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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2015, 12:42:15 PM »
I usually go over to my folk's Sunday for football, but that's totally flexible. Wife's an RN on nightshift, so her schedule's all over the place (and needing a quiet house to sleep during the day has been a large part of what gets us out and adventuring), but she climbs too and isn't afraid of hoofing out into the bush.

Hobbes, you say?

Not to suggest that we'd turn down another one.  ;) (And yes, he was very specifically named after that Calvin.)
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2015, 12:50:06 PM »
Quote from: looks easy from here on November 24, 2015, 12:42:15 PM

(And yes, he was very specifically named after that Calvin.)


I think J.C. would agree that the day Calvin and Hobbes stopped publication was a low point of human history.

Totally photogenic? At Pinnacles? And named after that Calvin? Oh we like your boy already  ;)
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2015, 12:53:36 PM »
Quote from: looks easy from here on November 24, 2015, 12:42:15 PM

Hobbes, you say?

Not to suggest that we'd turn down another one.  ;) (And yes, he was very specifically named after that Calvin.)

Nice!  You're the second person I know who named their kid that way!

The first married a woman named Rosalyn, named his first son Calvin and his second son Hobbes :)

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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2015, 10:22:36 AM »
On Monday we managed to squeak one more rambling trip into November.


Ambient temperature was a little lower than any of the previous trips, but with no breeze and sufficient layers it was still pleasant. We found a cool little plateau overlooking the river and Neglected Valley to set up camp.


Daaawwwwww.


OH MY GOD I LOVE CHEERIOS!


Summit groupie of FA party on Dead Man Climbing Pinnacle


Dead Man Climbing Pinnacle, I Just Signed My Own Death Warrant, 2.8d (R when holding a baby [X when said baby's mom or grandma see these pics])


Last view I'll ever see. At least the sun came out for it...
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2015, 11:37:38 AM »
Nice vantage point.  We will scatter your ashes appropriately. 
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2015, 01:40:09 PM »
My spirit appreciates it. ;D
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2015, 02:58:08 PM »
You are surely dead when Mom finds out.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2015, 03:43:32 PM »
Hell, I've seen that slab. It's class two at most. You did nothing risky. As a reasonably prudent man, a model citizen (possibly the only one posting to this site), I'm your best witness. Will an affidavit do? Do you need my live testimony? (Are you still alive?)
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2015, 05:58:34 PM »
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possibly the only one posting to this site

hey! I resemble that remark!
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2015, 07:12:19 PM »
Quote from: Brad Young on December 02, 2015, 03:43:32 PM
Hell, I've seen that slab. It's class two at most.

Going up? Yes. Going down...

I'd better shut up before I dig myself into a deeper hole.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2015, 02:01:22 PM »
Well, I'm still alive, but I've been given notice that I've been moved to Santa's "naughty" list.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #31 on: December 07, 2015, 02:21:39 PM »
Quote from: looks easy from here on December 07, 2015, 02:01:22 PM
Well, I'm still alive, but I've been given notice that I've been moved to Santa's "naughty" list.

I guess that means Santa won't be getting you a bolt kit :(
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #32 on: December 07, 2015, 08:15:21 PM »
Unless I can convince Mrs. Claus that it will keep her grandson safe.  ;D
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #33 on: December 24, 2015, 10:58:54 AM »
We managed to sneak a trip in the gap between precipitation yesterday.


There's definitely a lot more water flowing than the last time we were there. Found this cool waterfall hidden in a grotto just below the turn-off up to The Hand.


Parked for a picnic with just the right combination of sun exposure and shelter from the wind to keep warm. And the grass is a lot softer than the gravel beds we usually end up on.


"Weren't there Corn Chex here just a minute ago? Oh well, I'll just eat this rock while Dad's distracted by the camera."


Gotta get that "Awwww" from the audience.  ;)
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #34 on: December 24, 2015, 11:04:34 AM »
Awwwwww. :)

Lot of water and some nice sun. tfpu
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #35 on: December 24, 2015, 12:47:58 PM »
AWWWWwwwwww
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #36 on: December 29, 2015, 10:37:19 AM »
Had a +1 for yesterday's trip. It took me a little while to adjust to adult conversation. Unfortunately I forgot my camera and had to use my phone, so these pics are a bit less crisp.


For the first time Calvin is unconvinced this is a good idea. My cousin's butt in the background.


He came around pretty quickly, in spite of it being in the low 40s and breezy. Kid's a trooper!


We made it the furthest afield we've gotten yet. My cousin on a tower only a couple hundred yards from the park's western border.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #37 on: December 29, 2015, 11:10:11 AM »
Trying to figure out where you guys were hiking yesterday.  We were there too but did not climb even though we had our rope, harness and shoes with us.  We were hiking around the Hanging Valley yesterday.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #38 on: December 29, 2015, 12:11:54 PM »
We headed west along the main creek that feeds the reservoir all the way up to the last drainage that leads to Piedras Bonitas Cliff, turned north towards Knuckle Ridge, headed basically straight east over several ridges, then cut back south down the drainage on the west side of Byzantium where we dropped back down to the main creek bed to head back to the parking lot.
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Re: Mud Addict-In-Training
« Reply #39 on: December 29, 2015, 12:49:28 PM »
Nice area.
I have been back there a few times.  One of the farmers used to ride his three wheeler back there.  We could see his tracks  : )

You can go just a bit further and have lunch on his property.  Just as funny.
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