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Brad Young

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2016, 06:25:41 AM »

Park gauge showed 91 at 3:30 and already 80 by 11:30 - in other words - too hot for "it" boys aka SOS's
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Yes too hot for those of us who are not "one trick ponies." Even those of us with cut off jean short shorts who's heads and bodies somehow don't align.

But I'm glad you two got out and had fun.

And by the way, it's "SOSs" in that context; no apostrophe.

What's it stand for anyway? I know you're dying to spout it out?

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2016, 12:51:44 PM »
is Scruz part of the BAPs regional limits?


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Re: Lounging
« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2016, 03:54:43 PM »

And by the way, it's "SOSs" in that context; no apostrophe.

What's it stand for anyway? I know you're dying to spout it out?


One trick is all that horse will do.

Sonoran Opinionated Snobs. The SOS(who really need help but don't know it) or BAPs, all the same from up and over there.
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Re: Lounging
« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2016, 05:53:43 PM »
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s Scruz part of the BAPs regional limits?
Nope.

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2016, 06:35:26 PM »
is Scruz part of the BAPs regional limits?


It depends entirely on their attitude. In the case of several Scruz posters here, yes, definitely BAPs.

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2016, 06:52:19 PM »
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Sonoran Opinionated Snobs. The SOS(who really need help but don't know it) or BAPs, all the same from up and over there.

 Isn't Twain Hart a subdivision of Sonora?

 

Yeah; just like Santa Cruz is a subdivision of San Jose.

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2016, 09:15:28 PM »
Good acronym was good for a chuckle.
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Re: Lounging
« Reply #27 on: May 14, 2016, 07:46:14 PM »
We didn't climb today, but Tricia and I definitely weren't lounging.

We spent the morning in San Rafael. Tricia was one of 49 contestants in the California State Spelling Bee. Yeah, one of 49 kids in the whole state who qualified:




While Tricia cooly spelled word after word, I got sweaty palms (if I'd been a contestant, I may have come in last - some of the words were hard!). Eventually the words got even harder (as in multi-syllable words I'd never heard of). Kid after kid misspelled enough words to be out of the contest. Finally Tricia missed a word. But by then 23 kids were out. Then 25 were out.




Finally, long, long after I would have been booted, she was out. She placed 18th out of 49. But really she placed 18th out of thousands.

Nice result, huh? It's an achievement that might make a wise person hesitant to engage her in spelling games like Bananagrams  ::)  :P

Now a normal dad might have rewarded such an accomplishment right? Good, good answer. Yeah, I did reward her. Since one way of coming home might take us past Mount Diablo, a drive-to-the-summit county high point that Tricia hadn't done, I rewarded her with a summit offer. Even though I'd bagged this summit myself before, we drove there again today (she was actually pretty thrilled to get another high point done!). And it's a weird highpoint. An observation deck was built of top of this peak back in the 1930s; they left the actual high point itself exposed, but it's exposed within a building! Weird:










The views from the observation deck were good too (it wasn't all that clear, but it wasn't bad):







And, finally, keeping her favorite geologist in mind, Tricia took these photos of the structure's actual building blocks (made from stone found there on Mount Diablo):







All in all an excellent day  ;)


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Re: Lounging
« Reply #28 on: May 14, 2016, 09:24:30 PM »
Missed you guys today. Climb tmrw?
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Re: Lounging
« Reply #29 on: May 14, 2016, 11:18:07 PM »
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Tricia was one of 49 contestants in the California State Spelling Bee. Yeah, one of 49 kids in the whole state who qualified:

 Quite an accomplishment.


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And it's a weird highpoint. An observation deck was built of top of this peak back in the 1930s; they left the actual high point itself exposed, but it's exposed within a building! Weird:

 Yes it is. Nice hike up the north side.

 
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Re: Lounging
« Reply #30 on: May 15, 2016, 05:05:24 AM »
Please tell T we are very proud of her  :thumbup: :yesnod: :lol: :guitar: :crazy: 8)

and that fossiliferous greywacke is nice too  ;D
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Re: Lounging
« Reply #31 on: May 15, 2016, 10:46:51 PM »
Wow, Awesome!  Tell her Congratulations and

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Re: Lounging
« Reply #32 on: May 16, 2016, 05:42:30 PM »

...and that fossiliferous greywacke is nice too  ;D


Sorry, I can't quite stop thinking that "fossiliferous greywacke" has to be a self description. It just, just sounds like you.

I can picture it now on a crag of honor; a route named for J.C. right next to a route named for Dennis himself: "Fossiliferous greywacke" and "Senor Bentonite."