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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 22, 2009 - 01:36am PT
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This may be trivial, but the name Julie X shows up twice in the 76 Roper's High Sierra Guide on Mt.Russel and on Mt. Whitney. Here are the two citations...
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 02:22am PT
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I don't remember if I met here or not, but I certainly remember hearing the name spoken of as a real person, in contrast, say to Vic Tishous.
John
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perswig
climber
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Mar 22, 2009 - 07:00am PT
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Speed Racer's sister-in-law.
No?
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mastadon
Trad climber
quaking has-been
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Mar 22, 2009 - 11:01am PT
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That would be Julie Brugger. She and Mark Moore did a lot of climbing together around that time.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 11:37am PT
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I thought that might be the case! Strange for Roper to leave a loose end like that one, so I was hoping there might be a tale behind the mysterious Ms X!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 01:19pm PT
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"Strange for Roper to leave a loose end like that one"
Just shows what little respect Northwesterners got from the californicentric establishment (wink,wink).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 01:43pm PT
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"'Tis even moreso fer Canucks"
Tami, you were guilty by association in my a*#ertion. :-)
You might have a valid point in being even more ignored, if possible.
You know, I think Julie was so good partly because of her climbing with Mark Weigelt. He was one of the strongest climbers I ever saw and he didn't cut her any slack as I recall. I have been conjuring a thread involving those two (sort of) but haven't scanned the photos yet; stay tuned.
For now I offer the following anecdote.
Mark, Julie, and a couple of others were driving on I-5. The others were Carla and McCarthy, I think, who related this to me. They had a flat and pulled over. No probs, they get the spare out and then Mark announces as he is hand-tightening the bolts, "We don't need that lug wrench, I've got 'em tight enough!" He was phenomenally strong and the bolts were on well enough for about 15 miles. Ho, Ho, how the mighty are humbled.
EDIT: why can't I use assertion while any number of other phuks, et al, are ok?
EDIT 2: Very odd, apparently I can't use assertion in the body but I can in an edit?
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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I climbed a lot with Julie and Carla in the Valley and Tuolumne back in the mid to late 70's. They were very tough climbers, leading 5.10/5.11 cracks back when few women were climbing at that level. They dragged me up more than one Yosemite testpiece.
When we were living in Camp 4, every several weeks, Julie would host a burrito feast. We would all chip in and Julie would
buy all the fixins and cook it up. Yum, yum.
Bruce
ps - how about those trick hexes that Mark Moore had? He slung them with 1" tubular webbing with coat hanger wire looped inside to give him better reach when placing critical pro overhead.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 07:52pm PT
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What I want to know is how the X thing ever got started?!? Pulling Roper's leg...or what?
Two targets, no pictures for me ,Clint!
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mastadon
Trad climber
quaking has-been
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Mar 22, 2009 - 08:50pm PT
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The mysterious Julie X, Joshua Tree early 80's
Mark Moore, C4 early 70's.
Reilly, to most Californians, Northwesterners were people from Arcata or Mill Valley.
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kurt winkler
Trad climber
maine
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Aug 25, 2012 - 01:36am PT
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Julie X is a very strong all-rounder.
Peter and Barry Moore, Peter Birkett, Diana Hunter and I were sharing a campsite in Camp 4 in the Spring of 1973. There was a tree branch nearby where we routinely practiced pull ups. One night after dinner, we managed to do 14 solid, straight armed versions. Julie Brugger awe shucks over and asks if she could give it a try. Sure. She fires off 20 - in perfect form - and drops down, says thanks and wanders back to her campsite. Never in my life had I seen a woman display such strength. My first trip to Yosemite and my eyes were opened!
I was fortunate to meet Julie again in Denali National Park in the Spring of '95? or thereabouts. We were tamping down the Kahiltna Airstrip after a fresh snowstorm when someone called out her name. I realized I could close a circle, took a deep breath and wandered over. After introducing myself and recounting the pull up story, I told her that her effort helped me to break through some old notions about the fairer sex I was carrying around and that I would never forget it. She was gracious and about to set off for a climb on Mt. Fairweather.
A few years earlier, in '93, with Andrew De Klerc, she had made the third ascent of the North Buttress of Mt. Hunter via the Stump/Aubrey "Moonflower Buttress" route. They took nine days to summit Mt. Hunter and then another five days to descend the west ridge in bad weather.
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Younkin
Mountain climber
Utah
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Nov 12, 2013 - 08:14am PT
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I hung out with Julie and Mark in the early 70's. They would call me for weather reports since I lived in Wenatchee in Central Washington. They would come over to climb and a few times to work picking apples and pears. They called me one time when a friend had lost the keys to his Volvo and they couldn't start it. I was able to hot wire it and they were on their way. One of the last times that I saw Julie was at Marks Funeral, those were sad times but I feel lucky to have known Mark and I Wish Julie all the Best...
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Bad Climber
climber
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Nov 12, 2013 - 09:02am PT
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Fascinating! She is quite the strong one. Over two weeks on Hunter, yoiks. I've never heard of her. She needs to write a book.
BAd
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Nov 12, 2013 - 09:20am PT
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Used to see her at Seattle Vertical World in the late 90s through early 2000s. She was working on an anthropology PhD and is now a post-doc doing some interesting work on how folks in rural communities process various aspects of climate change.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Nov 12, 2013 - 11:06am PT
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I used to see her and Andy DeKlerk frequently out at the gym and various crags around Seattle back in the 90s. Certainly a very strong climber.
I would not have thought she was old enough to have been on FA's in mid 70s. She must have been pretty young at that point, which makes it all the more impressive.
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