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Title: Cooks flew the nest.
Post by: clink on July 22, 2019, 05:29:15 PM: Have a great journey and send a few updates please.

Last call they were in Nevada.
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Post by: mynameismud on July 23, 2019, 07:06:52 AM: Happy Trails
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Post by: F4? on July 23, 2019, 08:59:16 AM: Huh? Are they doing retired folk stuff? You know, driving an RV45 miles an hour, wearing plaid pants and such.

Yeah send pictures.
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Post by: clink on July 23, 2019, 12:32:41 PM: I wonder if they brought the normal bike and the unicycle?
Being vegans, they can probably grow mushrooms for dinner or snacks in a composting toliet.
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Post by: mungeclimber on July 23, 2019, 04:40:20 PM: Unicycle was brought. They made it to Utah. Stopped at Bonneville Salt Flat where the unicycle speed record was broken!

Some nice pics on bookfarce.
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Post by: F4? on July 23, 2019, 05:42:23 PM: How do you carry a unicycle on a car rack?
It’s gotta look odd. Now I am flummoxed???

Clink, best post ever!!!
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Post by: clink on July 23, 2019, 06:42:14 PM: Yep, talked to them this afternoon and found out the unicycle is in the vehicle.
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Post by: F4? on July 24, 2019, 06:05:51 PM: Good to hear Clink!

Where are they headed? Woodstock?
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Post by: F4? on July 29, 2019, 06:44:44 PM: ??
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Post by: clink on July 29, 2019, 08:56:37 PM: Red River Gorge at some point
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Post by: F4? on July 30, 2019, 05:11:08 PM: That’s not the Pinnacles?

1st Brad goes to Washington and now the Cooks back east.

The Monument is rip for the taking!
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Post by: clink on July 30, 2019, 06:39:00 PM: RIP JUAN
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Post by: F4? on July 31, 2019, 01:03:44 PM: I just read Woodstock 50 is cancelled.
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Post by: clink on August 01, 2019, 02:24:40 PM: I was hoping JC would attempt a nude freesolo of the Saint Louis Arch. I guess after stripping down at the base, he realized that he was way sweaty and aborted the plan.

Last check they were crossing the Ohio River road in slow traffic.
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Post by: Brad Young on August 01, 2019, 02:33:50 PM: Quote from: clink on August 01, 2019, 02:24:40 PM

I was hoping JC would attempt a nude freesolo of the Saint Louis Arch. I guess after stripping down at the base, he realized that he was way sweaty and aborted the plan.

Last check they were crossing the Ohio River road in slow traffic.

Hold it, hold it!

Did I hear the plan wrong?

I thought they were heading clear out to New York so that John could repeat the famous nude ascent of Shockly's Ceiling at the Gunks?! Come to think of it there is a very strong resemblance between J. C. and this supposed "Dick Williams" character who's in the famous photo....
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Post by: F4? on August 01, 2019, 04:54:31 PM: ;D ;D
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Post by: waldo on August 04, 2019, 06:26:52 PM: They bought whiskey in Kentucky today, but not enough for Clink and me.
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Post by: F4? on August 04, 2019, 08:52:40 PM: Tragic!
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Post by: mynameismud on August 06, 2019, 07:22:03 AM: What?!!!!!!
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Post by: clink on August 06, 2019, 12:01:52 PM: Return of the King and Queen of Kentucky, it's like Tolkien but scarier!
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Post by: Brad Young on August 07, 2019, 12:58:46 PM: They're in Indiana today and continuing to have fun.

And while in Indiana they saw this building, and wondered if a certain member of this forum has a secret, second life:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48483124541_ba5091b315_c.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48483124746_00a704d540_c.jpg)

Anyone who's 29 years old, climbs hard, surfs a ton, lives in the People's Republic of Santa Cruz, and married intelligently and well want to fess up to anything?
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Post by: briham89 on August 07, 2019, 01:00:09 PM: LOL

Quote
Anyone who's 29 years old, climbs hard, surfs a ton, lives in the People's Republic of Santa Cruz, and married intelligently and well want to fess up to anything?

I think everything listed here disqualifies me from being a bible thumper
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Post by: Brad Young on August 07, 2019, 01:01:14 PM: ^^^

But you soooo belong in Indiana! You'd love it there.
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Post by: briham89 on August 07, 2019, 01:04:40 PM: Outlook not good
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Post by: Brad Young on August 07, 2019, 01:14:53 PM: But it was in Liberty, Indiana.

Have you ever seen corn-field surfing? It's gotta be a thing!
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Post by: briham89 on August 07, 2019, 02:38:09 PM: ACTUALLY wait a minute....did you see the church schedule??? If I can get away with working only Wednesday night and Sunday I'M IN!!!!!
I'll get someone to cover the Wednesday night bible study for me, and then I'm only working Sunday. I can stay on the west coast and commute each
Sunday in my private "Bible believers" jet.
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Post by: F4? on August 07, 2019, 03:23:47 PM: Church of beer!!!

Beer is never drank warm.
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Post by: clink on August 22, 2019, 06:10:02 AM: I think they miss us :)
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Post by: waldo on August 22, 2019, 04:27:15 PM: I wonder if they took my advice and stayed off the Nose - Washington's
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Post by: clink on August 23, 2019, 09:38:19 PM: A bird in the hand is better than too much humidity.
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Post by: F4? on August 24, 2019, 04:38:42 PM: Clink, what’s that smell?
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Post by: clink on August 24, 2019, 08:12:51 PM: I wish I knew, but on the other hand...
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Post by: clink on August 25, 2019, 08:12:03 AM: BTW, JC is not allowed to post on M&C until he has touched Pinns rock. He is allowed to suffer in silence :)
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Post by: F4? on August 25, 2019, 11:22:54 AM: Quote
I wish I knew, but on the other hand...

So they are back?
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Post by: clink on August 25, 2019, 01:19:53 PM: They may have had Beany help them digitally fake the whole trip and had some alone time at home.
In that case, they never left.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 25, 2019, 04:31:05 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 25, 2019, 11:22:54 AM
So they are back?

Quote from: clink on August 25, 2019, 01:19:53 PM
They may have had Beany help them digitally fake the whole trip and had some alone time at home.
In that case, they never left.

Burp.
Sniffle.
I like carrots.
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Post by: F4? on August 25, 2019, 05:53:11 PM: Smells, I mean sounds like they are back.
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Post by: beanolar on August 26, 2019, 07:43:15 AM: All the pix are totally photoshopped.
I wonder if JC will come back with an epic stache, and ride the dirtbike again.
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Post by: beanolar on August 26, 2019, 07:43:52 AM: Quote from: F4? on August 25, 2019, 05:53:11 PM
Smells, I mean sounds like they are back.

Vegans do have a distinctive smell.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 26, 2019, 12:06:46 PM: Quote from: beanolar on August 26, 2019, 07:43:52 AM
Vegans do have a distinctive smell.

So do pigs, cows, kids and moms :yesnod: :lol: :out: :ciappa: :arf:
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 26, 2019, 01:50:57 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on August 26, 2019, 12:06:46 PM
So do pigs, cows, kids and moms :yesnod: :lol: :out: :ciappa: :arf:

I forgot chickens (includes frozen ones) and sheep. We stayed at one winery in Kansas that had about 30 sheep with a miniature burro as overseer. The sheep noises are creepy. They sound like people trapped in he!! :madmax: :yikes:
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Post by: F4? on August 26, 2019, 04:04:49 PM: Winery in Kansas??
Makes no sense.
???
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Post by: Brad Young on August 26, 2019, 05:41:16 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 26, 2019, 04:04:49 PM

Winery in Kansas??
Makes no sense.
???

Of course it makes sense They're a red state.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 26, 2019, 08:28:28 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 26, 2019, 04:04:49 PM
Winery in Kansas??
Makes no sense.
???

Makes perfect sense.

The whole damn state is limestone.
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Post by: F4? on August 27, 2019, 08:28:31 AM: Who would have thunk.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 27, 2019, 01:10:17 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 27, 2019, 08:28:31 AM
Who would have thunk.

Kansas is the "We try too hard state".
They have oodles of scenic byways that are far from scenic.
Maybe the wine is to help obfuscate the obvious.
The soils are right but the climate is a bit iffy for grapes - to say the least.
We checked out Castle Rock - a chalk tower that gives new meaning to mud n crud.
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Post by: Brad Young on August 27, 2019, 01:12:24 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on August 27, 2019, 01:10:17 PM

...obfuscate the obvious.

I feel like we need to make a route name or some such from this phrase.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 27, 2019, 03:30:48 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on August 27, 2019, 01:10:17 PM
We checked out Castle Rock - a chalk tower that gives new meaning to mud n crud.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48633001091_16ae82687f_z.jpg)
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Post by: F4? on August 27, 2019, 05:16:49 PM: You are going to make Mungie all wet.....
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 27, 2019, 07:46:48 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 27, 2019, 05:16:49 PM
You are going to make Mungie all wet.....

I didn't give him a chance to say "Invalid without pictures". Sadly (or luckily), there was no climbing allowed and it's on private property with loooong open distances (nice place to sight in the scope on your deer rifle) with no one else around. :devildevil:
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Post by: mungeclimber on August 27, 2019, 09:30:59 PM: Some just want to take all the fun out of choss.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 29, 2019, 01:25:27 PM: This one is for clink

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Post by: clink on August 29, 2019, 06:26:14 PM: That's crazy. Paul Bunyan's hammer?
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 29, 2019, 08:01:16 PM: Here's Kat posing with a couple more sculptures at Wayne Porter's park. Don't be deceived by the camera angle. The horse you see is about 60 feet long, 40 feet tall and weighs in around 40 tons. Wayne also crafted a giant Bull's head with horns that is 60 feet tall and about 25 tons. It rivals the heads at Rushmore. Wayne is one of America's true "characters"

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48644866368_216144ef5e_z.jpg)
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Post by: Brad Young on August 29, 2019, 08:11:28 PM: ^^^

Where?
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Post by: F4? on August 29, 2019, 09:08:23 PM: I speculate by the flat land and blue sky, not Pinnacles.

Kansas?
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 30, 2019, 06:42:03 AM: Quote from: Brad Young on August 29, 2019, 08:11:28 PM
^^^
Where?

Wayne Porter's sculpture park
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Post by: clink on August 30, 2019, 08:02:10 AM: None of Blue's 35 ton cowpies in site though.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 30, 2019, 12:23:36 PM: Quote from: clink on August 30, 2019, 08:02:10 AM
None of Blue's 35 ton cowpies in site though.

Moose pie was as close as we came and that was weeks before and far far away.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 30, 2019, 12:44:19 PM: Quote from: Brad Young on August 29, 2019, 08:11:28 PM
^^^
Where?

Quote from: JC w KC redux on August 30, 2019, 06:42:03 AM
Wayne Porter's sculpture park

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48649171468_88aee94bfc_z.jpg)
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 30, 2019, 01:45:20 PM: Not crud but possibly one of the best climbs at Rushmore - 2nd Hand Rose Arete

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48649931442_7eb48377bf_z.jpg)
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Post by: mungeclimber on August 31, 2019, 09:40:42 AM: Lobe them Rushmore climbs!
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Post by: JC w KC redux on August 31, 2019, 01:50:21 PM: Quote from: mungeclimber on August 31, 2019, 09:40:42 AM
Lobe them Rushmore climbs!

Crazy big quartz and feldspar crystals in the rock - golfball size and bigger - knobby goodness but even more unique than that "Other" place with knob-size crystals - inappropriate talk for a Pinnacles thread but hey - I didn't start it :nonod: :ihih: :arf:
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Post by: F4? on August 31, 2019, 09:53:34 PM: Where are the unincycle pictures?
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Post by: JC w KC redux on September 01, 2019, 01:06:55 PM: Quote from: F4? on August 31, 2019, 09:53:34 PM
Where are the unincycle pictures?

Here is one from a ride I took on a challenging gravelly road on the edge of Lake Bonneville.
It was almost 100 degrees but we were desperate to get some exercise and stretch out after the drive.
We did yoga later in the shade of the truck and then stayed there waiting for the sun to go over the ridge.
The air became incredibly still after the sun went down and then the wind started whipping all night (just about the time we were getting to sleep). At least it cooled off a little. We definitely had some hotter nights back east.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48661376351_6299dd592a_z.jpg)
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Post by: clink on September 01, 2019, 07:05:29 PM: So what you are saying is that being a sweaty male riding half a bike is a turn on?
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Post by: F4? on September 01, 2019, 07:53:19 PM: Oh, I thought this trek was done in the RAV4...hence the confusion on how the Uni-C was being carried.
Nice rig.

Klink, note the air vent is open.....wise move.

That will work nice at the Pinns, but not Brad's driveway.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on September 02, 2019, 02:49:11 PM: Here's a couple more from the towpath in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The towpath is the old path adjacent to the Ohio Canal.
Handlers led beasts of burden as they pulled barges along the canal.
Super fun ride and definitely one of the highlights of the trip.
Kat ran ahead of me checking for obstacles and took pics as well as a few short videos.
Both of these pics are screen shots from the videos. Arms are out just for show.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48668079531_f69ec43e73_z.jpg)

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Post by: F4? on September 02, 2019, 06:14:58 PM: Where are fur Woodstock pictures? Clink keeps asking..
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Post by: JC w KC redux on September 02, 2019, 08:12:07 PM: Quote from: F4? on September 02, 2019, 06:14:58 PM
Where are fur Woodstock pictures? Clink keeps asking..

He only needs to go as far as Santa Cruz to get furry.
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Post by: F4? on September 03, 2019, 08:30:18 PM: Lousy IPhone!

I think there is some showing off....
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Post by: JC w KC redux on September 08, 2019, 01:38:47 PM: Quote from: F4? on September 03, 2019, 08:30:18 PM
Lousy IPhone!

I think there is some showing off....

At the end of the ride I had to make a series of really tight turns over smaller bridges with bump-ups over concrete edges and then over one last large bridge. I looked ahead at the whole things and said out loud "I can't do that!" I still have no idea how I pulled it off but I made it - squealing the whole time - now THAT video would have been priceless. It all happened too fast :yesnod: :out:
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Post by: JC w KC redux on November 04, 2021, 04:05:43 PM: New record set (2 months on the road) and not a peep.

Soledad now has a roundabout where you turn at the park onto/off Metz road.
Made for a rude awakening in heavy fog while looking for the stop sign on the way out.
Metz road is a bit wild coming in to the west side from King City.

They are building a Tesla charging station at the end of Main Street.
Ay yi yi yi.
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Post by: BAP on November 05, 2021, 08:41:39 AM: Quote
They are building a Tesla charging station at the end of Main Street.

They should hook up the charging station with the state prison/ aka Correctional Training Facility. So they can have inmates riding stationary bikes 24/7 to generate power for the charging station.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on November 05, 2021, 03:49:12 PM: ^^^
I was thinking kiddie pools by each station where people can stand to plug in.
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Post by: Brad Young on November 08, 2021, 06:00:16 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on November 04, 2021, 04:05:43 PM

Soledad now has a roundabout where you turn at the park onto/off Metz road.
Made for a rude awakening in heavy fog while looking for the stop sign on the way out.

Thanks to your warning, Vicki managed the roundabout in the van.

Since you'd warned us, we weren't surprised. We were, however surprised at the fire damage near the park boundary. In fact, I'd completely forgotten about the fire itself. I suppose we should feel lucky that it didn't burn a larger area, but what it got to it burned pretty bad.

The normal drive in to the West Side (this taken about 1/2 mile from the entrance cattle guard:

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And in sequence on the way in, all the way to the barbed wire fence that is the park boundary:

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Post by: JC w KC redux on November 20, 2021, 01:13:36 PM: The pics don't do it justice. We drove in yesterday, ran away today.
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Post by: Brad Young on November 20, 2021, 07:03:43 PM: Quote from: JC w KC redux on November 20, 2021, 01:13:36 PM

The pics don't do it justice. We drove in yesterday, ran away today.

Very true.
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Post by: JC w KC redux on November 20, 2023, 03:45:33 PM: Took a quick trip to La La Land to see our friend Dave (and his wife Lynette).

We took a hike up Beacon Hill with Dave and encountered these fine specimens doing some sort of mating ritual.

Dave was already way too close (he got the picture) and the slithering serpents seemed oblivious as they swirled and moved closer to him.
We were both going - "dude!" and his response was - "they're not predators" (maybe he was a snake charmer in a previous life)

:yikes:

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Post by: clink on November 21, 2023, 06:34:11 AM: Quote
We took a hike up Beacon Hill with Dave and encountered these fine specimens doing some sort of mating ritual.

Dave was already way too close (he got the picture) and the slithering serpents seemed oblivious as they swirled and moved closer to him.
We were both going - "dude!" and his response was - "they're not predators" (maybe he was a snake charmer in a previous life)

Makes you wonder what those snakes were in a former life.
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Post by: Brad Young on November 21, 2023, 06:59:45 AM: Dave seems to have the mentality of a Pinnacles fanatic.

Maybe he could help me get my "California coastal mountains perfect trifecta" photo?
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Post by: JC w KC redux on November 21, 2023, 09:26:36 AM: Quote from: Brad Young on November 21, 2023, 06:59:45 AM
Dave seems to have the mentality of a Pinnacles fanatic.

Maybe he could help me get my "California coastal mountains perfect trifecta" photo?

He seems to have something...

Hiking the coast will be hard to do from Wonder Lake. He's headed back after Turkey day.

The lake house/life is nice...

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