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Wagon Wheel Festivities
The gang gathers to crank some problems, have a few drinks, play some music, throw some grub on the grill, and generally celebrate life with boulders.
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Movie: The Last Picture Show
This is the real stuff. It was controversial when released in ’71, and it’s still provocative. The minimalist setting of small town Texas in 1952 boils the coming-of-age theme down to the bone. Great period soundtrack too, even if I’m not a big country fan.
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Movie: Lilo and Stitch
Staying with Ann’s mom in Redlands, we decide to watch a Disney movie on TV instead of renting something. Oops.
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Don’t take a ride in Raleigh
Cyclists across the nation have reacted with furor to reports, widely disseminated on the Internet, that a Raleigh, NC radio station (G105) owned by Clear Channel Communications recently advocated violence against cyclists, including suggestions of how to run cyclists off the road. On two morning shows last week, the disc jockeys encouraged listeners to call…
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jobless again!
Even though I’m married now, I’m in a better position than I was last time I faced unemployment, so we’re not likely to face homelessness in the near future. Still, the project I was working on was slated for another year, and its cancellation is a bit awkward. Most likely I will be at work…
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Movie: High Noon
A man chooses Fight over Flight, against the wishes of his new wife. When no one will stand up for him, his wife sacrifices her beliefs to save him. Kind a bummer theme, but done with great attention to detail and deft storytelling.
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Bachelor Party, Las Vegas
This sort of event resists documentation. There was a bachelor party. It was in Vegas. The imagination can probably take care of the rest. Ann picks me up on the strip in the morning, poorer but otherwise in pretty good shape.
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Black Corridor, Red Rocks
Today we’re looking for a few sport climbs to occupy the morning before I head into town. We look at Cannibal Crag and Riding Hood wall, but they’re sunny, so we head into the park again to Calico Basin. On the hike in we have to climb around a slimy green pool. Jezze dog can’t…
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Red Rocks
We make it to Red Rocks around 9 am, pay five bucks to get in (the first BLM fee I’ve paid), and start around the loop. We stop at all the turnouts and what routes are nearby in the guidebook. At the Sandstone Quarry there is a nice shady 5.9 route right in front Sicktion.…
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I-15 Bivy
After about three hours of driving we pull off on Halloran Springs road looking for a place to sleep. Amazingly, there’s a nice pullout there sheltered by a Tamarisk a ways off from the freeway. We sleep beneath more stars than sky, and wake up at sunrise.