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Albion
Trad climber
Bristol, UK
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Aug 20, 2014 - 03:08pm PT
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Nice old skool Duke.
Airplane proceeds?
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Meme Guy
Boulder climber
NC
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Aug 25, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
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This is f*#king stupid
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rand0M aXiS
Trad climber
Beserkeley now living in Daygo
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Aug 25, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
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blah blah blah
yada yada yada
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Aug 25, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 25, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
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I remember back in 1965 when I got my Ducati how vibrant and exciting this thread was.
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Meme Guy
Boulder climber
NC
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Sep 15, 2014 - 06:06pm PT
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Come on and upload it PDF style
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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..................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............??????????????
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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There is no spoon.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Spoonful?
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Who switched the trail signs at the Illilouette Creek junction? Classic!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Nothin' new here, but I was reminiscing on the backpack trip I did with my sister and her BF in late 70s - a circuit from mono meadows trailhead up Illiluouette drainage to Red Peak pass and return to the valley via upper Merced canyon. First morning near lower Ottoway lake I wandered away from camp, and saw a piece of an airplane wing. Descending the Merced drainage was so rad. More people should go up there.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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That Red Peak Pass loop is unbeatable for beauty and adventure for sure. One can make many trail-less variations with zero danger of getting seriously "lost," as I did at least twice, and wander untouched and unnamed valleys and lakes east of the Clark Range to utter amazement and solitude. The trail, too, is amazing, and very wild. Saw no plane wings, though.
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AE
climber
Boulder, CO
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chirp
chirp
There are now kids younger than this blog thread, pulling 5.13, who were conceived by parents who were smart enough to make love instead of reading this endless ...
whatever it is...
for Lorenzo:
pore 1 (pôr, pr)
intr.v. pored, por·ing, pores
1. To read or study carefully and attentively: pored over the classified ads in search of a new job.
2. To gaze intently; stare.
3. To meditate deeply; ponder: pored on the matter.
For everyone else who gives a crap, The new film "Valley Uprising" says all that will ever need to be said about this now amusing and colorful footnote to Yosemite lore, wherein several personalities feel free to incriminate themselves without fear, despite paranoid worries spelled out here over the years. This film was like 7 years in the making, or only two years LESS than the apocryphal tome promised here for so long.
So, so long.
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cuvvy
Sport climber
arkansas
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The book is always better than the movie.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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To wit:
Mutiny on the Bounty. (times at least two - though Charles Laughton was spectacular)
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Sorry Ric, but as they point out in the trailer, Mutiny on the Bounty was made in two years.
Left to the reader, how long to write the book? The trilogy?
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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"The book is always better than the movie."
Yeah, but the book usually comes before the movie.
..................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............??????????????
and those lakes in the clark range are easy fishin' - lotsa trout
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 13, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
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If licky takes any longer we'll start dying off, and if he waits long enough to publish there will be none of us left to correct his bullshyt account of the plane. So there's a method to his madness, but I doubt he's really figured it all out. He's just slow 'cause he's in over his head, and drowning in difficulties. Writing is hard; editing (your own work) is harder still, and he's a rookie - well a publishing rookie at least. If he's really been writing this thing 8 years then he's experienced, albeit not professionally. Licky's extremely competent at not getting the job done.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 13, 2014 - 06:22pm PT
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Sidmo
Are sure that you did not just hit the nail on the head
Wait out a few more years and the market for the story will have changed
Jimmy Buffett found this out the hard way too of coures that did not change his
Trajectory just published after the players were not able to voice any alternate versions
(David Crosby was in jail and sick so had enough on his plate and Lowell George was gone)
I am trying to find the name of the book or the story from the book,
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 22, 2014 - 01:05pm PT
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The lack of any sense of urgency to publish on Licky's part as always made me wonder about his motives, or lack thereof. If he wanted to write the book it would've been written by now. So what is it he's up to? Posing as a writer? No glory there. Playing detective? No charges would still be viable today, and no rewards are forthcoming. Justice for his buddy? She is nowhere to be seen on this thread and may or may not exist except in Licky's mind. Which leads to the most disturbing possibility: is Licky just deranged? Who knows, and better yet, who cares? As for a book about the plane, I'm not writing one, contrary to one of Licky's paranoid delusions, so if you want to read it, write it yourself.
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Carson City, NV
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Oct 22, 2014 - 01:17pm PT
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So, I just finished a book that uses this story! Fictionalized, but the incident is there. Too funny. And it made me think, how many climbers at the time were worried about cartel repercussions? Like, who owned all that weed and did they want it back?
High Country, by Nevada Barr
There is a great story here, but the direction the OP Licky said he wanted to take it? Not the best story by a long shot.
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