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mynameismud · « **Reply #140 on:** February 19, 2017, 08:41:29 AM »

Quote from: waldo on February 18, 2017, 07:34:50 PM

Holmgren and I went out in the rain some years back to work on a new route on Squareblock Rock. I'd read in a Brit climbing book that Brown, Whillians and the lads wore wool socks over their climbing shoes to cope with wet rock. It doesn't work.

I have heard cotton works really well.
; )

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #141 on:** February 19, 2017, 11:22:33 AM »

Quote from: mynameismud on February 19, 2017, 08:41:29 AM

I have heard cotton works really well.
; )

Shoot the tube sock

clink · « **Reply #142 on:** February 19, 2017, 02:11:41 PM »

Tube socks would go with your visor.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #143 on:** February 19, 2017, 03:08:41 PM »

Quote from: clink on February 19, 2017, 02:11:41 PM

Tube socks would go with your visor.

Two of them could also be used to improvise a nice gag

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #144 on:** February 19, 2017, 04:34:25 PM »

We made the right call today. According to the park gauge, it was sunny for about an hour earlier this morning then turned to gloom and temps only hit 50 for an hour. It looks like it sprinkled a bit after lunch.

Our trip to the beach was cool. Lots of shallow landslides along the sea cliffs and beaches littered with debris.
I am going back down to Capitola beach tomorrow to check out the cliffs.
I'll post some pics if I get any good ones.

Meanwhile they changed the forecast for next weekend slightly. Now they show a slight chance of rain Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. Next thing you know they will change Friday too - oh sorry - is that pessimistic?

Can't wait to desiccate

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #145 on:** February 21, 2017, 05:15:59 PM »

http://www.sccroadclosure.org

http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/government/departments-i-z/resource-management-agency/public-works/road-conditions-closures

San Benito county doesn't have a list that I can find.

mynameismud · « **Reply #146 on:** February 22, 2017, 09:22:03 AM »

do you have that for santa clara and san mateo counties?

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #147 on:** February 22, 2017, 10:52:29 AM »

Quote from: mynameismud on February 22, 2017, 09:22:03 AM

do you have that for santa clara and san mateo counties?

They don't seem to have it as organized/compact as Santa Cruz.
The Santa Clara page below is okay but may or may not be complete - it doesn't list as much as I expected.
There are Caltrans pages too but it's a lot of surfing.
A huge redwood fell across all 4 lanes of 17 on Monday and a bunch of locals that were stuck in the traffic busted out their chainsaws and had a party

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rda/Pages/roadclosures.aspx

http://www.511.org/

I'll probably go down to the Capitol cliffs mañana.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #148 on:** March 24, 2017, 03:24:59 PM »

It finally started raining at Pinns - the gauge tipped last hour.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #149 on:** March 24, 2017, 03:34:40 PM »

Here is a pic of a new massive soil and rockfall at Capitola beach from my field trip two weekends ago.

F4? · « **Reply #150 on:** March 24, 2017, 06:16:34 PM »

I got in 40 miles of riding between the rain.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #151 on:** March 25, 2017, 01:57:34 PM »

Quote from: mynameismud on March 24, 2017, 09:54:13 AM

We will probably be up there tomorrow but the slab will probably be wet, it seems to take a bit longer to dry out. Most likely not a really early start since tonight is patch night and I will be working late.

Quote from: JC w KC redux on March 24, 2017, 11:11:23 AM

They are calling for up to half an inch of rain overnight at Pinns.
It is not raining at Pinns yet but it is steadily coming down here on the coast.
You're all wet.

Quote from: NOAL on March 24, 2017, 12:07:50 PM

Not necessarily. Some things do not get wet or dry quickly.

Looks like you guys may have gotten lucky.
I see the rain stopped at 6:30 this morning after a quarter inch fell overnight and now the sun is blazing and it's a whopping 64 degrees.
Looks like Kat and I will take a ride down tomorrow and just do some fun easy stuff on the east side.
clink said he might be out sport climbing with yo so mighty tomorrow.

Hope you guys had a good day.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #152 on:** November 03, 2017, 07:20:00 AM »

Looks like it is time to start tracking rain again.
It sprinkled a bit the 1st morning of the PCAD but was done by the time we got there to get the event rolling.
It actually sprinkled down there a little this morning.
I will be surprised if we get another wet winter after the last 2 but California is very unpredictable when it comes to weather, traffic and earthquakes. None of these things follows any predictable pattern.

clink · « **Reply #153 on:** November 03, 2017, 02:27:14 PM »

El Meano.

mungeclimber · « **Reply #154 on:** November 03, 2017, 08:13:29 PM »

When it dumps, then Pinns season starts, until ski season starts.

Forget me knot!

F4? · « **Reply #155 on:** November 04, 2017, 09:42:29 AM »

It’s nice here in Sunnyvale.

Almost shorts weather.

I take it they closed the pass?

mungeclimber · « **Reply #156 on:** November 04, 2017, 02:02:50 PM »

nice, as in it is raining? sure. lol

yeah, closed it Thurs night at Kennedy.

JC w KC redux · « **Reply #157 on:** November 04, 2017, 05:04:42 PM »

High of 59 today and predicted 58 tamale - yeeesh - cold, mushy choss here we come

F4? · « **Reply #158 on:** November 04, 2017, 06:50:20 PM »

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nice, as in it is raining? sure. lol

Old Sherpa saying...."maybe true, maybe not, better you believe".

clink · « **Reply #159 on:** November 04, 2017, 08:34:02 PM »

Old Eskimo sayings

Summer is the season of inferior sledding.
Unless you're the lead sled dog, the view is pretty much the same.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
May you have kindness in your heart, a plump woman in your furs, and seal meat in you larder.

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