Trebor's Tales, Hurricane Irene

RIDING IRENE'S WILD WINDS

Trebor here,  I  heard that some local boys are trying to cook up some big adventure stuff so as to get their pictures in those outdoor magazines.   Well just wanted them all to know that I beat them to the punch.   With the approach of hurricane Irene I called my buddy Buckaroo Bonzai and asked if he thought that with the right preparation and planning I could launch myself into Irene with a para-sail and ride it all the way to the top of Old Rag Mountain.      Well Doctor Bonzai was intrigued with the problem.    He called me back saying that he had jumped on one of the NOAA super computers and figured that if I took off down by Norfolk at the right time I would be swept around counter clockwise in the storm.   I would  initially travel up over Washington DC then out over West Virginia and back to Old Rag mountain.   Well I only had a couple days to prepare and I wanted to have the best GPS, altimeters, radio, portable oxygen and appropriate attire ready.    Loving a short fused impossible logistics challenge I was in seventh heaven scrambling to get all my gear ready.   I was glad to know that all the commercial jets would be grounded during my attempt.    It would not be much fun to run into a Seven Forty Seven!   

I slipped the surly bonds of earth with all my great gear, consummate flying skills and God as my co-pilot.   It was a massively cool flight!!   I just missed running into the Washington Monument and it was a good thing I had no radar signature because I would not have wanted Homeland Security trying to shoot me down.

Buckaroo needs to tweak his simulation model  a little because I ended up landing on  Hawksbill not Old Rag.  Oh well since Hawksbill is taller it makes for an even taller tale than had I managed to land on Old Rag.

Speaking of Quixotic

Since the title of this blog I is Quixotic Cosmos I just had to make a post that links you to Handsome Paul's website dedicated to the 38 reasons he would make a good husband for some lucky lady.

Paul has truly been on the most of quixotic of quests.    Like all of those who follow the Don-Quixote-Way he remains forever optimistic and good natured about his quest.

Check out his blog.

http://www.handsomepaul.blogspot.com/

For all the Paul's of the world who unsuccessfully seek to fulfill that very powerful basic need of loving and being loved by a special someone.   Here is a big virtual hug and some luv sent your way.

Interview With An Old Rag Sandwort

Howdy folks Trebor Cool here.    Thought I would check in since it has been a long time since I posted.

Secondly do not take me too seriously, this all done in mirthful fun.

Lets look at the life of the poor Sandwort on Old Rag's Summit that I had the honor to spend some time with recently.   This Sandwort and the Sandwort species have real problems!

The written history of  the human race is most likely no  more significant than the unwritten but hundreds of centuries of Sandwort history.   Yet to humans Sandwort history is:


INVISIBLE


This Sandwort may have been descended from a long line of very important Sandworts. Sandworts do not have Heralds like the Queen of England but if they did there is a good chance that this Sandwort would have a lineage and Coat of  Arms that would rival England's Best of The Best.  


Despite the Sandworts' long and noble history,  for the thousands of hikers that make it to the summit of Old Rag  it is:

SO INVISIBLE THEY WALK RIGHT THRU IT

If Old Rag summit Sandworts become yet one more species of the many that have totally disappeared into the dustbin of extinct species, it is my belief that the Sandworts would probably still forgive humans for their transgressions.  If for no other reason than the fact that humans are currently the ultimate known earth bound representatives of all the complicated layers of:

LIFE  LOVE GOODNESS AND GODLINESS ON EARTH

LOGOS OF THE NOOSPHERE

THE OMEGA POINT

All that said, the Sandwort interviewed seemed especially appreciative to have been able to overhear my alter ego's headphones play Ashlee Simpson's Invisible song.     Finally a human songstress who not only spoke to the Sandworts' cause but even sang  a beautiful; ballad to the Sandworts' cause.  

Note:  In the following video the interviewed Sandwort wore his Mt Laurel ghilley suit disguise and was interviewed at a location far from his normally non-disclosed residence.

http://www.youtube.com/user/robertlook1#p/a/u/0/AyGT_y7C5mU

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FIRST THE CLIMB NOW THE FILM

A SHOT OF THE SUPER MOON FROM OLD RAG

Trebor  Kool’s review of:

 Almost Alpine

The greatest rock climbing film ever made.

Mega Shabang

Giga Golly Gomshka,

and Yotta Awesome.

Every once in awhile a low budget film sky rockets to the top of the underground cult movie charts.    The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Blair Witch Project come to my mind.   This last weekend I had the pleasure of viewing a pre-release of a low budget underground film,  Almost Alpine  which  is destined to become a future classic.

For some coverage of the climb check out the following links:
http://oldragpatrolsbyrsl-blook.blogspot.com/2009/06/huge-news.html
http://shenandoahmountainguides.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html#1339646712155635486

This film has it all:

• The mystic discovery and the June 2009 First Free Ascent of a West Virginian 46 pitch 5.9+.
  
• The trials and tribulations of young climbing friends whose relationships are tested in the pressure cooker tension filled pursuit of a common dream.

• The rejection, baptism, death and resurrection of one of those friends.
• Manky gnarly credit card crimpers.
• The rare real time capture of an OH MY GOD NOOOO!  screaming fall of a young climber whose rope is cut in two causing him to plunge from the top of his climb all the way to the base of the cliff during the filming.  
• Insights into three radically different but radically effective new training regimens.
• Hilarious animatronic antics of Lego climbers who I swore looked right out through the film and winked at me.
• A death defying false-summit to real-summit slackline walk over hundreds of feet of open air.
• A climbing spirit so pure and intense in his pursuit of the perfect line that he creates parts of the perfect line out of thin air, levitating rocks, and pooping his shorts. 
• A rewrite of art history.
• The inspirational coverage of one of the worlds greatest belayers.

Watch for the future release and on-line sale of this refreshingly creative film which will hopefully be premiered at either or both of this years Telluride and Banff Film Festivals.    When it comes out you got to; Jump on it.   Its a classic.