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Also try "The Hedgehog" if googling Ron Jeremy doesn't get you what you're after...
Monster5 wrote:I'm guessing Ron Jeremy is a reference from before my time and I'm not very keen on googling said reference, but if I'm understanding correctly, Ron Jeremy was a fantastic mountaineer, alpinist, and rock and ice climber on par with Snobeck and Antin. Might Kramarsic's bibliography have more info on him? Perhaps Buehler's guide?
Burt Munroe? 2005? More obscure history stuff to research.
Rollie Free wrote:Mine is the constant reporting of how fast someone is in trip reports. ... My answer is, if you love doing this to the degree you want to describe to the world why do you try to get it over with as fast as possible? ... I would say the 'winners' are the dawdlers who spend more time taking in the view, smelling the pines and just overall relishing being where they are at.
You wanna know the truth? It's because we hate it. We hate pushing ourselves. We hate moving through rugged and beautiful terrain efficiently so as to experience more and more of it. We hate having to do multiple peaks with a super light pack when we could be hauling a heavy pack and truly (truly) experience a single peak. We hate being able to run up and experience a sunrise on a 14er on a Wednesday morning and still be at work by 9AM. We really don't enjoy those.
We hate that all of the "dawdlers" are obviously having far more fun and gaining more enjoyment out of their superior way of interacting with their environment. We hate that we basically have a blindfold over our eyes and leave the camera in the car so we really don't see anything. We hate that we sometimes have to wear slotted tape goggles so as not to distract ourselves in our braggadocio conquering. We hate that we don't even know who Edward Abbey author of the Monkey Wrench Gang and advocate for leave me alone anarchism is since we don't have time for books.
We hate that others don't realize our way IS better and recognize there is only one "winning" way in which one should experience nature and that way is our way.
Damn. I guess it's time to find a new hobby. There's no elitism and dong-measuring in biking, is there? Maybe I'll switch to that.
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This new SurfnTurf is like an anti-SurfNTurf from five years ago.
Well done!
Sounds like you've nailed the issue and you can move forward. A little (or lot ) in the natural and you won't let the little things get to you.
Taste before swallowing. Thats the thing.
"Quicker than I can tell it, my hands failed to hold, my feet slipped, and down I went with almost an arrow’s rapidity. An eternity of thought, of life, of death, wife, and home concentrated on my mind in those two seconds. Fortunately for me, I threw my right arm around a projecting boulder which stood above the icy plain some two or three feet." Rev. Elijah Lamb
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