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dryfly

Trad climber

utah

Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 21, 2006 - 11:02am PT

I know that most of you dont read the climbing rags,likewise for me, but after seeing the new rock and ice with Largos name on the cover I picked up a copy.I very much enjoyed his piece on the stonemasters, another superbly written article.
So anyway big thanks to John Long.
mike flygare

10b4me

Trad climber

California

Jun 21, 2006 - 09:02pm PT

I concur. btw, that was the only thing worth reading in the current issue (imo).

SammyLee

Trad climber

Memphis

Jun 21, 2006 - 10:56pm PT

When I saw the cover I almost ran back to the house to read it. I liked it for sure but I was kinda hoping for something that would have been like, "More of Hangdogs,Wallrats and Rockjocks". I seem to never tire of the old stories of Camp 4 and the stonemasters. Real people who were (and still are) larger than life. And seeing the pics of John and Lynn Hill together after so long, damn, that was sweet. (Not in the magazine but in the get together not so long ago.)

I hate the hero worship BS and for damn sure those guys don't want or need it. But I still wish I could turn back the pages of time and be a part of that era.

After watching "Vertical Frontiers" I told my wife, "Damn, Baby, I've got to go there. Maybe sleep in Camp 4, do some of the routes. Maybe have to pay two grand to get someone to help me up it". She just said, "OK". She'd be justifed in saying, "That damn John Long! Got my husband all twisted up in this crazy rock climbing stuff!"

Ho Man. What can you say about the best climbing writer ever?

dirtineye

Trad climber

the south

Jun 21, 2006 - 11:05pm PT

I really don't like to read about climbing much, and I REALLY don't like the rags, but I do like JL's writing.

He wrote one thing about some kids who were technically good but afraid to do a runout route of yore, and in it he commented on their wish to rap in and put abolt on the route, but the route had of course been done long ago, in a, shall we say more daring and risky style. That piece sticks in my mind.

Somehow Long manages to write well about climbing, which must be a secret process that is lost to most of those who write for the rags.

I think that James guy should submit something for publication, BTW. His stuff is also much better than the average climbing rag drivel.

LOL, I oly flip thoguht the rags when they come unbidden, as part ofbeing a member of the Southeastern CLimber's Coalition, or when Hillary tells me she has an article in one, thns I go buy it.

Cause she is going to take over the world, and I am trying to get into her entourage as a lackey or minion.

Mountain climber

wilson, wyo.

Jun 21, 2006 - 11:27pm PT

Love JL's writing (esp "Rock Jocks, Hangdogs, and Wallrats"), and I agree with the above poster's comment that it was the only thing worth reading in the latest R&I.

After subscribing for years, I elected not to renew. Had they automatically renewed (and charged) me, I probably would not have complained, but when I contemplated sending in the post card it just felt like a waste of $$.