Historic

[clink]

  You may now legally do whatever the State of Call-ee-forn-knee-ya let's you.

 Grab your aspirations with both hands and hang on, or ten, or out, or whatever, and please remember to wash your hands.

[beanolar]

And pay your taxes till you "DIE!!!" (to quote JC)

[beanolar]

High Sierra season is upon us.
Plenty of 5.4 or 5.fun to be had way up there!

[briham89]

LOL. Post COVID I think a lot of us are reaching for that book.

[JC w KC redux]

I haven't talked to clink since he went to the retreat.
I forgot to tell him that there are no Yoga poses that are done on the knuckles.

[clink]

 I still associate "Bend over" with more negative connotations than not.

[Brad Young]

Seventeen year old Alex Dawson placed a bolt at Pinnacles on lead today. I believe this makes him the youngest person in Pinnacles climbing history to do this.

It was a very good bolt too. Very good rock, nicely placed.

[Brad Young]

In other news, Noal was kind enough to attempt a tick removal surgery with the only tool at hand (he got most of it, and thanks for the help!):

[NOAL]

Did you find some tweezers and get the rest out?

[Brad Young]

Laura looked at it a bit and couldn't see anything else. Steve skipped that step and just said that I am "screwed."

[Zay]

Omg that High Sierra "Top Ropes" pic nearly made me spit out my drink.

[rickyharline]

Seventeen year old Alex Dawson placed a bolt at Pinnacles on lead today. I believe this makes him the youngest person in Pinnacles climbing history to do this.

It was a very good bolt too. Very good rock, nicely placed.

Hell yeah! That's rad!

[Brad Young]

Not bad for field surgery with a big knife:

[NOAL]

It's amazing how fast ticks can make a hole in you.  Between the hike in and the discovery must've been less than 2 hrs?

The last one I got was in the center of my chest.  Did not discover until I got home.  It did not heal up for a long time.

Good to see your wound is not infected. 

[lasher]

It's amazing how fast ticks can make a hole in you.  Between the hike in and the discovery must've been less than 2 hrs?

The last one I got was in the center of my chest.  Did not discover until I got home.  It did not heal up for a long time.

Good to see your wound is not infected. 

Nice job on the field surgery.  Its a good thing you licked the knife clean before digging into his arm or it could have gotten infected.

[NOAL]

Thanks! Sometimes things just work out.  The week before when I found that knife in the gutter in the Tenderloin I had no idea how handy it would turn out to be.

[Brad Young]

^^^

Obviously I could climb better than either of you if I only had one arm. I'm not sure that this claim needs to be field tested though.

[NOAL]

I get it. If you have two arms Steve can climb harder than you but if we do some more surgery.....

[Brad Young]

That weak geezer is pushing hard at 60. What is it now, a day less than 13 months to the big day? He can barely walk to the base of most crags even now.

[clink]

 Noal, was there a syringe with broken needle near the knife you found? The problem with sharing needles is eventually they break and you have dig the end out with a knife.