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healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 14, 2006 - 12:15am PT

This is my favorite climbing picture; it speaks to everything climbing was and is to me. I unfortunately never got to climb with Jim, but only with a few of his partners back East. My loss and so I'd love to hear any stories you have if any of you managed to cross paths or share a rope with him...

bvb

Social climber

flagstaff arizona

Mar 14, 2006 - 11:37am PT

that's "a dare by the sea" at acadia national park. pretty stout 5.10 to be leading in those foggy conditions....

Rhodo-Router

Trad climber

Otto, NC

Mar 14, 2006 - 11:43am PT

Ben? Remember that one?

ice cowboy

Trad climber

Waterbury, CT

Mar 14, 2006 - 11:51am PT

I don't know of any stories, but there is a nice plaque in Jim's memory at Ragged Mountain in CT. Fitting seeing that Ragged is the most traditional of any crags that I know of.
He has a legacy, that's for sure

OldEric

Trad climber

Westboro, MA

Mar 14, 2006 - 12:16pm PT

"foggy conditions"... One could also comment on the EB's and the makeup of the rack. One could also comment on Climbing selling for a buck and a half.

Jaybro

Social climber

The West

Mar 14, 2006 - 12:39pm PT

I met Jim briefly in camp four a few days before he died. one day we came back into camp and he was laughing with some of his friends and looking att hat magazine. He seemed a little shy about it, I thought.
A couple of days later I went and had an epic on Mt Watkins, and came back to find he had his on Sentinnel. It put my own troubles in perspective.

Dru

climber

HELL, BABY, HELL!

Mar 14, 2006 - 01:13pm PT

daisy dukes?!

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2006 - 04:59pm PT

Dru - Daisy Dukes?

Hmmm, sounds like he was pretty low key until that sad day on Sentinel and didn't get a chance to interact with many of you. He's just going to be an enigma to me forever I guess. Have to get back East again and get on some of his routes...