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tonesfrommars
Trad climber
California
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@JLP: Thanks for hunting that one down. So eloquent.
@Jaybro:
I recognize that photo in josh. And I think I remember that day. We all met climbing, and Top roped somewhere, I think the Rusty wall. I remember talking with Larry especially, and eating red licorice.
Dude, really? I wouldn't have believed you except that you mention the Rusty Wall. I'm pretty sure we had TRs on both Wangerbanger and O'Kelly's and Puhvel always had candy around. He reminded me today that the photo was taken at the road next to Course & Buggy turn-off.
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Bill Mc Kirgan
Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Rest in peace Juan. I'll miss the chaos, the fun, the train wreck trolls you brought to this place. Peace to your family and dear friends.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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If it's the same time, and my memory isn't too far gone, we talked in part about the slack chain in the c4 rescue site. and someone, i think it was Jeff, commented that the red licorcie was especially fresh.
One of my friends there that day, Dru, had a grown out mohawk and many ear peircings... we were in from Phx.
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Paulina
Trad climber
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This is Jeff talking to himself over at rec.climbing:
CROTCH. BURT BRONSON HERE.
CROTCH, ARE YOU SERIOUS? IF YOU ARE, THEN YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS.
BURT BRONSON
The final joke is on us. RIP, Jeff.
Edit: Apparently, Jeff is not BURT, and BURT is not Jeff. It's all very sad anyway.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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juan i hope that your exit was painless and grand.
enjoy the beyond, which has now become yours.
the juan-shaped-void that you left us will remain a chamber, announcing the inexhaustable echos of your fine dream, for all of its uniqueness and variability.
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John Vawter
Social climber
San Diego
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Jeff was already a well established rec.climbing character when I first started posting on rec.climbing in about 1997. I didn't realize how much I missed his irritating but wonderful presence in that old forum until I first saw one of his trademark posts here. I remember how pleasing and familiar it was to me to read one of his twisted little gems. I am genuinely saddened to know that he is gone.
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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RIP sir. Blessings to his family.
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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so sorry to have jeff lost.
times like these are a reminder of what a wonderful community we have, and i hope everyone takes comfort in that.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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being a newcomer to all this climber blogging (clogging, dare i suggest?), i was under the impression that juan de fuca and wanda fuca were one and the same, albeit ever changing various photos and spellings. but wanda "marty feldman" is obvious different, and perhaps a wannabe.
jeff's OP of the belief-in-god thread, revived offhandedly by pate in some sort of weak moment, has managed to arouse much recent bottom-feeding instinct. perhaps it's a tribute to his provocativeness.
"be as grains of sand, not lubricating oil, in the machinery of life," said a german poet. jeff seems to have done that well.
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bware
climber
a short drive from the way new
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I met Jeff through r.c, and found out about this at r.c (thanks, Karl), so I posted to r.c. For any of you former r.c'ers, go over there and post one last time...
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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RIP Juan. Although many of us never met him outside the taco, he will be missed.
kev
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AndyG
climber
San Diego, CA
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How very sad. I had lots of fun back and forth with him at r.climbing bitd but I think I only met him in person once, probably at a halloween bash, certainly at Jtree. Gotta go post on r.climbing now. I haven't been there in years.
Andy Gale
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Geoff
Trad climber
Sacramento, CA
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Damn.
I don't hangout here much, but used to be on rec.climbing way too much in the late 90's and early 2000's. Burt Bronson was my hero, enough so I made some t-shirts with some quotes...If I still had one, I'd wear it today in his honor.
I met Jeff once. Climbing at J-tree. Completely normal seeming, very likable guy. Had a long conversation about some hauling setups for big walls, and we shared top-ropes on some side by side climbs we'd each just led. Good time. When he left, my friend said. "You know who that was?", Me- No
Her -"Batten"
I felt, somehow, like I'd just been trolled. No one that nice and normal seeming could be Batten...
Edit: Wow. Burt wasn't Jeff? Now I feel trolled again.
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426
climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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It's a 5.10 mantle....
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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...into heaven, brother.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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I too didn't get the Want to Fuca reference. Funny.
I also didn't know BURT BRONSON was one of Jeff's characters, funny. I wonder if there are other posters who will now disappear?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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At first I didn't "get" Jeff at all, and found him annoying. But he had a clever and entertaining side to him that I came to know as I tried to understand him more.
Is it true? Was BURT BRONSON also Jeff? I really loved BURT BRONSON, one of the more creative personalities ever.
It seems so incredibly sad to me that in spite of Jeff being such a prolific poster here on McTopo, he died on May 25th and nobody even NOTICED until just now. Heartbreaking.
RIP Jeff Batten. My condolences to his friends and family.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I don't think Jeff was BRONSON, never did. BRONSON was too subtle for Jeff's methodology.
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Mason
Trad climber
Yay Area
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Rest in peace, man.
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curt wohlgemuth
Social climber
Bay Area, California
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Wow. Blown away. Years of reading his posts on rec.climbing, I had no idea that he was truly a climber. Very sad.
The background image on both my computers is a huge photo Jeff posted of Tahquitz, taken from the parking lot. It has more meaning to me now.
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