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Buffalo Creek – The Big Butt
Maybe the climbers who named these rocks hoped to keep the yuppies away by giving them impolite names or, more likely, got into a competition that included putting up the hardest climbs with the foulest names. The way I see it, the visions conjured up by the names here make the reality the most pleasant…
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Movie: Heaven (2002)
This must be what happens when you take an absurd Hollywood-style plot and play it down through the entire movie until the end, which you play up artistically. I liked the approach, which forced the focus onto the characters. With the extra breathing room often found in European movies, the tension comes from spaces that…
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Movie: Walk the Line (2005)
This was mostly an educational experience for me. When I saw Johnny, John, and June Carter Cash play on my birthday in 1996, I didn’t realize quite what a legacy I was witnessing. While the movie increased my appreciation of that legacy, it didn’t shed too much light on the enigma I’ve always been curious…
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Vedauwoo – Poland Hill
This morning we head to Poland Hill, intending to get schooled on some more Vedauwoo cracks. We hope to toprope Fantasia, 5.9, a “classic Vedauwoo offwidth”, but the anchor situation up top doesn’t allow for an easy toprope of this route. So we end up on: Southwest Friction, 5.6. Ann leads this out of the…
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Vedauwoo moonrise
We try a new campsite along FR 700S, further from the interstate than most. After dinner we take a hike to explore the local woods and boulders. A small elk observes our foray into his territory from across a meadow. The day ends in a glorious sunset/moonrise that bathes Vedauwoo in colors that I felt…