After dinner, Mark and I inaugurated a new tradition, a post dinner swim in the ocean, followed by a soak in the hot tub.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Thanksgiving Tumbledown
Several years ago, John and I started a turkey day tradition. Thanksgiving dinner invariably degenerates into orgy of chow, so we figured we'd balance it with a savaged pre dinner hike. Tumbledown Mountain is accessible, steep, and offers great views, so it was the natural choice. This year, John is in Peru, but Barry and I carried on in his honor. We were joined by my cousin Mark, Elissa, Julie, Jenny, and Wayne--a very convivial group. We followed our trademark route, an unused trail blocked by a rockslide. Mark introduced us to a more technical style of belaying. Barry and Wayne provided common sense. We played on the partly frozen summit pond and pondered the view. The return journey was marred by Mark and Jenny's constant efforts to tempt the more abstemious members with snacks. They were creative, but we held out for the feast.
After dinner, Mark and I inaugurated a new tradition, a post dinner swim in the ocean, followed by a soak in the hot tub.
After dinner, Mark and I inaugurated a new tradition, a post dinner swim in the ocean, followed by a soak in the hot tub.
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nice, man
we need to go up there again sometime! the only time that route was attempted while i was there was that time we got ousted by bees! I would like to do that route, that looks like all kinds of fun!
Paul, I've got to visit you sometime up there. It looks like a nice place!
What a grand idea! Joel and I played frisbee, since we didn't have a convenient mountain handy.
I would also like to comment on your note about your isight on your Macbook! Yay for macbooks! Yay for Macs in general! We must convert Jonathan, thought I think he's going to continue to be rather hardheaded about this one ;)
those "bees" were yellow jackets. I got a couple dozen stings and could hardly managed the clutch on the drive home. I'm planning to head up Tumbledown during Christmas break. We will take the rock route.
Robby: you've got to visit Maine, although I fear you may get side tracked in Maryland...
Frisbee is a great game. much better then watching TV--which is how most of the US spends Thanksgiving.
Apple's beat PC's in every area that counts. Johonn has always been a wonderful man, but sometimes it takes him a while to see the light. I've failed, but maybe he'll give in to a girl.
im afraid you're sadly mistaken, paul...in both the first and last sentance of your last paragraph.
ps you can call me Jonathan if you want...either way is fine tho
oh wow. What gorgeous shots of one of Maine's loveliest mountains. I'm looking forward to hiking it at Christmas time!
ah, I changed my profile photo. didn't like that last one, although the marmite looked good...
how 'bout "jon"?
what do you know about computers anyway?;-)
Rollo is much more handsome then Klaus
Fair enough :) I suppose proper etiquette would have been for me to ask permission.
Would you mind if I add your blog as a link on my page? If you're terribly offended that I've done so, I will remove it ;)
Meanwhile, it looks like you had loads of fun on the mountain :) And thank you for helping me solve part of the mystery of Barry's blog.
no permission needed! no worries:-)
so what does "rmantraining" mean?
Whether or not I provided common sense is open to question. I seem to remember squeezing through a desperatly small opening after leaping over a steep, ice covered incline.
Also, what's so mysterious about my blog? Everyone is a puzzle. I firmly believe in celebrating the incomprehensibility of individuality.
your "squeeze through a desperatly small opening after leaping over a steep, ice covered incline" can't compare with my lead climb up the ice coated face--whatever you're level of common sense, it trumped mine!
Yes indeed, your argument is actually irrefutable. However, my common sense tells me that we are really only contesting our comparative herosim--something that must remain indefinable by definition.
true heros put others ahead of self. you're the hero, I'm the glory hound. your common sense alternate route provided the party with a greater measure of safety, since you could of carried me out if I'd crashed. Wayne had the good sense to wait for my rope...
As I said, you solved part of the mystery of Barry's blog. You've led me to believe that the R is for Renaissance. As to why he chose that and what his meaning is for it.... I can only speculate. My guess: Renaissance man refers to someone who has wide intellectual interests and accomplishments in arts and sciences; rmantraining is an allusion to learning and becoming "accomplished." :)
And Barry :) the mystery lies in the blue vine and until now, the title of your blog :) And I agree, people are wonderfully intriguing puzzles. I just happen to enjoy trying to piece them together.
people are puzzles. sometimes it's fun to try to figure them out. during college, people tend to change a great deal, so today's code cracking may be worthless tomorrow. everyone needs room to change and grow. peaking at other peoples cards tends to give them a view of yours:-). proceed with caution:-). the best way to figure people out is to talk to them up front.
Barry's lecture on the connectivity of knowledge will tell you more about rmantraining then any clues or deductions. Maybe someday he'll write a post on his theories and lead us to enlightenment:-)
I heartily agree with your statements. And as much as I enjoy trying to piece together each person as a puzzle from my observations, I enjoy talking with them ever so much more. Unfortunately, this semester has not allowed me terribly much time or opportunity to do so with many people I would like to get to know better. I'm optimistic for next semester though :)
of course my statements are correct. left handed people are never wrong. I'm left handed, so everything I say is valuable and true--just ask Petra:-)
People are far more important then GPA, but don't neglect the 4.0.
whatever. Left handed people simply feel LEFT behind by society, so they look for LEFTover snipits of logic from Right handed people who are already RIGHT in the forefront of everyone else, and don't need to scrounge to make themselves feel RIGHT. But then again, maybe you just feel LEFT out by our RIGHTeousness...
I must say I agree with Paul here. It's something special with LEFThanded people! Doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible that the LEFThanded people were the best at aiming?
To all the right-handed people - try to be LEFThanded for a day and feel the joy!
Left handed people are smarter, stronger, and better. Good thing the right handed folks have us around to solve the worlds problems so they can eat their pop corn and watch.
Well Paul... I'm not so sure I would have come to the same conclusion to explain the correctness of your statements. I've known several many left handed people who I'm pretty positive, in fact, 100% positive, are not always right :)
I think I'm more inclined to agree with Petra's comment on left vs. right handed people :)
In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand,[17] Chris McManus of University College London, argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centers of the brain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_handed) :)
If you take the liberty to correlate high acheivment with left-handedness, then allow me to point out that high achievement is often correlated with stress and early death. In my opinion, no amount of smugness will ever replace a truely satisfying life.
Go ahead and run the world for 40 years. Us right-handed people will take the scenic route to success and happily rest on our laurels well into our 90s!
"It's not how long you live your life but how you live it!"
LH's are more prone to jail time and suicide, but if we manage to avoid these pitfalls we should be able to outlive all you righthanded slowpokes
Maybe time to end the lefthanded vs righthanded discussion? Thankfully - God appreciates and loves both lefthanded and righthanded. Do all you can, wheter lefthanded or righthanded - and that's good!
Amen Robby! That discussion was getting worn out. What a good way to end it.
And Paul, no offence, but since you feel free to mock my profile photo, I'll take the same liberty with yours: you look positively riciculous. Either put Rollo back up as your photo or SMILE for the camera! :-)
You're absolutly right, Robby.
Hopefully, everyone understood that nothing serious was meant by the lively comments. Paul and I are especially vocal, but we're only having fun.
Let's shake hands all around!
Sure :). Haha, I won't start the discussion again, but should we shake with the right or the left hand :P
as every good Nepali knows, right hands are for shaking, left hands are for ......
just when Robby finally made peace, my dear Petra added insult to injury. Why should I smile for the camara? do you really want me showing off my dazzling smile to the general public? I thought I was supposed to save that for you:-). Rollo is a fine looking beast, but I think I'm a little more attractive. At least Rollo is smart enough not to smile for the camara.
Paul's smile may be attractive, but it's hard to beat that paradoxical look of deadpan intensity. Only a day of ferocious study could have produced it.
Ok this post wins the prize for the most off-topic comments, and the most comments overall!!
New post time, Paul
no new posts until Friday. Exams are killing me. you'd better come up with something creative to say--and I'm talking to you Johonn:-)
Johonn, if you're tired of commenting on this post, try one of the older ones. you haven't added anything to my understanding of God's existance and the meaning of life.
I wish I could have been there to continue the tradition with you! What am I complaining about? I just finished the Ausangate circuit.......
(I drop this post with the full realization that it may be lost in the slough of comments left already.)
I just have to leave a comment on here because there are 38 other comments and I think it should be a good odd number of 39. Therefore, here is my comment: Next Thanksgiving we will have to have a Houmann/Howe hike on Thanksgiving!
How bout 40?
Let's plan on doing the hike!
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