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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
I got a late 4:30 start, but it was nice hiking in the cooler evening. Lots of people were coming down the trail. There were good views from the top up the Middle Fork valley, as the cloud cover was high, and over to Rattlesnake Lake. And of course below was 7th city of Cibola. On my way back down there were still a few people on their way up.
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Kidneykenneth Toweltoast Member
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 8 | TRs | Pics Location: Your Mind |
KT
I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.
I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.
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Sasquatch Kettlekorn Member
Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 10 | TRs | Pics
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Hey Kenneth, is that you, or is that your girlfriend in the picture
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-lol- Member
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 767 | TRs | Pics
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Thu May 06, 2004 7:17 pm
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
Wow, I can't believe my Mt. Si report has resurfaced and is getting all this press. I knew it was good when I wrote it but if I knew everyone would be looking at it 2 years later I would have separated it into two paragraphs and added more punctuation marks, made sure I was wearing clean underwear today, and now I'm wondering about that comment on the MFK, is it real, or had I eaten too much gorp that day?
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 2036 | TRs | Pics
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Where is this Mt. Si? Are there any rattlesnakes at that lake? I can't tell if KT is a he, she or it. I'm leaning toward it.
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
Directions for an ET
Universe
Milky Way
Earth
N. America
U.S.
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King County
North Bend
Mt. Si
Why is North Bend called North Bend? There are no rattlesnakes in or around Rattlesnake Lake but if we keep building huge fountains and wasting water, well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this could become prime rattlesnake habitat in maybe two or three years and we'd all be sucking on pebbles while we combed for artifacts on the dusty bottom of Lake Washington.
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Straighten up and fly right. Use your trekking poles if you have to.
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
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I'd say you've been double-dipping in the shroom patch PB, your posts are getting weirder and weirder. Whooa ...I'm getting flashbacks looking at the word weirder- what's up with that word anyway? I know a weir is a gate-like thingeroo, but I'm really having a tough time...I'm really strugglin' man.... with that 'der' part of it. You should probably leave me be and go on with what you'all are doin' 'cause I think I'll be pondering this for quite a while I think.
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
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kleet meat tornado
Joined: 06 Feb 2002 Posts: 5303 | TRs | Pics Location: O no they dih ent |
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Fri May 07, 2004 6:24 am
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Don't feed the trolls.
A fuxk, why do I not give one?
A fuxk, why do I not give one?
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mgd Member
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 3143 | TRs | Pics Location: Full Moon Saloon |
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Karen Member
Joined: 22 Dec 2001 Posts: 2866 | TRs | Pics
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Fri May 07, 2004 7:50 am
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....the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir ....
M&S, thought you'd enjoy the Poe quote (hope I got it right).
Karen
PS I think the line is from Annabelle Lee ... but maybe that is "weird" comes from.
stay together, learn the flowers, go light - from Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
stay together, learn the flowers, go light - from Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
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MooseAndSquirrel Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 2036 | TRs | Pics
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Karen wrote: | ....the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir ....
M&S, thought you'd enjoy the Poe quote (hope I got it right).
Karen
PS I think the line is from Annabelle Lee ... but maybe that is "weird" comes from. |
Hmmmmmm, coooould be. Thanks for coming up with that, Karen. Poe would be a logical source of "weird". I have a feeling it predates him but who knows. I haven't read Poe for a long while but he could sure tell a creepy story - none better. Even a love poem to (assumedly) his dead wife can't escape his fascination with the morbid it seems.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Karen wrote: | ....the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir ....
M&S, thought you'd enjoy the Poe quote (hope I got it right).
Karen
PS I think the line is from Annabelle Lee ... but maybe that is "weird" comes from. |
Close but no brass ring...
Ulalume
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere--
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Here once, throught the alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul--
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
There were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll--
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole--
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.
Our talk has been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere--
Our memories were treacherous and sere,--
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)--
We noted not the dim lake of Auber
(Though once we had journey down here)--
Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn--
As the star-dials hinted of morn--
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn--
Astarte's bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn.
And I said:"She is warmer than Dian:
She rolls through an ether of sighs--
She revels in a region of sighs:
She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion
To point us the path to the skies--
To the Lethean peace in the skies--
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
With love in her luminous eyes."
But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said:"Sadly this star I mistrust--
Her pallor I strangely mistrust:--
Oh, hasten!--oh, let us not linger!
Oh, fly!--let us fly!--for we must."
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings until they trailed in the dust--
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust--
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied:"This is nothing but dreaming: Let us on by this tremulous light!
Let us bathe in this crystalline light!
Its Sybilic splendor is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night!--
See!--it flickers up the sky throught the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to a gleaming,
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night."
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom--
And conquered her scruples and gloom;
And we passed to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb--
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said:"What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?"
She replied:"Ulalume--Ulalume--
'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!"
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were withering and sere,
And I cried:"It was surely October
On this very night last year,
That I jouneyed-- I journeyed down here--
That I brought a dread burden down here--
On this night of all nights in the year,
Ah, what demon has tempted me here?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--
This misty mid region of Weir--
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Thousands Member
Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 1 | TRs | Pics
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polarbear wrote: | I got a late 4:30 start, but it was nice hiking in the cooler evening. Lots of people were coming down the trail. There were good views from the top up the Middle Fork valley, as the cloud cover was high, and over to Rattlesnake Lake. And of course below was 7th city of Cibola. On my way back down there were still a few people on their way up. |
This trip report rocks!!
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