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Ely
There is a sad song for every waitress in this town Phone calls to family at the forlorn parking lot Scattered showers and icy wind Casinos and taxidermy So glad we have wheels and gas in the tank
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Sly on Going West Young Man
Warming up so she can pull the tourists up 11a territory on Corner Drug.
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Highway 6
A soft spot in my heart for Nevada. Mountains taller than you know, roads so lonely your mind composes country music. Still you never know, you might run into long lost friends after you pulled over at a mile post in the middle of nowhere.
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Camp 4 Nocturne
As the polyglottal cacophony settles and lights dim, the creatures of the forest start plotting their nightly plundering of anything edible that hasn’t been battened down.
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$100 Lesson of the Day
Anticipate the rotational force created by a pendulum fall. Don’t insert your Omega Link Cam far enough into a crack so the back lobes are close to engaging. Your Omega Link Cam becomes one with the rock when it is shifted by force and the bigger lobes are also touching the rock. Your Omega Link…
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Half Dome for Lunch and a Nap
Todd the friendly SkyWest pilot told us he had been up to Halfdome even with ‘the cables being down’ over pizza and beer. We started packing soon afterwards. Using Prusik slings to aid up fixed cables won’t increase our climber cred but we were rewarded with perfect conditions and near solitude on the huge top.…