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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 13, 2009 - 02:41pm PT
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Hi There Taco people,
First of all, thank all of you for your kind & most flattering responses.
How sweet it is!
I have read tons of your posts & wished I was one of your group.
I am old enough to appreciate how lucky you guys are to have each other.
I have had a wonderful life, not all roses but great all the same.
I was a deep powder skier at Alta, UT., traveled to 19 countries, spent over twenty years as a high end antique dealer, had my own outdoor birding store in Ridgefield CT for ten years. I now live by a golf course in FL & work at Best Buy, I play den mother to a lot of twenty something’s. No, I am not a geek but close enough. LOL Yes, there was life after Yosemite.
My husband of 25 years died in 1998, that has given me a lot of free time to think about the special people who have passed through my life.
Warren Harding was just one of these people.
Yes, I will tell more Warren stories.
I think it will be more fun if I bring out the old stories one at a time. Hopefully, some of you will tell me about yourselves & some pictures. Hint, hint.
I will start with the story behind “Down Bound” I am guessing most of you don’t know or remember this one.
So later taco people & again thank you for your “super” welcome.
All the Best,
Park Rat
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1008718/The_Warren_Harding_I_Remember How I met Warren.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1011787&tn=0#msg1011787 "Downward Bound"
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 13, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
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Welcome Park Rat. I can't wait for some Warren stories. Something tells me you will fit in fine around here.
Wayno
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Nov 13, 2009 - 02:47pm PT
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Park Rat,
So cool to have a new friend at the campfire! What kind of art fueled your desire for an art degree?
I like everything, but stone sculpture, wood carving, and the impressionists/surrealists are what usually turns my twinkie the most.
Tell me something about art!!
Bruce
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Nov 13, 2009 - 04:15pm PT
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YES, tell us about Downward Bound !!!
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Redwreck
Social climber
Echo Parque, Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 13, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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Hey Park Rat, I'm glad you're here.
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2009 - 04:46pm PT
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Thanks Taco People,
Painting wise I am a realist, nothing to brag about, I used to sketch in pen & ink in my park days. In my next life I will be a graphic artist, I love to play with pictures, I have a hundred Yosemite pictures as screen savers.
I was a better art dealer than an artist, but my painters eye has been more than useful over the years. I lived in Carmel by the Sea for several years, everyone there was into painting.
I summered in the park & wintered in Carmel.
I keep saying I will take up serious painting when I get old. LOL
Best,
Park Rat
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matty
Trad climber
los arbor
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Nov 13, 2009 - 07:29pm PT
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"I love to play with pictures"
like this?
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Nov 13, 2009 - 07:45pm PT
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I think I have told this Warren story before on ST in another thread. Here goes:
In the late 1970's I was in the Mountain Room Bar having a late night drink with a bunch of friends. Warren comes by our table slightly(!?!?) inebriated on red wine. My friends introduce me to Warren as one of the Valley 'young guns' and that gets him all agitated. He pulls me up from my chair and starts mumbling something like, "the East Face of Washington Column doesn't go free. I want to see you do it!"
So, here we are in the Mountain Room Bar with Warren trying to drag me out of the place so I can go show him that his route goes free. He is sloshing red wine out of his glass all over my white painter's pants (standard Valley hardman attire of the day) and just will not relent. Finally, my friends subdue Warren and I escape his clutches.
Pretty funny and no harm done.
Bruce
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 13, 2009 - 07:57pm PT
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Welcome Park Rat
I walked into the living room of some old ,old friends in Friday Harbor, Washington years ago and immediately spied a very small Bierstadt painting on the wall.
"That's a Bierstadt" I proclaimed, "do you have any idea how valuable that is"?
"No, but you are the first person in years that knew who the artist was. How did you know that was a Bierstadt?"
Well anybody that has spent time in Yosemite should have a good idea of the man and his paintings and the incredible mood he portrays with them.
My friends were old and retired and living on the financial edge. Their dream was to travel for several years while they were still physically able.
They sold the painting for over $70,000, fulfilled their dream and their daughter has been pissed at me ever sense.
joe mckeown
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2009 - 08:07pm PT
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Bhilden
my friends subdue Warren and I escape his clutches.
Sounds like Warren did not plan to go down gracefully!
That's what too many Mt Room years will do to a man.
Sooner or later, they will catch up with you.
Glad you got away! Back in the day, I would have saved you myself. LOL
Park Rat
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2009 - 08:11pm PT
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Guido,
Great story, the kind to made a old antique dealer smile!
Park Rat
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matty
Trad climber
los arbor
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Nov 13, 2009 - 08:24pm PT
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PR- should be noted: that picture is knott my work, but that of Ouch! a beloved member of this forum who passed away. His work lives on.
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BBA
Social climber
West Linn OR
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Nov 13, 2009 - 08:24pm PT
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Well, Park Rat, many of us who climbed were so glad there were nice folk like you working in the Curry Co. Made my day when a waitress would not tally it up correctly on purpose. I suppose we looked as poor as we were. Now Guido has just talked high art, but you should see the kind of picture he posted of me and another. Pretty low, actually, so watch out for these guys. In any case, I worked in the Lodge cafeteria as a janitor in the winter of 61-62 while waiting for the storms to abate, but got fired before they did and so spent many days by the fire there. Tell your stories! I liked Warren. He always had an interesting take on things and was a talker, at least after the red took hold.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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Nov 14, 2009 - 02:28am PT
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PR, did you ever meet, and have the 'pleasure' of serving, Fred Beckey?
Guido, nice story! I didn't know you worked for Antiques Roadshow, although your presence on SuperTopo Roadshow is suggestive. Did your friends give you a commission?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Nov 14, 2009 - 02:49am PT
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PR, did you ever meet, and have the 'pleasure' of serving, Fred Beckey?
Not bloody likely unless somebody else was buying! (said with deep affection)
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Nov 14, 2009 - 09:43am PT
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"Not bloody likely unless somebody else was buying! (said with deep affection)"
BWA HA HA HAaaa!!! Feckin' Reilly.
We just saw someone buying him drinks in Estes Park last summer!!
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