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Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 12, 2006 - 07:18pm PT

The man who made it.


The man who used it.


Ken
john hansen

climber
Aug 12, 2006 - 11:20pm PT
The Dolt himself? The inscription was done after the climb I assume...
Blitzo

Social climber
Earth
Aug 13, 2006 - 01:36am PT
Bill Dolt is no longer alive, Rajmit.
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2006 - 05:14am PT
Good point Blitzo,

Ken
elcapfool

Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
Aug 13, 2006 - 06:04am PT
How'd he get that nickname?
I suppose it would have been better than "The Feuhrer"...
Jennie

Trad climber
Salt Lake
Aug 13, 2006 - 08:30am PT
I may be wrong on this. My understanding was that Bill Fuehrer was affectionately given the nickname "the Dolt" by climbing friends for his propensity of forgetting essential items to take on a big climb. (I heard this from Warren Harding talking to my father maybe fifteen years ago (?).)
Richard Large

climber
sneaking up behind you...
Aug 13, 2006 - 11:35am PT
OT
And here are a couple of evil conspirators hatching some plot of low debauchery...
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