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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 26, 2009 - 01:20pm PT
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The Saga of Esprit!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 26, 2009 - 02:37pm PT
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Du corps???
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The beckoning silence
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Dec 26, 2009 - 02:55pm PT
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I picked up a copy of this a few weeks ago. My kids were entranced by the copy running in the Patagonia store. :-) Looking forward to checking it out.
Eric
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Aug 30, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Great stuff.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Aug 30, 2010 - 03:29pm PT
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Ed, Jay, Em, Zander, Gary...BAWC folk...now that we're all more or less around, how about a viewing? I'll make veggie empanadas to bring if someone can secure some calafate berries and cervezas.
In the spirit of Anne's Chocalateria in El Chalten we could have "chocolate caliente: adulturado" (with whiskey and chili flakes!) Hell, you carnivores could even fire up an asado.
In any case, we should gather up and hang.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2010 - 05:10pm PT
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need a date and a venue...
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Aug 30, 2010 - 05:58pm PT
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A friend sent me a link to something that sounds very similar that she had streamed from Netflix. What's up with that?
180° South
(180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless)
2010PG85 minutes
Inspired by pioneering outdoorsman Yvon Chouinard's freewheeling 1968 van trip to Patagonia, South America, a band of bliss-seeking surfer-mountaineers sets out -- in 2007, by boat -- to remake the journey in this adventure documentary. Jeff Johnson and his buddies hug the coast, stopping at the Galapagos Islands and Easter Island before arriving in Patagonia -- a region that's still breathtaking but is now besieged by environmental threats.
Cast:
Jeff Johnson, Yvon Chouinard, Makohe, Keith Malloy, Doug Tompkins, Timmy O'Neill, Ramon Navarro
Director:
Chris Malloy
Genres:
Documentary, Sports Documentaries, Surfing & Boardsports, Science and Nature Documentaries, Travel & Adventure Documentaries, Blu-ray
This movie is:
Inspiring, Exciting
Format:
DVD, Blu-ray and streaming (HD available)
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jstan
climber
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Aug 31, 2010 - 01:36am PT
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Saw that. Not it.
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Leon Alan
Social climber
Gearhart, Oregon
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Aug 31, 2010 - 02:31am PT
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Yvon's and Royal's wives were friends from Modesto who went to Yosemite to meet climbers and both married one. Maybe the blond is Liz, Royal' wife. (I didn't see the movie though.)
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Yeti
Trad climber
Ketchum, Idaho
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Oct 12, 2010 - 11:19am PT
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The blonde is Lela Kessler who who grew up in Berkeley, lived for a time in Squaw and for years had a clothing store on Telegraph Avenue. She was (and I imagine still is) a lovely person and a good friend to all of us, though I have lost contact with her.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Thanks Yeti... Leila Kessler... perhaps some of the Berkeley denizens might have an idea about her current activities...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 19, 2010 - 11:10pm PT
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So when and where is the show?
i'll be designated driver.
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perswig
climber
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Oct 27, 2010 - 10:17pm PT
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Any specifics as to where to find a copy of this?
Dale
(Belay that. Found at the Pata site.)
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 03:28am PT
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Wow, I missed the whole lets-get-together aspect of this thread before. Let's make it happen! I'd be willing to make some entree for a potluck. Apparently it needs to be vegan....
Belated welcome back Marty!
And i just re-read that excerpt again; really nice stuff.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 09:25am PT
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Eddie, I am not sure if you are a Mac user, but in that realm, we use MDRP to copy DVDs, for one. It is not a screen and audio track grabber but actual conversion software. It is cheap and also has a free period. For a totally competent grabber, I also use "Snapz Pro X".
Kris Tompkins was married to Dennis Hennek before the current set up, Pilgrims. Guido has some wonderful pictures of them from back then. She left Dennis for Doug, more or less. Dougie would be one very exciting husband, I am sure; incredibly drive and normally would be seen as manic at minimum were it also the fact he was so successful and productive. Makes Galen look like a San Pablo Avenue loser.
Some interesting points. In 1976 it must have been, the Garment Workers Union in SF had a huge run-in with DT as the Wikipedia link notes. What Wiki doesn’t mention is that in closing the factory ostensibly to convert it to much more modern corporate digs and a product designing center but what also appeared to be an attempt to avoid unionization, the building (on I think 900 Minnesota here in town) was then of course undergoing all kinds of work. The fire sprinkler system was shut off or most zones were shut off. So, of course “mysteriously” the building was torched one night and work had to begin all over again. Well, then Doug took the opportunity to really get into even bigger changes. I was involved with that 2nd stab at the construction project for a couple of months and hired Joe Faint, Jim Harper and some non-climbers that normally worked for me in Santa Cruz. We were managed by an incompetent Neil Yessen, a friend of Dougie’; Neil could barely come out of his office and had pitted us against a Jehovah’s Witness construction company (Roger Dean Company) in a kind of a wildly inappropriate “last man standing” kind of management scheme. Just silly as all the work was incredibly custom involving building office cubicles out of specially milled and heavily sandblasted oldgrowth douglass fir timbers rescued from a big defunct mill building up in Fort Bragg some while before. --- interesting and nit-picky work. We eventually walked off the job the conditions were so inane. Dougie ignored the construction operation being probably deeply involved running the clothing company. We saw just him a couple of times and Susie once. They were still together.
As Doug had a ski racing background and was about as intense a man as climbing has ever seen, when he was nursing the first minute North Face on Columbus also here in SF back in the sixties, squeezed in right near the Condor nightclub, I would go over there as a teenager and buy hardware and stuff, try to hang out a little. Doug would be vibrating in the doorway, no customers inside barely staying in his skin. Meanwhile the Condor was thumping away and Doug has his eyes out for anything in a skirt passing by his inappropriately located climbers’ boutique. Very odd set up and very Dougie.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Oct 28, 2010 - 09:42am PT
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i don't give a poophat who that is. ever since ekat posted her bitd pic i've been looking for a time machine.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Feb 25, 2012 - 07:16pm PT
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Dane at Cold Thistle went through the hassle of posting up all but part six of the film here: Viva Los Fun Hogs
I tried for half an hour to embed the same clips but gave up. Obviously I haven't got what it takes to be an alpinist.
Enjoy!
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