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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 25, 2007 - 07:19pm PT
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Merry X-mas all!
I found this gem in a June 1976 Summit. The late Michael Reardon's excellent Bachar bio film has some nice segments of Kamps. Been thinking about him. In Seattle we got snow....
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 25, 2007 - 10:40pm PT
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Good stuff , just what I was lookin' for, more or less!
More than less, by a good bit.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Dec 25, 2007 - 11:22pm PT
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Really nice,
I will "always" miss Kamps.
Stoney is just not the same.
AF
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Dec 26, 2007 - 01:21am PT
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I saw Dave Rearick this past October in Boulder at a Royal Robbins slide show. After the show was over, I suggested to Dave that he give a slide show sometime on his climbing accomplishments. His reply was so typical of the very great climbers, "Nobody would be interested. I never really did all that much."
Bruce
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
Denver
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Dec 26, 2007 - 10:53am PT
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The Diamond keeps people young in spirit. That was great read. Thanks for posting it.
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SteveW
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Dec 26, 2007 - 11:07am PT
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I was tremendously lucky in '75 when Howie Doyle & I spent
three weeks in Colorado--we met Dave Rearick and climbed with
him on Lumpy Ridge--Twin Owl, the Bowel of the Owl. Oh, Howie
screamed in that squeeze chimley. Dave was using his chocks made from wood of the Osage Orange tree. I dunno if I'd want to
fall on one of those, but pretty neat anyway. We really need
to get Dave to do a slide show. That would be awesome!!!
BTW, we got about 8" of the white stuff in Denver yesterday,
and might get 2-4" tomorrow--certainly better than the feet of
it we received last year!!!!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 27, 2007 - 09:10am PT
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That post-Diamond parade photo in Estes is a classic.
Oli has been ST's connection to the 60s Colorado scene -- I hope he comes back with more stories.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2007 - 12:37pm PT
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The thread is in the water.........
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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Dec 27, 2007 - 01:13pm PT
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Now this was one hard core climber!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 12:09am PT
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Nice shot of Bob, Anastasia. Need a little En Vogue, "What a Man", playing in the background.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 12:55pm PT
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Name this Stoney Point regular?!?
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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This time, he's in Muir Trails instead of Cortinas.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Anybody have the picture of Dennis Henneck topping out on the
2nd ascent of NA Wall?
Is it still one of my all-time favorite climbing pictures?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 10:05pm PT
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Keyrekt! Dennis Henneck as shot by Don Lauria courtesy of the 1968 Chouinard catalog.
And boy howdy does he look stud in this RR shot! All bare knuckles and determination at the lip.
From Mountain 41 Jan 1975.
And the nearly art historical hands of Don the Hooker from Galen's Vertical World of Yosemite, 1974.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Great shots of Henneck, but that's not the one I'm thinking of.
B/W, from straight above, no placements visible, windblown,
probably published in Ascent 69 or 71.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Thanks for posting that Steve.
Here's our friend Roy stemming out the roof on OTH.
edit: yep Roy wrong photo.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Great historical thread so far, thanks people.
(G Boy: that's Over & Out, much easier, while Over the Hill is to the right)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2008 - 06:23pm PT
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Pretty funny belly aching about being over the hill thirty years ago!
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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The name "Over the Hill" came about, as a result of my not wanting to climb that day and telling Jim Erickson and Bill Putnam so. They insisted I go with them anyway, and I drug my sorry self out into the sunlight, grumbling that I was over the hill. They wanted to try something new. Very few people had gone up to the Rincon Wall. I had done one of the early repeats of Kor's route there and loved the quality of the rock. I had seen the beautiful dihedrals on the left side of the wall and told my friends I was certain I had some kind of destiny over there, said there was a perfect new route to be done, left of another route I'd done called Aerial Book (another great route, but more difficult free climbing). I thought the 20 minute hike up there might get me out of the catatonic state I was in. Putnam went up to lead the first pitch but, for some reason, backed off, probably not finding the right small nut placements for that first 5.10 move. Then Erickson went up and tried a few times and couldn't quite work out that first crux. I was just along for the ride, mind you, but decided, since they were resting, to go up and have a look. I led the pitch, and they were saying, as I made those moves past the crux, "Over the hill, uh huh." Jim, of course, made a beautiful lead of the second 5.10 dihedral (the short pitch), and Bill led the final classic pitch in good style. The route turned out to be one of those little masterpieces, for its clean rock, beautiful silence, the view of snowy high country to the west, ravens often floating through the sky, or the occasional eagle... It became one of my favorite routes, and I took all my friends to it for many years to come, including Kamps and Rearick, Higgins, Robbins, Chris Jones (boulderer), Breashears, and many others. It's one of those routes you can do truly, when you're over the hill, which I have progressively become, more so each year. It's one of those perfect climbs that makes you realize what climbing is about, at its best. It's not a ferocious testpiece. Hardly. But one can find little ways of expressing precise technique, using small footholds and a variety of techiques, and having to focus at delicate sections... That day with Kamps and Rearick was a day of pure joy. Thanks, Steve, for reminding me of that little haunt of mine up there.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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It may be small Oli but it packs a punch of great routes.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2008 - 07:39pm PT
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A pleasure to hear the history Oli and to have come across the original article. How often did you get out with Rearick?
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WallMan
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Jan 10, 2008 - 03:13pm PT
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Thanks for sharing this great experience Pat. Over the Hill is one of Eldo's best 5.10s. My next time on the route will be more rewarding for me because of what you shared.
Climb on my friend. Wally
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jan 10, 2008 - 07:52pm PT
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Nice thread,
Can one of y'all put an arrow on the pic to show where Over The Hill is?
Thanks,
Zander
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jan 11, 2008 - 09:43am PT
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Here ya go Zander.
The start is the right dihedral in my first photo.
and Rossiter's topo.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jan 11, 2008 - 07:41pm PT
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As for my climbing with Rearick. He was, of course, one of my great original teachers and inspirations. First Kor, then Rearick. Kamps and Rearick were my heroes when they climbed the Diamond, when I was a kid. I was in such awe of their adventure, and to think of it even today gives me a chill of joy and deep appreciation. I never imagined I could become a friend to both of those two great men.
I was taken by Dave's methodical approach, very thoughtful and slow, compared to Layton who would storm up the rock, often sailing upward so fast he was suddenly beyond what he was able to climb and sailing downward. Kor was an excellent free climber but didn't much like thinking about moves. If he couldn't do something instantly it was time for fast aid. Rearick would look at an aid pitch as though at a chess problem and wonder if it could go free. In 1964 Rearick led Coffin Crack, in Boulder Canyon, still a formidable, overhanging crack, all of 5.11 by today's standards. He and I did a great deal of clmbing together through the years. In relatively "old age," he even followed me up the Crack of Fear and did it all free but one move.
I'll never forget first seeing Rearick. I was climbing the West Buttress of the Bastille and looked across the canyon, as he appeared up and over the big overhang at the start of T-2. In his brown wind pants and checkered flannel shirt, and Zillertals... That was the first free ascent of T-2. He was using a thick white Colombian rope, which he and I used until he finally decided it might not be any good anymore. I think he still has it. He has remained a mentor and a friend, one of the most humble climbers I've ever known. I hope one day he is recognized for being the great pioneer climber and rock master he was. In my opinion he has been overlooked to some degree, in terms of the real free climbing geniuses of the gold age.
In the early 1960s Dave led the first free ascent of the third pitch of Athlete's Feat, a tricky, strenuous 5.10, overhanging lieback-jam crack. Near the top, with a manky bong in the crack half way between him and me, his foot slipped on some lichen, and he flew head first toward me and toward the ledge I was standing on. I sucked as much rope as possible, and somehow stopped him with his head about two inches from hitting the ledge. I think I might have called it quits for the day, as would most, but he said calmly, "If I don't go back up I'll get a mental block." With all the strength of character that has always characterized him, he led right back up and, facing that same slippery move, proceded on through successfully (a sigh of relief on my part).
One could write a book of Rearick stories. By the way, on Over the Hill that day, both Kamps and Rearick (in their relative old age) walked easily right over the 5.10 moves, not a wince.
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scuffy b
climber
Stump with a backrest
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Jan 11, 2008 - 07:46pm PT
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Is that topo missing a few numbers?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 11, 2008 - 08:00pm PT
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c'mon scuff, you have to read between the lines.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2008 - 08:49pm PT
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Thanks again Oli and please do tell more stories if they come to mind. What was the longest route you did with Dave? Did he ever climb the Diamond again with anyone?
I always enjoy a crafty route myself!
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jan 12, 2008 - 03:33am PT
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Dave never did do the Diamond again, though we talked about it a few times. I suppose the longest climb he and I did together might have been 700 feet, because we were more into the short free climbs. We climbed dozens of routes together in Eldorado, Yellow Spur, T-2, Super Slab, many of the classics... and lots of routes in Boulder Canyon. We did a lot of hiking and rambling. We climbed in the desert a little... One day he took me to Button Rock, a little granite dome about a ten mile walk into no-man's-land somewhere between Lyons and Estes Park. We scrambled to the summit in a blizzard... He was a great cyclist and once rode from Boulder south to Golden, then west and over Berthoud Pass to Winter Park, then north to Grandby and Grand Lake, and over Trail Ridge Road down to Estes, and finally back to Boulder... in a day. I'm not sure I could drive that in a day. He is quite the clever man, in his heyday a fine classical guitarist. Of course he made those wooden nuts, which he called "plugs." I have a full set, including the infamous "clapper," for wide cracks, and one I've never used and never will use, because I value it as a keepsake symbol of our friendship. It's a perfectly round osage orange plug, about the size of a baseball, with holes he threaded with sling. Rearick is retired now from his profession as a math professor at Colorado University. He told me his Diamond climb helped him get that job. The head of the department had followed the accounts of the Diamond climb and was impressed to meet him. Rearick had lived in California prior to that and climbed quite a bit with Robbins... in Yosemite and at Tahquitz. He and Royal made one of the early ascents of Half Dome's NW face. That was when Royal chimneyed up behind Psyche Flake and said, to console Rearick, "Think of all the years ice has been pressing against this flake. No two mere mortals will disturb its presence." The flake fell off, apparently under its own power a short time after. Dave and Bob Kamps made an early ascent of Sentinel also, via the Steck-Salathe. He led Split Pinnacle Lieback, probably the second 5.10 in Yosemite. I once climbed Crack of Doom with Rearick and Robbins... His sister Martha, a wonderful person and excellent classical flute player, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. The hermit Rearick hangs in there, in Boulder, though he has arthritis and has difficulty riding his bike anymore because of the pain in his shoulders...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2008 - 08:15pm PT
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The metaphorical Psyche Flake! I love that bit of Half Dome history.
Do you remember any details of his FFA of the airy T2?
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jan 14, 2008 - 12:37am PT
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Rearick led T-2 in straightforward fashion, pretty steep, difficult climbing for the day, and all free but the initial overhang. On that first pitch, Kor had started to the right of where the route now goes, at the overhang where there is a stone to start off of, and used a point or two of aid, one of those being a bolt. He then traversed 25-30 feet left, above the lip of the overhang, and went up. Rearick used that same aid and traversed left but noticed some holds down below his feet near the left end of the traverse. So he decided to investigate. There seemed to be holds on the overhang below. He leaned down, partly hanging against the rope or something, to fix a bolt for protection, then returned to the ground. At that time, there was a spike of rock sticking out of the talus, and one could stand on top of it, with balance, and reach the overhang. There were some holds, and he swung free with his feet, pulled up, clipped the bolt, and moved on upward free. That was good solid 5.10+, but I think he rated it 5.9. Not too long after, someone did the route free from the ground, without standing on the spike. I'd have to look in my journals and guides to recall, but that might have been Rearick. Or possibly me. Then an important hold broke off, making it a tiny bit harder. Then someone leaned out and stripped the hanger off the bolt. I think that was Dan Davis, who climbed up, clipped into the hanger, then grabbed the doubled rope and leaned out to look at the rock above. Suddenly the hanger popped off, and by a miracle he jumped into the talus upright and was unhurt. I was standing there and saw that happen. Later someone, maybe I, found a place to put a small angle piton in a hole, to replace the bolt. The talus spike got knocked over by someone, or was maliciously destroyed (who knows?), and we always then did the starting overhang from the ground. I later personally worked out several variations between the Rearick line and the Kor line, and finally we realized the Kor line went free pretty readily also. I may have done that free with Henry Barber. So much of what we did in Eldorado or in Boulder Canyon had the inspiration of Rearick behind it...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jan 14, 2008 - 09:30am PT
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He was using a thick white Colombian rope
There's one of these, I think, still being used to hang up ladders and such on the walls of my Dad's garage. As I recall, Columbia ropes (if that's what Oli refers to) were a white, goldline competitor, 7/16" thick and supposedly made for climbing. They were noticeably less stiff than goldline.
Holubar sold these white ropes back in the 60s. My Dad had carried his for safety on scrambles in the Rockies, although he was not into technical climbing. I appropriated his rope for my own escapades as a teenager, shortly after my first bad experience trying to use a nylon clothesline as a belay and rappel rope convinced me that I needed something better.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jan 16, 2008 - 02:23am PT
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Just thinking about that rope, and those early ropes, and I conjure their smell, which in turn brings all sorts of the best memories of my life, discovering climbing, going up into the rocks above Boulder as a kid... meeting Kor and Rearick and Robbins... It was like a young artist falling into the company of Rembrandt, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2008 - 02:15am PT
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Fortunately, I never had to deal with twisted ropes very often, nylon or otherwise. I do have an association with the smell of hot sisal though.
Way back, I was rapelling on 1/4" using a thick cotton moving strap in an eight seat to take the heat. I had no biners. About fifteen feet above the ground I elected to test one of those prussik knots that I had just read about in Bergsteigen. The three wrap prussik was made of the same trusty sisal and tied properly into my seat sling.
Without a thought, I confidently let go. I watched the knot come tight and then fly away as I suddenly hit the ground. The trusty prussik had snapped. I came away with a big gash on my chin and a good dose of caution. It didn't take much persuation to get my father, Maurice, to buy me some proper equipment once I made the horrid suggestion that my young, foolish life might hang in the balance.
The smell of burnt sisal still lingers......
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Pat and all,
Super thread. If this one doesn't make clear the importance of character and history in climbing, and our memory and writing about same, nothing does. Climbing has its feats and topos and ratings, but these are so much fluff next to strong stories revealing inner worlds. And unless we think, feel and write, delve into the faces, motives, strength and flaws, much is lost.
Thank you Pat for telling the tales so well, and keeping the flame on what it all means. And thanks to all for asking the revealing questions and wondering and wandering back in time, and sharing the personal side. Without it, the sport is ... just sport.
Tom Higgins
LongAgo
PS: Over the Hill is one of my most favorite Eldorado climbs.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2008 - 01:44am PT
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Tom, did you ever climb with Pat on his home turf?
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Aug 11, 2008 - 07:00pm PT
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Steve,
Yes, Pat and I climbed many established routes together in Eldorado Canyon, including Over the Hill, and one funny little FA called "Soarks" on the Flatirons. Somewhere on Supertopo there's a story of that climb complete with Pat placing a bolt with a rock for the hammer ...
I also climbed in Eldorado and Estes with Bob Kamps, Mike Cohen and others.
Tom
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2008 - 12:11am PT
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Were you as into bouldering as Pat during those visits to Colorado?
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Aug 12, 2008 - 02:36pm PT
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Steve,
No or little bouldering that I recall, though I think Pat pointed out a bouldering area - where, i can't recall. I will defer to his memory on that score.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2008 - 09:17pm PT
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Did you train for climbing beyond the activity itself?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2009 - 11:49am PT
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Bump for fun and friends!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2009 - 02:39pm PT
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I recently had the pleasure of touring the Granite Frontiers exhibit in LA with Bonnie Kamps and Mary and Mark Powell. Very cool to see her in the Diamond parade photo upthread. DR was also present and Bob's name came up frequently in conversation.
The Diamond FA is huge on the adventure scale and just one on a long list of classics for both climbers. Bob and Dave's first excellent adventure!
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Aug 15, 2009 - 10:04pm PT
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Bump for one of the greatest influences in my life... Miss you always Kamps and... Bonnie is one heck of a woman. Her pinkie finger has more class than my whole body.
Hugs,
Anastasia Frangos
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Aug 16, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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Bump........
HISTORY.....
PLEASE KEEP IT COMING......
ALL this generation has is what's in the guido books....
SHIAT
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BBA
Social climber
West Linn OR
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Aug 16, 2009 - 01:28pm PT
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Besides seeing him at Tahquitz in 1959-1960, I remember Dave Rearick from the Riverside County Campground in Idyllwild where he would do such things as walk on his hands for long distances and recite Lewis Carroll poems, "You're getting old father William said the youth to the man..." I actually more or less memorized the poem from listening to Dave but have never been able to walk on my hands. He was at Cal Tech then, I believe. He and Bob Kamps were really a fit together.
My thoughts of the Diamond climb back in 1960: Before Kamps and Rearick went off to Colorado for that venture, they climbed the ugly cliff above Camp 4, the Camp 4 Terror. I wondered at the time why they would spend time on such an ugly climb for a first ascent when so many other things were around. When I heard about the Diamond, it became apparent that the Terror was a rehersal for the Diamond. Even the shape of the cliff on which the Terror ascended was a diamond shape.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Aug 16, 2009 - 11:14pm PT
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Yes my dear friend Higgins and I climbed many routes
around Boulder and Eldorado. We climbed Athlete's Feat
and Vertigo, for example, and Supremacy Crack, and really
another dozen or more good climbs, with the fun highlight
being Soarks, in blistering heat, on the back of the Third
Flatiron... where like cave men we hammered on a bolt with
a stone, having forgotten the hammer...
I cherish the memory of every climb Tom and I did together,
and not once did we fail to have fun, in Tuolumne, or Yosemite,
or Colorado...
We have that special link of Rearick and Kamps, our respective mentors and friends.
Pat
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 14, 2010 - 11:00pm PT
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Just talked with Bonnie and thought that I would bump this one again!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Oct 15, 2010 - 12:10am PT
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Beautiful thread.
And that is some fine looking stone!
Thanks Pat!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2010 - 12:09pm PT
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The tallest of bumps...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2011 - 01:59pm PT
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The finest of partners...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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Brilliant Cut Bump!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
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Bump for Dave, Pat and Bonnie coming to talk about their great adventures at the Diamond Reflections event at Neptune Mountaineering next week!
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Aug 27, 2016 - 07:55pm PT
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I mentioned this in another thread, but it bears repeating. The marvellous Bob Kamps is gone of course, but Dave Rearick suffered a stroke a couple of years ago after a heavy day of yard work. His right side was affected and he has not regained those functions to what he would consider satisfactory levels. He resides in the Meridian Retirement Center in Boulder and can be reached there by telephone or letter; he does not use a computer.
Dave was a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Colorado from the early 1960s to the 1990s, with a specialty in number theory and analytical number theory. He recieved his PhD from Cal Tech.
After he stopped climbing he became an exceptional distance road bicycle enthusiast, in terrific aerobic condition. He is now in his mid 80s. I have known him since the late 1950s.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 27, 2016 - 08:19pm PT
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Kamps and Rearick, two of my heroes as a "kid' in the Valley. Admiration, respect and a hell of lot of awe. Fortunate to climb with Kamps but never had the opportunity to climb with Dave. I do remember his unique ability to walk around Camp 4 in a hand stand position. What a team, what a team!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 27, 2016 - 09:37pm PT
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You're a good and thoughtful man Mr. Gill.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2016 - 11:24am PT
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I haven't checked in with Dave recently but he was doing well in his situation the last time I did so I am always hopeful.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2019 - 12:44pm PT
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Rearick Bump...
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 23, 2019 - 04:33pm PT
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I talked with Dave last week. He is doing well. We discussed a little math and he mentioned that a fellow mathematician visits him on Sundays. Dave is playing around with the Riemann Zeta function, which lies at the intersection of analysis and number theory.
He reminded me that back in the 1960s when he summered as the Longs Peak Ranger, he and I trudged up the trail to the Boulder Field to see if someone needed rescuing on Longs, only to find it a false alarm. Dave said I went reluctantly, since I never cared for hiking. I told him I remembered nothing of the incident and that he was surely making it up.
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