star (2014-09-24)
Warren Harding zasługuje pewno na oddzielny wątek na SW nie tylko za takie teksty jak ten, gdy chcieli ich ratować ze ściany El Capitan w Yosemite, na co on... (pralinka) (pralinka) (pralinka)

"Good Evening! What can we do for you."

"We've come to rescue you!"

"Really? Come now, get hold of yourselves - have some wine."

Harding describes reaching the top of El Capitan:

I suppose this article could be titled "The Conquest of El Capitan". However, as I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was conqueror and who was conquered: I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Harding on his legendary endurance:

Oh, God, I was always a total mess. I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent it makes me envious. I was climbing with some hotshot Brit in Yosemite once, and he said, "My God, Harding, you can’t do anything!" I said, "I know, but I can do it forever."

Harding, on drinking, satirizing the American Alpine Club's "Accident Reports":

It has recently been demonstrated that drinking leashes can be useful in preventing needless tragedies in the home as well as on the rock. For example, at the gathering of friends in the ASCENTE office in Fresno, Batso was into his cup (as he is liable to do). Becoming incenced over some topic of conversation (as he is liable to do), he staggered off blindly, apparently heading for the upstairs bedroom. However, he referred to the wrong door and fell down the cellar stairs. Fortunately he was unhurt, wedged between the stair case and the hot water heater. Needless to say, he could have been very seriously injured, and although this wasn't the case, a drinking leash could have spared him the indignity of such an accident.

Harding's "Reflections on a Broken Down Climber":

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves...
wino15162#51007

star (2014-09-24)
Jeszcze fragment (pralinka) z Hardena, a foto po przejściu El Capitana.

You can rue your run-of-the-mill roistering, and you can deplore your garden-variety dipsomania, but, my God, forget it, in present company the terms hardly apply. This Batso here has carved out a whole new order of magnitude in the hierarchy of riotous behavior. If Bacchus ever had a proper running mate, he sits across from me in this window booth right now. Another carafe, Batso? Why not? That makes, let’s see…oh, hell, who’s counting? Who can count at this point?
Warren J. “Batso” Harding throws a lopsided grin in my direction. “God, isn’t this fun?” he screeches in his high-register Dr. Demento voice. “I am having sooooo much fun, you just can’t imagine.”
Oh, yes I can, Batso, you madcap little renegade you. I know more than you think about your careening lifelong pursuit of skewed amusement. And, moreover, I’ve been sitting here these many hours in this bar in Poker Flat watching as you have systematically poured a full gallon of this truly awful box wine into your wracked and scarred little body. I’m happy that you’re enjoying yourself, but, really, what else is new? On your worst fur-tongued hungover day you could always find more fun than six monkeys on a Moped, and there’s certainly no reason to stop the party now, even for a fellow of the advanced age of – as you succinctly put it – sixty-one point five-five.
wino15162#51009

star (2014-09-25)
Psu to też się nie podoba.
wino15162#51011

star (2014-09-25)
Harding pije na El Capie (pralinka) choć i w ścianie ponoć nie był abstynentem. Nie polecamy!
wino15162#51012

peyotl (2014-09-26)
Ja wlazłem pewnego dnia na Half Dome, ale od tylca, normalnie, po drabince. I nie piliśmy wina, ale świstak zarąbał mi kanapkę z plecaka.
wino15162#51013

peyotl (2014-09-26)
Foto nie chciało się załadować. A drabinka tutaj.
wino15162#51014

star (2014-09-26)
Jeśli chodzi o drabinki to przypomina mi się znana z Orlej Perci wiodąca wprost na Kozią Przełęcz jeśli schodzi się w dół. Z innej bajki, z Gardy na Cima SAT bardzo długa i wypychająca nieco drabina, którą pokonywaliśmy w upale. Na deser drabinki w masywie Brenta w Dolomitach, sami zobaczcie, to były ciągi drabin, dokładniej rzecz ujmując. Ale wracając do naszych baranów z rozp... kościoła, to na ich stronie, rozwinęli całą etykietę i tak oto ją widać.
wino15162#51015

star (2014-09-26)
Przy okaji uzupełniłem odmiany i czego tam nie ma. Oczywiście Merlot w natarciu, ale jest i np. Lemberger. Dane tu znajdziecie tasting notes.
wino15162#51016

star (2015-05-23)
Dean Potter i jego ostatni base jump z Taft Point naprzeciw El Capitain. Wczoraj z kolei Autor Widmo kręcony przez Polańskiego na klimatycznej Martha's Vineyard w TV.
wino15162#526490

Paweł (2016-06-28) Ocena: 3
dobre wina
wino15162#528391

Robert (2016-06-28) Ocena: 6
wino niezłe fakt, trochę więcej teraz wiem, bo byłem na (pralinka) Bardzo fajne szkolenie dla sommelierów i teraz trochę się już znam ;)
wino15162#528392

peyotl (2016-06-30)
Żenada. Naprawdę myslicie, że ludzie sa tacy głupi i nie rozpoznaja ordynarnego spamu ?
wino15162#528401