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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Newer posts →. July 24, 2011 · 2:33 am. And I quote: “The swim sucked giant hairy balls.”. I was enthusiastic BEFORE I hit the water. Continue reading →. July 11, 2011 · 5:52 pm. The pictures of the Gnomes didn’t turn out…. Kris: Wait, there’s no climbing? Kris: No peak bagging? Kris: We’re not bringing a rope? Lila: tent, sleeping bag, stove. no rope. Kris: That’s it, I’m going home to watch movies and drink beer. Continue reading →. Tagged as Enchanted Valley. A bit of...
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Pigmy Cliff Pterodactyls, Part II: Red Rocks Gallery | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Back to our regularly scheduled programming…. November 19, 2011 · 1:13 am. Pigmy Cliff Pterodactyls, Part II: Red Rocks Gallery. Despite the false starts and missed connections, Veteran’s day at Red Rocks was full of good times and fluorescent clothing…. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Tagged as OA friends. Back to our regularly scheduled programming…. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Middot;...
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A Gateway Mountain | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Back to our regularly scheduled programming… →. October 4, 2011 · 6:52 pm. Fast forward six years and now my weekends are my own: streamlined escapades where I have one, sometimes two partners and I can languish in my own agenda. The miles go quickly and the summits come easy. Diamond Lake glitters behind us. Coffee and a view. Kris, thinking ahead to our last obstacle, asked, How was the summit? Are there a lot of folks hanging out up there, kicking rocks down? We waved...
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Places that are not Smith Rocks | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Well on my way to becoming a crusty mountaineer…. Better Science through Running? August 25, 2011 · 2:43 am. Places that are not Smith Rocks. East face of The Matterhorn. Climbing gives you community, and so long as you try hard and give back, it’s generally a very accepting community. I‘ve come to rely on this, especially on days when I manage to drop all of my experimental samples on the floor or otherwise ruin months worth of lab work. In fact, I’ve had front row seat...
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Better Science through Running? | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Places that are not Smith Rocks. The Ugly Sister →. September 7, 2011 · 6:05 pm. Better Science through Running? Over labor day I ran my first half marathon. With my mom. And at the risk of alienating my most loyal readership, here we go The most challenging part? Not the distance, not the terrain, but getting the maternal unit to say something. I am an only child with limited extended family, so our relationship my mothers and mine – is necessarily close. I kn...The Ugl...
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Back to our regularly scheduled programming… | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Pigmy Cliff Pterodactyls, Part II: Red Rocks Gallery →. November 19, 2011 · 1:05 am. Back to our regularly scheduled programming…. Tackling Mr. Squiggles with some stripey socks. This piece of history has always struck me as out of character; most. Living in the Pacific Northwest has turned me into a bit of basalt connoisseur. We don’t have granite domes or pocketed limestone, but some 17 million years ago a generous lava flow overtook the region, cooled, fractured, ...
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The Ugly Sister | 'Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky
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039;Biners, Beakers and Blue Sky. Better Science through Running? A Gateway Mountain →. September 15, 2011 · 6:54 pm. Sisters from Terrebonne. South, Middle and North from left to right. In the same day. The North Sister is the crux of this excursion. Not the tallest but the oldest of the three, and by far the most eroded, my friend Matt is fond of saying that if a missile were shot at its base, the entire mountain would collapse into a dusty pile of debris. In spite of his description, I’ve real...Matt ...