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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 9, 2012 - 09:04am PT
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Yosemite Climbing Association is hosting it's second annual Legends of Stone event. Ed Cooper will be doing a presentation at the East Auditorium in Yosemite Valley starting at 6:30pm on Saturday, October 20th, 2012. He will be showing his exceptional photography of his 59 years spent in the mountains and also talk about and show never been seen before pictures of the the first ascent of the Dihedral Wall of El Capitan. The Dihedral Wall was completed 50 years ago and was the third route established on El Capitan. Should be a good warmup to Steve Grossman's Oakdale event. I hope to see you at both events. It should be a great week.
Thanks,
Ken
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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XLNT! Looking forward to both events!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Ken, have you considered a Stoned Legend series?
Would probably have to bump up to the late 60s and early 70s as most of the old boys are still stuck on vino?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Not everyone's a legend but everybody must get stoned.--gospel
Ken, is this gonna be free or paid?
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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I saw Eds show in Squamish & it was amazing, his passion for the mountains was very inspiring & his photos & stories were magnificent. Go if u can!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
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Mouse, There is no charge.
Ken
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Free show on the Dihedral Wall. AWESOME!!!!!!!
Ed is an incredible photographer and a really nice guy too.
Thanks for posting this up Ken and for doing all you do for our community.
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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This is awesome. Mike, Ais, and I will be there for sure!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Oct 10, 2012 - 12:05am PT
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BITD when Bugs McKeith would come from BC to Yosemite, he'd bring a case or so of good BC brewskis and share it with us CA lads who were deprived of decent brews. It'd be GREAT, Relic, if you kept up his tradition. Baldwin & Cooper should fit the bill nicely!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2012 - 02:01am PT
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Flyer is done.
Ken
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Oct 11, 2012 - 12:26pm PT
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Bump for a great show. And its Free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who's going to be there?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 11, 2012 - 12:49pm PT
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Cooper's photography is fantastic and such an important part of Yosemite history.
We will be there.
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Oct 11, 2012 - 08:02pm PT
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Looking forward to seeing you, Ken and Joe, so soon after the facelift too. Talked to Ed today and there will be the Dihedral Wall plus bonus shots from other climbs in his presentation. Yep should be a great show.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 14, 2012 - 09:51pm PT
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(Gnashes teeth, due to inability to attend either or both events.)
Sounds like it'll be a great week in the Valley and then Oakdale, with lots of history and characters. Ed gave a somewhat similar show at the Squamish Mountain Festival in 2011, which was very well received. He's put enormous work into scanning and restoring his old photos.
Bump - only a week to go.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 16, 2012 - 12:04am PT
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DON'T MISS THIS EVENT FOLKS! JUST FIVE DAYS AWAY!
These two great photographers alongside Tom Frost are the best of their generation and combined forces to climb this classic route. Tom was totally stoked about repeating it two years later with Royal! He loved the climbing and said that these two and Jim Baldwin did a great job especially considering that they had few alloy steel pitons on their rack. A soft-iron adventure to say the least!
Come and hear all about it!
More Dihedral Wall history to whet your appetite...
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=439672&msg=1736142#msg1736142
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Oct 16, 2012 - 01:13am PT
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I sure wish Dennis Hennek & Don Lauria who did the 3rd ascent of the Dihedral Wall would show up! Sheesh, you guys, since you're coming to Oakdale, why not just make a week of it and stay at my place??? Don, bring McLean with you!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 16, 2012 - 01:29am PT
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I wish I could make it to this one. I first read about guys like Ed Cooper when I was a young punk wanting to know what this "rock-climbing" thing was and perused Chris Jone's famous book. When I met Don Gordon a couple years ago and talked climbing, Ed Cooper was a big figure, as he remains in my estimations. Is Ed going to be in Oakdale? I would love to meet him.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 16, 2012 - 01:05pm PT
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Unfortunately, Dennis isn't going to be able to make the Oakdale event but Don is still susceptible to BooDawgin'! LOL
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Vgavinator
Social climber
Ladera Ranch, CA
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Oct 16, 2012 - 02:46pm PT
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Ken:
Any autograph sessions? Are any of his photos going to be for sale. Any t-shirts?
Just curious.
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Oct 16, 2012 - 08:36pm PT
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Good question about his stuff for sale. I sure hope so.
Counting down the days!
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