Well nothing lasts forever, but it's free Link to a very old and clear foto of GD in 1967 When I posted that link the GD Wwere playing https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/crzq01/super_clear_pic_of_the_band_from_ann_arbor_1967/

@toby said in A Dog's Life Redux: @zBrown Nice. I was thinking about this thread recently and ... thinking ... not may dog lovers on RPU. The pure joy captured in that photo is priceless. Truly, man's, and woman's best friends! Someone I knew quite well, circa 1939. My father carried the photo with him his entire life.

@FritzRay said in Are You Ready for Some Football (American Style)?: I'm waiting for college ball to start. The differences between life in the US and life in Canada are the subject of endless debate, but the one thing that stood out to me when I moved to the US almost 20 years ago was... ...college sports. No shit. Most universities in Canada have sports facilities -- football fields and hockey rinks at least -- and teams to play in them. Same as in the US, right? But when the football team from whatever Canadian university plays, the stands (such as they are) will be occupied by a few parents and a few friends of the players, whereas in the US the stands (often megamillion dollar affairs) will be filled with 50 or 60 or 70 thousand rabid fans. WTF? Oh, right, there is one other major difference, although this has begun to change: When a US citizen wants to boil water, s/he fills a pot or a kettle, puts it on the stovetop, and turns on the burner. When a Canadian wants to boil water, s/he fills the kettle and turns it on.

insulated the rear doors and paneled them today. also started a bit of electrical work and a new air filter.

Like the pics. Kinda capture the moment. TFPU!

@The-Gnome Have mercy! I knew I should have included "Climbing" into the thread title. Thought is sounded better short and sweet though. Can we please limit this one to craggin'? Maybe a good time to start an "Audiophile" thread? I almost did a time or two but was not sure many were into it.

love mushrooms. Got caught in a thunder and hail storm in the black hills of SD last summer and ended up picking enough mushrooms on our retrete to the van for a nice dinner

@toby said in Random Photo Thread: Stellar image quality there. Are you using a cell phone or dedicated SLR digital camera? Neither. That photo was taken 16 years ago, before I had a cell phone, and I've never owned a digital SLR. At that time I was using a Nikon Coolpix point-and-shoot as my climbing camera. Pretty much any cell phone you can buy now has higher resolution, and most probably have better lenses, but, for its time, the Coolpix was pretty good.

Found this while fumbling around the web. It's a list of plans and projects for the park. For instance, Glacier Point road may be closed thru 2021-2022. https://parkplanning.nps.gov/parkHome.cfm?parkId=347

 Yeah, there is some issue post last weekend's updates that I've yet to debug. Intermittent glitches can be challenging to replicate and hence perplexing. Been busy w/other things. I have encountered it myself with "known good" images, however, so will get it figured. Sooner or later. Apologies in the meantime.

This place is usually pretty good. took this shot last sunday. moon coming up while sun goes down.

@Scole Nice! PM sent, good to be in touch!

@FritzRay Roh, roh! Sure you weren't camping in Nevada? Maybe close to Area 51?

I favor Forecast.io for weather. They've since renamed themselves to Darksky.net but ... I prefer the forecast name and still have in my bookmarks from years back. It's a damn good weather service w/dandy mobile apps. I don't use Apple products but know a couple folks who use their iPhone app and give it good marks. Heh, I don't use an Android anymore either so cannot speak to that side but suspect it's pretty darn good as well. Okay, enough promo and onto the subject at hand: One thing that set them apart early on was the absence of b.s. ads and the presence of excellent mapping that you could select/tune for different parameters of interest, e.g. wind speed. Here's a blog post where they talk about it some. All that eye candy aside, I find them to be far more accurate than the competition, e.g. weather.com and accurateweather.com, which tend to monetize by acting as portals to click bait stuff I don't care to be bombarded with when I just want to check the weather. Also, not financially incentivized to "massage" the data so as to keep me checking back every ten minutes for updates. Toby recommended.

@toby apologies, comment was not intended as promo, more a pg warning

@The-Gnome said in Bachar celebration: To remember how my generation of climbers Were inspired by the archetype rock climber John Bachar Damn y'all fer' posting up here again... Now I am all re bummed out that I could not make this. Sigh.... maybe if had been a Saturday rather than Friday would have been a bit less challenging for those of us not living in CA, eh? Just sayin'... Less tongue in cheek, rereading this thread, the bit quoted above from Gnome's post really strikes home and rings true! I have browsed some other forums catering to the young gun crowd and been rather appalled by the lack of interest, much less respect, for those who've gone before them and upon whose shoulders they stand upon. Really miss the climbing lifestyle. But also content to not be a part of the whoring of it as "sport". Interesting to see how Mill Creek Station "grew up". Was pretty much a hole in the wall when last I was there, circa early 90's. Heh, need a "historical road trip" fer' the waxin' nostalgic tour.

@toby said in profiling a climber through the years: know when to walk away, and know when to run..." Well, yeah, that's true when possible, but walking (or running) away isn't always possible. And there are times when "fold em" means dying. Sometimes the only way is to "hold em" and play out the hand you were dealt. And if you survive, you look like Ray's friend Chris in the photo above. Or like me, in the photo below, taken after three days during which we didn't believe we had any chance of surviving, but played out the hand anyway... Blow it up and look at the total lack of expression.

Looking forward to Steve Bosque and Kevin DeWeese's co-presentation of GENERATION GAP - MENTORSHIP AND YOSEMITE VALLEY BIG-WALL CLIMBING Saturday August 24th at 6:30 PM at the Mariposa Museum and History Center. Gourmet appetizers and beverages will be served at 6 PM. Come a bit early to get a good seat.. and to see our climbing-artifact display and timeline with historical photos and hardware on loan from Glen Denny, Ken Yager, Kenneth Boche, Don Harder and others.. hope to see you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/511687446305372/

Johnathan Nabut, "Photo Opportunity Wall" The Blue Gus Chimney, Green Pond NJ. 1982 But not the pic from '79 ?   The Gang at the base of "Green Dragon" Glacier Point Apron, Center of the Universe '86(

Ah? shoot I was & went & passed some gazz at the Reject, which called in the tye-dyed`deplorable and the Wide Sxally one with gillz almost made it missed it by )__________________(~ ~ ~That Muxtch !