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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #240 on: June 08, 2020, 09:15:14 PM »
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Lots of the strange local creatures out in large trucks with ATV's and guns

Ha! I remember these guys from Alabama!

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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #241 on: June 09, 2020, 04:27:19 PM »
WTF???

I’m here and sadly I had already succumbed to household projects...painting.
I was biking a lot like 150+ a week, but have to heal up from a little crash on Saturday.

Next week we are going back to the gold mining camp just like last year.
Cordless Rotohammer drill, check
(Side note I am available for hire In power drill approved areas)
Fishing poles, check
Lots of beer, check
More beer, check

I hope not to forget anything.

I like the idea of backpacking 108 to 4...I have beer requested to get my 2x out.
Lucas is a good bear deterrent.

JC, you starting your summer season at the Pinns??
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #242 on: June 09, 2020, 06:49:48 PM »
Ha! I remember these guys from Alabama!

Sometimes while I am out and about I come across bandit target practice sites.  As a kid I remember these, always a fair about of trash and spent cartridges.  When I was a kid the trash would always contain a fair bit of soda can and beer cans.  Now it is beer cans and energy drinks.  Somehow this later combo makes me a bit nervous. 
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #243 on: June 09, 2020, 07:39:32 PM »
I’m here and sadly I had already succumbed to household projects...painting.

Did some painting today too.

JC, you starting your summer season at the Pinns??

Still working up to that idea.
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #244 on: June 09, 2020, 07:41:29 PM »
Ha! I remember these guys from Alabama!

Oom boppa oom boppa oom boppa mau mau

Elvira  :blahblah: :guitar:

Alabama, Oakridge Boys...all good fun
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #245 on: June 09, 2020, 10:21:47 PM »
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Now it is beer cans and energy drinks.  Somehow this later combo makes me a bit nervous. 

Getting rowdy has reached a new level.


All those bad haircuts. Yeesh.

That song was on the radio hourly when I was kid.  In Fort Payne Alabama they took a whole grocery store and made an Alabama the band museum.

Love the comment section for that YouTube clip.  Funny stuff.

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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #246 on: June 10, 2020, 07:16:08 PM »
Yup, pretty funny.

I remember the Alabama girls in high school...
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #247 on: June 14, 2020, 07:57:16 AM »

Since the last post involved snakes, it seems appropriate that clink snuck down to Pinnacles without me yesterday - 3 months from the last time I was there (Friday, March the 13th).

He said the east side was a total zoo.
Overflow lot at the east side VC was packed - as was the campground - and there were hoards on the trails.
They are still not allowing vehicles past the VC but I heard through the grapevine that the situation is ripe to change.
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #248 on: June 20, 2020, 01:25:35 PM »

This thread can fade into obscurity until season two starts.
The Steep and Narrow opened today.
Caves are still closed.

I find some people around here have learned nothing from all this.
Some guy drove by me today after I'd just struggled to get my uni ride going and yelled at me to get off the road.
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #249 on: June 20, 2020, 04:16:04 PM »

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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #250 on: June 20, 2020, 07:17:52 PM »
Sorry, didn't realize it was you. I thought some gangbanger with covid hair had chopped a bike and was stealing half of it.
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #251 on: June 20, 2020, 07:31:32 PM »
Ain't nothin wrong with a little B.O.C.! Yeah!

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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #252 on: June 21, 2020, 08:03:22 PM »
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Some guy drove by me today after I'd just struggled to get my uni ride going and yelled at me to get off the road.
Typical Santa Cruz openess....
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #253 on: June 26, 2020, 08:22:33 AM »
Typical Santa Cruz openess....

The natives have become restless and unruly.
The Santa Cruz health officer gave up on the beach closures.
A week or two has gone by since people started ignoring the order for restricted beach access.
The county lacked enforcement personnel so they just gave up.

A car coming up from the beach yesterday cut me off at a 4-way intersection on the uni.
I had to bail off the front to avoid getting run over. They did it on purpose.

I just took a drive to check for cross over points that I can use to turn right, then u-turn at a cross over point and avoid going across all my usual intersections by always turning right. 

 
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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #254 on: June 26, 2020, 11:27:17 AM »
Yup, what did you expect, good morning, marry my daughter. They are people of the land....people of the common clave, you know morons....

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Re: Please Stay Home - The Statistics
« Reply #255 on: June 26, 2020, 05:28:23 PM »
I met new KC climbing partner Alex in the West Side parking lot a bit after four yesterday. I arrived first and was surprised to see an ambulance, an NPS enforcement truck and a CDF truck all clustered toward the south end of the lot. I approached a ranger - a very young guy - and asked what was up. He confirmed that a "heat" rescue was in progress. As we spoke, the CDF guys and the ambulance guys trooped in from the Juniper Canyon trail escorting a tall, shaky woman in her thirties. She was proceeding under her own steam but went immediately to the ambulance, climbed in and stretched out on the gurney. Alex showed up about then and we headed out to the Flumes.

It was hot. Amazingly, the wind came up and the temp dropped after we topped the little rise between Split Boulders and the Shepherd. By the time we sat down in front of Self-Selecting Substrate, the cooling breeze and shade had made that a perfect place to be. That's a fine climb, by the by. I'm giving it another star in my mental book. We also did Where the Sun Shines (it didn't!) and Big Bad West (Alex's first lead - thanks very much, Clink!) We were going to do Tilting Terrace, but two climbers were just starting it. The evening was flat beautiful - cool breeze, late light and stunning views of Machete.

I felt covid-comfortable throughout, except for an unexpected encounter on the trail on the way out. We wore masks to walk in and get suited up. We used hand sanitizer before handling the rope and stayed safely apart while completing the climbs. I stuck my mask in the pack instead of my pocket for the walk out and discovered that fact when we ran into a family walking in not far from the first bridge. C'est la vie - I hope.