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erisspirit
May 22, 2012, 11:03 AM
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donald949 wrote: erisspirit wrote: donald949 wrote: Ugh... things looking down for the weekend. The young kid that was veeeerrrrryyyy interested in hitting the climbing over the long weekend, is now otherwise obliged. most of my other partners are have other things planned. The one that was not very interested, has upgraded to mildly interested. Although he's nursing a forearm strain. Boooooo! I think I am ending up backpacking this weekend Esprit, when you've camped in the Idylwild area, how crowded were the campgrounds? I was checking the FS web page the other day, and it looks like half their campgrounds are closed. Then their "primative/dispersed" camping is limited to certain areas. That plus this being Memorial day weekend, I'm guesing that its going to be packed up there. Was hoping to take my one bud up to some easy trad on Suicide.
I've always camped at Black Mountain, which I heard is closed this season (super lame) I never had trouble getting a spot in that area... last memorial day we stayed in a free no amenity group campground up there... I know there are a bunch of other campgrounds, but sadly I haven't used any of them yet
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sungam
May 22, 2012, 11:36 AM
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donald949 wrote: donald949 wrote: Ugh... things looking down for the weekend. The young kid that was veeeerrrrryyyy interested in hitting the climbing over the long weekend, is now otherwise obliged. most of my other partners are have other things planned. The one that was not very interested, has upgraded to mildly interested. Although he's nursing a forearm strain. Don prays for good outcome....
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SylviaSmile
May 22, 2012, 3:38 PM
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Ugh. The butthurt on that thread has reached crisis proportions. Just the incentive I need to get out of here and go work out . . .
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 3:54 PM
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notapplicable wrote: Forgot to mention before that I tried to assassinate myself this weekend. While cleaning draws from the last route of the day, I loosed a shower of acorn to golfball sized rocks on to my belayer. Thankfully she was fleet footed and avoided being hit, while maintaining the belay.
I keep trying to be creative, but nothing seems to work.
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 4:06 PM
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Climbing trip on wednesday for a week. Should be hilarious. I am going with the crazy polish dude who took a slide on the snowslope and almost ended himself. This is the same guy from the story a while back who took repeated 20foot inverting whippers into a slab. Having Epic'ed easy winter climbing and sport climbing, I'm taking him on his first trad climbing trip. I intend to scare the shit out of him (if that is even possible) ^.^ I'm thinking you're going to need to keep the camera rolling all day. where are you taking him? First day is likely going to be gorge crag (aka station B buttress) in glen leven. Small but close to the house. It's over a river so you gotta traverse in and have a hanging belay. The topout is a narsty wall of 2-3 foot thick moss. Grab a handfull and pull. Oh, and hope. Next day I am thinking of taking him to the east face of Aonoch Dubh: It's the left facing cliff here:  Nice and easy angled, great rock with good friction. prolly going to Spider, a VS, to start. VS is like I think 5.7 or something. We'll see whathappens from there. As you can see from the pic it has a fair approach, and I'll be doing breakfast shift each morning so dunno how much time we'll have to do routes. Spider:  Then we might do the Aonach Eagach ridge. I've done this a few times, a great 4th class scramble along the top of an airy feeling ridge. Good times.  So that's our plans at this point. There is to be some very cold DWS and river swimming/salmoneering as well as some jumping from bridges and such. should be good.
all of it looks familiar, but aye, they ALL look familiar ta mai.
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 4:08 PM
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sungam wrote: erisspirit wrote: I just bought bedroom furniture like a real adult. I'm not sure I'm ready for such adult decisions!  It suddenly dawned on me that I am an adult when I got some vouchers and instead of buying 20 quids worth of ice cream I am using it to afford a new vacuum cleaner.
Aye, that'd be you growin' up there laddie.
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 4:08 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: erisspirit wrote: I just bought bedroom furniture like a real adult. I'm not sure I'm ready for such adult decisions! It suddenly dawned on me that I am an adult when I got some vouchers and instead of buying 20 quids worth of ice cream I am using it to afford a new vacuum cleaner. Aye, that'd be you growin' up there laddie.
now go an' fetch me a beer will ya.
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 4:10 PM
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sungam wrote: notapplicable wrote: Forgot to mention before that I tried to assassinate myself this weekend. While cleaning draws from the last route of the day, I loosed a shower of acorn to golfball sized rocks on to my belayer. Thankfully she was fleet footed and avoided being hit, while maintaining the belay. Not. Cool.
wait, what?
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erisspirit
May 22, 2012, 4:33 PM
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SylviaSmile wrote: Ugh. The butthurt on that thread has reached crisis proportions. Just the incentive I need to get out of here and go work out . . .
wow much butthutz indeed...
I'm about to start workout # 2... whats on your list for the evening?
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erisspirit
May 22, 2012, 4:34 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: erisspirit wrote: I just bought bedroom furniture like a real adult. I'm not sure I'm ready for such adult decisions! It suddenly dawned on me that I am an adult when I got some vouchers and instead of buying 20 quids worth of ice cream I am using it to afford a new vacuum cleaner. Aye, that'd be you growin' up there laddie. now go an' fetch me a beer will ya.
beer sounds better than working out right now
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 6:03 PM
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erisspirit wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: Ugh. The butthurt on that thread has reached crisis proportions. Just the incentive I need to get out of here and go work out . . . wow much butthutz indeed... I'm about to start workout # 2... whats on your list for the evening?
painting
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 6:05 PM
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erisspirit wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: erisspirit wrote: I just bought bedroom furniture like a real adult. I'm not sure I'm ready for such adult decisions! It suddenly dawned on me that I am an adult when I got some vouchers and instead of buying 20 quids worth of ice cream I am using it to afford a new vacuum cleaner. Aye, that'd be you growin' up there laddie. now go an' fetch me a beer will ya. beer sounds better than working out right now
Not for me now it doesn't. Beer here in the summer is a necessity, but during the winter, it simply has little appeal.
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Kartessa
May 22, 2012, 6:36 PM
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I managed to convince my sister to run with me tonite
I'm trying to keep a log and between running and hiking (with shit tons of shit in my pack) I've covered 24km in the last week
Toss in 1 session of gym climbing and one abortion of a day on the rock.
*proud moment*
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 6:50 PM
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erisspirit wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: SylviaSmile wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: ^^ that was meant for the lady ... [image]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQNQF3WQSbuenzf3my0vwO7KvoXQVtfQ0RWKYIeRw5DIfBH0P-jSg[/image] This is great! There needs to be more swing dancing here. Argh, the conundrum that I can't get the image to show without editing, which is weak, so I have to make a whole new post . . . oh well. This thread is getting better And i didn't think it could! I'm sure it will start going back downhill soon
Thats what we do here
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 6:54 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: first painting of a lighthouse using only primaries (and a touch of ivory black and zinc and titanium white) didn't go so well. different approach to painting the same thing using only secodaries now. fingers are crossed. Man, the underpainting is actually decent, and I seriously thought about leaving it as-is, but I wanted to go through with the next phases. The finished product is rather embarrassing. Not enough love.
I really like - Church in La Serena Painting (oil on canvas) (2012)
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 6:57 PM
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sungam wrote: notapplicable wrote: Had a great day of multi-pitch gear wankery on saturday and then a great day of sport wankery on sunday. I feel like everybody really stepped up to the plate and pushed beyond their comfort zone. I always love to see that. Sylvia came out sunday and brought one of her regular gym partners, who hadn't done any leading outside in a long time. Both of them were crushing pretty hard and kept coming back for more. I was impressed. Sounds like Sylvia is a pretty cool cat.
Yes, she is indeed pretty tolerable.
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 6:59 PM
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sungam wrote: Climbing trip on wednesday for a week. Should be hilarious. I am going with the crazy polish dude who took a slide on the snowslope and almost ended himself. This is the same guy from the story a while back who took repeated 20foot inverting whippers into a slab. Having Epic'ed easy winter climbing and sport climbing, I'm taking him on his first trad climbing trip. I intend to scare the shit out of him (if that is even possible) ^.^
This sounds fantastic. You should rent a GoPro and strap it to his helmet.
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 7:01 PM
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SylviaSmile wrote: notapplicable wrote: Had a great day of multi-pitch gear wankery on saturday and then a great day of sport wankery on sunday. I feel like everybody really stepped up to the plate and pushed beyond their comfort zone. I always love to see that. Sylvia came out sunday and brought one of her regular gym partners, who hadn't done any leading outside in a long time. Both of them were crushing pretty hard and kept coming back for more. I was impressed. Thanks for having us along! It was utterly gorgeous. Mike was also really grateful to be invited, he thanked me at least 3 times for bringing him. :)
Glad you guys had a good time. I would have liked to see him take those falls but I had to go take a few of my own. Maybe next time...
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 7:06 PM
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SylviaSmile wrote: notapplicable wrote: Forgot to mention before that I tried to assassinate myself this weekend. While cleaning draws from the last route of the day, I loosed a shower of acorn to golfball sized rocks on to my belayer. Thankfully she was fleet footed and avoided being hit, while maintaining the belay. Oh no! Who was belaying you at that point? Sounds scary.
Liz was belaying but everyone was standing around watching because we were leaving after I got down. It was fun to watch them scatter like roaches when the lights come on.
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 7:10 PM
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sungam wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: Climbing trip on wednesday for a week. Should be hilarious. I am going with the crazy polish dude who took a slide on the snowslope and almost ended himself. This is the same guy from the story a while back who took repeated 20foot inverting whippers into a slab. Having Epic'ed easy winter climbing and sport climbing, I'm taking him on his first trad climbing trip. I intend to scare the shit out of him (if that is even possible) ^.^ I'm thinking you're going to need to keep the camera rolling all day. where are you taking him? First day is likely going to be gorge crag (aka station B buttress) in glen leven. Small but close to the house. It's over a river so you gotta traverse in and have a hanging belay. The topout is a narsty wall of 2-3 foot thick moss. Grab a handfull and pull. Oh, and hope. Next day I am thinking of taking him to the east face of Aonoch Dubh: It's the left facing cliff here: [image]http://www.westcoast-mountainguides.co.uk/blog/uploaded_images/ade1-777116.jpg[/image] Nice and easy angled, great rock with good friction. prolly going to Spider, a VS, to start. VS is like I think 5.7 or something. We'll see whathappens from there. As you can see from the pic it has a fair approach, and I'll be doing breakfast shift each morning so dunno how much time we'll have to do routes. Spider: [image]http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii197/orionforumpics/Scott/climbing/GavinonSpidereastfaceofAonachDubh.jpg[/image] Then we might do the Aonach Eagach ridge. I've done this a few times, a great 4th class scramble along the top of an airy feeling ridge. Good times. [image]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fraser_d/Walks/Glencoe/aonach-eagach-ridge-finish.jpg[/image] So that's our plans at this point. There is to be some very cold DWS and river swimming/salmoneering as well as some jumping from bridges and such. should be good.
Those are some beautiful venues. I am jealous.
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notapplicable
May 22, 2012, 7:12 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: sungam wrote: notapplicable wrote: Forgot to mention before that I tried to assassinate myself this weekend. While cleaning draws from the last route of the day, I loosed a shower of acorn to golfball sized rocks on to my belayer. Thankfully she was fleet footed and avoided being hit, while maintaining the belay. Not. Cool. wait, what?
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 7:36 PM
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i think your aric tactics will work just fine.
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Gmburns2000
May 22, 2012, 7:38 PM
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notapplicable wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: first painting of a lighthouse using only primaries (and a touch of ivory black and zinc and titanium white) didn't go so well. different approach to painting the same thing using only secodaries now. fingers are crossed. Man, the underpainting is actually decent, and I seriously thought about leaving it as-is, but I wanted to go through with the next phases. The finished product is rather embarrassing. Not enough love. I really like - Church in La Serena Painting (oil on canvas) (2012)
thanks. i like it too. a testament that progression doesn't necessarily happen on a time line. the lighthouse came after.
i've just finished another version of the lighthouse that i'm satisfied with. not great, but much better than what's in that link currently. i learned a lot, that's for sure.
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