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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 22, 2016 - 08:50pm PT
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expand your horizons, what do you have to lose? Damn, you might just surprise yourself. Too much reminiscing and not enough action on ST. The present trumps the past and the future is unknowable.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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May 22, 2016 - 08:55pm PT
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expand your horizons, what do you have to lose? Damn, you might just surprise yourself. Too much reminiscing and not enough action on ST. The present trumps the past and the future is unknowable.
I agree
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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May 22, 2016 - 08:59pm PT
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does this mean your becoming a sport climber, or, can i even say it, "a bait fisherman"???
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2016 - 09:02pm PT
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I've always sport climbed but nightcrawlers give me the creeps.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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May 22, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
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expand your horizons, what do you have to lose?
As it turns out, quite a bit. But it's a pleasant sentiment.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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May 22, 2016 - 09:14pm PT
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That should be safe enough. Go for it.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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May 22, 2016 - 09:17pm PT
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Susan
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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May 22, 2016 - 09:18pm PT
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I think that adjusting your sports as you age is an art. You must re-define the reasons why you enjoy the sport and set meaningful goals that still aspire for unlimited potential, while your body sets new limits.
In some ways, reaching back your roots is a sport can be an interesting step. Going back to the point where you actually decided to try to excel and setting new goals can be fulfilling.
I need to get back to Carderock, Rocks State Park, Seneca, and the Gunks soon!
Climbing with our peers is great fun as we generally went through the same development stages.
Old climbing friends are the best!
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WBraun
climber
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May 22, 2016 - 09:19pm PT
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the future is unknowable.
No it's knowable.
And everyone knows that answer .....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 22, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
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Of the two knowns it's the taxes that bother me the most.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
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Not sure bingo is safe John....it's always played in churches or VFW's, that could warp your perspective. I'm going back to the Latok 1 area after an absence of 38 years....not necessarily safe but certainly energizing!
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Lurkingtard
climber
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May 22, 2016 - 09:25pm PT
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F*#k it. Ride like the wind.
~~~
Btw. Donni, you are the man!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
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Never too late to take up baseball. Here's how.
Yeah I stole this, but bat it around anyway.
We can analyze which properties of the bat affect BBS. In physics terms, the momentum of the bat-ball system is conserved during the swing, so the sum of the initial momenta must be equal to the sum of the final momenta. Though simplifying the collision, examining the linear case will yield meaningful insights. The equation for the conservation of linear momentum of the bat-ball collision looks like
where mB is the mass of the bat, vB the velocity of the bat, mb the mass of the ball, and vb the velocity of the ball. Since the goal of the batter is to hit the ball hard, not to guide it anywhere in particular, vb final needs to be as large as possible. Assuming that the mass of the bat and ball stay the same throughout the collision, the equation can be rearranged using simple algebra to yield
To increase BBS, vb initial could be increased. Baseball players have long supported this conclusion: If the pitcher is throwing harder, the batter will hit it harder. However, this insight is not always helpful to the hitter—the only values under his control belong to the bat: vB initial and mB.
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WBraun
climber
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May 22, 2016 - 09:27pm PT
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Climbers don't do mutual funds.
They only take stock in mutual fun ......
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2016 - 09:34pm PT
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You see it, you hit it. You don't see it, it hits you....simple game, either way you're on base.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 22, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
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Good one, Werner.
When my house is done in July I'm starting a Wednesday night community ping pong get together. Got a lot of folks around keep askin' when the house will be done. Can't wait...
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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May 22, 2016 - 09:46pm PT
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The OP spoke just fine.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 22, 2016 - 10:03pm PT
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As you age, take stock, and then......
Keep pretending you are 30 as long as you can...
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Lurkingtard
climber
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May 22, 2016 - 10:05pm PT
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Werner knows
The ditch
Stupid americanzzz
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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May 22, 2016 - 10:11pm PT
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Donini! Who better than you to
Go For IT!
Best Wishes for your continuing survival!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 22, 2016 - 10:15pm PT
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^^^somehow that is a deeply disturbing image^^^
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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May 22, 2016 - 10:52pm PT
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Tried to ski real BC today for the first time. Cal Trans hosed us. But that was an impetus to explore new rock. Found some amazing stuff. Good year to get out and do it.
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ecdh
climber
the east
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May 22, 2016 - 10:56pm PT
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...expand your horizons
//totally. to do otherwise is to have lost the game.
what do you have to lose?
//more all the time, thats what makes it worth doing with intelligence rather than stupidity.
Damn, you might just surprise yourself
//only if youre brave enough. otherwise you will just repeat the comfortable events of the past and any surprise will be wasted
. Too much reminiscing and not enough action on ST.
//here here. same everywhere. often disguised as 'history'.
The present trumps the past and the future is unknowable.
only if you let it.
edits trying to get formatting right, gave up.
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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May 22, 2016 - 11:10pm PT
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Can I get a woot?
Gotta love Mr. Gill playing his curmudgeon card. Still, to borrow a phrase, I bet his idea of taking it slower would kill normal people.
WOOT!
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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May 22, 2016 - 11:24pm PT
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here here, ecdh!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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May 22, 2016 - 11:46pm PT
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Expanding your horizons while holding on to the old horizons is tricky business.
Still climbing a grade or so off my 26 year old self at 63 and only because I'm too busy doing new stuff (a tech startup) to really train.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 23, 2016 - 05:58am PT
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Once I finish stretching and yogaizing my 59d body, and finish my second cup of coffee (!) I'm headed to the boulder park, to work on crimps and tendons, informed by a lifetime of use, To know what's enough and what's too much.
Then I will lock in the hubs and head to the land of monstrous unclimbed roof cracks
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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May 23, 2016 - 06:16am PT
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For the hearing-impaired:
Think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of
Glory days, well, they'll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days
Yeah, they'll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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May 23, 2016 - 07:38am PT
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I love kids.
But I don't regret not having any.
I was able to extend my glory days well in to my 40s.
I plan on geting on some of my routes from 15 years ago this summer. See where I'm at.
Really looking forward to it!
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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May 23, 2016 - 08:28am PT
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What? Get out and do something? Back to my BITD miasma.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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May 23, 2016 - 08:33am PT
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yogaizing my 59d urology body
What are you pissed about?
This was hanging in the bay of a service station I visited last year somewhere around Bozeman. Love it!
Susan
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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May 23, 2016 - 08:36am PT
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Too much reminiscing and not enough action on ST
I am aging! So I don't have too much time to spend hanging out on ST. Since January, I've done 20 days of climbing in CA, AZ, and NV, and 30 days of travel to Italy, CT, and SC. A lot of wonderful adventure.
It would have been more climbing but my aging left shoulder flared up and I had to take 2 months off.
Just because it doesn't get sprayed about here doesn't mean it's not happening! ;-)
Hope to see you at some climbing venue some time this year, Jim!
Phyl
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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May 23, 2016 - 08:50am PT
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The present trumps the past and the future is unknowable.
At present I sit at a computer.
In the future..
Yep. Still sitting at the computer.
Action on a website? Is that possible?
Reminiscing, though...that is actually good for us senior citizens.
I am reminiscing about last Thursday, when I had ankles to lose, pride to lose, skin to lose, and the good graces of CP Rail to lose. A little pride was the only casualty but it was worth it.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2016 - 08:54am PT
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Looks stout....what's your right foot on?
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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May 23, 2016 - 09:00am PT
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That's Clean Crack at Squamish. There are small flakes for the feet.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2016 - 09:04am PT
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I've done Clean Crack....great climb!
Do you like the shirt Locker?
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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May 23, 2016 - 09:15am PT
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If anyone can capture a picture of the Donini in a woot t-shirt, I'll donate 50 bucks to the AAC.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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May 23, 2016 - 09:21am PT
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The well went out so no school today. The should be done repairing it in a couple of hours and then the bike goes on top for some single track hooky!
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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May 23, 2016 - 09:21am PT
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Get on the plane.
Get on the sharp end .
Get off the internet.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 23, 2016 - 09:55am PT
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I'd like to learn knitting
There, I fixed it for you, Moosie. ;-)
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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May 23, 2016 - 09:59am PT
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Yes Moose! Mike and I were just talking the other day and saying we both want to go out with a laundry list of things we didn't get around to doing. Keep the ole dance card filled till the end.
Although I don't want to go out before I become a grandparent. I'm convinced that will be the VERY BEST!
Susan
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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May 23, 2016 - 10:09am PT
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The time will come, my friends, when entropy has had its way and all you CAN do is reminisce. Then ST becomes a lot of fun.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2016 - 10:28am PT
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I know, I know.....damn!
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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May 23, 2016 - 10:53am PT
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" There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. "
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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May 23, 2016 - 11:41am PT
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Keep on Keeping on....
yesterday, I was able to pull my bod up and over a roof that had been kicking my ass for a while.
Made me feel GOOD....
now I need another hit.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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May 23, 2016 - 12:34pm PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 23, 2016 - 12:43pm PT
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hey there say, moose... :)
here you go! :)
you can learn bingo now, :)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
:)
keeps you young at heart... ;)
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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May 23, 2016 - 01:38pm PT
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This year marks my 50th year climbing. A few days ago I did 4 pitches of 5.10, and a little free soloing.
I felt like crap the next day. It's early in the season, but I'm hoping to get my stamina back up to perhaps go on another trip in the Fall.
Looking forward to a future trip with the Grandkids.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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May 23, 2016 - 01:39pm PT
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The false dialectic is that it is an either/or proposition. It most assuredly is not.
There is no present without a past. Not only do we stand on the shoulders of those who came before, but you can't really understand where you are, without a reference point. That reference is most often history.
You can enjoy and recount a shared past, without disclaiming a present or future.
.... Back to sitting on my butt, except when I get out of the saddle to pass. ;)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 23, 2016 - 03:30pm PT
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I've always sport climbed but nightcrawlers give me the creeps.
So donini sez.
Taking stocked fish with nightcrawlers is child's play.
This boy doesn't know a thing about purbety, but he might think back on this day with shame.
"I could've fished with flies, not worms. My karma suffered because Dad's whole family were bait fishermen."
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 23, 2016 - 03:42pm PT
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SteveA, nice.
MH2, the pic of you on Clean Crack is awesome
The Pooh post is priceless.
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TRo
climber
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May 23, 2016 - 08:04pm PT
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I'm still astonished he used the word "trump" in his query.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 23, 2016 - 08:11pm PT
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Take stock, buy and sell stock, whatever you need to do . . . just remember to be like Mr. Natural.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 23, 2016 - 08:15pm PT
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Retired old goatz. I thought it was a photoshop, but check out the tree.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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May 23, 2016 - 08:24pm PT
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Nose to the grindstone.
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jstan
climber
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May 23, 2016 - 08:57pm PT
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JD: expand your horizons, what do you have to lose?
Jim: You are no longer working for a wage. You are in the dessert phase of your life.
No point in screwing that up.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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May 23, 2016 - 09:16pm PT
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The time will come, my friends, when entropy has had its way and all you CAN do is reminisce. Then ST becomes a lot of fun
Go have fun climbing, youngsters. Then when the bell of physical collapse doth toll for thee, come have fun on ST.
;>)
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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May 24, 2016 - 01:42am PT
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having too much fun to worry about this getting old phenomena…
in the past few days:
participated in a successful swift water rescue/cliff rescue of a capsized drift boat crew in a steep canyon
spent a night working with crew fighting a forest fire
participated in swift water rescue training with SAR team
worked as litter attendant down and back up a vertical canyon cliff rescuing an injured fallen man
an evening training with wild land fire trucks and equipment
planting a garden and raising a flock of chickens
(retired)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 14, 2017 - 07:58am PT
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Appreciation bump.
The secret to donini's "aging" as it might actually be.
See, the older donini gets the more he grows on you.
Then, when you least expect it, he sucks out all your blood and flies off into the night...sated for now.
Beware, MooseJuice.
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