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About Me

Me? I'm still learning to fly.
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"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, and to run, and to climb, and to dance."
-Nietzsche
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"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
-Pablo Picasso
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"We are Homo Sapiens, the tool users. We earn the name by developing tools to increase our leverage on the world around us, and with our increased technological leverage comes a growing sense of power. This position of advantage which protects us from wild nature we call civilization.
Our security increases as we apply more leverage, but along with it we notice a growing isolation from the earth. We crowd into cities which shut out the rhythms of the planet â€“ daybreak, high tide, wispy cirrus high overhead yelling storm tomorrow, moonrise, Orion going south for the winter. Perceptions dull and we come to accept a blunting of feeling in the shadow of security. Drunk with power, I find that I am out of my senses. I, tool man, long for immediacy of contact to brighten my senses again, to bring me nearer the world once again; in my security I have forgotten how to dance.
So, in reaction, we set sail on the wide without motors in hopes of feeling the wind; we leave the land rover behind as we seek the desert to know the sun, searching for a remembered bright world. Paddling out again, we turn to ride the shorebreak landward, walking on waves, the smell of wildflowers meeting us on the offshore breeze. In the process we find not what our tools can do for us but what we are capable of feeling without them, of knowing directly. We learn how far our unaided effort can take us into the improbable world. Choosing to play that game in the vertical dimension of what is left of wild nature makes us climbers. Only from the extreme of comfort and leisure do we return willingly to adversity. Climbing is a symptom of post-industrial man."
- Doug Robinson, "A Night on the Ground, A day in the Open"
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Some people think
That if they go too far
They'll never get back
To where the rest of them are
I might be crazy
But there's one thing I know
You might be surprised
At what you find out when ya go!
-- Unknown
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My Interests

Climbing, snowboarding, surfing, climbing, traveling, eskrima, boxing, crossfit, training, traveling, photography, climbing... and the myriad of other things that I havn't even thought about trying yet.

I'd like to meet:

Evel Knievel. If you can jump 14 school busses or a tank of live sharks (though I think that was the Fonz....), I might want to meet you, too!

Climbers, splitboarders, individuals, conversationalists, troublemakers.

Anyone capable of making me laugh uncontrollably.

All Y'all; Challenge me.

Music:

Anything from the 'Stones to Sublime.

Movies:

Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, 25th Hour, The Italian Job, The Sting, The Eiger Sanction, The Rock... Bond *. And the list goes on.. and on.. and on..

Television:

I'm addicted to the Weather Channel. If I left my TV on 24/7, that's the only channel that would play.. Hell, I used to goto sleep to it every night.

Books:

Nietzsche, Vonnegut, Persig, Twight, Kerouac, Borroughs, Heinlein, Orson Scott Card, David Roberts, John Krakauer, Alpinist, Surfer's Journal.. etc.

Heroes:

Evel Knievel, Chuck Yeager, Peter Croft, Jim Zellers, b$

My Blog

Squamish Vids - aka, me being a geek.

Rainy Daze in Squampton Add to My Profile | More Videos.......
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:46:00 PST

o rly?

ya rly.invadin ur spaces - sexin' ur butt.
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST

Space Invader...

Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:17:00 PST

More inspiration - FFA of the Cobra crack

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Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:23:00 PST

It's a vid sharing kinda day.

First thoughts, skepticism.. However, I found it incredibly profound.. Lots more than just climbers will appreciate this.. Great application for a short film. ...
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST

Massive Pic Whoring.. Now in Progress.

OK... Looking for pics for facebook - Figured I'd mirror everything here. Why am I posting this? Prolly cause there are cool new pics and I'm a bit narcissistic. ;p
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:29:00 PST

"Here comes George - in control. Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll..."

Old meme? yes. Not funny? To some of you. But goddamn, i've watched this at least a dozen times and still laugh my ass off. Bahahahhaahaha. "He'll kick yo...
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

"Thou Shalt Think for YourSelves!"

A'Fuckin'Men...
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:03:00 PST

PANG "DRIVESHAFT!"

this is so hawt.. cummins 4bt powered, no less : ...
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:45:00 PST

A Culture of Passivity

Found this on the Crossfit site, oddly enough..---A Culture of Passivity"Protecting" our "children" at Virginia Tech.By Mark Steyn I haven't weighed in yet on Virginia Tech mainly because, in a san...
Posted by Vertical Gain Enthusiast on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:45:00 PST