#don valley bowl 2011

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i tried to channel my shaggy haired beloved with the leather jacket and the rings, but i’m simply overjoyed with this shirt.

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Alex Turner - Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield

June 2011

(Source on Flickr)

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Arctic Monkeys at Don Valley Bowl, Day Two, 2011.

By danidanix.x via Flickr.

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watchtheclothmoth: #tbt something a bit different. A throwback to 2011 backstage at @arcticmonkeys Don Valley bowl Sheffield gig with Sheffield legend #richardhawley and a younger #mileskane both top blokes. 😀 (Posted on 08/04/2021)

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505 - Don Valley Bowl / Sheffield [10-06-2011]

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1, 19 & 29!

1. What are your top 3 favorite sets you’ve made?

My Bill Hader talking about his daughters sets (One and Two), this set of the Arctic Monkeys at the 2011 Don Valley Bowl and this Decade of Bill gifset.

19. What is your gifting process like?

It’s either very organized when I sit down with a clear idea, which is the majority of the time. Load the screencaps, resize, sharpen, colouring, text, export, go. Or it’s absolute chaos, usually when I just have the urge to make gifs but don’t know what. Then everything goes in random order and I usally come up with something very different from when I started. There’s no real inbetween. I am determined though, I very rarely give up on my idea or impulse to gif.

29. Have you ever posted a set, realized you made a mistake later but it was already too late?

Oh my god, all the time. Usually it’s spelling mistakes I realize too late and then its like a race against the clock to fix it before anyone reblogs it. 

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Hitting the Books: We can engineer the Earth to fight climate change

Hitting the Books: We can engineer the Earth to fight climate change https://engt.co/2ZtjP9J

Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World by Bryan Walsh

Grow out your apocalypse beard and strap on your doomsday sandwich board, we're all gonna die! Humanity has always lived on knife edge, our species perpetually one war, one plague, one eruption, one meteor strike away from extinction. But should our species kick the bucket during the 21st century, it may well be through our own actions.

End Times by Bryan Walsh takes an unflinching look at the myriad ways the world might end -- from planet-smashing asteroids and humanity-smothering supervolcanoes to robotic revolutions and hyper-intelligent AIs. In the excerpt below, Walsh examines the work of environmental researcher Klaus Lackner and his efforts to combat climate change by sucking carbon straight from the air.

It might be the German accent, but Klaus Lackner has a way of speaking that lends an air of authority to his statements, even when what he's suggesting seems to be science fiction. "If you asked me fifteen years ago," Lackner told me from his lab in Tempe, Arizona, "I would have said we need to figure out how to stabilize what we're doing to the atmosphere by reducing carbon emissions. Now I'm telling you we're way past that. We have to change carbon levels directly."

Lackner is the director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University and an academic leader what will be one of the most important fields of the future: carbon capture. Lackner is working to build machines capable of capturing and storing carbon dioxide in the air, a process called carbon sequestration. While most climate policy focuses on cutting future carbon emissions by replacing fossil fuel energy consumption with zero-carbon renewables or even nuclear power, Lackner aims to reduce current levels of carbon dioxide directly by sucking the gas out of the air. If it can be done -- and if it can be done affordably -- it would be nothing less than a technological miracle. And as Lackner himself says, we're at the point where we need miracles.

Emissions of greenhouse gases lead to warming because over time they add to the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. During humanity's pre-industrial history -- when the climate was like Little Red Riding Hood's last bowl of porridge, not too cold and not too warm -- carbon levels were around 280 parts per million (ppm). By 2013 they had passed 400 ppm and will only continue to rise. Even if future emissions are vastly reduced, the time lag of man-made climate change means that carbon concentrations will continue to grow for a while, and the climate will continue to warm. But if Lackner's invention works, we could bring carbon levels down, perhaps closer to that original 280 ppm -- even if it proves politically and technologically difficult to reduce carbon emissions from energy consumption.

This would be geoengineering in action -- using technology to manually fine-tune the climate, the way we might adjust the picture quality on a television. And in some form it will be necessary. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has considered more than a thousand scenarios for future climate change. Of those, only 116 actually see us keeping warming below the 3.6 F red line -- and of those 116, all but eight require carbon removal, or what's also called negative carbon emissions. That's in part because we've already baked so much future warming into the climate with the carbon we've already emitted, and in part because the fossil fuel habit is so hard to break, especially for those parts of the developing world that depend on rapid economic growth and the energy use that accompanies it. The only way to square that fact with the equally pressing need to keep warming below 3.6 F is to bake in a technology that doesn't yet exist commercially.

In 2011, a team of experts reported that pulling CO2 from the air would cost $600 a ton, which would make the bill for capturing the 37 billion tons of CO2 emitted in 2017 -- one year's worth -- a cool $22 trillion, or more than a quarter of total global GDP. But progress is being made -- in June 2018 a team of scientists from Harvard and the start-up Carbon Engineering published research indicating they might be able to bring that price of capturing a ton of CO2 down to between $94 and $232. That would mean it might cost between $1 and $2.50 to capture the CO2 generated by burning a gallon of gasoline, less than the amount of fuel taxes British drivers currently pay. Lackner believes that if he could get 100 million of his carbon capture machines running, he could reduce carbon levels by 100 ppm, taking us out of the danger zone.

If that price keeps going down -- a big if -- we might be able to save ourselves. And effective and cheap carbon sequestration would have the added effect of sweeping away many of the moral and political conflicts around climate change. If emitting the carbon that causes climate change is a crime, then we are all criminals. But if carbon dioxide is just another form of waste that can be disposed of safely, then we wouldn't feel any worse for emitting carbon than we would for producing our garbage bag full of household trash. Treating carbon emissions as waste to be removed defuses the psychological dissonance that can hinder climate policy -- the guilty gap between all that we know about climate change and the little that we actually do about it.

"I would argue by making carbon emissions a moral issue, by saying that the only way to solve the problem is by donning a hair shirt, you actually invite people to resist you," said Lackner. "They just stop listening to you."

Let's hope that carbon capture becomes a reality, although a recent study in Nature Communications estimated that it could take a quarter of the world's energy supply in 2100 to power enough air carbon capture machines to keep warming below dangerous levels. And that's assuming that carbon capture ever becomes a feasible product -- many would-be world-changing technologies have expired in the valley of death between the lab and the market. We'll need to continue developing low and zero-carbon sources of energy to reduce the risk -- including the existential risk -- that climate change presents.

Yet I believe we have no choice but to move full steam ahead on air carbon capture, for the simple reason that the strategy fits who we are. We are not a species that plans deeply into the future. We are not a species that is eager to put limits on ourselves. We are a species that prefers to stay one step ahead of the disasters of our own making, that is willing to do just enough to keep going. And we are a species that likes to keep going. Carbon capture won't answer the question of what we owe the future, or prove that we've somehow matured. But it will provide an insurance policy against the worst, most catastrophic effects of climate change, that fat-tail risk that could bring extinction in its wake. It will prove we're just smart enough, even if that means we might yet prove too smart for our own good.

Excerpted from End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World by Bryan Walsh. Copyright © 2019 by Bryan Walsh. Published by arrangement with Hachette Books.

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Project References and Bibliography

Pamphlet form inspired by Simone Weil’s The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.  

Endnotes

P.1 On Peleus, see the Encyclopaedia Britannica article “Peleus.”  On the golden apple, see Matyszak, Chap. 8 “The Trojan War”.  On the anglicisation of Greek names, see Lattimore 2011, “Glossary of Names.”  Spelling and translation of kallistêi in Martin 2011, p.9.  On Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, and Hera, see Matyszak, Chap. 4 “The Great Gods”, and on Athene and Ares, Matyszak, Chap. 5, “Olympus.”  For Herodotus, noted in Martin p.25, see Herodotus 2.53.

P.3 On Xerxes I, see Encyclopaedia Britannica article “Xerxes I” and “Greco-Persian Wars”.  Xerxes’ visit to Troy noted in Martin, p.3.  

P.6 Quotation from Apollo to Achilleus can be found in Lattimore, p.457.  On Alexander III and his visit to Troy see Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Alexander the Great.”  Also noted in Martin, p.3.

P.7 For Martin L. West’s comparison of this passage with the letter of Kutur - Nanhunte, and for a longer quotation from which this has been taken, see West 1997, p.395.  Thomas Dorsey’s discussion of “Peace in the Valley” is quoted in Cusic 1990, p.91.

P.10-11 For Auden’s Shield of Achilles, see Auden 1955.  Noted in Martin, p.56.

P. 23 Hektor and Andromache’s wedding is described in Sappho, Poem “44″, translation from Raynor 2014.

P.29 The poem beginning “In the story of Patroclus...” is “The Triumph of Achilles” by Louise Gluck, 1985.

P.35 For this quotation from Logue’s War Music, see Logue 2015, Pax, page beginning “My Witness”.  This excerpt is also given on The Griffin Trust site.

P.36 On Chapman’s Iliad, see Martin, 60, and Solomon, 518-519, which places the printing of the English version into a broader context.  For this quotation, see Chapman 1956, p.458.

P.39 On the statue of Achilles dedicated after Waterloo, see Martin, p.55.  See also.

P.40 On the significance of the campaign, and for this verse of Binyon’s poem “Gallipoli”, see Martin, p.56.

Works Cited

Primary Sources

Auden, W.H.  “The Shield of Achilles.”  1955.  Poets.org (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/shield-achilles).  Web.

Browning, Robert.  “Development.” 1889.  The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, vol. 15, ed. Stefan Hawlin and Michael Meredith.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.  457-462.  

Chapman, George, trans.  The Iliad.  Ed. Allardyce Nicholl.  Chapman’s Homer, vol. 2, New York: Pantheon Books, 1956.  

De Chirico, Giorgio.  Pianto d’amore - Ettore e Andromaca.  1974.  Used in “Song 44 of Sappho revisited: what is ‘oral’ about the text of this song?”  By Gregory Nagy.  Classical Inquiries.  31 Aug 2016.  Painting.  [Note that while Nagy dates this painting to 1926, it is marked “1974″ and identified elsewhere as such.  For example, on the Vivit site which also gives its full name.]

Gluck, Louise.  “The Triumph of Achilles.”  1985.  Poem Hunter (https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-triumph-of-achilles/)  Web. 

Herodotus, The Histories.  Ed. and trans. A.D. Godley.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920. 2.53. (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D53%3A). Web.

Lattimore, Richmond, trans.  The Iliad of Homer.  1951.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.  Print.

Logue, Christopher.  War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad.  London: Faber & Faber, 2015.  Web.  Quotation can be found in section Pax, page beginning “My Witness”, here,

Sappho.  Poem “44.”  Trans. Diane J. Raynor.  Sappho: a new translation of the complete works.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.  48-49.  E-book. 

Soloman, Jon.  “The Vacillations of the Trojan Myth: Popularization & Classicization, Variation & Codification”.  International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14.3/4 (2007): 482-534.  Print.

Sommer, Giorgio.  Ajax (Firenze).  Catalogue no. 1837.  Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sommer,_Giorgio_(1834-1914)_-_n._1837_-_Ajax_(Firenze).jpg).  Photograph.

von Schiller, Friedrich.  “Hektors Abschied / Hector’s Farewell.”  Trans. Norma Deane and Celia Larner.  The Schubert Song Companion, ed. John Reed.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.  265.  Print.

Secondary Sources

“Alexander the Great”. Encyclopaedia Britannica.  By Frank W. Walbank.  09 Feb 2018.  (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-the-Great).  Web.

Cusic, Don.  The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music.  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1990.  Web.  91.

“Greco-Persian Wars”, Encyclopaedia Britannica.  03 Jan 2018.  (https://www.britannica.com/event/Greco-Persian-Wars) Web. 

Martin, Richard.  Introduction.  The Iliad of Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951, 2011.  2 - 65.  Print.

Matyszak, Philip.  The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories.  Reprint.  London: Thames & Hudson, 2017.  Print.

“Peleus”, Encyclopaedia Britannica.  Feb 13 2018.  (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peleus).  Web.

West, Martin L.  The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

“Xerxes I”, Encyclopaedia Britannica.  By Jean-Louis Huot.  18 June 2015.  (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xerxes-I) Web.

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Ragged Ridge Traverse: Cosho Peak, North Cascades

July 26-29, 2012

Red Mountain (7658′) Ragged Peak (7533′) Cosho Peak (8332′)

For our annual Mid-Summer Climbing Trip this year, Eric, Jon, Todd, and I completed an alpine traverse along Ragged Ridge between Fourth of July Pass and Easy Pass.  This was our tenth consecutive mid-summer trip, and it turned out to provide all the adventure we wanted.  In the end, we would concur with Beckey’s statement that the travel is generally “easy to reasonable,” although it leaned more toward the “reasonable” end of that spectrum.  Even where the travel was truly easy, the possibility for continuation always seemed to be in doubt due to hidden gullies, cliffs, icefalls, crevasses, and other unknowns.

Day 1:  After dropping a vehicle at the Easy Pass Trailhead, we started hiking from the Colonial Creek Campground (1200 feet).  High heat and high humidity conspired against us, so it took longer than expected to reach 3600-foot Fourth of July Pass (3.6 hours from car) despite good trail conditions.  We left the trail at the pass and headed southward through dense forest.  The angle soon steepened, but the brush and deadfall were never too bad.  We worked onto the northernmost end of Red Mountain and continued along the smooth crest until finding a nice campsite on a small heather bench at 6000 feet.  A tiny snowmelt puddle provided adequate water for cooking, and a 270-degree panorama helped assuage the annoying mosquitoes.

Day 2:  We awoke to valley clouds that gradually rose to engulf us in fog.  Our traverse route took us farther up the crest and then across large northeast-facing snowfields above a frozen tarn.  We regained the crest at a high saddle south of the tarn and continued over a series of small horns.  Somewhere in this area, I found a ski-pole basket—our first hint of human existence since leaving the trail;  clearly, this traverse route does not see much traffic.  When the crest became more rugged, we contoured across red scree slopes on the southwestern flank.

Ragged Benchmark (7595 feet) was our first notable high point.  From there, we contoured tedious scree slopes another mile to attain the 7658-foot summit of Red Mountain in early afternoon (5.2 hours from Camp 1).  There was a summit cairn but, surprisingly, no summit register.  I left a mini register before we departed.  Minutes later, at a point approximately 50 vertical feet below the summit, Eric came across a plastic film can mixed in with the talus.  It appeared to have several bite marks in it, and inside was a single strip of paper that had been signed by Don and Nat Goodman in July 2011 and then by Tom Sjolseth and Steph Abegg in May 2012.  Perhaps the little can had been carried off the summit by a hungry marmot!  I scurried back up to the summit and placed this tiny paper in my register container.

We could see contiguous and inviting snowfields extending for 2 miles along the northeastern flank of the ridge, so we tried dropping over the crest at several different locations.  In each case, however, there was a cliff that prevented easy access to the snow—beyond the limits of our 30-meter rope, anyway.  As such, we were compelled to contour across the annoying red scree fields on the southwestern flank for about ¾ mile to get around several large horns.  Eventually, we regained the crest and discovered that the ridge geology had transitioned from unpleasant red volcanic rock to a delightful white granitoid rock.  For the next mile, we strolled along the broad meadowy crest and marveled at the massive hulk of Mt. Logan across the valley.  It seemed that, as Eric quipped, we were drunk on alpine nectar.

Point 7533, which is sometimes called Ragged Peak, was our final summit for the day.  We paused just long enough to scope out tomorrow’s route over to Cosho Peak and then dropped down the north ridge to a beautiful, wide-open, heather-and-rock garden at 7100 feet (9.1 hours from Camp 1).  We’d originally intended to camp at upper Cosho Lake, farther downhill, but it was still completely frozen over and not appealing.  Besides, our ridgetop campsite had numerous little grass-lined bowls of clear snowmelt for drinking and washing up.

Day 3:  Naively thinking that today would be relatively easy, we waited for the heavy morning dew to burn off before we headed out.  Mellow snow slopes led us to a 7100-foot saddle east of Ragged Peak, and then a long traverse across countless ribs and gullies got us past Cosho Peak.  We groveled up a steep, loose, dirty gully to reach the Cosho-Thieves notch.  From this location, the summit of Cosho Peak was merely a short, fun, Class 2-3 scramble away.  We topped out in time for a late lunch (4.3 hours from Camp 2) and signed the overflowing summit register.  Nearby Kimtah Peak beckoned, but with our day’s termination goal being the Mesahchie Glacier, we were starting to feel some time pressure.

The next several hours became a glacial adventure, as we had to descend both the Kimtah Glacier and Katsuk Glacier without the benefit of having seen them from below.  Descending the Kimtah Glacier was a bit tricky, as we wove our way between and around crevasses and ice cliffs.  In order to stay below the lowest tongue of freshly deposited rock and ice debris, we had to drop all the way down to 6300 feet before booting back up the glacier’s eastern edge to a 7000-foot saddle.  A rock headwall immediately beneath the saddle required 30 feet of Class 4 belayed climbing.  Just as we were climbing this, a school-bus-size serac broke loose from a nearby icefall and rumbled down almost to our lowest tracks—a graphic reminder that these glaciers are still very much alive!

We traversed a high snowfield eastward to a key 7100-foot saddle from where we could easily drop onto the Katsuk Glacier.  This was a fairly straightforward descent, except that our exit point at the bottom involved down-climbing a steep, icy chute directly beneath a tall waterfall that undercut the chute.  With darkness looming, we didn’t have time to check out other options.  Looking back up from below, however, we could see that this was the only exit point;  everywhere else was a tall, steep cliff.

Once off the glaciers, we angled down across alternating snow patches and talus fields to duck under the immense North Buttress of Mesahchie Peak, bottoming out at a traverse-low elevation of 5400 feet before heading back up towards the Mesahchie Glacier.  It was dark when we stumbled onto a little gravel arm at 5900 feet (12.6 hours from Camp 2) and carved out four bivy sites between rushing streamlets.

Day 4:  We awoke to blue skies and started up the Mesahchie Glacier just as the morning sun hit us.  The glacier was easily ascended to Mesahchie Col, where we had to monkey across a nasty undercut moat.  After that, it was just a matter of traversing more scree slopes, ribs, and gullies until able to descend to the grassy pleasures of Easy Pass.  We picked up the trail for a final descent to the trailhead (3.8 hours from Camp 3).  A dip in frigid Granite Creek ended our wonderful four-day adventure.

Approximate stats:  9 miles on trail;  15 miles off trail;  14,000 feet gained;  11,500 feet lost.

Picket Range pano from Camp 1

Red Mountain from Ragged Ridge

Todd, Eric, and Jon on the summit of Red Mountain

Mount Logan from heather ridge crest

Evening at Camp 2

Camp 2 below Ragged Peak

Red Mountain ridge from Camp 2

Todd, Eric, and Jon on Cosho Peak

Traversing high snow field from Cocho Peak

Katsuk glacier and peak from Camp 3

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This Week in NFL History: April 30 through May 6

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This Week in NFL History is a weekly article that will look back at some of the most memorable events that have occurred during this week historically in professional football. Each nugget is a tidbit of information that is connected to the NFL through history.

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April 30

1963:  Wide receiver Albert (Al) Toon (Wisconsin: 1981-84, selected 10th overall by New York Jets in 1985 NFL Draft; Jets: 1985-92) born in Newport News, Virginia

Career Stats: 517 receptions for 6,605 yards and 31 touchdowns. Toon was a three-time Pro Bowl selection (1986-88) and a three-time All-Pro (1986-88). He retired at the age of 29 after suffering at least nine concussions in his NFL career. Toon is currently fourth on the Jets’ all-time receiving yards list (Don Maynard, Wesley Walker, Wayne Chrebet) and eighth on the Jets’ all-time career receiving touchdowns list (Maynard, Walker, Chrebet, Jerome Barkum, Laveraneus Coles, Mickey Shuler, Rich Caster).

1966:  Running back/return specialist David (Dave) Meggett (Morgan State/Towson: 1984-88, selected 132nd overall by New York Giants in 1989 NFL Draft; Giants: 1989-94, Patriots: 1995-97, Jets: 1998) born in Charleston, South Carolina

Career Stats: 349 punt returns for 3,708 yards and seven touchdowns; 252 kick returns for 5,566 yards and one touchdown; 398 carries for 1,684 yards and eight touchdowns; 336 receptions for 3,038 yards and 11 touchdowns. Meggett was a two-time Pro Bowl selection (1989, 1996) and a three-time All Pro (1989, 1990, 1996). He played in two Super Bowls: winning Super Bowl XXV with Giants and losing Super Bowl XXXI with Patriots. Meggett is second all-time in punt return yards in NFL history. He is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for burglary and criminal sexual assault.

1985:  Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith selected first overall by Buffalo Bills in NFL Draft. Smith is one of two former Hokies selected with the No. 1 pick (Michael Vick, 2001). Five players from this draft were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Smith (HOF Class of 2009), Pittsburgh defensive end Chris Doleman (No. 4-Minnesota Vikings: HOF Class of 2012), Mississippi Valley State wide receiver Jerry Rice (No. 16: San Francisco 49ers: HOF Class of 2010), Kutztown (Pa.) wide receiver Andre Reed (No. 86: Buffalo Bills: HOF Class of 2014), and Auburn linebacker Kevin Greene (No. 113-Los Angeles Rams: HOF Class of 2016). No quarterback was selected in the first round for the second consecutive year.

1993:  Free safety David (Dave) Waymer (Notre Dame: 1976-79, selected 41st overall by Saints in 1980 NFL Draft; Saints: 1980-89, 49ers: 1990-91, Raiders: 1992) died at age 34 in Mooresville, North Carolina (b. 1958).

Career Stats: 48 interceptions, 18 fumbles recovered. Waymer was a member of the 1977 national champion Fighting Irish. He was a Pro Bowl selection in 1987. Waymer died of a heart attack induced by cocaine use. A Saintly Switch, an ABC Wonderful World of Disney Movie, was dedicated in Waymer’s memory. Sally Hampton, who was married to Waymer from 1981-86, wrote and produced A Saintly Switch.

May 1

1910:  Halfback Clifford (Cliff) Battles (West Virginia Wesleyan: 1929-31, Redskins: 1932-37) born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1981)

Career Highlights: Battles was a three-time First-team All-Pro (1933, 1934, 1936) and a Second-team All-Pro in 1937. He led the NFL in rushing yards twice (1932, 1937) and led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1937. Battles was the first running back in NFL history to rush for over 200 yards in a game and helped the Redskins win the NFL Championship in 1937. He was a member of the NFL 1930’s All-Decade Team and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

1925:  Linebacker/center Charles (Chuck, also known as Concrete Charlie) Bednarik (Pennsylvania: 1945-48, selected first overall by Philadelphia Eagles in 1949 NFL Draft; Eagles: 1949-62) born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (d. 2015)

Career Highlights: Bednarik was the last full-time two-way player in the National Football League. He was a 10-time First-team All-Pro (1950-57, 1960, 1961) and an eight-time Pro Bowl selection (1950-56, 1960). Bednarik helped the Eagles win their most recent league championships (1949, 1960). He was a member of the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team and the NFL 75th Anniversary Team. Bednarik is best remembered for knocking New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford out on a passing play. Gifford retired for 18 months due to the hit. Bednarik was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967.

1930:  Halfback Ollie Matson (San Francisco: 1950-51, selected third overall by Chicago Cardinals in the 1952 NFL Draft; Cardinals: 1952-58, Rams: 1959-62, Lions: 1963) born in Trinity, Texas (d. 2011)

Career Stats: 1,170 carries for 5,173 yards and 40 touchdowns; 222 receptions for 3,285 yards and 23 touchdowns; 65 punt returns for 595 yards and three touchdowns; 143 kick returns for 3,746 yards and six touchdowns. Matson was a seven-time First-team All-Pro (1952, 1954-59) and a six-time Pro Bowl selection (1952, 1954-58). He was a member of the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Matson also won a bronze medal in the 400-meter run and a silver medal as part of the 4×400-meter relay team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. His 2011 death from complications from dementia was posthumously attributed to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

1970:  Quarterback Gregory Alexander (Alex) Van Pelt (Pittsburgh: 1989-92, selected 216th overall by Pittsburgh Steelers in 1993 NFL Draft; Bills: 1994-2003) born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Career Stats: 262 completions in 477 attempts for 2,985 yards, 16 touchdowns, and 24 interceptions; 32 carries for 53 yards and a touchdown. Van Pelt is currently quarterbacks coach for the Green Bay Packers.

1973:  Running back Curtis Martin (Pittsburgh: 1991-94, selected 74th overall by New England Patriots in 1995 NFL Draft; Patriots: 1995-1997, Jets: 1998-2006) born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Career Stats: 3,518 carries for 14,101 yards and 90 touchdowns; 484 receptions for 3,329 yards and 10 touchdowns. Martin was the 1995 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. He was a five-time Pro Bowl selection (1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004) a two-time First-team All-Pro (2001, 2004) and a Second-team All-Pro in 1999, He led the NFL in rushing yards in 2004 (1,697) and retired as the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. Martin was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.

1981:  Wide receiver Wesley (Wes) Welker (Texas Tech: 2000-03, signed with San Diego Chargers as undrafted free agent in 2004; Dolphins: 2004-06, Patriots: 2007-12, Broncos: 2013-14, Rams: 2015) born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Career Stats: 903 receptions for 9,924 yards and 50 touchdowns; 19 carries for 151 yards; 264 punt returns for 2,584 yards, 183 kick returns for 4,138 yards and one touchdown. Welker was a five-time Pro Bowler (2008-12), a two-time First-team All-Pro (2009, 2011) and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (2007, 2008). Welker has more receptions (903) than any undrafted player in NFL history. He led the NFL in receptions three times (2007, 2009, 2011). Welker played in Super Bowls XLII and XLVI with Patriots and Super Bowl XLVIII with Broncos, all losses. Welker is currently an offensive assistant with the Houston Texans.

1984:  Nebraska wide receiver Irving Fryar selected first overall in NFL Draft. This was the first draft in a decade where a quarterback wasn’t selected in the first round. Maryland’s Boomer Esiason was selected in the second round (38th overall) by the Cincinnati Bengals.

1987:  Running back Ryan Mathews (Fresno State: 2007-10, selected 12th overall by San Diego Chargers in 2010 NFL Draft; Chargers: 2010-14, Eagles: 2015-present) born in Riverside, California

Career Stats: 1,184 carries for 5,261 yards and 37 touchdowns; 179 receptions for 1,371 yards and three touchdowns. Mathews was a Pro Bowl selection in 2011.

May 2

1959:  Offensive lineman Russell (Russ) Grimm (Pittsburgh: 1977-80, selected 69th overall by Washington Redskins in 1981 NFL Draft; Redskins: 1981-94) born in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania

Career Stats: Grimm started in 114 of his 140 career NFL games. He was a four-time Pro Bowl selection (1983-86), a four-time First-team All-Pro (1983-86), and a member of the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team. Grimm won three Super Bowls with Redskins (XVII, XXII, XXVI) as a member of the Hogs offensive line. He later won a Super Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers (XL) as an offensive line coach. Grimm was a member of the NFL 1980s All-Decade Team and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010. He is currently an offensive line coach with the Tennessee Titans.

1979:  Texas running back Earl Campbell selected first overall by Houston Oilers in NFL Draft. Oilers received No. 1 overall pick from Tampa Bay Buccaneers via trade. Three players from this draft were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Campbell (HOF Class of 1991), Stanford wide receiver James Lofton (No. 6-Green Bay Packers, HOF Class of 2003), and Alabama tight end Ozzie Newsome (No. 23-Cleveland Browns, HOF Class of 1999).

1983:  Quarterback Norman (Norm, also known as The Dutchman) Van Brocklin (Oregon: 1946-48, selected 37th overall by Los Angeles Rams in 1949 NFL Draft; Rams: 1949-57, Eagles: 1958-60) died at age 57 in Social Circle, Georgia (b. 1926)

Career Stats: 1,553 completions in 2,895 attempts for 23,611 yards, 173 touchdowns, and 178 interceptions; Van Brocklin was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection (1950-55, 1958-60), a two-time First-team All-Pro (1955, 1960), and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (1952, 1954). He was the 1960 NFL Most Valuable Player and led the NFL in passing yards in 1954 (2,637). He won two NFL Championships (in 1951 with the Rams and in 1960 with the Eagles). He was also head coach of the Minnesota Vikings (1961-66) and Atlanta Falcons (1968-74). Career Record: 66-100-7 (Vikings: 29-51-4, Falcons: 37-49-3). Van Brocklin was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

1989:  Linebacker Jamie Collins (Southern Mississippi: 2009-12, selected 52nd overall by New England Patriots in 2013 NFL Draft; Patriots: 2013-16, Browns: 2016-present) born in McCall Creek, Mississippi

Career Stats: 254 total tackles (113 solo), 12.5 sacks, five interceptions, 20 passes defended, 11 fumbles recovered, one defensive touchdown. Collins was a Pro Bowl selection in 2015.

1999:  Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway announced his retirement

2009:  Quarterback Jack Kemp (Occidental: 1954-57, selected 203rd overall by Detroit Lions in 1957 NFL Draft; Steelers: 1957, CFL Calgary Stampeders: 1959, Chargers: 1960-62, Bills: 1962-69) died at age 73 in Bethesda, Maryland (b. 1935)

Career Stats: 1,436 completions in 3,073 attempts for 21,218 yards, 114 touchdowns, and 183 interceptions; 356 carries for 1,150 yards and 40 touchdowns. Kemp was the 1965 AFL Most Valuable Player. He led the Bills to back-to-back championships in 1964 and 1965. He was a seven-time AFL All-Star (1961-66, 1969) and a five-time First-team All-Pro (1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966). At the conclusion of his playing career, Kemp served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1971-89). He was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush (1989-93). Kemp unsuccessfully campaigned for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1988. He was the Republican candidate for Vice President in 1996 when he was the running mate of Sen. Robert Dole.

2012:  Linebacker Tiaina (Junior) Seau (USC: 1987-89, selected fifth overall by San Diego Chargers in 1990 NFL Draft; Chargers: 1990-2002, Dolphins: 2003-05, Patriots: 2006-09) committed suicide at age 43 (b. 1969)

Career Stats: 1,522 total tackles (1,298 solo), 18 interceptions, 23 passes defended, one forced fumble, one fumble recovered. Seau was a 12-time Pro Bowl selection (1990-2002), an eight-time First-Team All-Pro (1991-96, 1998, 2000), and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (1997, 1999). He was the 1992 NFL Defensive Player of the Year and a member of the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team. Seau was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015. An examination of Seau’s brain showed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

May 3

1946:  Sportscaster Greg Gumbel born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Gumbel was the studio host of CBS’ The NFL Today (1990-93, 2004-05) and The NFL on NBC (1994-98). He hosted three Super Bowls (XXVI, XXX, XXXII) and called two more (XXXV, XXXVIII), making him only the third broadcaster to accomplish the feat (Dick Enberg, Al Michaels). Gumbel is currently the #2 NFL play-by-play announcer for CBS.

1976:  Fullback Ernest (Ernie) Nevers (Stanford: 1923-25, Duluth Eskimos (1926-27), Chicago Cardinals (1929-31) died at age 72 in Greenbrae, California (b. 1903)

Career Highlights: Nevers was primarily a fullback but also was a kicker and quarterback. On Nov. 28, 1929, he set an NFL record that still stands when he scored all 40 of the Cardinals’ points six touchdowns and four extra points) in a 40-6 victory over the Chicago Bears. Nevers, who also served as Cardinals’ head coach (1930-31, 1939), also played professional baseball. He was a member of the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team and was one of seventeen inaugural members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963).

1977:  USC running back and 1976 Heisman Trophy runner-up Ricky Bell selected first overall by Tampa Bay Buccaneers in NFL Draft. Only one player from this draft was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Pittsburgh running back and 1976 Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett. Dorsett was selected second overall by the Dallas Cowboys. Bell played six seasons in the NFL for the Buccaneers (1977-81) and San Diego Chargers (1982). Bell died in 1984 at age 29 of heart failure caused by dermatomyositis, a rare disease characterized by inflammation of the muscle and skin that can affect the heart. Dorsett played 12 seasons in the NFL and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994.

1978:  Placekicker Lawrence Tynes (Troy: 1997-2000, signed with Kansas City Chiefs as undrafted free agent in 2001; NFL Europe Scottish Claymores: 2002, CFL Ottawa Renegades: 2002-03, Chiefs: 2004-06, Giants: 2007-12) born in Greenrock, Scotland, United Kingdom

Career Stats: 190 field goals made in 233 attempts (81.5 percent);357 extra points made in 363 attempts (98.3 percent). Tynes is the only kicker in NFL history to kick two overtime game-winning field goals. He kicked a 47-yard field goal against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field in the 2007 NFC Championship Game to advance the Giants to Super Bowl XLII. It was also the longest postseason field goal ever at Lambeau. Tynes also kicked a 31-yard field goal in the 2011 NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers to advance the Giants to Super Bowl XLVI. The Giants went on to win both Super Bowls.

1979:  Ohio State linebacker Tom Cousineau selected first overall by Buffalo Bills in NFL Draft. Buffalo acquired the No. 1 pick by trading future Hall of Fame running back O.J. Simpson to the San Francisco 49ers, Simpson’s hometown team. Cousineau refused to play for the Bills and instead signed to play with the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes. Cousineau returned to the NFL in 1982 to play for his hometown team, the Cleveland Browns. Three players selected in this draft were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Arkansas defensive tackle Dan Hampton (No. 4-Chicago Bears: HOF Class of 2002), Missouri tight end Kellen Winslow (No. 13-San Diego Chargers: HOF Class of 1995), and Notre Dame quarterback Joe Montana (No. 82-San Francisco 49ers: HOF Class of 2000).

1983:  Running back Joseph Addai (LSU: 2001-05, selected 30th overall by Indianapolis Colts in 2006 NFL Draft; Colts: 2006-11) born in Houston, Texas

Career Stats: 1,095 carries for 4,453 yards and 39 touchdowns; 191 receptions for 1,448 yards and nine touchdowns. Addai was a Pro Bowl selection in 2007 and helped Colts win Super Bowl XLI.

May 4

1978:  Linebacker James Harrison (Kent State: 1998-2001, signed with Pittsburgh Steelers as undrafted free agent in 2002; Steelers: 2002, NFL Europe Rhein Fire: 2003, Steelers: 2004-12, Bengals: 2013, Steelers: 2014-present) born in Akron, Ohio

Career Stats: 567 total tackles (347 solo), 81.5 sacks, one safety, eight interceptions, 26 passes defended, 33 forced fumbles, nine fumbles recovered. Harrison is a five-time Pro Bowl selection (2007-11), a two-time First-team All-Pro (2008, 2010) and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (2007, 2009). He is the Steelers all-time sack leader (79.5) and won two Super Bowls (XL, XLIII). During Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals, Harrison intercepted a pass from Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner at the goal line and ran the length of the field for a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown.

2003:  Quarterback David Woodley (LSU: 1976-79, selected 214th overall by Miami Dolphins in the 1980 NFL Draft; Dolphins: 1980-83, Steelers: 1984-86) died at age 44 in Shreveport, Louisiana (b. 1958)

Career Stats: 687 completions in 1,300 attempts for 8,558 yards, 48 touchdowns, and 63 interceptions. QB Rating: 65.7; 201 carries for 856 yards and 11 touchdowns. Woodley was the bridge between Hall of Fame quarterbacks Bob Griese and Dan Marino with Dolphins. He led the Dolphins to Super Bowl XVII, where he was (at the time) the youngest quarterback to start in a Super Bowl. After Marino became the Dolphins’ starting quarterback in 1983, Woodley was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers, who were looking for a replacement for Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw.

May 5

1919:  Halfback Anthony (Tony) Canadeo (Gonzaga: 1938-40, selected 77th overall by Green Bay Packers in 1941 NFL Draft; Packers: 1941-44, 1946-52) born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)

Career Stats: 1,025 carries for 4,197 yards and 26 touchdowns; 69 receptions for 579 yards and five touchdowns. Canadeo, known as the Grey Ghost of Gonzaga because of his premature grey hair, was the last Gonzaga player to play professional football (Gonzaga dropped their football program in 1941). He was a two-time First-team All-Pro (1943, 1949) and a Second-team All-Pro in 1948. The Packers won the 1944 NFL Championship without Canadeo because of his service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He became the third running back to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season in 1949. Canadeo is one of six Packers to have his number retired (Don Hutson, Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Reggie White, Brett Favre). He was a member of the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1974.

1972:  Running back Travis Jervey (The Citadel: 1991-94, selected 170th overall by Green Bay Packers in 1995 NFL Draft; Packers: 1995-98, 49ers: 1999-2000, Falcons: 2001-03) born in Columbia, South Carolina

Career Stats: 129 carries for 503 yards and two touchdowns; 10 receptions for 35 yards. Jervey was a Pro Bowl selection in 1997. He won Super Bowl XXXI with Packers.

1973:  Wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad, born Melvin Campbell Jr. (Michigan State: 1991-95, selected 43rd overall by Carolina Panthers in 1996 NFL Draft; Panthers: 1996-2004, Bears: 2005-07, Panthers: 2008-09) born in Lansing, Michigan

Career Stats: 860 receptions for 11,438 yards and 62 touchdowns. Muhammad led the NFL in receptions (102) in 2000 and led the NFL in receiving yards (1,405) and receiving touchdowns (16) in 2004. He was a two-time Pro Bowl selection (1999, 2004) and a First-team All-Pro in 2004. Muhammad helped lead Panthers to appearance in Super Bowl XXXVIII.

1980:  Cornerback Ivan (Ike) Taylor (Louisiana-Lafayette: 2001-02, selected 125th overall by Pittsburgh Steelers in 2003 NFL Draft; Steelers: 2003-14) born in Grenta, Louisiana

Career Stats: 517 total tackles (398 solo), three sacks, 14 interceptions, 133 passes defended, two forced fumbles, five fumbles recovered, one defensive touchdown. Taylor won two Super Bowls (XL, XLIII) with Steelers.

May 6

1907:  Head coach Wilber Charles (Weeb) Ewbank (Colts: 1954-62, Jets: 1963-73) born in Richmond, Indiana (d. 1998)

Career Record: 130-129 regular season (Colts: 59-52, Jets: 71-77), 4-1 postseason (Colts: 2-0, Jets: 2-1). Ewbank began his professional coaching career as an assistant to Paul Brown in Cleveland. He left the Browns to become head coach of the Colts, a team that had struggled in their first season in the NFL. Ewbank brought in quarterback Johnny Unitas to team with wide receiver Raymond Berry and fullback Alan Ameche. The Colts won back to back NFL Championships in 1958 and 1959. Ewbank joined the Jets in 1963 after he was fired by the Colts. The Jets were a struggling team much like the Colts were when he arrived. He brought in quarterback Joe Namath and built the Jets into a contender. The Jets won the 1968 AFL Championship and Super Bowl III (against the Colts). Ewbank was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1978. His Nov. 17, 1998 death was the 30th anniversary of the Heidi Game, a game between the Jets and Oakland Raiders that featured a Raiders comeback victory that viewers on the East Coast didn’t get to see because NBC broke away from game coverage to broadcast the television movie Heidi.

1978:  Defensive end John Abraham (South Carolina: 1996-99, selected 13th overall by New York Jets in 2000 NFL Draft; Jets: 2000-05, Falcons: 2006-12, Cardinals: 2013-14) born in Timmonsville, South Carolina

Career Stats: 446 total tackles (345 solo), 133.5 sacks, one interception, 29 passes defended, 47 forced fumbles, six fumbles recovered, one defensive touchdown. Abraham was a five-time Pro Bowl selection (2001, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2013), a two-time First-team All-Pro (2001, 2010) and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (2002, 2008). Abraham’s 133.5 career sacks are 12th all-time.

1982:  Tight end Christopher (Jason) Witten (Tennessee: 1999-2002, selected 69th overall by Dallas Cowboys in 2003 NFL Draft; Cowboys: 2003-present)

Career Stats: 1,089 receptions for 11,888 yards and 63 touchdowns. Witten is a 10-time Pro Bowl selection (2004-10, 2012-14), a two-time First-team All-Pro (2007, 2010) and a two-time Second-team All-Pro (2008, 2012). He is ranked second all-time in career receptions and career receiving yards by a tight end, trailing only Tony Gonzalez.

1985:  Wide receiver Steven (Steve) Smith (USC: 2003-06, selected 51st overall by New York Giants in 2007 NFL Draft; Giants: 2007-10, Eagles: 2011, Rams: 2012) born in Anchorage, Alaska

Career Stats: 245 receptions for 2,641 yards and 12 touchdowns. Smith holds the Giants franchise single season record for receptions (109). He was a Pro Bowl selection in 2009 and helped Giants win Super Bowl XLII.

1999:  Offensive tackle Mark Tuinei (UCLA: 1978-79, Hawaii: 1981-82, signed with Dallas Cowboys as undrafted free agent in 1983; Cowboys: 1983-97) died at age 39 in Plano, Texas.

Career Stats: Tuinei started 147 of his 195 career NFL games. He was a two-time Pro Bowl selection (1994, 1995) and won three Super Bowls (XXVII, XXVIII, XXX) with Cowboys.

– Curtis Rawls is a Managing Editor for cover32 and covers the NFL and New York Giants, like and follow on Facebook and Twitter. Curtis can be followed on Twitter @TheArmchrAnlyst.

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Arctic Monkeys - Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield

June 2011

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Alex Turner - Sheffield Don Valley Bowl, 2011

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Arctic Monkeys live at Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield [10/11-06-2011]

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505 :

- Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield - 10 June 2011 - Admiralspalast, Berlin -  20 June 2011 - London O2 - 29 October 2011 - Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre, Australia - 10 January 2012 - Casino De Paris, France - 31 January 2012 - Zenith de Lille, France -  1 February 2012 - Glastonbury - 28 June 2013 - MSG, New York - 8 February 2014

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American Boarder Peak, Nooksack / North Cascades

September 1-3, 2012

American Boarder Peak (7994′)

Armed with a favorable Labor Day Weekend weather forecast, Fay and Eileen and I headed into the Nooksack Mountains to tackle American Border Peak.  This visually striking landmark of frightfully steep rock has had a grip on me for many years and on Eileen for the past several years.  Fay climbed it back in 2008 and enjoyed the trip enough to make a second ascent with us.  We were delighted to have her company—in no small part because the overall climb has a reputation for being long, complex, and fairly difficult.  In the end, I personally found American Border Peak to be very long, very complex, and quite challenging but not unreasonable, with lots of exposure and many interesting terrain features along the way (for example, not just ONE but TWO cannonholes on the standard Southeast Face route!).  The convoluted nature of the summit climb has a character more like Cascadian mountains that are much larger, such as Mt. Goode, Mt. Stuart, or Bonanza Peak, and the Great Chimney feels like something from the Canadian Rockies or Alps.  That's saying a lot for a sub-8000-foot mountain.

Day 1:  We drove to bustling Twin Lakes, arriving around noon, and tried to find a parking place—along with everyone else from the Bellingham area, it seemed.  The day was surprisingly cool compared to our recent summer weather.  We hiked between the beautiful blue lakes and onward to High Pass, then down to Gargett Mine for a brief historical sidetrip.  Beckey mentions that this mine makes a good base camp, but we saw room for only a few bivy sacks.  As such, we dropped several hundred feet below the mine to a pretty little green basin (2.3 hours from car) and carved out two tent sites in the gravel bars.  The evening was pleasantly mild and completely mosquito-free.

Day 2:  We awoke to clear skies overhead but boiling clouds behind Tomyhoi Peak to the west.  Fay mentioned hearing some weather chatter about a low-pressure zone forming to the northwest, so we hoped this didn’t become problematic later.  Leaving camp about 7:30am, we began what Beckey aptly calls a long “footsore” traverse across the western flank of Mt. Larrabee.  This traverse involves a full mile of sidehilling across steep slopes of talus, scree, heather, and herbaceous plants, crossing Larrabee’s timbered southwest rib in the first ¼ mile.  Our route gradually rose to a small scree chute ending at a 6200-foot  notch in Larrabee’s rocky northwest rib (1.5 hours from camp).  

On the other side of the notch, we descended a steep dirt chute between snow and rock, then contoured at 5800 feet above a small moraine bowl (Fay’s previous campsite for this climb).  Even after 3 hours of travel, our peak still looked far away at this point.  We angled northward from the bowl, going up and across a series of steep gullies and ribs.  Eventually, we reached a 6840-foot saddle (4.1 hours from camp) on the ridge crest directly south of American Border Peak.  At this “lower south saddle,” we got our first close-up view of American Border Peak, as well as our first view of the legendary Mt. Slesse across Silesia Creek Valley.  Neither mountain gave me a feeling of confidence and certainty, but I knew my chances were better with the former than with the latter.  

We headed up the ridge crest on a faint climber’s path for 200 yards or so and then started traversing rightward on slabby red ledges until close to a rock rib.  The angle steepened considerably here, but we were able to scramble up a small Class 3.5 rock cleft closely left of the rock rib.  More slabby ledges above ended in a flat step atop the rib, from where we traversed across a down-sloping bench to the mouth of a steep snow gully.  The snow had melted enough to leave a tall snow fin in the middle and a dirty moat on each side.  Fay chose to ascend the left-hand moat, whereas Eileen and I ascended the right-hand moat partway before climbing through an interesting cannonhole in the snow fin.  We all rejoined at a high southeast notch and cast eyes on the Great Chimney across an intervening chasm.  My neck hair bristled at the sight of this vertical slot cutting through the southeast face;  it was straight as an arrow for 150 feet, and it looked dark as a coffin inside.  We have to climb THAT?  I was waiting for Fay to casually announce that “oh, it lays back when you get closer,” but she never did.  

We roped up and crossed a narrow, undulating, highly exposed ledge ending at the base of the chimney.  Thankfully, it didn’t appear quite as intimidating from here;  in fact, it turned out to be the highlight of the entire trip.  Because we’d brought only two 25-meter ropes for the three of us, we had to climb the chimney in two short pitches with an intermediate belay at the midpoint.  The first pitch has some initial Class 5.3 moves to gain entry into the chimney bottom, followed by a series of easier chockstone steps.  The second pitch includes a smooth Class 5.4 face climb to surmount a large chockstone, and it ends at a ridiculously small cannonhole that requires you to push your pack up ahead while you execute a sequence of twisting and grunting maneuvers to squirm through (rated Class 5.monkey).  Even Fay, whose weight tops 100 pounds only after a big dinner, had some trouble here;  this cannonhole would be extremely difficult for a large climber!  

Just above the cannonhole, we went left around a corner and scrambled up a sketchy, dirty, slabby trough that ended at a sandy saddle high on the peak’s south ridge.  From this “upper south saddle,” we scrambled over and around a long row of horns and gaps.  The northernmost and highest horn is steep but fairly solid rock with a dramatically exposed step-across move in the middle.  We topped out at 4:15pm (8.4 hours from camp).  The summit register was a small booklet left by Fay during her 2008 climb.  There was a 2009 ascent, no ascents in 2010 or 2011, and then one ascent last month.  Due to the late hour and the arrival of dark clouds from the west, we limited our stay to 15 minutes, departing at 4:30pm.

We scrambled back to the upper south saddle and made one rappel down the slabby trough.  Our first 75-foot rappel down the Great Chimney involved squeezing back through the cannonhole—probably the craziest rappel I’ve ever done—and our second 75-foot rappel (from a mid-chimney chockstone) ended at the narrow ledge.  We carefully crossed back to the high southeast notch and made another rappel down the snow gully, going through the snow cannonhole halfway down (why stop at just ONE cannonhole rappel?).  More down-climbing led to the southeast rib, where we made one last rappel through the rock cleft.  Because darkness was now setting in, it was inevitable that our rope would get stuck as I was pulling it down.  Several fruitless attempts to retrieve it ended with a decision to untie the midpoint knot and sacrifice one rope to the mountain.

Using the last few minutes of dusk, we hurried down the remaining ledges and bootpath to reach the lower south saddle at 8:30pm (3.9 hours from summit).  We donned headlamps and prepared for the 1½-mile traverse back to camp.  Clearly, it was to be a long night, starting with a tricky descent of the steep gullies and ribs leading down to the moraine bowl.  After what seemed like an eternity of groping around on steep, confusing terrain, we crossed the bowl with great relief.  It didn’t take long to climb back up to the 6200-foot notch, arriving at 11:30pm (6.9 hours from summit).  

Our long sidehill return across Larrabee’s western flank was aided by a full moon rising above the ridge, but the nighttime dew made the herbaceous vegetation slippery and treacherous;  after numerous slips and falls, this turned into a  “footsore and hipsore” traverse.  Some confusion in the final timber rib cost us an extra 30 minutes, so it was 1:45am when we finally stumbled into camp (9.2 hours from summit) at the end of this wonderfully convoluted, crazy, and tiring18-hour day.  I vaguely recall dry clothes…dinner… hot drinks…lights out at 3:00am.  Ahhh!

Day 3:  We slept in until 9:00am and slowly worked through our morning routine.  It was 11:30 when we finally started heading back to the trailhead, passing many Labor Day hikers along the way.  One hiker/climber-looking fellow was particularly interested in what we’d been doing with ropes and helmets way back thataway.  “We climbed American Border Peak,” Eileen responded with great satisfaction.  He scrutinized the three of us for several moments and then concluded, “No, you’re joking, aren’t you?”  Oh well, I guess we just don’t look the part.

Approximate stats:  10 miles traveled;  6400 feet gained and lost.

Traversing to 6200 foot notch

American Border Peak in the morning sun

Winchester Mountain and Mount Shuksan above the striped hillslope

Climbing toward south saddle above Tomyhoi Lake

Fay and Eileen at south saddle with Mount Sleese in the background

Traversing bench toward snow gully

Eileen crawling through snow cannonhole

The great chimney from SE notch

Fay and Eileen belaying at SE notch

Eileen squirming through rock cannonhole

Fay and Eileen scrambling along summit ridge

Eileen and Fay on the summit of American Boarder

Eileen rappelling down the great chimney

Fay rappelling through the snow cannohole

Mount Sleese in the evening light

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This Week in NFL History: February 26-March 4

Relive and recapture iconic moments. Discover that you or a loved one share a birthday with a football legend. Recall an anniversary of an event that forever changed the landscape of the NFL and had a profound impact on your life. It’s all here in This Week in NFL History.

This Week in NFL History is a weekly article that will look back at some of the most memorable events that have occurred during this week historically in professional football. Each nugget is a tidbit of information that is connected to the NFL through history.

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This Week in NFL History

February 26

1926:  Halfback Ken Carpenter (Browns, CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, Broncos: 1950-60) is born in Seaside, Oregon (d. 2011) 1949:  Linebacker Phil Villapiano (Raiders, Bills: 1971-83) is born in Long Branch, New Jersey 1966:  Tight end Wesley Walls (49ers, Saints, Panthers, Packers: 1989-2003) is born in Batesville, Mississippi 1971:  Defensive lineman Rick Lyle (Browns, Ravens, Jets, Patriots: 1994-2003) is born in Monroe, Louisiana 1973:  Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk (Colts, Rams: 1994-2005) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana 1983:  Running back Jerome Harrison (Browns, Eagles, Lions: 2006-12) is born in Kalamazoo, Michigan 1987-Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (Raiders, Colts, Steelers: 2009-present) born in Silver Spring, Maryland 1989:  Dallas Cowboys fire head coach Tom Landry after 29 seasons with record of 270-178-6, two Super Bowl victories (VI, XII), five NFC Championships, and 13 division championships 2001:  Tight end Dee Mackey (49ers, Colts, Jets: 1960-65) died at age 66 in Grandwater, Texas (b. 1934) 2012:  Defensive end Don Joyce (Cardinals, Colts, Vikings, Broncos: 1951-62) died at age 87 in Mahtomedi, Minnesota (b. 1929)

February 27

1933:  Hall of Fame split end and head coach Raymond Berry (Colts: 1955-67; HC: Patriots: 1984-89) is born in Corpus Christi, Texas 1974:  Offensive guard Chris Dishman (Cardinals, Rams: 1997-2004) is born in Cozad, Nebraska 1975:  Wide receiver Marcus Robinson (Bears, Ravens, Vikings, Lions: 1997-2007) is born in Fort Valley, Georgia 1975:  Running back Duce Staley (Eagles, Steelers: 1997-2006) is born in Tampa, Florida 1976:  Tight end Tony Gonzalez (Chiefs, Falcons: 1997-2013) is born in Torrance, California 1985:  Offensive tackle Jake Long (Dolphins, Rams, Falcons, Vikings: 2008-present) is born in Lapeer, Michigan 1990:  Defensive end Chandler Jones (Patriots, Cardinals: 2012-present) is born in Rochester, New York 2005:  Cornerback Carl Taseff (Browns, Colts, Eagles, Bills: 1951-62) dies at age 76 in Parma, Ohio (b. 1928) 2008:  Broadcaster Myron Cope, best known as the Voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers and creator of the Terrible Towel, dies at age 79 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania (b. 1929)

February 28

1945:  Defensive end Charles “Bubba” Smith (Colts, Raiders, Oilers: 1967-76) is born in Orange, Texas (d. 2011) 1954:  Head coach and offensive coordinator Brian Billick (HC: Ravens: 1999-2007; OC: Vikings: 1994-98) is born in Fairborn, Ohio 1959:  Chicago Cardinals trade Hall of Fame halfback Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for nine players 1962:  Head coach and offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt (HC: Cardinals: 2007-12, Titans: 2014-15; OC: Steelers: 2004-06, Chargers, 2013, Rams: 2016-present) is born in Augusta, Georgia 1966:  Running back Elbert “Ickey” Woods (Bengals: 1988-91) is born in Fresno, California 1972:  Offensive tackle Scott Gragg (Giants, 49ers, Jets: 1995-2005) is born in Silverton, Oregon 1989:  Defensive end Carlos Dunlap (Bengals: 2010-present) is born in North Charleston, South Carolina 1992:  Running back Orleans Darkwa (Dolphins, Giants: 2014-present) is born in Nashville, Tennessee 1992:  Long snapper Tyler Ott (Patriots, Rams, Giants, Bengals, Seahawks: 2014-present) born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

March 1

1926:  Commissioner Alvin “Pete” Rozelle (1960-89) is born in South Gate, California (d. 1996) 1941:  Former Notre Dame football head coach Elmer Layden appointed first NFL commissioner 1946:  Hall of Fame defensive end Elvin Bethea (Oilers: 1968-83) is born in Trenton, New Jersey 1950:  Tight end Riley Odoms (Broncos: 1972-83) is born in Luling, Texas 1955:  Linebacker Jeff Barnes (Raiders: 1977-87) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1961:  Running back Mike Rozier (USFL’s Pittsburgh Maulers and Jacksonville Bulls, Oilers, Falcons: 1984-91) is born in Camden, New Jersey 1965:  Defensive end Les Miller (Chargers, Saints, Chargers, Panthers: 1987-98) is born in Arkansas City, Kansas 1974:  Running back Stephen Davis (Redskins, Panthers, Rams: 1996-2006) is born in Spartansburg, South Carolina 1989:  Linebacker Mason Foster (Buccaneers, Bears, Redskins: 2011-present) is born in Seaside, California 1994:  Wide receiver/return specialist Tyreek Hill (Chiefs: 2016-present) is born in Lauderhill, Florida 2007:  Defensive end Lloyd Voss (Packers, Steelers, Broncos: 1964-72) dies at age 65 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1942) 2009:  Linebacker Marquis Cooper (Buccaneers, Vikings, Steelers, Seahawks, Steelers, Jaguars, Steelers, Raiders: 2004-08) presumed dead at age 26 in boating accident near Clearwater, Florida

March 2

1934:  Halfback/split end Howard “Hopalong” Cassady (Lions, Browns, Eagles, Lions: 1956-63) is born in Columbus, Ohio 1962:  Kicker Al Del Greco (Packers, Cardinals, Oilers/Titans: 1984-2000) is born in Providence, Rhode Island 1978:  Kicker Sebastian Janikowski (Raiders: 2000-present) is born in Walbrzych, Poland 1982:  Kicker Mike Nugent (Jets, Buccaneers, Cardinals, Bengals: 2006-present) is born in Centerville, Ohio 1982:  Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (Steelers: 2004-present) is born in Lima, Ohio 1982:  Cornerback Corey Webster (Giants: 2005-14) is born in Vacherie, Louisiana 1985:  Offensive tackle Will Beatty (Giants: 2009-present) is born in York, Pennsylvania 1985:  Running back Reggie Bush (Saints, Dolphins, Lions, 49ers, Bills: 2006-present) is born in Spring Valley, California 1989:  Running back Shane Vereen (Patriots, Giants: 2011-present) is born in Valencia, California 1990:  Cornerback Malcolm Butler (Patriots: 2014-present) is born in Vicksburg, Mississippi

March 3

1950:  After three months as National-American Football League, league reclaims National Football League name 1951:  Cornerback Benny Barnes (Cowboys, USFL’s Oakland Invaders: 1972-82, 1984) is born in Lufkin, Texas 1962:  Running back Herschel Walker (USFL’s New Jersey Generals, Cowboys, Vikings, Eagles, Giants, Cowboys: 1983-97) is born in Wrightsville, Georgia 1973:  Offensive lineman Cory Raymer (Redskins, Chargers, Redskins: 1995-2005) is born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 1977:  Running back Trung Canidate (Rams, Redskins: 2000-03) is born in Phoenix, Arizona 1978:  Safety Yeremiah Bell (Dolphins, Jets, Cardinals: 2003-13) is born in Winchester, Kentucky 1984:  Wide receiver Santonio Holmes (Steelers, Jets, Bears: 2006-14) is born in Belle Glade, Florida 1993:  Wide receiver Michael Thomas (Saints: 2016-present) is born in Los Angeles, California 2012:  Halfback/fullback Alex Webster and head coach (CFL’s Montreal Alouettes, Giants 1953-1964; HC Giants: 1969-74) dies at age 80 in Port St. Lucie, Florida (b. 1931)

March 4

1938:  Fullback Don Perkins (Cowboys: 1961-68) is born in Waterloo, Iowa 1960:  Offensive lineman Reggie McElroy (Jets, Raiders, Chiefs, Vikings, Broncos: 1982-96) is born in Beaumont, Texas 1962:  Defensive lineman Greg Kragen (Broncos, Chiefs, Panthers: 1985-97) is born in Chicago, Illinois 1974:  Tight end O.J. Santiago (Falcons, Cowboys, Browns, Vikings, Raiders, Broncos, Raiders, Patriots, CFL’s Montreal Alouettes: 1997-2007, 2010) is born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada 1977:  Fullback Chris Fuamatu-Ma’afala (Steelers, Jaguars: 1998-2007) is born in Honolulu, Hawaii 1986:  Offensive lineman Ryan Wendell (Patriots, Panthers: 2008-present) is born in Diamond Bar, California 1989:  Defensive end Michael Shelby (Dolphins, Falcons: 2012-present) is born in Houston, Texas 2009:  Hall of Fame halfback George McAfee (Bears: 1940-41, 1945-50) dies at age 90 in Durham, North Carolina (b. 1918) 2009:  Defensive end Dave Pureifory (Packers, Bengals, Lions, USFL’s Michigan Panthers and Birmingham Stallions: 1972-82, 1984-85) dies at age 59 in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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