The Flames.

Why keep it a secret?

And then, that three day stop over with your love. causes conception, ( if you're into that)
you, the two of you alone, then realize what the place means to you.
You never want the feeling of 'coming home' to change when you go out to your secret crag.
You feel the place, it's corners haunt your dreams. It is where you can find peace.

The fact that you'll never climb the ultimate line at the cliff is also on your mind,
you want the 1st crack at it and not have to respect the next wave pullers who are younger,
so much younger. With Strength to throw away,
the way you had that strength, Way back in the day.

I , too, Have more reasons to keep it as my private Idaho. Not yours.

It is not like we pull the camo sheet over the cliff when we leave.
( has any one else done that?)
We can't post it with no trespassing signs or take the climbs home with us,
The point of having risen to the level of self-sufficiency ? To me, it is to take
ones' self and a pal or two off the grid
and share in a special feeling of having found a place.
A place to call your own.



Rock is so ubiquitous ! Climbable, good quality rock it is not everywhere though,
So when we do find the Brave Cowboy's dirt tracks. . .
out of respect for the feelings that we have for our own hidden gems.
We tread with more respect , maybe we even turn and make our own tracks.

I see, though, that you puzzled out the truth
The truth laid out by a rat obsessed Climber come gymnastic coach,
Who's pithy share ~ if this 'this' is that & not 'that' that, then this is that 'this' to keep close to the vest.


Baked into her breasts, mother natures greatest gifts and the solitude to be at peace there
to be able to feel the untouched stone.is all!
that's not nothing to sneeze at,
Tami is the only one I know of that read what I said about not landing on my head .
I had no idea when I stuck the landing on a snowy ledge that I'd never climb ice again,
but I still don't tell any one about the ice climb that forms off Federal Road, Brookfield ,
You can see it from the Highway as you're heading to Waterbury on Rt84(Exit 7/11)
above the Lazy Boy Recliner Store parking lot,Across from Stew Lenards , almost
See all those Condos ? they have big parking lots, as well
(Easy top down, ho please)
the top catches a breeze I'd hoped it would stay freezed.
Not that time , and @3 am .... Like I said I stuck that landing .... And the judge gave me a 10