blocked by a lean-too of blow downs. Getting past ~ over and under that mess ~ there is a cool 90% bend in the ditch and an old road bed is good for seventy yards or so.
Then there is some more rock , again hard to evaluate condition but vertical stuff all about 65ft high.
This is quarried marble so it goes from built hard with edges to cracked choss and shattered rock
In a few places some of the lines would be good with work.as gone anomalies like a marble
Intrusion along a fault line was one of the first resources to be exploited.

Ya know I hug trees, we recently found the mecca of really old cedar, in a Catholic cemetery where the age off the crypts and head stones, here 'bouts go way back . Need to do link - the stone that makes up many of the oldest are this type of Marble.

Actual snap , 123456 the premier and cause for the random ness surround a frame if you will

The word quarry is a hint
but you need to know a bit of all sorts of arcane
and useless beta about old pit mining, limited area resources
what life's struggles were taken by the first settlers, and the slave to free freedom rail road , but not the nice fairy tale that is taught (;:/)
the way it worked was more like you worked you way out building stone row across the hills some are works of art (

I was gonna hit




I'm Nackerd it is an evil up and down in those woods I was up and down 3 one hundred foot ravines. Not the usual woodland stroll.

When I got to the 85+% backside of the marble quarry it was no relief . The rock slab is covered with moss and climbing poison ivy vines mixed into the matrix of dirt and trees blow downs , hanging garden style.
Three sections of good? Rock split the jungle, each only accessible from a different way, the pit is filled in and mixed with blow downs blocking the way. The 1st section of Rock has super steep 60 to 40 % overhanging
Starting ten to twenty feet off a grassy area.!!
I surfed over the deer bed looking lawn by clinging to,and traveling under the
ceiling
The holds look like they could go after the things are scrubbed to remove the natural scale on marble?
There are two cracks filled with woody inch and a half thick vine the cracks continue to the top
At the opening of the ravine I used a third such vine to climb out the fifty feet.
The next or middle section was vertical to 120 degree point at the true summit of the almost cave like spot.
but the base was blocked by a lean-too of blow downs. Getting past ~ over and under that mess ~ there is a cool 90% bend in the ditch and an old road bed is good for seventy yards or so.
Then there is some more rock , again hard to evaluate condition but vertical stuff all about 65ft high.
This is quarried marble so it goes from built hard with edges to cracked choss and shattered rock
In a few places some of the lines would be good with work.




When I got to the 85+% backside of the marble quarry it was no relief . The steep slope is moss and climbing poison ivy vines mixed into the matrix of dirt and trees blow downs , hanging garden style.
Three sections in the jungle, each only accessible from a different way, the pit is filled in and mixed with blow downs blocking the way. The 1st section of Rock has super steep 60 to 40 % overhanging
Starting ten to twenty feet off a grassy area that I surfed over by cling and traveling under the
ciling. The holds look like the could go after the things are scrubbed to remove the natural scale on marble?
There were two cracks filled with woody inch and a half thick vine at the opening of the ravine I used a third such vine to climb it the fifty feet. The next or middle section was vertical but the base was blocked by alean too of blow downs. over last that mess was a cool 90% bend and some again hard to evaluate condition but vertical stuff all about 65ft high.
This is quarried marble so it goes from built hard with edges to cracked choss and shattered rock
In a few places some of the lines would be good with work.



Ggh
After the initial stomp up the hill I was steaming hot so as I approached the crest of the hill where the first stone rows and only ones where I paused and stripped off my Marmot wind shirt. Then blasted the last 190 feet to the actual top where I was met by a motion sensor hunting camera strapped to a tree. Does anyone know what the range on those are, any some Hunter gonna have Quite the picture of wild life. Hard to esplain to the wife
Then a few classic stone rows really art to me forgotten lost here smile in from the long divided off property that it once defined.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2015 - 07:40pm PT
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We love you, Canada. And thanks.



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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2015 - 09:37pm PT




http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=1
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2015 - 12:37pm PT
Traipsing around a ludicrous world
I grabbed a hand whirled and whirled[Click to View YouTube Video]We dosied high and we dosied low,
And then we came to the land of snow.

We put up the tent and we went to bed
And to each other of gypsies we read
Of toads with cars of men from Mars
Then we stuck out our heads to count the stars

http://ddstevenson.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html

Then we split the Milky Way and called it a night.
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 8, 2015 - 01:07pm PT
There is a whole series of those Laurel & Hardy vids.

I wonder which one has the best synchronization?


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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2015 - 01:20pm PT
This one does...I've checked them out and this looked the best. They all have the same loop in the background. Pre-GIF, too.

mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2015 - 09:25pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 01:43am PT
I kept thinking of Peter Haan as I read this passage. Indian Rock is a special place for him and many of the rest of us.

This is taken from The Silent Traveller in S.F., by Chiang Yee, who also is the artist.



Congratulations, UC Merced!

Ten Years After.Go Bobcats Go!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 02:08am PT
During late August, Joplin arrived in Los Angeles to begin work on a new album. Sessions were planned for the Sunset Sound Studio with producer Paul Rothchild.
Joplin checked into the nearby Landmark Motel. She had been seeing a steady new boyfriend, a younger and wealthy easterner named Seth Morgan, and they were rumored to be engaged.
But Joplin at the time threw herself into her recording sessions and the work on her new album.
She also had a bit of fun at the session, at one point recording a birthday greeting for John Lennon that would later be sent to him — “Happy Trails,” the Roy Rogers / Dale Evens tune.

On Saturday, October 3, 1970, Joplin visited the Sunset Studios to listen to the instrumental track for the song “Buried Alive in the Blues” prior to recording her vocal track with it, scheduled for the next day.
But on Sunday afternoon, she failed to show up at the studio. Producer Rothchild and road manager John Cooke became concerned.
Cooke drove to the Landmark Motel where he found Joplin’s psychedelically painted Porsche still in the parking lot.
When he entered her motel room, Cooke found Joplin dead on the floor.
The official cause of death was later determined as an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol. Janis Joplin was 27 years old.
Her ashes were later scattered into the Pacific Ocean along Stinson Beach north of San Francisco.

Joplin’s newly recorded material from her Los Angeles studio sessions, meanwhile, had not gone to market.
Four months after her death, in February 1971, the new material was released under the album name, Pearl, a nickname sometimes used for Joplin.
The album included the songs “Mercedes Benz,” “Get It While You Can,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.”
Pearl topped the album charts for nine weeks, and “Me and Bobby McGee” became a No. 1 single in 1971 and one of her biggest hits.
But the one song on that album without Joplin’s lyrics — the performance she never showed up for the weekend of her death — was left as an instrumental, “Buried Alive in The Blues.”
Part of its verse would have gone:
“All caught up in a landslide
Bad luck pressing in from all sides
Just got knocked off my easy ride
Buried alive in the blues.”

And as Joplin herself once said:
“People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singer’s miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.”

http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/janis-joplin-monterey-pop-festival/

[Click to View YouTube Video]Monterey Pops.

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 03:13am PT
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zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 09:27am PT


Staged?

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Barbarian

climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 10:38am PT
Mouse...check your email.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 10:59am PT
Barbarian, nothing there.

Here's what I caught this morning...a partial sun-dog in the clouds. Then I went back to sleep.





mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 11:58am PT

Back in '68 when he married Sprout, the Rev's job-hunting plans for the Bay Area (they found an apt. in El Cerrito) on moving there included seeking work in the high-paying shipyards around Oakland and Richmond. The gig he sought was called stage-fitting or stage-rigging and involved climbing and heights.

I told him he would be better off with the phone company, his second choice, since stage-fitting was dangerous. He said he wasn't worried, the union was strong and the insurance was ironclad.

They couldn't get him that job. He took one as a phone installer, which at least dealt with some pole work. Guy was fixated on climbing, lemme tellya.

This shipyard gig had been recommended by Dave Bircheff as one he himself had wanted. As it worked out, the Rev only worked a year and a half for PT&T. Then he got his "climbing grant" approved by the State and he moved to the Park.

In chasing down various details in this anecdotal reverie, I came across some things which I did not know.

One thing, in particular, was the existence of the Kaiser shipyard on the Willamette River in Portland. I thought there was just the Richmond yard, maybe. But nope.

That yard began producing a slightly faster ship than the Liberty ship (4 knots/hr faster!) called the Victory ship.
The shipyard no longer exists and the site is filled with scrap cars being salvaged by the Japanese for the steel, apparently. It's right next to the I-5 bridge (Fremont) on the river, I think. I've only been through Portland and Vancouver, never stopped.

Here we see the Titanic during construction at her berth in the Harland & Wolff yards in Belfast.
Here's a salute to the sea dogs, sea hags, and sea goats of Our Tacotown.

Shears!


One for T Hocking.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
Road trippin' tomorrow with the Barbarian.



Barbarian

climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 04:29pm PT
Be afraid....be very afraid!
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