*i'm showing my Pioneers the sport of rock climbing with a Video of some special climbing rocks in Joshua Tree Nat'l monument, Calif. The camground at Jumbo Rocks is *HEAVEN to rock climbers! Even as a kid I could "smeer" foot to some incredible vistas and find secret trails back down! Behind every bolder was a imagined Apache and on top a Cowboy with a Colt Peacemaker! Bang!BANG! shoot 'em up!<G> ======================= ..and then the call to dinner, campfire and devotions and turn into my sagging puptent and my "vintage" green cotton bag with jumping deer on warm red flannel! AH! DEAMLAND......Good Times! Commander's Devotion stuck with me.. *He warned that the "Mojave Green Ratt'ler" liked to sun thenselves on rock all around... and that all day we made a playground out of ROCK WALLS! *To most everyone else that isn't on the campout... makeing a playground out of rock walls seems farfetched! But in this special place a boy with cheap "PF Flyers" could become SPIDERMAN! and allways.. thru time, and the winter freezeing process cracks would form and experianced climbers would use special tools to jam bolts, and wedges and "cams" and mayby even a "piton" or two... to make the summit! Rock climbers have to be READY! and they carry all the gear they need... they use every advantage of the ROCK and the MAN to gain a foothold or a grip... they carry rosin, to make themselves "sticky" and plenny of rope. AND WHAT SEEMED an IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE BECOMES A SPORT! ======================================================== *I remembered that... along with the barked up shins from slideing down that rock wall a time or two! *I think with prayer, and meditation... WALLS MIGHT FALL or we may just climb right over 'em! -=A=- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ _______ http://www.eBible.org/~mpj/rr.htm This message was from Duane Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> via the RangerNet mailing list. To unsubscribe, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line unsubscribe rangernet in the body of the message. _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks!" RTKB&G4JC! Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rangernet.org
