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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 17, 2006 - 09:20pm PT
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Lois seems to think that is pretty silly that someone should think 'climber' when they hear the name Warren Harding.
I think Warren Harding, in times to come, will be remembered more for El Capitan than Teapot Dome.
Please advise.
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WoodyS
Trad climber
Riverside
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Feb 17, 2006 - 09:25pm PT
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It depends entirely on the community you reside in.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Feb 17, 2006 - 09:27pm PT
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I think of WINE when I hear the name Warren Harding!
I think of wining when I hear the name Tonya Harding!
I think of the 29th president when I hear Warren Harding!
I think I'd like to know about Teapot Dome!
Gary....please advise
Peace
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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Feb 17, 2006 - 09:36pm PT
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Remember when the Simpsons dropped the name Warren Harding in an episode about climbing, of all things, and we tried to figure out if Simpsons writers were clever enough to double entendre climbing terms/names?
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wildone
climber
right near the beach, boyeee (lord have mercy)
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Feb 17, 2006 - 10:18pm PT
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....which, not to open an old can of worms, but I think is RIDICULOUS, considerering Warren Harding has wide support as our Worst President Ever, while Batso, famous as he is in the climbing community, ...I don't even need to finish that comparison.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Feb 17, 2006 - 10:38pm PT
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I think of wine and the old mountain room and stumbling around in a parking lot.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 17, 2006 - 10:49pm PT
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Truely, I knew of the climber, before the president.
Lois, when you were looking for climbing books this is why I suggested "Downward Bound," somewhat dated, but it's all there, all the crap we argue about here.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2006 - 11:38pm PT
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He did the FA on Teapot Dome.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Feb 18, 2006 - 12:15am PT
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Warren Harding was one of the best hearted guys I ever met. And in his day he was an incredible character, tough as nails and super bold. Sure, he'd tak a drink now and again, or two drinks, for that matter. But he was the shiz-at, man.
JL
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Feb 18, 2006 - 10:00am PT
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And he was president? Man, I wonder how he dealt with congress with a jug in his hands.
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Grug
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Feb 18, 2006 - 12:30pm PT
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Definitely one of my heroes. The Harding vs Robbins stuff in the early '70s was very fun to follow.
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Dusty
Trad climber
highway 99
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Feb 21, 2006 - 02:14am PT
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The guy was a bad-ass and a hell of a character from everything I've read... and I've read everything I can find about him. Any "old-timers" out there have any other WH stories to tell?... I'd love to hear 'em.
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Gene
climber
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Feb 21, 2006 - 02:33am PT
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I have this photo on the wall above my computer.
Looks like he has about 200 pounds on his back. Hair is crazy. Eyes show fatigue. Must have been left handed since his right hand is for separating the ropes on rappel. Teeth kinda gritted. Half smile, half grimace. He smells bad.
Almost 50 years ago with crap gear.
Stud.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Feb 21, 2006 - 02:55am PT
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it will now be hinth forth called " back in Warren's day".
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Ouch!
climber
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Feb 21, 2006 - 03:25am PT
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I may have been in Yosemite when that picture was taken. Robbins had just climbed Half Dome and Harding was starting his work on the Captain. Bet big changes have taken place since '57.
Bear 46 and Werner are all grown up.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Feb 21, 2006 - 04:41am PT
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I watched an episode of The Simpsons tonite. Homer said the way to the top of the desert tower was to climb through the Warren Harding Hole, which they mentioned several times. Harding's climb up the Lost Arrow Chimney is pretty famous.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 21, 2006 - 05:49am PT
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Gotta get it. Which episode? Or at least which season?
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Dusty
Trad climber
up & down highway 99
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Feb 21, 2006 - 07:27am PT
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maybe this is a reference to the Slot on the Column (now Astroman)?
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
pitch above you
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Feb 21, 2006 - 07:36am PT
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The Warren Harding Memorial Through-hole appears in the episode
"Thank God It's Doomsday" - Season Sixteen
Plot summary blatantly stolen from the web:
"An apocalyptic movie followed by three real-life omens causes Homer to fear the rapture. Homer deducts that the event is coming in a week and he believes the only way he can get into heaven is to warn others. A skeptical Kent Brockman does a report on Homer where Homer quotes a Biblical verse involving stars falling from the sky, which later happens during a blimp accident on a "Krusty" special. After a vision (or possibly an ice cream headache) Homer takes the new believers to Springfield Mesa (via the Warren Harding Memorial Through-hole) and awaits a rapture that never comes. A discredited Homer returns home and discovers an error in his calculations. He then returns to the mesa alone after his friends and family turn their backs on him. At the mesa, Homer experiences the rapture (or maybe a heat induced dream) where he rampages in heaven and convinces God to delay doomsday and return Homer to his family."
--->bob
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