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Photo Dump
Leslie Timms: Genocide (5.12a)
 Wolf Creek: New River Gorge, WV
yet, among their loud exactitudes of imprecision you'll (silently alighting) and i'll sing while at us very deafly a most stares colossal hoax of clocks and calendars -ee.cummings. What? Is that even a sentence? -Me
Eddie Avallone
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Photo Dump
Copperhead: Summersville Lake, WV
Jeremy Rhee: Eighth Day (5.13a) Rifle, Colorado
Milky Williams: Trident (5.13d) Meadow River, WV
Leslie Timms: Trojans (5.11d) Meadow River, WV
John Averette: Thirstier than a Honey Badger
Evening Hike: Beauty Mountain, New River Gorge, WV
Elissa Williams: Halloween 2011. Jane Fonda
Jason Marshall, Karissa Dunbar: Halloween 2011, White Trash
Halloween 2011
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Everyone is going to a Quarterly
Deadpoint mag did, so I guess I will too. I’ll be lucky to update this blog 4 times a year and it will likely be right after an issue goes to print. For the first time in months I sat down today, looked at my list of things to do and realized I had trickled down to the stuff on the backburner. Blogpiece.
A quick recap: After leaving Ten Sleep, I went to Rifle for the month of September. The conditions were perfect and it was a great scene. My friends J Mcnasty and his beautiful American geisha bride were there so I jumped in on their honeymoon. I had a single goal for Rifle; to climb Living in Fear (5.13d). The style in Rifle has never ‘suited me’ which is a euphemism for saying ‘I’m weak.’ The relentless dull thud of moderately difficult movement always leaves me hanging on the end of the rope with flamed forearms. I knew it would be a challenge and it was. As usual for me, it came down to the wire. I was progressing up the route literally one more move at a time and I had fallen just shy of the...
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Astroglide
I was over at Alli and Kevin’s last night watching Ulitmate Fighting Champion. Last night’s match was between the undefeated champion Anderson Silva and some Asian dude named Yushin Okami that looked like J McNasty. Silva is widely regarded as possibly the greatest fighter of all time, though I’d never heard of him. The fight starts and Silva starts doing a little dance. He bobs and weaves. He throws mock jabs and kicks, then he throws a little hip thrust. It is obvious that he is studying the reactions of his opponent and the information is being compiled in his computer-like brain-piece. A brain-piece that is faster than an I-7 processor. By the end of the first round, Silva has barely received a blow. He is at 100% capacity while his opponent hovers around 80%. With all of his information compiled, Silva is ready to destroy Okami.
Silva. Jedi Master
Having already decided that the other guy stands no chance, Silva puts on a show. He drops his arms to his sides. His opponent throws lightning quick jabs at his head and Silva dodges every one. His neck moves with the quickness of a...
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Onward
Lilah enjoying some quality time with her favorite people just before we left Wyoming.
Traveling cuts into my free time left for posting photos and I've been traveling a lot. After Kirk and Crystal showed up at Ten Sleep, we climbed a few more days and then had to split. We caravaned through Yellowstone and I took a bunch of photos of one of the most amazing places on the planet. As American's it's easy to forget how amazing our own country is. We get stuck envisioning far-off lands in the Himalayas or Australia and maybe overlook the fact that one of the world's most unique and beautiful places is so close to home.
The Western Tanager is a pretty little dude. This species was first identified by Lewis and Clark. They used to be a big deal. Maybe you've heard of them?
Nevermore! The Raven is an ugly, nasty, creature. Edgar Allen Poe used to carry one on his shoulder to pick up girls. When it died he stuffed it and put it in my Uncle Bob's restaurant...I think that's how the story goes?
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