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Flip Flop
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Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 27, 2016 - 07:47am PT
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I'm spillin the beans.
Here's the story.
Forevermore
There is an old goat who fishes the Owens.
He was a longtime LADWP employee and a few months from retirement.
He, knowing the Fisheries Act,
And the peak flows,
And the power of a vacuum,
Made one brilliant mistake.
"Did I open the petcock?" He chuckled.
Did you see the pipe collapsed?
It was beautiful.
And the river was restored for the first time in 50 odd years.
Forevermore .
There is an old goat who fishes the Owens.
-Nobody
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2016 - 07:54am PT
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Glad you can appreciate it.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 27, 2016 - 07:55am PT
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Ah yes,
and on there other side of the plant USA,
a tow truck driver got very good at the Gravity play,
His name makes it into one of the annuls of the FAs in the 80s in the ditch.
He got so good that it was no thing at all to climb with a trailer hitch,
well no but a car jack was often in tow, in the rain most always though.
So for those who wonder when and how that monster block
or sets of blocks, came to nest in a heap at the bottom of the Trapps,?
it was a M&M who done it.
thanx for that ,
the thing goes at about 5.9 old school don't cha' know.(it is a .10 in the book)
Then there was my good friend (RiP though) who also climbed with tools a lot
And started up the Sheild Solo
then joined with some one, (Scott Burke?) to finish ,
then nearly perish coming down the slabs on the East ledges.
He sent the dead and dying trees from ledges.
The most famous one from the top of 'Modern Times', got stuck, as it was still alive but its pinched off roots were caput.
So any way, this, still live, Famous belay, got stuck a stayed in the way of the 1st pitch, of arguably the most famous , climb anywhere;.
'Lobes' ( I miss ya' UHLE!) then recruited whom ever he could to go and cut that tree free.
a Mess,
but some may remember, a tree, The Modern Times Tree, stuck above the ground
35 feet up 'High Exposure'.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Apr 27, 2016 - 07:55am PT
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Fish your river, find your mind
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2016 - 08:39am PT
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Dammit Gnome,
Why you gotta confuse the subject with unrelated stuff. Stream o' consciousness over at the flames, buddy. It's hard enough to follow good threads without the wall o confusion. Love you bro but cmon bud.
( hard to equate some east coast shenanigans to the freeing of a great river by a true activist)
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 27, 2016 - 09:12am PT
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And on the second day... The Trout returned.
and all was right with the world.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Apr 27, 2016 - 09:21am PT
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I love the Upper Owens on a lonely day and hiking into the Gorge to have it alone....whether fish are biting or just letting me enjoy the beauty!
Peace
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L
climber
Livin' the Dream...just not sure where
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:02pm PT
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"Happily he looked into the flowing river.
Never had a river attracted him as much as this one.
Never had he found the voice and appearance of flowing water so beautiful.
It seemed to him as if the river had something special to tell him,
something which he did not know,
something which still awaited him.
Siddhartha had wanted to drown himself in this river;
the old, tired, despairing Siddhartha was today drowned in it.
The new Siddhartha felt a deep love for this flowing water
and decided that he would not leave it again so quickly."
Siddhartha ~ by Hermann Hesse
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:18pm PT
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And our acupuncturist, Dr. Chang, did the footwork to collect the signatures to keep it open.
Just sayin'.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:39pm PT
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One of the very best days
That three farcickers could have
Was in a couple of canoes
In the company of a case of brews
And NO GODDAM FISH
The Owens hid its trout
We just did without
Bardini'd already been there
And the Rev and I didn't really care
He moreso than I
As the banks slid by
Very very sloughly
Out in the open
Out of the gorge
Out of the water
Out of beer
We bought some more
Our course to steer
To Al's place again
So very near to the take-out
But Saint TM did not appear
As he'd done the night before
To bless our voyage
Time, and
The river Owens runs backwards through it
"Antique bliss without a paddle"
MFM
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:39pm PT
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And your acupuncturists is on probation from the state of CA for...um...inappropriate conduct with women...just saying...
Yeah, we know - he told Maidy before her initial treatment...
But he is a hero to fishermen and trout-kind!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 30, 2016 - 06:41pm PT
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Dr. Changabang?
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2016 - 06:50pm PT
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"Acupuncture with Full Stress Relief"was my second choice for the title of this thread.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Apr 30, 2016 - 07:34pm PT
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Is that you Changabang..?
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Apr 30, 2016 - 08:26pm PT
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I like the Old Goat and I like the Doctor...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 30, 2016 - 08:49pm PT
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Yer killin' me with that Millisism, Johnny.
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Dan McDevitt
Trad climber
yosemite
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Apr 30, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
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thanks old goat and flip flop for the info
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Apr 30, 2016 - 09:01pm PT
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( hard to equate some east coast shenanigans to the freeing of a great river by a true activist)
Did I miss something? Did somebody blow O'shaughnesey and free Hetch Hetchy?
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2016 - 10:20pm PT
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Just a warm up on the Owen's River Mega Straw.
I remember the very very dry ORG.
You're Welcome Dan. And thank you for all that you've done for us.
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