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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 29, 2008 - 11:37pm PT
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One more
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 29, 2008 - 11:41pm PT
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Good eye...Walleye!!!
(note the Budweiser on Nancy's gear sling...)
Helga Brown accompanies.
I love these photo threads: remember the B&W one a while back?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 01:49am PT
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Euroford
Trad climber
chicago
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Nov 30, 2008 - 09:25am PT
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the Dulcinea's first sail of the season, and my ladies first sale ever. she commented that it was kind of like mountaineering... a whole lot of boredom broken up by moments of sheer terror.
so needless to say, we were -not- succesfull in outrunning this storm... at least as you can see, she busy getting properly prepared.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 30, 2008 - 10:40am PT
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at least as you can see, she busy getting properly prepared.
And clearly, a good sport.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 12:08pm PT
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I've sailed in the ocean, and climbed in a lot of circumstances, and though there are similarities, I've always thought there were tremendous differences. For the most part the challenges thrown your way are due to the interactions of the weather with the environment.
When the weather comes at you in the mountains, you try to hide from it. Hunker down, preserve resources, wait it out. You are a fugitive, escaped from the garden and trespassing in regions rough and hostile to life, where few living things succeed.
On the ocean you have to fight, a place not hostile to life, but not forgiving to life from the land. The bit of land, your surrogate, is the craft on which you rely for everything. The fight is to keep that surrogate bit of land afloat. You cannot hide as the battle requires engagement. When I have been in that battle an odd sense of oneness comes over you, a oneness of you and that craft, that boat, as you sense its strains, its hurts, and you hunt for the right course to survive.
In both realms I've felt a mastery of the situation, perhaps it is arrogance, but going into environments hostile to sustaining the life that I represent, and surviving, accomplishing my goal of a successful trespass into those realms, that sense of success rewards me... when I was younger that feeling goaded me further and further, until I saw the natural course of succumbing to the logic of success.
Moments of terror, yes, but so much more than just that.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Nov 30, 2008 - 12:50pm PT
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In both realms I've felt a mastery of the situation...
Ed: Have you ever read "Godforsaken Sea" by Derek Lundy? A book about the 1996/97 Vendee Globe race?
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TYeary
Mountain climber
Calif.
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Nov 30, 2008 - 02:40pm PT
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Clouds; I love 'em.
Tony
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 03:23pm PT
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nice all!
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10b4me
climber
the gray bands
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2008 - 04:22pm PT
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Michelle
Trad climber
El Frickin' Paso
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Nov 30, 2008 - 04:54pm PT
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sadly, no picture here. BUT I was leaving the valley one day. and had stopped at the last stop to get a good view of .5 dome and the valley. Opened the camera. DOH! out of film. it was bad. horrible I tell you because this was the most beautifull freakin' sunset I have EVER seen there I lived in the area close to 20 years. some as#@&%e, (who I suspect I know who it was) has the gall to tell me, with attitude, that theres always sunsets like this. but there aren't..
clouds over mono lake are the BEST though. wish I had my photos with me.
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Nov 30, 2008 - 05:20pm PT
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Joshua Tree Pink
Malibu Sunset
Veiled Captain
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Nov 30, 2008 - 07:28pm PT
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Mist, cousin to cloud:
Hetchy:
A day I wished for clouds:
Splitter crack leading into cloud:
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Double D
climber
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Nov 30, 2008 - 11:06pm PT
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Clouds…
I get it…
Love ‘em
Clouds are sort of like God’s paintbrush…
And a warning of things to come…
Huscaran Sur - Peru
Suncloud Rainbows
Nevada Cayesh – Peru
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Nov 30, 2008 - 11:16pm PT
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Damn Double D, those are great. I don't understand what's happening in the Huascaran photo. Is the peak haunted?
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Double D
climber
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Nov 30, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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It was for us...but that's a story for a rainy day.
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MH2
climber
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Thanks for the cloud pictures, all. They look good on the screensaver rotation. It's not so straighforward to get images from Eric Nguyen or Jorn C. Olsen, for example, but they do clouds pretty well, too.
It was a great day when I typed tornado into Google images.
Oh, yeah, clouds. Half of what we can see hasn't changed all that much since dinosaurs walked the earth. Perry Beckham told me dinosaurs still do walk the earth. He's right. I've spotted a few in this forum.
Oh, clouds.
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MH2
climber
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clouds
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MH2
climber
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evening clouds
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