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jstan
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Jul 23, 2016 - 12:32pm PT
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Couple years ago I was browsing in the rock collections of Quartzite AZ. If there had been Wulfenite there I would have seen it. Must be rather rare.
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Jul 23, 2016 - 02:44pm PT
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Good thing it wasn't Dunn 5.10 +++...the hardest grade you can have
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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bump. met him once at Garden of the Gods. Nice guy.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Cosmos was one of the best El Capitan routes I've done.
The "Raven's Roost" gigantic bird's nest about six pitches up was incredible.
It was difficult to climb up to, onto, and beyond the nest without disturbing it or degrading it.
Higher up, a penji off a hook led to the Window Belay, which was a bombay chimney belay in a cave that had a WINDOW that overlooked the Merced River Canyon.
Even at that point in the route, it was All Too Much.
I can't remember redrilling too many belay bolts on that route. It seemed like it was mostly au natural.
The pitch to Thanksgiving Ledge was near a water drip, and the silverfish insects were all over me. I had to reach up to place a piece, swat bugs crawling all over me, and then move up.
Great fun!
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 4, 2016 - 03:20pm PT
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Jimmie has been climbing quite a bit lately, in an attempt to get back in shape.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 18, 2017 - 11:13am PT
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Just came back from a 10 day trip climbing with Jimmie at Turkey Rocks. Jimmie is always great company!
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CascadeOtto
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 18, 2017 - 12:00pm PT
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I met him once in Cochise Stronghold, East side. I was glad pay my respects and chat with such a positive, energetic guy. He had the hand-jam boards on top of a van.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jul 18, 2017 - 01:34pm PT
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Jimmie is a major dude and just a really great guy. I climbed some with Jimmy in the early `1970's in Taylor Canyon when we were both attending Western State in Gunnison. A couple of years ago when I was airlines commuting to and from Houston I got a call out of the blue from Jimmie, so went down to Colorado Springs to hang out with him, his new wife and child. He was/is mining wulfenite in AZ for some mineral entrepreneur. We did some silliness up North Cheyenne Canyon. Jimmie is just the best kind of people, clearly I'm going to have to ride down to the ' Springs and say "Hi".
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 18, 2017 - 01:43pm PT
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Jimmy, as anyone who knows him will tell you, has boundless energy....make that boundless with a capital B. About twenty years ago I was climbing in SE Utah with Russ Raffa when I ran into Jimmy and his then girlfriend (name forgotten) in Moab.
Jimmy had been climbing feverishly (the only way he knows) and pronounced that he was fit. The problem was that he was low on cash and the mines in Southern Arizona where he obtained the malachite and azurite that he sold at gem shows beckoned.
He was in a complete quandry, he was in peak form but low on cash....what to do? Money needs won out and he and his girlfriend jumped into his VW Bus and headed south on the 400 mile drive to the mines....or did money win out?
As Jimmy told me later on during the drive down two competing thoughts ran thru his brain.....I'm in tremendous shape and putting up great new routes AND, but I'm low on money and need to work in the mines. He got to within ten miles of the mine when climbing won the battle and he turned his car back to Moab....or did it?
Ten miles into the return to Moab money won and he turned back to the mines....or did it?
Jimmy told me later that for two hours he drove back and forth, first to the mine and then back towards Moab until finally his climbing passion got the better of him and he drove all the way back to Moab.....as happy as any penniless climber ever was.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 18, 2017 - 03:28pm PT
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Jim,
Funny story but it certainly fits. This huge bear took up residence under Jimmie's deck, in the back yard. Jimmie's dogs were going crazy, and Jimmie was pretty excited as well. This bear was a 400-500 beast.
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Zoid
Trad climber
West Creek, CO
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Just wishing Mr. Dunn a happy birthday!
Quoted today...”Old and alive is better than young and dead. Just want to keep the Turkey Rock laps going.”
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Good thing it wasn't Dunn 5.10 +++...the hardest grade you can have
Mount Washington Valley NH has plenty of those things.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2018 - 12:21pm PT
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Just had to post this picture Oct.31,2018
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okay, whatever
climber
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I'll just reiterate what I wrote earlier in this thread... a couple of years ago... that I met Jim Dunn (and well, I think of him as Jim rather than Jimmy, and we share the same first name) at the Garden of the Gods outside of Colorado Springs in the early 1970's. I was an OK... 5.9 sometimes 5.10... climber then, but not a shining light by any means. And I knew the other Colorado Springs climbers like Earl Wiggins and John Sherwood and Stewart Green, and a few years later, Steve Hong and Steve Gropp and Ed Webster and so forth. But my point is that Jim Dunn was a very, very nice guy, who coached me on some boulder problems in the Garden of the Gods, without being patronizing at all. I can still remember him saying, when I fell off of a particular boulder problem, that "It's hard, you're doing fine, just keep working at it". I doubt that's verbatim, after all these years, but that was the gist of what he said.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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I just love reading about these climbing superheroes who also help create positive and interesting experiences for all those they come in contact with.
Thank you Supertopo.
Garry R
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