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Grug
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 7, 2006 - 09:32am PT
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Two of the funniest things I've ever heard came out of Dick Cilley's mouth. Now I'm thinkin', I haven't seen Dick in 25 years, so, certainly he must have said some funny things since.
The first story was related to me (on several occasions) by the late Clean Dan Grandusky. Now Dan would tell it with the perfect Dick Cilley accent, which I can't obviously can't do for you here.
Dick speaking to Dan. "Danny, someday they should do a movie about us. Richard Gere can play me and I'll play you!"
Another story. The late George Manson was sitting with Dick at some Valley establishment...Degnan's, I think. As they were eating, a guy was talking to some other guy at an adjacent table, going on and on about John BaCHAR (accent on the second syllable). So Dick was getting agitated listening to this guy going "blah, blah, blah...John BaCHAR this and blah, blah, blah John BaCHAR that". When George and Dick got up to leave, Dick says to the guy "You know, I just saw John the other day, and his name's STILL BACHar"!
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This space for rent
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There are tons of nice wry statements coming out of that gob even today.... he was around about a month+ ago here in the stats.
always liked this one: Dick was quite the gear salesman and would walk the loop be it Camp 4 or Jt or wherever..... One day he is strolling his wares and a guy stops him and asks something like "how much for the #2 cam".... Dick says, "$20 bucks"..... the guy says "how about $15??".... Dick says, "this ain't Tijuana", and just keeps walking. Classic!!
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susan peplow
climber
area 29
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Just in last month or so.....
During conversation I ask what he's been doing to make money. You know, like what's he's doing for work. The response went something like this, "I just go on out to the forest to pick mushrooms".
Apparantely, you can still make enough money to live in a cave in Spain by selling wild mushrooms at the farmers market.
Fantastic!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"when you're the world's most famous toproper, you take your life in your own hands every day."
"Yosemite squirrels are tough. You can beat 'em with a rock and they ain't dying."
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Dru
climber
HELL, BABY, HELL!
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"I became the best climber in Washington State the moment I drove across the border from Oregon"
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
On the outside looking in.
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As a young n00b (18?) just cutting his teeth in the climbing world, I happened to meet Eric Rasmussen and Dick at some Curry Company employee rec center (in the village, can't remember what it was called or if it's still there)and while shooting some pool, I asked Dick if he was a climber.
Cilley, completely straightfaced: "I burrow."
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kevin Fosburg
Sport climber
park city,ut
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What about the famous incident outside the Ahwahnee when Dick killed the seemingly innocent squirrel? Someone must have been there and heard what he said.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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paging Mr. Walling, or if the esteemed Leroy would care to chime in here.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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"Some day you'll be down on your luck, and I'll be there to kick dirt down YOUR throat."
"Without chalk it's just a pile of rocks."
"You gotta chalk the thumb..."
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susan peplow
climber
area 29
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Marty,
I believe the quote is "there's only one good time to chalk up your thumb".
Susan
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"What's up Dick?"
"Me 'n' Bachar are going to go climb A-Pollo. That means chicken, in spanish," he sneered.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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I believe the quote is "there's only one good time to chalk up your thumb".
Susan
"...and it's on the ground..."
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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What ever happened to Wendy White?
or Ira Hicks?
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rbolton
Social climber
Glendora, CA
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Cilley walks out of the darkness one new years eve at Josh. He's wearing his red silk smoking jacket. He states:
"We're trolling for bitches. Seen any?"
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todd-gordon
climber
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"Don't have any interst in repeating routes."
" I think that most people have enough problems taking off their ties. Get your clothes off. It's the first step in getting laid."
" By the way, the Midnight Lightning of crack is in Madrid."
" What's my wildest trick? Dousing my Cadillac with gasoline and dancing on top of it while it burned to the music of the Pychedelic Furs."
" Favorite climb at Joshua Tree? Persian Room."
" I've probably done as many boulders as anyone and Midnight Lightning is amongst the best . If it were a crack, it would be better."
" How much money could you live off? I spend $400 a month in Spain, and that's with the dollar hardly worth anything."
" I've been called in Climbing Magazine the best dancer in America. No brag, just fact."
" The late Walt Shipley once asked me if I had health insurance. I told him, guys like ourselves don't need health insurance. A toothbrush pretty much covers it."
" They don't call it Supercrack in the Gunks for nothing."
" Madrid probably has the best granite bouldering in the world."
" Best climber pick-up lines. A look and take em' by the hand."
" You haven't had a compliment unless you have a girl you met 5 min. before, drop her pants at the base of the boulder you just did."
" I have toproped with everybody from Bacher to Moffet, and when they TR free, it's free."
" He's pathetic. He can't even climb 5.10d."
" Do you explore? Climb one day, explore the next. 365 days a year."
" I'll quit climbing when they pry my boots off my cold dead feet."
" I have climbed the majority of hard cracks at Vedauwoo without tape. It's all about technique and power. The beauty of climbing is searching for the limit and finding there is none."
" Who is Chongo? Chuck is a god. He gave The Fish and I like a case of tuna when we were starving in the bad old days. And we didn't know him from Adam."
" Don't buy hexes. I can tell you from massive experience, that they are garbage. "
" I only climb on a single 9, but might drop down to an 8.6. I know how to handle a rope and don't spend all day hanging on it."
" Feet don't leave the rock."
" When I was a kid, I could do 1 arms all day. Now I can't do a pullup, but I climb 13's pretty easily. It's more important that you relax. When I'm about ready to fall, I say to myself; calm."
" The only regret I have in life is that I didn't quit school when I was 16. Go for what you want and don't listen to those that say you need a diploma."
" Start drinking in the Womb."
" Rock is ugly until it has chalk on it."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
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bwhahaha! Good ones Todd.... along the lines of Boltons:
Cilley just taught me how to drink ( "tip the bottle up and make the bubbles go" ) and we were in the loop at Josh trolling around going from fire to fire.... we walk up to a large fire and Cilley pulls out his wallet and flops it open like an FBI guy would to show a badge of authority. He pans it under about 4 guys noses (as their girlfriends look on) and says, "rock police.......... we're here to take your bitches"
Should have seen the looks on them guys faces.... in the end they loved it and gave us beers and all the fire we would soak up.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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" He's pathetic. He can't even climb 5.10d."
A corallery
Me'n Dick walking across the lodge lot encounter Todd S, down from working on freeing the Salathe.
"Hey, could'a used you yesterday, there was 10d wide section, we had to do a 13a variation."
"You can't climb 10d wide? That's pathetic," said Dick.
About a week later we traversed the same tarmack when the elastic in my cheap warm up's blew dropping them down around my ankles.
"Jay, you're such a card," he said, never breaking stride, looking straight ahead.
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Gomp
climber
San Diego
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I'm sure I'm paraphrasing but...
"If you fall off a problem it's because you hadn't chalked up enough."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
This ain't Tijuana
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"We didn't come here to check them out.... we came to check them off"
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WBraun
climber
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I can't remember any funny lines Dick said (I can't remember anything period); but I wish he was still around.
He was an all time classic.
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Grug
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2006 - 09:10am PT
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The man is a comic genius!
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Another reason for failing on a boulder problem:
"You're flat not good enough!"
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Leroy
climber
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Feb 10, 2006 - 05:39am PT
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Heres one Grug should remember.The Poway Mountain Boys and I were playing hackysack in the cafparking lot.When atourist asked what was that.I answered,A frog. Dont know why ,but the whole parking lot doubled over laughing.Funny ,I guess.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 10, 2006 - 12:29pm PT
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" The second shot does look like me but I have more impressive calves. "
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Hummerchine
climber
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Feb 14, 2006 - 02:39am PT
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Gordo, the quote is best as:
"Rock doesn't even look good unless it has chalk on it."
I absolutely love this quote, use it all the time. Only climbers get it.
Climbed with Dick this fall, it was great to see him.
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Leroy
climber
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Feb 14, 2006 - 06:16am PT
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Lines that have either led to sex or to a girlfriend.Are u having as much trouble getting laid as my other British friends?I bet you are a jewish girl from Brooklyn.Her answer,No catholic from the Bronx. me, Thatĺl work.
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de eee
Mountain climber
Tustin
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Feb 15, 2006 - 11:13am PT
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Hey Dick, here is one you may or may not remember. While dancing with a young lady, it went something like this..."feel free to grind on my leg."
For the record, it wasn't me and it didn't lead to sex!
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belayon
Social climber
LA, CA
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Feb 15, 2006 - 02:52pm PT
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“In the 50’s Frank had them under his skin.
In the 60’s Mick had them under his thumb.
In the 70’s Dick had them under his boot heal”
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:02pm PT
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bump for Leroy
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:09pm PT
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In case LeRoy is watching, I'll take this opportunity of saying hello.
Anders
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susan peplow
climber
www.joshuatreevacationhomes.com
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Dec 20, 2006 - 04:56pm PT
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This is a story...possibly urban legend....
Richard walks into the bar wearing the infamous coat he'd sport and said, "where my bitches at?"
~Susan
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Brawny
Trad climber
Hueco Tanks, TX
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Dec 20, 2006 - 05:20pm PT
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Was at Hueco Tanks, the 80's, season was late, after Easter all the climbers had gone away, hadn't seen any non local climbers for 2 weeks.
Was in the North Mountain parking lot doing my rangerly duties (picking up trash) and around the corner creaping up comes Dick Cilley's van. He slowly tooled it into a parking spot (the whole lot was empty) and turned it off. Shocked and happy seeing him still here I strolled on up to his van hoping to talk him into a bouldering session when I got off work.
He was wearing his swank panama straw hat, dark shades and a loud and colorful hawaiian patterned shirt. Excited to see him I greeted him and asked what was going on? He lifted his shades just enough to see the eyeballs, which looked like two bloody hen turds in a bucket of milk, and replied, "I'm a man, I'm a mess."
After I was done pissing myself from laughing so hard, I got the full scoop of his MIA episode. Apparently he ended up in Juarez drunk for about a week hanging out with some hotties doing the Disco thing every nite....said one nite he sobered up and realized while "helping out this young senorita arrange things in her uncles attic" that he was in a room full of dried up, stuffed frogs, iguanas, snakes, etc....all playing musical instruments, wearing blankets and hats, their glass and plastic eyes all watching him and his disco hottie doin it up.
" I'm a man, I'm a mess."
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Dec 20, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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"You can't climb 10d wide? That's pathetic"
This is practically my mantra these days--directed only at
myself, of course.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Dec 20, 2006 - 06:23pm PT
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One time Dick wrangled me into giving him a ride to the Joshua Tree bars on my BMW R60/5 motorcyle, whereupon he proceded in getting us kicked out of both bars in short order. The first one was because he told the bartender he was a dink (or the equivalent). Then we went over to the bar across the street, which was filled with military dudes and bikers dancing to the jukebox. He started hitting on one of the biker gals, asked her to dance, and moments later all I saw were fists flying. I rushed over as Cilley, armlocked with some burly dude, flew out the side door, then he somehow talked his way out of it amidst the drunken crowd.
Then, hammered by that time, we took a cruise up to see the Integratron, where one could find everlasting life and happiness, and then the boulders nearby. On the way back, my headlight on my BMW burned out, with Cilley (helmetless, of course) singing and rollicking on the backseat as I somehow managed to hobble the bike back to camp in the dark.
edit: actually, now I remember that we actually went to see the Integratron during the day, because I recall Dick and I tallking to the wife of Jan Van Tassel, who invited us into our house to explain the workings of the Integratron.
After the Integratron, we crusised the bars and got kicked out.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:46pm PT
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"You look like you need a chalk bag"
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:48pm PT
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Now that I think of it, it would be kind of pathetic not to be able to climb 5.10d wide. That's Dick just callin' a spade a spade.
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scuffy b
climber
The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Dec 20, 2006 - 07:58pm PT
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Well I'm going through some changes. I upgraded myself from
aging OW Tyro to aging OW Apprentice. It seems to help if I
try to channel while I try to armbar.
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K. Fosburg
Sport climber
park city, ut
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:19pm PT
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I like how Dick prefaces anecdotes with, "The crazy thing is..."
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:28pm PT
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Going to the 4 Seasons Resturant every morning for coffee was beyond ritual. One morning we went and did not wake Dick up. He was in his van like usual, in the Lodge lot. He was bummed that he missed it. He never missed it, but this time he did.
So after we get back, he explains to Mari, that next time you are going, "just knock on my van real loud. I'll be there in 15 minutes.... just as soon as I have sex with whoever is in there.. or with myself"
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 20, 2006 - 08:48pm PT
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I was messing around with some gear in the Lodge lot after crack climbing one day when Dick sauntered up to inspect the activity. He sadly shook his head as he gazed at my bandaged hands and snidely proclaimed "Man, don't you know that only pussies use tape?" with the matching theatrical sneer and headcock. One synapse collapse later came my retort "Man, don't you know that only pussies top rope?"
Hugh Herr was working on a new route in the Gunks that DC had been on before with the customary TR. Dick ran into Hugh before he was about to head up to continue fiddling with one of his signature nests of RP's protecting the crux. "You can't lead that thing," said DC in a state of flustered exasperation, "You'll die!" Undeterred, Hugh arranged his nest and sent the desperate crux section. I am not sure if DC was present when the route was completed, but I'm sure he found out about it because Hugh called it Cilley Dickens!
Lastly one of my all time favorite Camp Four bulletin board notes. "For Sale: Languid sex and butt hair reefers. The really GOOD SH#T. See Dick Cilley in the parking lot."
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Dec 20, 2006 - 09:15pm PT
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contrary to the "tr" image he still carefully cultivates ('cause he really don't give a fukk what we think), dick did some some pretty hard leads. "underklingon" comes to mind (took me several trips to do that enduro-fest without falls), plus some hard sh#t here in flag and elsewhere.
whenever the perverted itch to rack up and jiggle pro hit richard, he was always up to the task.
a man for all seasons, a man for all reasons, a man for all situations, an american original, for sure.
here's dick last february, climbing 5.12 crack in 14 degree temps. still got game, he does.....
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2006 - 10:02pm PT
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His he coming back for the holidays?
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Leroy
climber
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Haven,t said anything funny in years..It would be like casting pearls before swine here in Europe.Im here in the Alps.Val di Mello.The Yosemite of Italy.Cappuccino and pizza.See u here in the spring.
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Leroy
climber
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Haven,t said anything funny in years..It would be like casting pearls before swine here in Europe.Im here in the Alps.Val di Mello.The Yosemite of Italy.Cappuccino and pizza.See u here in the spring.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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I remember when Dick once said, "Just about everything scares me these days."
My admiration for the man went up immeasurably with this candid statement.
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Richard Sims
Trad climber
LeVagina,Co
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1977 or 78 tea at the Awhanee.. A gal house sitting in the schools principle home for the summer came up and asked, you guys staying here? Before I could speak one word Dick said Of coarse isn’t everyone . Dick quickly registered before me the she wanted to talk to me and was off. I quickly confessed home was a 60 blue and white VW van. Better to tell the truth as she already knew me thru a friend. Weeks later she asked why Dick was canning if he was staying at the Awhanee. I still chuckle.
Hey Russ
I do not know when Dick started selling gear. It was March in Josh (before he bought his first batch of friends from Jardine in the Lodge parking lot) Anyway I had a bad batch of 100 chalk bags that I re-stitched the C- loops. Dick was stuck in the Hidden Valley sick with his old telephone van broken down to boot. I gave him some food and chaulk bags to make money to fix his van .
Hey Dick I just crossed this site the other day I haven't read manny posts just jumping around came acrossed Leroy, We had some great times Be Well
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Richard Simms, are you the same guy who started making chalkbags out of the San Diego area sometime around 77 or so? I met you at the base of Whitney that winter and we climbed a few times after that.
Glad to see you here
cheers
Pat Nay
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Richard Sims
Trad climber
LeVagina,Co
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Pat
1976 It was you Gary and Dave who took me to Josh, My dad did not talk about me dropping out of school to climb till late 80s. But Thank You. When my oldest daughter had the Talk with me regarding Law school I understood. My wife says She said it better. I think my words were more like I’m not going to F>>>ing law school I taking a year off to go climbing.
I tell my Daughters my regrets are few and just things I shuda done before .......
So Pat, Gary and Dave thank you again. I may stray from climbing , white water took me away for a few years, But I find my self looking at the walls sometimes when I should looking down river. ......
Drop an email Rich Sims
Kevin
I do not know what Dick said but he swore he did not hit it with his EBs just scared it to death. To add insult to injury The runner that parked the box van in the Lodge parking lot was bringing the manager of the AW to meet the group.RCS
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Leroy
climber
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Dead squirrel?????? Never happened.Just amyth like Madsen kicken the dog off Glacier point.Why must I always play the clown?It seems to me that some guys remember everything I ever said and invented some on top of it.
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Leroy
climber
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By the way,The being affraid of everything quote was inspired by being run over by a car.Picked myself up off the ground and continued hitching from Malibu to Wash.After being run over by a car u expect houses to fall from the sky onto you.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dick was selling gear in HVCG and ran in to me and my partner Will. He introduced me to some dude named Rick, and we went climbing.
It was the first time i climbed double cross, which i led.
We then climbed Momma Woolsey. This climb starts with a thin finger crack that angles up and to the right. I have always seen people put their fingers in the crack, with their feet below, which is the way Dick led this climb. Rick follows and walks up the crack, above it, with no hands.
I turn to Will and say, who is this Rick guy? Will shrugs, and says he doesn't know him.
Dick comes down off the climb and says to me and my partner: "Wanna become famous, and get laid?"
Actually, he didn't really say that, but he should have.
It turns out that Rick, is Rick Ridgeway, and he is going to take some pictures of Dick for an upcoming Patagonia catalog. They ask if Will and I want to be in the photo shoot. We say OK.
The following summer i am in kicking it in The Valley. I am trolling for a Betty's in the Curry area, and hanging out in front of the Mountain Shop. One of my current projects walks by, says hi, goes in to the shop. I quickly follow.
I have been on this route a few times, but I can't quite send it. I fire the entry moves, but always seem to bodge the crucial sequence.
I engage my project in dialogue and am trying to comvince her that i am worthy, when all of a sudden i hear someone yell, YOU'RE FAMOUS! I turn around and see a Mtn. Shop employee coming over to us with a magazine in his hand. I say, what? He says it again. You're famous, your picture is in the latest Patagonia Catalog.
He flips through the pages, and there it is. Me, Will, and Dick Cilley in a stylish Patagonia blazer.
I turn towards my project, and her eyes are lit up like a pinball machine. I have just found my exit moves, and i know that i will top out.
Thanks Dick.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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"You're only as good as your last climb."
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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I remember being with Dick for the Burning Caddy episode!! We used to party quite a bit together and it was very late one evening...
After leaving Gabby's (The JT Saloon now) we arrived back at Dick's campsite. Now we were duly inebriated, to say the least! Well Dick produced a can of gas and told me to grab the boom-box. Dick proceeded to jump up onto his ride and started to pour out the contents of said can. At that moment he produced some matches and cried; "Play Pretty in Pink! Play Pretty in Pink!" for which I complied!
"Whoosh!" and Dick's vehicle is afire! And there he is, in all his glory, atop the roof, writhing and undulating to the strains of the Furs! I'll always remember how surreal this was...Just like a David Lynch movie! This went on for a time at quite a high decibal rate, until I saw a fearful look on Dick's face...Unbeknownst to me, the gas had started to seep into the trunk of the Cad, where all of Richard's precious gear lay! Needless to say this had a sobering effect on our hero, and leaping to the ground he hollers to me; "We've got to put this out!!" Or something of the sort, and after all these years I don't remember... but I think we tossed sand or something, but extinguished it nonetheless...
Well you can believe me that in the wee hours of the morning in Hidden Valley Campground, this had created quite a commotion! So after we had snubbed the blaze, and shut off the blaster, an eerie calm pervaded the scene. Broken by some angry climber yelling from his tent, and an obviously interrupted sleep, "What the F%$k is going on out there??" In answer came one of my favorite Dick Cilley quotes, as he calmly mind you, replied, "You'd better go back to bed, before someone gets hurt!"
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Hi Dick-
I remember you saying the quote about being scared when we were just off to do one of your horrendous topropes, somewhere in the Ahwahnee area if my muddled memory serves correct.
I got a picture of the Integratron from our motorcycle excursion up there together I'll try to post soon.
Are you in Josh now? It would be fun to see you again. We're planning to make a trip there this fall, possibly for Fish's sushifest, if we're invited.
cheers
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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As a few of us may know, back in the day Richard used to be quite a salesman.
I remember actually buying the shirt right off the back of Cilley for $.50c. It was a manny,moe, and jack shirt that you could actually see through. Still have that shirt to this day.
Chez
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Leroy
climber
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Those Manny moe and Jack Ts are the best .I wish they had themhere in Eur.I dont remember what they costed.$.20????You could see through it not because it was old.They came like that new.But that was part of the cache.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 26, 2016 - 04:11am PT
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Proud Bump
I stayed at Clean Dans . . .held down the fort, early 80s. . .
I think it was around the time that some wyde thing? 'Road Warrior'
? Went up?. . . .
I have looked for any sort of gunks comments
But all I found - a strange fully cut up, the way it shows below, mention
It makes no sense
There is no 'and friends' - the area of the climb is more around 'Stir Up Trouble' ?
But this is what the Google gave,
"Feb 13, 2011 - Jackie and friends at The Gunks. ... b. Jackie and friends Rock Climbing ... There is a trail up to the middle of this section just past the Black Boulder problem, ... Cilley Dicken': 5.12-, PG"
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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It's almost 9 years ago that I started this thread and still haven't heard anything close to as funny as those Dick Cilley remarks in my opener (although some gems on this thread). And a belated happy birthday if you're reading this.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 26, 2016 - 01:35pm PT
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What's my wildest trick? Dousing my Cadillac with gasoline and dancing on top of it while it burned to the music of the Pychedelic Furs"
I was actually there for this; it was in Loop B back when that was the wild west. He slowly moved in and around the flames coming off the hood wrapped Bedouin-style in a white sheet. It was a brilliant bit of performance art and chemicals were involved, of course. Actually that action was the high point, the apex, of a particularly crazy season. After the thin layer of white campstove gas burned off, the car looked and ran fine.
The man cuts a wide swath, on the rocks, on the road, in the bars, and in the bedrooms (or so I'm told.) An American Original.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
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"Yeah, Dick Cilley. He's a real cruiser." Jerry Moffat when asked if anyone in all of American climbing impressed him.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 26, 2016 - 01:49pm PT
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"It's a trivial move, I just cranked into it wrong."
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 26, 2016 - 04:33pm PT
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" All the big roofs go feet first"
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 26, 2016 - 04:45pm PT
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"I never fall off anything easier than 5.11c", whereupon half the gudebooks in California had to be recalibrated ;)
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:12pm PT
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" I would die for you" Calmly stated as we worked some thin face problem at Woodson! Think he did send but lived to claim the fa. Another time we roll into Indian creek and start drinking beer and who should ride up but Mr. Cilley " wanna buy a chalk bag?" I mention what are doing here this is the last place I would expect to run into you. Dick calmly claims " I love this place, I live here now! ". I ask how long ya been here .....DC states " Since last NITE" Got more from that trip we had a great time climbing with him in the creek . Peace and fuk-nes
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:36pm PT
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"No, I really don't need another helping of that killer enchilada casserole."
Not! jajajaja. (That's how the Chileans laugh on the internet according to Rodrigo Fica.) :)
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:37pm PT
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"Is Fred going to keep finding women when he's 90?"
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