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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 23, 2006 - 01:36pm PT
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The report on TS.....Got me thinking about him.... :>)I don't cry anymore when I think of him caus I just remember all the good times...
I recall the time Mike G and TS were rescued off the prow...
The very next day, after a great pancake breakfast, Tobin was up to go jump on the VOID....He could not do it cause his fingers were still a bit numb from the days out in the snow but that didn't stop him from taking about 10 wipers. We finaly get him to stop....I know there are photos of that try cause DF was snapping away. Thinking of DF....has he jumped in on this yet?
He has the shots of many of the "deeds". I remember a super 8mm film he has of JB soloing the "circut" in HVCG... the one where he snaps his fingers and disapears.
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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Feb 23, 2006 - 01:38pm PT
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And to TAR....You light off any more forest fires latley?
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rmuir
Social climber
Claremont, CA
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Feb 23, 2006 - 01:55pm PT
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Hmmm... So all this talk about Rubidoux triggered some old brain-cells.
Let's see how the ST Forums handle an animated GIF:
Photos by Robert Bolton.© (Must be the mid '90s, since there's a crashpad down there.)
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Feb 23, 2006 - 01:58pm PT
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DF is down in Patagonia with The huber Bros. I think with this thread he would post up if he were here.
The goat was ornery sometimes if you weren’t careful
Edit: Robs, that has to be a first, at least with the animation.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Feb 23, 2006 - 02:37pm PT
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Richard actually managed to lasso said goat with a shank of goldline and it dragged him roughshod over half the mountain before the goat actually bit through the line.
We always wonderd what the goat did for water, since it was always seen--as Rob said--kicking around the Accomazzo boulders, which are dry as Death Valley. The goat simply vanished around 1973.
JL
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 23, 2006 - 02:54pm PT
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Stonemasters,
Mike "Gramicci" Graham, thank you for your reply to my email, that really meant a lot to me.
Largo,
I have laughed and cried through the years reading your short stories.
I'm going out on a real limb here with no belay. If you are serious about a reunion at Mt. Rubidoux, I'm pretty sure I could talk to (convince) my farther-in-law and ask if we could (my family and father-in-law) host a party at his house. Reunion Bouldering on Mt. Rubidoux, and a party hosted at his home afterwards. He has a big house with a large backyard, big trees, right near the base of Mt. Rubidoux on Glenwood Drive. I think he would really enjoy something like that. He likes a good party. My mother-in-law just passed away this last year, and he's a retired AF Colonel, but stays active managing/owning several Fastastic Sam's in Riverside, and traveling world-wide.
I've been bouldering off and on at Mt. Rubidoux since meeting my wife in 1989. She was running around Mt. Rubidoux with her brothers playing fort, when you guys were bouldering on Rubidoux in the early '70s. She remembers wild people getting very personal with the rock as she was growing up.
I'm a Poway Boy wanabe, getting serious into climbing/bouldering at Mt. Woodson in '75 onward while at Poway HS. My HS climbing buds and I, often ran into and sometimes bouldered with Rick Piggot, Mike Paul, Keith Brueckner et al in those days. Good times for sure. I’m thinking I might post in jpg the Credits and Table of Contents pages from the “Crags and Boulders of San Diego County” by Doug White when I scan it in later. Perhaps even the first ascents credits for more history from down San Diego way. We need some feedback in this thread from some of the Poway Boys, some of whom might be considered Stonemasters at large.
Robbins, TM H., Frost, Chouinard, Rowell were legends, but the Stonemasters were heroes to all of us. It would be a privilege and honor to meet all of you and to provide a venue for it to happen close to Rubidoux.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Feb 23, 2006 - 03:57pm PT
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TAR- yea what Guyzo said. i never asked you if things were as grizzly as that story Gaines write in R&I? or was that Burly doing a literary "Largo"?
you talkin' 'bout that "wall of voodoo" article where roy leans back on a ledge with a satisfied smile on his face after having gotten his "fix?"
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 23, 2006 - 05:29pm PT
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bvb, 'kof, guyman:
Most of that story concerning the line across from Trono (Wall of Voodo -Moonflower Butress, credit goes to Tusi for the initial recon) most, is to the letter, bona fide true, even if Largo did ghost write the piece.
'Cept for the forest fire: I bivie like a champ, still sleep like a dead man every night, so I wasn't needing any fire + I was 20' above their squat in my own hole. (Bivied in "The Maw" on the Pan Am with/E & Zeal, I slept great in my hammock, waking up periodically to scarf M&M's and jive those tossy/turners- I can be such an arse). On that particular outing with Gaines and MP, those bone heads really did get a bush alight, they did kick off the mess due to its encroachment on their slim stance. Smoke actually drifted up most of the next day. No melting ropes, no real forest fire, but I was pissed because the smoke made some of my pictures look hazy.
After topping out, we were all quite relieved not to have to go all the way down the gully and put out the fire which had run its course.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Feb 23, 2006 - 07:20pm PT
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Klimmer, GS – Thanks for the offer. There are a few get together in the works. It’s looking like our rendezvous at Rubidoux is a little too impromptu for such a festive gathering. Don’t know what your father in-law’s neighbors would think of the invasion. Let alone all the tents and bags laying around the yard after everyone’s too drunk to drive of fly home.I’m protecting you here, You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into, houses have been known to burn to the ground.
All part of the ritual.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 23, 2006 - 08:11pm PT
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8am Nov 1, 2004 Globe AZ-
oops got the date mixed up with some halloween thing down there.
well, it'l have to do.
I awake from repping duty at the Phoenix Bloobering (no real 'tude there, 'just felt good to say it)contest(or the halloween thing "Phlapper Fest") and I'm scatzing away for an event, due same night 13-15 hrs north, and I see Kamps' scraggly backside -"Hey yer Bob Kamps!"
He turns around, smiles, askes me to breakfast at the diner, which is exactly at the end of the driveway where our motel is.
"no man, thanx gotta bolt for coloredo"
Damn.
shite.
weazels shuda' ript my flesh.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Feb 23, 2006 - 08:41pm PT
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i can't resist dusting off this old chestnut. if for no other reason than to underscore the power of largo's myth, which was already carved in granite by the mid-70's, and pay tribute to the guy who ignited this thread:
1975. we're hanging out down at the ski mart on garnet ave, where largo works. there was a primitive bouldering wall carved into the brick wall upstairs. so we're hanging out there one night and JL is holding court. me and my buddy doug are talking to him about climbing and new routes and the life well-lived, and at one point -- i swear to god i'm not making this up -- he gets quiet, gazes off into space for a few moments, then murmurs as if to himself, "you gotta have vision, man. you gotta have vision."
me and my buddy were so starstruck we used that quote as the frontispiece to this horrific little supplement to the mission gorge guide that we hacked together a few months later, the immortal scumbag digest:
about which RV had this to say:
and here's the quote, in all it's published glory:
a tip of the hat to you, JL. like it or not, you were the center of gravity for SoCal climbing in those days, and despite what t.s. eliot wrote, in your case the center could hold.
and that's all i'm gonna say about that.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 23, 2006 - 08:54pm PT
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MG -
ROTFLMO . . .
Too funny. Thanks for putting me back on belay and saving my ass. What the hell was I thinking?
Hey Stonemasters -
Don't go and burn down Rubidoux after the impromptu reunion bouldering OK?. That mountain has burned too many times. Hey, you guys wouldn't know about that would you???
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 23, 2006 - 10:17pm PT
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BVB -
You know sometimes the light just all of a sudden turns on.
BVB = Bob VanBelle. Why didn't I not put that together before?
Mt. Woodson --- "Premium Miniatures"
We don't know each other personally, but I know we ran into each other on Woodson on several occasions from the mid '70s to 1980 when I left CA for a short while (came back to San Diego in '84). Me- tall, skinny, lanky, shoulder length read-head, Poway HS kid with buddies of mine in tow. Most often I was wearing shorts, or US Army issue olive drab loose pants, EBs with uppers covered in leather, Forrest harness, and T-shirt. Serious YEShead. Ok, maybe that doesn't help. I think I just described every Joe no-body climber in the mid '70s. Ok, maybe not everyone was into YES like I was. I will try to drum-up a photo.
I think you'll appreciate this . . . (gonna try to post a jpg of the "Crags and Boulders of San Diego County" Credits and Contents page; first time for me posting a photo at ST. I'm gonna say a little prayer now):
Hope this rescale is better.
Nope that didn't work. I'm deleteing until I get it worked out.
Thanks for all the advice. In edit mode in photobucket it was a snap to do. Hey, you learn something new everyday.
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Gramicci
Social climber
Ventura
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Feb 23, 2006 - 10:25pm PT
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Damm. check out the lightning bolt in that logo!
Who's got the bar over their eyes?
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2006 - 10:31pm PT
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Man you guys are on a roll, this thing will go to 400. Super!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:05pm PT
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yeah grammici -- we concocted the "scumbags" as a san diego take-off on the "stonemasters".....complete with the ripped-off lightning bolt...following a drunken, pot smoking, bouldering binge...hey, we were in high school. shite happens. heh.
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rmuir
Social climber
Claremont, CA
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:11pm PT
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Hey, Klimmer.
Any chance you can edit that most recent guidebook scan to a somewhat smaller
size?
Even for those of us with decent-sized laptop screens (1280x864), it makes this
forum VERY hard to read. Seems that ST forces the default width of the page to
accommodate the widest image posted. (At least, for my browser it does...)
Anybody else seeing the same behavior?
(Yes... You in the back there. Is that Werner?)
Yes, Mr. Braun, IMO that's a bug, and not a feature. (And now you've all got a good
hint about how to clobber other ST Forum threads, right? But of course, that
wouldn't apply to these Stonemaster strands... No sir re bob.)
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WBraun
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2006 - 11:16pm PT
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It's happening rmuir, it's oversized
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:28pm PT
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Yea, sorry about that. Do I have to rescan it and scale it down, or is there a way I can do it in photobucket without rescanning from scratch?
If you want a good easy to read scan of it I would copy and save it now. At worst I will delete it, rescan and rescale it then repost to photobucket. But I would like to do it the easiest way. Any advice?
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rmuir
Social climber
Claremont, CA
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:31pm PT
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Rescale the image using software (no need to rescan) and then post it back up to
your server. You could even change the file name, if you'd like. Then just edit your
post and modify the URL to reflect the new filename. Probably shoot for a target size
that doesn't exceed 600x800; smaller would be better.
And, in the meantime, you could edit and then delete the link in your post until
you get the new image done...
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