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Jorge
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 2, 2006 - 04:48pm PT
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Werner hasn't changed a bit, now about that other guy...
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Isn't there a third shot when the ledge hourglasses and dump Mikey into the dirt?
I was testing my trusty Gramiici ledge hanging from a jug hold I had screwed into the wooden ceiling. I was about a foot or two off the floor. The hold pulled, fell 6 feet and hit me hard in the forehead at the same I crashed suddenly into the floor. Blood was flowing! It was traumatic!
Wasn't the ledges fault though.
Peace
Karl
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Hahaha George!
Is that Whitey standing all Sauvé behind me in that first shot? If I didn’t know any better I would think that’s my youngest son sitting there. It’s true Werner you haven’t changed, maybe you’re a little thinner. Me on the other hand! For those interested it’s a rocky road to get back in shape but as long as I can still use my feet there’s hope.
That ledge had a fiberglass frame, only made one that way, super light kept it for myself!
Lent it to Michael Kennedy some years later to climb Trango tower. He had to toss it off to lighten the load for a nasty decent. He felt so bad about it he gave me a year’s free advertising in his Mag. Climbing.
Did we really dress like that?
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Karl, ouch sorry about that. What does Jaybro call them? “Parallelogram” hahaha…;-)
I made the beds tight so if it wasn’t loaded they would spring. guess they developed a rep for that. Hey may have been forgotten otherwise.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Is there something wrong with dressing like that?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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damn. the inventor of the modern portaledge...eerrr, i mean "cliff dwelling"
street cred like "WHOA!!"
major highlight of my climbing life was getting to kick it like a regular joe, drinking a.m. coffee next to MG at KP's place last april. damn straight, homies. he da man. "the quiet american....."
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mike White?
Looks pretty much,
'speshly with them kuh-boy duds...
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WBraun
climber
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Gramiici the master inventor, always thinking up various inventions and ideas. Remember the time you told me we will now stare at the candle ......... and see what it says.
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Jorge
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2006 - 11:29pm PT
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How clever of you Tbuster to clean that up. Never occurred to me...
Mike, I know you've seen it, but this shot really shows your focus.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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titanic. one of my fave valley probs.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Graham,
Were the corners on that ledge done by Larry Sampson by any chance? He mentioned working on an early ledge design (proto-Fish) with you. Cool stuff.
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Bob, you’re too funny! A highlight for me would be carrying your pad around for you.
Yep, that be Mike White. The bay area cowboy!
Werner you remember what we saw looking into that candle?
George you took that shot just after I Soloed the Aquarian, I lost 20 lbs shivering for four days straight. I have never been able to live up to that weight again. Thanks
Marty, not sure I remember Larry. Johnny Woodward was the only other one I had working on the “Cliff Dwellings” in the later days.
Cheers
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Mike,
Larry-mo was/is Eddie-mo Sampson's brother. He used to mill ledge corners for Fish and made some drift pins and other stuff. Cool guy.
On a whole other tangent, care to relate any stories from freeing the Beckey/Chouinard route on Howser Tower?
Marty
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Marty, I figured Larry was related to Ed.
Our trip to Canada was a long time back as well. Rick summed up his Howser climb pretty well in Trashman’s thread. There were four of us on that trip but we always climbed two parties of two. Richard Harrison and I had some other projects going on a different peak when Rick and Tobin went back in the Howser area.
That was a fun road trip for four friends
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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George,
All very nice, but a major let down after the title of this thread. I will dig out a slide featuring a young lady, Mike and sleeping bags. Stay tuned.
Rick
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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*bump with photo*
A modern Graham & BVB:
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Sooooo, Mike, been on the Aquarian lately?
We love you all the same. That is if you love us all the same.
Hee, he. Best
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Snell Field, Chamonix, 1976. Mike met his lovely wife-to-be, Wendy, in Chamonix that summer. The rest, as they say, is history. Had lunch with Wendy and Mike in San Clemente last summer. Thirty years later, Wendy is as pretty as ever.
Note the nifty camp chair borrowed from the nearby junkyard.
Mike, you should tell the truly epic story of your solo on the Aquarian wall: several days alone and stationary in the prototype Cliff Dwelling, high on El Cap, pounded by rain and waterfalls, had to hold the fabric together the whole time to prevent it from ripping apart.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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and Graham,
after the Aquarian tale, how about a couple snapshots from your storied trip Down Under?
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