New and Experienced Climbers over 50 #33

Elon has the golden shower video now. Thank Putin for that.

Todd Berlier wrote:

For those on here who voted for Trump: has he crossed the line yet? 

If he hasn't, then, please, I implore you, define the line now, because if you don't you may be led to a remorseful and unforgivable place.

That's all I care to convey on politics.

There is no line for the Maga cult. Project 2025, tiers of citizenship based on gender race and credit rating all part of the plan. Look to Wechat in China for beta for what's coming. Everything run through X and starlink. 

Maybe once the Salathe is bolted into a chipped sport climb because the Wilderness act has been ditched by DOGE and the park rangers have all been fired will some Maga voter on here have something to say.

If things get much worse, I’m moving back to Canada or UK and hoping they’ll join BRICS.   

Here was our little flash of winter, about 4" with four or five days of bitter cold.

but just a day or two before I took some nice pics of a friend of mine going for the onsight

on a 12d called Monster Rage

Now, snow is melting and we are in the 50's by Wednesday.

Todd Berlier wrote:

I going to continue to naively hope that it's not as bad as it seems. 

I’m with ya, man.

Todd Berlier wrote:

I going to continue to naively hope that it's not as bad as it seems. 

That's what they all said in Berlin 90 years ago.

Nice pics, Fossil!

Not much climbing news here. In other news, the cold here in the Northeast has slightly delayed the start of maple sugaring season. Valentine's Day is my normal start. Might tap my trees next weekend. 

My daughter has the week off school this week. Weds we'll head up to Killington in VT to go skiing for a few days. Looking forward to taking advantage of this nice snowy winter we're having. 

Oh, and we have vaccinated our daughter with all the normal stuff. This whole "their little bodies can't handle it" bullshit is just that. They're exposed to way more, and way nastier bugs every day at daycare and school, than the couple of sticks of inoculant they get a year.  The poor thing had a high fever for a day on Saturday, and has been hacking up a lung for the last three days, from the latest mystery crap she picked up at school. She'll be right as rain again in a day or two. I'm eternally grateful for the vaccines scientists and pharmaceutical companies have made available against the really dangerous stuff, and I'd be an idiot not to take advantage of them. 

She and my wife were too sick to join me yesterday, but I participated in a march in Boston yesterday. (My daughter did help me make my sign).  I'd estimate over a thousand participants, despite rather unpleasant weather. From what i hear it was several times the size of the last one, just a couple weeks ago. 

GO

 All you folks who actually physically protest are brave. 

My neighborhood bull big red doesn’t seem to care but a bipolar South African billionaire with a self described fondness for ketamine and a billion dollar factory in china financed in part with loans from the Chinese government  has been given access to our nations secrets and treasure.  

There is a tendency to regard those who limit their participation in responding to political, cultural or social events as being pollyanna-ish or having one's head in the sand. I think that's an overly broad assumption, and tends to result in divisions among those who share many common interests and values. Relatively silent groups, or those who choose to limit their engagement in such events commonly are often comprised of people with very strong feelings about such events, who are balancing this against all of the other complex dynamics in their lives, and simply preferring (even if this is simply wishing) for a positive outlook on life.

apogeewrote:

There is a tendency to regard those who limit their participation in responding to political, cultural or social events as being pollyanna-ish or having one's head in the sand. I think that's an overly broad assumption, and tends to result in divisions among those who share many common interests and values. Relatively silent groups, or those who choose to limit their engagement in such events commonly are often comprised of people with very strong feelings about such events, who are balancing this against all of the other complex dynamics in their lives, and simply preferring (even if this is simply wishing) for a positive outlook on life.

Both can be true despite the dissonance it creates in self image and ascribed motivation

M1 H1wrote:

Both can be true despite the dissonance it creates in self image and ascribed motivation

Like?

Wow, get busy (or lazy) and here you people are, on page 50 again!! I just skimmed about 10 pages. Sheesh.

We had the "not my president" president's day protest/rally here yesterday. I pondered going, but didn't. It did make me think about the one big one I did go to, the public lands rally, a number of years ago. Being in the state capitol, anything national thing will happen here also.

And.....

Yeah, that's on my mind this morning. 

Why can park rangers? Forest service? Others?

Such a pittance, spending wise, for protecting and managing the vast acreages of public lands, those public lands that are, gee, public.

Yeah I care about all the rest of it, but what might be the opening salvo of dismantling public lands is nearest and dearest to me. I've not yet got the courage to ask if COR has been gutted. Kim?

Hope all are recuperating from all of whatever you got going.

Helen

Oh, I do plan on not purchasing on February 28th, and yes, I think that's sorta pointless, but hey, why not, lol. I'm an outlier anyway, I pretty much suck at proper american consumerism.

First they gut the park service and forest service then they bitch about how poorly managed the public lands are. Next move is sell them.. Maga world is so fucking stoopid they don't even know that this means they have no place to hunt and fish because that land no longer belongs to us. Its owned by a Chinese mining company.  

Nick Goldsmithwrote:

First they gut the park service and forest service then they bitch about how poorly managed the public lands are. Next move is sell them.. Maga world is so fucking stoopid they don't even know that this means they have no place to hunt and fish because that land no longer belongs to us. Its owned by a Chinese mining company.  

NASCAR is going to be our national sport soon so folks won't need to go outside anymore. Races every day. God bless 

Adult recess 

apogeewrote:

 . . . those who choose to limit their engagement in such events commonly are often comprised of people with very strong feelings about such events, who are balancing this against all of the other complex dynamics in their lives, and simply preferring (even if this is simply wishing) for a positive outlook on life.

Let's see, I started by voting for JFK, then having him freeze me in the military, where I helped American B-52s fly back and forth to the borders of the Soviet Union, for an extra year because of the Berlin Wall going up, then LBJ's tendencies and misreading in the Gulf of Tonkin, resulting in 58,000 American deaths, then cheering against Wallace as he attempted to deny entrance to a black student at my university, then the threat of nuclear annihilation in the early 1960s, then the Nixon era with Watergate ("end of Democracy!"), then Carter's game with Arab oil and hostages, then Reagan and the Contras and selling missiles to Iran secretly through Israel, then the Gulf War and, later, the brilliant Iraq War which turned an enemy of Iran into its buddy, then 9/11 and the ongoing fight against ISIS in the Middle East, then our prolonging the war in Ukraine - the murder of young men on both sides - then Hamas and its attack on Israel and the war that ensued, . . ..   Forgive me if I don't rise to the bait and, at the age of 88, join the confirmation bias cliques in this nation's political morass. 

It’s gotten so serious around here!  Does anyone remember Lawnchair Larry?  He was one of my personal heroes and I just bumped into his picture today.

As I recall, one afternoon in Long Beach Larry tied some helium balloons to his Sears lawn chair, got a couple cases of beer and a radio and floated up into the sky.  It was only when he flew into LAX airspace that it became concerning. I don’t remember how they brought him down, but I remember watching on TV as he floated along the coast.  

Apparently, Larry had not anticipated all those balloons carrying him any higher than the top of his roof. An easy mistake!    

Lawn chair Larry had an air pistol that he used to shoot out one balloon at a time to gradually decend. It must have been a bit sketchy. I suspect that he had to keep it even or lose stability and balance....

Yes. Stability may have been an issue with Larry.