Hope everyone has a great new year!

@David-Harris said in Mt. Si in Winter: Perfect way-sub-freezing winter day with axes and crampons Perfect way-sub-freezing winter day with axes and crampons. But do say more about the heli drop...

Shame to have this asshat Malone sullying my Alma Mater: Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation In media appearances, he often notes that he has colleagues in the government and at universities who agree with him and are privately cheering him on. I spoke with several of these people—vaccine scientists and biotech consultants, suggested by Malone himself— and that is not what they told me. The portrait they paint of Malone is of an insightful researcher who can be headstrong. They related accounts of him, pre-pandemic, getting booted from projects because he was hard to communicate with and unwilling to compromise. .... And they are taken aback by his emergence as a vaccine skeptic. One called his eagerness to appear on less-than-reputable podcasts “naive,” while another said he thought Malone’s public rhetoric had “migrated from extrapolated assertions to sensational assertions.” Stan Gromkowski, a cellular immunologist who did work on mRNA vaccines in the early 1990s and views Malone as an underappreciated pioneer, put it this way: “He’s fucking up his chances for a Nobel Prize.”

Imelda May and Jeff Beck Please Nice camera work on Jeff's technique https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQ8ddUDULE

So sorry to hear this... My sincere condolences.

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Looks like Treasure Valley Idaho is in for atypically cold winter weather for New Years: Been a while since we've seen sub-zero cold.

@toby I had to have a cone put on my ex-wive’s chow,(Bamboozle), when he was a puppy after the veterinarian did eye surgery on him. Poor dog couldn’t manage the steps into the house because the cone would impede his leap up. Toby looks like he is resting well. I hope he gets well soon!

A good friend of mine from the bluegrass and climbing world was pretty close to being in the thick of it all, but came out (along with his wife) unscathed. Scary stuff, man.

zBrown... just saw this... i did read that artice, about the family, thank you for sharing about all these situations...

tobia!! this is wonderful... i love the turkeys... we even seen them around here... often, in some areas... but wow-- YOURS are great, here!!

hey there, say and happy good eve... please, if you have moved... please let me know... hugs to all, and to all a sweet good night... will check back, tomorrow... i SURE miss you all... hugs and prayers for you and families!!!

hey there, say all... i am finally able to get back, ... i have been working on my yard, spanish, ASL and, helping elders... i think i mentioned that these local elders have died? then, i had to catch up on my house and yard, and things that i did not get to do often... now that winter is near, i hope to finally come read all the post and fun shares, here... happy FAMILY TIME to that are having thanksgiving meal... my kids are in south texas, and mom, chappy and all, are in calif... local grandkids, here, are out in the world... so-- it is ME and pets... but, i get facechats... will past some pics, later... YOU ARE STILL and always will be, my DEAR SUPERTOPO family... as if we were still there, posting... you are NEVER forgotten... i hope and pray you are all well!!!! love, with all my heart, neebee....

Orwell was truly visionary. Not too disappointed with my spot in history. I got to do stuff that people can only dream of today. I'm not so sure that future generations will enjoy a more healthy environment both physically or culturally. I am now the toker villain that hasn't taken a toke in near a year. Even longer since I last climbed. Were it not for my ranch and my library I'd be at risk of being bored to death. Have white Americans lived in a safety bubble for the last 60-70 years? Not this guy, but I suppose that it was possible for some. As we go from pandemic to endemic I become more terrified at the blithe indifference people here in southern Utah exhibit. Interesting times? Well its been an unexpectedly wild ride for me.

Cool looking rig I saw the other night while buying this....

weekend warriors.. We spent most of the summer working on another slab climb. 3 pitches. some kind of 10. finally finished it in september.. we spent so much time slabbing including one day when we climbed all three of our climbs there for about 900ft of low angle thinness that we forgot how to climb real rocks.. Black Mountain felt really Steep last week

@zBrown You asked for it, you got it... Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate committee Meh.. puppy fluff and only beginning to scratch the surface. Some sick 'chit in the link that follows... Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Censorship Guidelines for Moderators - WARNING! Are we having fun yet? Once again, interested parties do not have to look to long, nor hard cuz the FB shit train just keeps on coming...

Home made blueberry pie. Oh my!

If anyone wants to augment their vintage gear collection, I will be in Yosemite Valley early October with a large collection of 1960's and 70's iron. I am selling bout half of my substantial pin rack.