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Tawny Frog Mouth Owls

I spotted these three owls while we were eating lunch on the patio one afternoon at my wife's parents...

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Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Tawny Frog Mouth Owls

They are very strange looking birds, to me they looked reptilian. They stayed quite calm as I took photos.

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Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Tawny Frog Mouth Owls

This little guy was juvenile I think. S/he was smaller and had more brown colouring than the other...

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Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Little Tiny Green Frog

This guy is about the size of my pinky nail. I spotted him hanging out in the agapanthas.

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Uploaded on Mar 8, 2010

americanMe

The mural at Tuxies in Riverside CA. This place has amazing Mexican food.

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Uploaded on Mar 7, 2010

Big Trad Thong Pitch 6

Mikl asked me what I thought the grade on this pitch is. I would call it old school Piddington 13. ...

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2009

Big Trad Thong Pitch 5

Up a ramp, great rock on the left, OK on the right. A fun easy ramp that runs up into a steepish corner...

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2009

Big Trad Thong Pitch 4

The business. Well protected. Massive exposure. Props to Mikl who led this ground up, it must have been a bear to clean.

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2009

Big Trad Thong Pitch 3

This is probably the section with the worst rock. But it is easy to reach past and you have good...

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2009

Big Trad Thong Pitch 2

Enter the choss. (Not actually real bad) The line is obvious, it is amazing that this line...

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2009

Big Trad Thong

Standing at the bottom and looking up at the route "Big Trad Thong". The red line shows very...

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Uploaded on Jan 18, 2009

Adding a U to Big Trad Thong

Mikl Law, channeling a little Hunter S. Thompson, adds a beefy U bolt to the belay at the top of pitch 3...

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Uploaded on Jan 18, 2009

Amen Corner

Amen Corner at Mt Piddington.

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Uploaded on Jan 14, 2009

The Safety Meeting

Every day on the rock ends with a safety meeting. Very important.

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2008

At the top

Unfortunately due to my inability to follow simple directions we parked in the wrong spot. So now we...

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2008

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Wall and Valley

This is looking up the valley, south from one of the belays near the top.

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2008

On the Headwall

This is the ironstone wall near the top. the climbing is not hard but it is continuous, slightly overhanging, and pumpy.

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Uploaded on Dec 11, 2008