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Spiky
Trad climber
Wales
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 31, 2010 - 06:27pm PT
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80 this year and a CBE. Well done Joe! (now when can we expect the detailed autobiography?)
Best wishes, Spiky
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 31, 2010 - 07:03pm PT
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But, what we all want to know is, can he still handjam?
i'm betting he can!
Tip of the crown to Cato and Annie Lennox, too!
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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Dec 31, 2010 - 07:24pm PT
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detailed autobiography? You want stuff that wasn't in The Hard Years? Or one that covers the soft years as well?
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Dec 31, 2010 - 08:32pm PT
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Well done, Joe, old man! Congratulations for the recognition of your considerable contributions to climbing. Hope you happen to browse ST and see this.
John
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oldtopangalizard
Social climber
ca
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Dec 31, 2010 - 09:20pm PT
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'Teeth like tombstones and arms like bunches of bananas'. Who in Yosemite today could fit that description?
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go-B
climber
Revelation 7:12
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Dec 31, 2010 - 10:49pm PT
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I have a Joe Brown climbing Helmet!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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It is a bit odd, in that for practical purposes, the British haven't had an empire since the 1960s, and certainly not since giving Hong Kong back to the Chinese in 1997.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Congratulations to a true pioneer of modern rock climbing.
Eighty years! Quite an accomplishment considering the routes you put up.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Way to go Joe.
Mighty, why the penchant for qualifying, you sound like KM some days.
Commander Lennox? She was way sexy already, fiftyish and hot, hot, hot!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I just like the small ironies that life serves up.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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We read about Joe Brown's hand jamming technique back in the early 1960's. A key point in the description seemed to be the technique of crossing a thumb across your palm. Frank Sacherer and I and others in Camp 4 discussed the idea that we needed to learn these techniques if we were ever to have a hope of free climbing Yosemite big walls. There were a number of us who started spending time on the cracks in the Iota and Reed's Pinnacle area; discussing how we thought Joe Brown might be doing it, and struggling to learn. What is now considered normal crack climbing techniques, seemed ridiculously unusual to us at the time. Our early awkward attempts were not impressive. At various times the group included Wally Reed, Gary Colliver, Chris Frederics, Jeff Foote, Loyd Price, Joe Faint, and others. I don't recall seeing Chuck Pratt show up for our agonizing sessions. With Frank's intense passion for it; we gradually learned to make our way up Chingando on the Iota, and the pitches on Reed's Direct. The first ascents of those routes were really done by mob-rule siege climbing. I would commonly use a layback rather than jamming; which never failed to irritate Frank, who felt I was working at cross purposes to our goal of learning to jam long cracks.
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smith curry
climber
nashville,TN
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Hiker- I think the Canadians and the Aussies still hafta kiss the Queen's ass.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Given the current climate in the UK, I'd say we Canucks, Aussies, Kiwis and other former colonials have to save the Queen's ass not kiss it.
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Spiky
Trad climber
Wales
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 1, 2011 - 07:22pm PT
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Tami, thank you for clarifying the situation re the biography (Happy 2011 by the way). I mentioned it on purpose (but as a gentle nudge) because (a)the stories of the Rock and Ice need to be told as they aren't getting any younger and (b)the biography has been a long time coming.
Good climbing!
Spiky
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Joe told me that, in fact, he was a contractor and builder, with a number of skills. The appellation of plumber seems to have stuck, however. When I talked with him several years ago he was looking for his tool kit and getting ready to do some work on his wife's house. He also talked about the awkward transition from nailed boots to vibram soles . . . how many of us can claim that experience? Commander Brown, I salute you! A hero for your time.
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