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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 15, 2009 - 12:46am PT
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Jorge- Endless thanks for your guidebook and picture book efforts. I never tire of looking at Yosemite Climber. Before it came out, this photo spread appeared in Climbing Jan-Feb 1980. A variation on a theme by Meyers.....
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:04am PT
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Whoever gave Stevie his scanner must be remembered in Heaven, as the guy is a veritable salt mill. Just look at all this stuff he is posting these last 12++ months.. It is effing amazing. I bet Mimi is in on it too!! Gems, never before seen by most. Incredibly invaluable contribution; you know, this stuff otherwise will vanish.
ultrahugs, ph.
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Frank Sanders
Trad climber
Devils Tower. Wyoming
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:13am PT
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Where is that Mimi dude, anyway???
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2009 - 01:24am PT
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We are defintely a team and it is all in the interests of fun and nostaglia. I relish your tales and recollections equally much.
And a rootin', tootin', shootin' big ole howdy to you too Frank--from Mimi-----dude.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 02:48am PT
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Cool article. Only the first photo made it into the version of Yosemite Climber which was printed. I read a story here once that most of the first choice photos got destroyed in some accident, and George had to pick a new bunch of photos? [edit: see posts below - stolen from Bridwell's car]
There is a color version of the first one:
It seems to work as well in color as it does in black&white.
George posted it on his thread "a couple graham bed shots":
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=261099
I read here someplace that was taken after Mike Graham had come down from El Cap after running out of food up on the wall and losing a lot of weight.
A fuzzy/modified version of the Short Circuit photo made it into the 1987 Meyers-Reid guidebook.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 15, 2009 - 03:14am PT
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You know, I climbed with George once. . .and I now live in
a house that's only less than a block from where I met George,
in a beautiful Victorian mansion (with gargoyles), in Denver,
in 1975. . .wish he still lived there!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2009 - 11:57am PT
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The fact that most shots didn't make the book struck me too! Nic is everywhere and the shot of Max and Mark on Gates of Power is sweet (shouldn't it be Gait of Power ala Carlos Castaneda?).
I sure hope those originals didn't get lost in the slide shuffle.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 15, 2009 - 12:22pm PT
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Too funny!
Mike Graham then:
and Mike Graham now:
He looks like his own son! The hair might be different, but the nose is the same.
Yup, pretty sure there are no photos of Max and Mark in Yosemite Climber. It was that book which inspired me to want to become a big wall climber. Although I enjoyed all the photos, it was the El Cap big wall clusterf*ck photos with the portaledges and all the gear that drew me back again and again. At the time, I never considered that one day it would be me. For how could some wanker from Ontario ever hope to climb the mighty El Cap routes of Jim Bridwell?
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:23pm PT
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Mike was and still is an awesome guy.
Went climbing with him last fall and he still has that awesome fire burning inside him. He can still project his ass way out toward limits that stop ordinary men.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:30pm PT
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Bridwell told me years ago, that the shots in the book are the backups, as the original set was stolen out of his car IMRC. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but thought I would add to the lore of the book.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:30pm PT
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this thread might be my favorite, bump (well, at least for this morning)
That Yosemite Climber book was really something. Too bad I was already way down the path to ruin when it came out, but it really sealed the deal.
Hopefully George (Jorge on the Taco) will post up! He is "the Man" and might even tell us all about that night at the Trade Show and the "quiet" meal we had at the Korean Restaurant. MIght be the only time in the last 20 years I was actively looking in my wallet for a bail bondsman card.
Here's to George!
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:34pm PT
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The original set was stolen. Yes that is true.
He had to basically start over.
Weird someone would want to steal someones photos and slides?
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:34pm PT
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Stunning architecture...
The sweater that makes eKat's heart beat faster...
Butt bags and ubiquitous headbands...
Fancy footwork...
Yosemite Climber has it all!
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mazamarick
Trad climber
WA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 01:40pm PT
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Great posts! You're inspiring me to pull out my collection of Mtn, Climbing, and yes, Summit, magazines from the 70's and sort through them. Are there any other periodicals from that era that would have Yosemite in them?
Keep posting, I'm lovin it!
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
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Amen, brother, it has it ALL!!!
Thor
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 15, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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Yes, Jorge, thanks for all the hard work. I began Valley climbing using each of your guides back to the original two-ring version.
Jorge or anyone, since the oldest guide seems to lack a publication date, when was the first one available for purchase?
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Feb 20, 2009 - 01:47pm PT
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I SO miss my Yosemite Climber book. Lent it to a friend, and never saw it again. Come to think of it...I never saw the friend again either... Maybe he and my book are in a bunker in an undisclosed location.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Feb 20, 2009 - 01:59pm PT
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caylor" I'm totally straight" your not telling eveyone that your first job was a cabin boy on a greek vasoline tanker- hehehehe
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Feb 20, 2009 - 04:41pm PT
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Got a copy of the book that I try to keep in mint condition. As much as I still thumb through the pages for inspiration and memories I never tire of it. I have recently been trying to take it to events and have some of the photos signed by the climbers. I'll be bringing it to the McClenahan gathering in Josh for any of the Stoners who may be in attendance to sign.
It is one of my most prized possessions.
Thanks George....and all who helped make it such a classic piece.
Peace
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Feb 20, 2009 - 05:58pm PT
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Mimi - here's the guidebook rundown as far as I have it...I'm very sure there are missing guides, both old and new.
High Sierra Guide, Voge, 1962. Had a section on Yosemite Valley
Steve Roper 1964
Steve Roper, 1971
George Meyers, pre-1982 (no date in there)
George Meyers, 1982
George Meyers, 1987
Mark and Shirley Spencer, 1988
Don Reid, 1991
Don Reid, 1992
Don Reid, 1993
Don Reid, 1994
Don Reid, 1996
Don Reid, 1998
Don Reid, 1999
SuperTopo, Chris Mac, 2000
Supertopo, multiple authors, 2002?
SuperTopo, multiple authors, 2003
Supertopo, Chris Mac & Erik Sloan, 2005
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