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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 2, 2007 - 12:47pm PT
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Pretty funny comment from Russ.
Post up!
CG on second ascent of Rainbow Wall
D Hershey
some poser on...Wendego
CG on the FA of Paris Girl
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Bob, you got a new scanner?
I could find a few more old ones, from the days real men wore white pants.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Great shots Bob!
That one of Derek with his wild hair cracked me up.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nice Bob,
That's what Russ W was talkin' 'bout!
I ain't got much and we have seen far to little of Eldo on this forum: so post up Chiloe and everybody.
Sue Wint on Genesis:
Tim Toula, aka TNT, wigglin' up Pansee Savage:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Roger setting a hex before firing Art's Spar, 1974.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Eldorado certainly has pretty....rock.
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!"
I'm looking forward to the dondering thread.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Eldo Prancer, Jim Collins:
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 3, 2007 - 12:02am PT
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Tar...LeVoid...Classic route.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Air Sepia
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jack herer
climber
veneta, or
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bob-
on your third photo down... whats up with the chalk smear? from peope falling or what?
edit: or is that the rock... am i drunk or what?
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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What I like is the generosity of climbers, true climbers, such as Peter Croft and John Bachar. They would never say they had anything on the Colorado climbers, because they know they don't but also because they know the deeper truths that people are individuals and artists in their own right and come from different backgrounds and different experience. It behooves us all to see into both dark and light and see into the hearts of people and know their very individual gifts. Petty comparisons have only one end: to reduce one person or one group of persons and elevate another, to make precious souls seem of no worth, and for the purpose of some cowardly little ego grandiosity.
When Peter in the early 1990s climbed my 1965 Supremacy Crack, a little tale of my youth, making easy work of it, he didn't tell me or anyone else what a trivial thing it is. He didn't do the climb to prove his superiority. He phoned me and congratulated me on what an achievement it was for its time. He has always had the right perspective, a beautiful soul pure and untainted by the obscene contentions and insecurities of those braying about how superior they or their fellows are to others. Peter also phoned me and told me he finally, after a lot of work, had repeated one of my 1968 boulder problems in Yosemite. He could have kept that a secret, that he had to work at it. He is humble, though. He is honest. When he and I roped up one day and did an old 5.10+ route of mine on Castle Rock, in a slight rain, I watched a master at work. I was perfectly fine recognizing him as my superior, and my superior in a vast way. But he never made me feel such was so. We were comrades, friends on a nice climb on a day when rain fell in bright sunlight.
Some person a short while back blurted that Katy Brown could out climb me. Was that supposed to be a surprise? That's a ridiculous as someone telling John Salathe that Bridwell could outclimb him. Do you think Bridwell, though, ever would show such disrespect? Or that Katy Brown would ever show such contempt? Bridwell knows the contribution Salathe made and how far advanced Salathe was in his day, how bold those early climbs were. David Breashears once wrote me, "You must forgive the young hot shots. They sometimes forget whose shoulders they are standing on to see the horizons of the day."
Prancers, pulling hard, all this terminology. It's just a ruse. What we will remember are the climbs, the sun, the light, the pines, their fragrance... but mostly climbs we did with some good friend from Colorado or California, or elsewhere, on some voluptuous day at some adventurous moment, brief though it was, in eternity.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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very nice Pat
thanks
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 3, 2007 - 08:26am PT
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Pat hit the nail on head. All of us are standing on someone else shoulders.
If burning someone off is all you take home from a climbing day...something is wrong.
I remember my first meeting with Gill. I had no expectations on his climbing prowness...I just knew I was around greatness.
Jack...the chalk is from palming.
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Crag Q
Trad climber
Louisville, Colorado
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Beautiful Pat.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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I thought the best climbers came from the Bahamas.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Eldo is a treasure trove of really interesting routes.
Its one of those places, much like others and maybe a bit moreso, that reveals itself as you get into it.
Very intricate stuff.
In that picture of Collins on the cover of Mountain 79, he's just exited a balls out, first knuckle, double overhung layback.
(I can't comment on the big roof crux above, out of the picture).
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes Pat Ament, as always, some pretty steady words there.
Thanks for hangin' in here with us.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Greg Cameron, expat Cali Boy, on the upper section of Anthill Direct:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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One of the most beloved of all Eldorado climbers,
Derek Hersey, who called Eldo "The Office":
-From "The Climbing Art"
Pat Ament's magazine.
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