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Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jan 29, 2013 - 07:42pm PT
Who is in that picture Reilly? Looks a lot like my old friend Dave Atkinson on one of his English (well, Wessh) sea cliffs.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jan 29, 2013 - 07:54pm PT
It's Alan Pettit of Gargunnock, a wee village near Sterling.
He was your typical nameless Scot* with stacks of experience in the Alps and,
duh, Scotland. We did Slesse, the Grand Tour de Bugs, Cottonwood Cyn,
some place near Modesto, etc. Then his wife flew out and they hired a car
and drove to Death Valley, in August. Yeah, he knew it was stoopid.
So they're literally the only guests, save one, at the fancy lodge there
(it isn't open in the summer now) and having G&T's under a brolly by the
pool watching the other guest do bloody laps in the near boiling pool. After
X laps he gets out and walks up to them and in broad Scots intones,

"Well, if it isn't Alan Pettit of Garrrrgunnock!"

They'd been mates in the U of Glasgow Climbing Club and hadn't set eyes
for yonks!

Oh, yeah, the climb is some heap called Dream of White Horses. Don't let
the sun fool ya - it was nearly the middle of November! But it wasn't
pissing and we're Scots and Irish; it's all good! Yeah, the Ben hadn't
come in yet so it was off to Wales.


*As I recall his French name goes back to the load of frogs Mary brought
back from France.
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2013 - 12:34pm PT
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme







And the rhythm of the sea


allapah

climber
Feb 10, 2013 - 11:53pm PT
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Feb 13, 2013 - 01:58am PT

MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2013 - 01:24am PT
crunch

Social climber
CO
Apr 18, 2013 - 06:02pm PT
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2013 - 10:07pm PT
Thanks, crunch.

From approximately the same time (mid-70s)



Skye




South France

RyanD

climber
Squamish
Oct 14, 2013 - 11:35am PT
That's cool gf, the stone looks really neat!
L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Oct 14, 2013 - 03:44pm PT
Can't climb on it, but one never gets tired of looking at it.

MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2013 - 12:36am PT
I like the photos but is there really enough water to go all the way to Oregon, let alone Taiwan?

It was a relief to find the local sea still there but the sun was disappearing Taiwan-ward.




L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Oct 15, 2013 - 10:09am PT
Backatcha, my friend.


MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2013 - 11:15am PT
Dry as dry can be in the PNW, Bruce. Threatened by a stalk of grass, though. Good thing Ondrej and Mook were out there, too.


I'm okay with the sun going West. That happens every day. It's that damn trip South that makes the Northern parts of the Traverse tricky for old fingers this time of year.





MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2013 - 11:33pm PT
On my way in I met 3 guys on their way out.



Down by the water I noticed...




Above




Same hold




They did not have pads.




On the walk-off above the problem




Nice evening

MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2013 - 11:04am PT
He was "in the house."
Oplopanax

Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
Dec 4, 2013 - 02:31pm PT
Considering all the times I've been huffed at by sea lions there in thye summer, a great white would not be out of place.

An orca would probably make a great crashpad
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2013 - 07:47pm PT
Oh for an app that would alert me, if I had a cell phone. If there was an app. Grey whale, orca, dolphin, great white, or Chilean submarine.
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2013 - 11:04am PT
One was a local photographer/climber, one was a face that seemed familiar from photos but whose name I couldn't be sure of, and Will.
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 10:59pm PT
Otters make me happy.
MH2

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2014 - 11:55pm PT
Good, gf. We need establishing shots, too.


Whatever they are?

edit:

An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects. It is generally a long- or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.


Well. Maybe it is a little late in the thread for the establishing shot. Still a good picture of our environs, today.
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