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steve shea
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 17, 2012 - 09:58am PT
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Jack was my partner on the Dru Couloir Direct and other adventures. He was the quintessential alpinist and great company. RIP. Sad news.
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Amy Skinner Underwood
climber
Mancos, CO
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Jan 17, 2012 - 10:34am PT
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Pam- I have fond memories of the golden days in the Black Hills and Wild Iris when you and Jack would stop in. Please know I'm holding you in my thoughts. Later, when you can breathe, I'd love to talk with you. amysunderwood@yahoo.com
With love and sorrow,
Amy
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 17, 2012 - 11:06am PT
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Another gentle giant has left us too soon...
To Pam and their community of friends and family, my thoughts and prayers go out to you in recovery from this unexpected loss.
Jack lived the life and shared his passion and adventures with his many clients and thankfully with us here on the ST. I had the pleasure of meeting him briefly through Dane Burns and had hoped to sit with him and record his story. I had no sense that this was coming.
Rest in Peace Brother...While you were here you were an inspiration and a guiding light.
Shine on until we meet again!
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Cagey Veteran
Ice climber
Livingston, MT
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Jan 17, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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At the below Facebook link are some wonderful images of Jack from the recent Bozeman Ice Climbing Festival courtesy of Claudia Lopez. Other than local organizers, Jack was the only person to ever make it to all 15 Bozeman Ice Fests, usually coming on his own dime and for little pay beyond a bottle of scotch. He was the best teacher I've ever had the privilege to work with.
Lots of love to you Jack and Pam.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3038460398640.150059.1176904446&type=3
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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Jan 17, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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I did a number of climbs with Jack BITD. He was a great guy and a strong climber.
Sad news.
RIP
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Jan 17, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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A sad event. I haven't seen Jack since the 70s. He was in the group of
climbers I tagged along with when I was a novice: the G&E Buff climbers,
aka the Santa Monica bunch. Spent a memorable rainy night in my VW
squareback at Camp 4, four of us, rocked to sleep by Dave Black's shivering.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 17, 2012 - 11:15am PT
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Wasn't he at jello's birthday at Snowbasin?
I had no notion,.. so sad.
RIP
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:00pm PT
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This is bad for us, and my condolences to Jack's wife and all of his friends.
I started at the same place - So Cal - at the same time, and broke in on much of the same stuff (Tahquitz) as Jack, many time WITH Jack (early on), who did some seminal climbs with the Stonemasters.
FYI, Jack was one of the early big wall masters. Rock and Ice wrote:
Roberts, 59, climbed for 41 years, making numerous ascents of Bridalveil, and was well known for serious Canadian Rockies first winter ascents of the North Face of Mt. Robson and the Central Couloir on Mount Kitchener, both in the late 1970s and done with Tobin Sorenson, famed and now-deceased member of the historic Stonemasters crew. Roberts, with Dale Bard (another Stonemaster), also made the first free ascent of the big Canadian ice line Polar Circus. In Yosemite, in the early and mid-1970s, Roberts bagged the second ascents of The Shield, Zodiac, Tangerine Trip, Tis-Sa-Ack, Cosmos and Mescalito. In Alaska he logged new routes on the southwest face of Denali, Mt. Huntington, Mount Lewis and Mount Kennedy.
Jack Roberts was a climber.
JL
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:04pm PT
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Jack was a good friend. . .df
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:06pm PT
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hadnt seen him in ages, but remembered him way back then as one of the nicest guys in the scene.
wasnt surprised to see him become a pillar of the community, as well as a terrific climber.
big loss
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Pebble Wrestling.... Badly lately.
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:38pm PT
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Wow, this is a terrible surprise. Jack was always soooo ballsy I am sort of surprised he lasted this long. My condolences to Jack's family. He was a great climber and will be missed!
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GrahamJ
climber
In the rain
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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I met Jack in Chamonix last year through a mutual friend and spent several days cragging and hanging out with him. Awesome guy and I'm very sorry to hear of his loss.
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Jan 17, 2012 - 12:55pm PT
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Jack was always generous sharing conditions reports of ice and mixed routes. You could send him an email, and get an accurate report back from a guy that was out there checking conditions out, all of the time. He also encouraged folks to get out there and take a look for themselves, as conditions in this activity change so quickly that one report may be old and inaccurate news within a day.
This is shocking news to the Boulder climbing community. My sincere condolences to Pam and all of Jack's family.
Brad White
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 17, 2012 - 01:33pm PT
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Very sad to hear. I never climbed with Jack, but he condescended to let me hang around on occasion. We've lost a very good man and a great climber.
John
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jan 17, 2012 - 01:44pm PT
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from a boulder rag,
"GRAND JUNCTION — A Colorado sheriff says a nationally known climber who wrote books and numerous articles on the subject has died after falling 60 feet during a climb.
San Miguel Sheriff Bill Masters told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel that the 58-year-old Jack Roberts, of Boulder, suffered a broken hip in Sunday's fall and went into cardiac arrest during the rescue.
Roberts had been climbing on the Bridal Veil Ice Falls east of Telluride in San Miguel County. Members of the San Miguel County Search and Rescue Team spent 40 minutes trying to resuscitate him.
Roberts had been a climber for more than 40 years and was well known in the climbing community as a guide and instructor. "
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jan 17, 2012 - 02:42pm PT
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So sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with those that cared about him.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Jan 17, 2012 - 03:17pm PT
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Sorry to hear this. Jack was the real deal. He will be missed.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Jan 17, 2012 - 04:03pm PT
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I never met Jack, but hung and climbed with many of his pals from his time here. From my earliest days climbing in southern california, he was always referred to in an honorable yet badass reference. "Aye Jack, yur a hard man!!" was commonly heard.
Sincere condolences to all his friends and family.
Pat Nay
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