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Ahyama 41 year old hillbilly from Eastern Washington  moved to California to be a Hippee Mountaineer.
 
At least you would think so to look at me.  I am a product of the compressed 21st century; a radically moderate liberal redneck.
Raised by a loving  family in a traditionally backwoods, Pagan sort of way, I grew up fishing, hunting, trapping, lighting  forest fires and other politically incorrect wonderfull stuff.  I started climbing in the 70's, using homade pitons and hemp rope in the Okanogan Valley.  In 1981,  I learned in college [where I received a BA in Outdoor Recreation], that everything I knew was wrong, a trend that has continued to this day.  After about 15 years of climbing in Washington, I moved to Yosemite for my Spanking.  For several years I lived in caves without any money, practicing  intense experiential Zen, hitchhiking from place to place . After 5 years or so in the Granite Crucible, I  moved over here to the Eastside, where I climb, explore, and work as a glazier.  Guitar player,  mountaineer,  zen chef,  philosopher, dancer.  I have two kids and a computer.  I am skinny, cute, and single.

A List of my Favorite Books:
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude,   by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gravitiy's Rainbow,    by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49,    by Thomas Pynchon
Mount Analog,    by  Renee Duval
Finnegan's Wake,   by James Joyce
Slaughter House 5,  by Kurt Vonnegut
Still Life with Woodpecker,  by Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction,   by Tom Robbins
The Lord of the Rings,  by J.R.R. Tolkien
Damieon,   by Hermann Hesse
Valis,  by Phillip K. Dick
Dry Tortugas,   by Steve Quarmen
Poisonwood Bible,   by Barbra Kingsolver
The Monkey Wrench Gang,   by Edward Abby

A rare photo of me roped up in Yosemite
me climbing in the lower merced canyon
Porker Party [5.11b] Lower Merced Canyon

Gung-Po,  origin unknown,  central asia:
The art and discipline of moving over any sort of terrain.  To read the coreographay as it is written upon the World.

Wormspew is an arbitrary and irreverent made-up term for the Voice of the non-spatial, discarnate hive-mind that speaks to people "in my condition".  It might be God.  Don't count on it.

This site is intended primarily as a forum for like-minded mountaineers.  But as Norman Clyde once said  "Strange Things  tend to Happen in the life of a Mountaineer."    Mountaineering Easily becomes Strangeness.

NAMASTE

link to Mysteries of the Worm page

In 1989 I was a Feature Story in the Premier Issue
click on each page after reading to view the next
Click on the Mag to read the Article

During the Winter of 1989 I lived in a cave in JT.  Somehow the Details folks heard about me and sent out a team to document my existence.  I thought they were a gov. sting operation out to get me for illegal camping.  I spent a lot of effort ditching those guys and feeding them disinformation, only to discover six months later that they were for real!  The article is primarily about the scism between sport climbing and trad style; sort of a historical perspective.

Bound t' Cover Just a Little More Ground...
link to the grateful dead official site

  .......I was a hitchiking bohdsittava in those years.  About this time I discovered the Gratefuldead,  and hitchiked to over a dozen shows, mostly in California.  A Prophet on the Burning Shore, Like a flash of Light......   Someday I will link some dead stories from that wyrd era......

Link to the Rohrer Family Website
link to the Rohrer family website
Grandma made me what I am today