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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 24, 2012 - 08:11pm PT
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Truly unfair Jim, especially when you consider how many of the audience that WERE allowed in even though they had refused to grow up.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 24, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
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Welcome aboard Peter! A few folks here still climb.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Feb 25, 2012 - 06:35am PT
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Peewee free soloed the cliffs at the top of the Basin Mtn. route.
Hanging from his toenails, no doubt...
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Feb 25, 2012 - 10:28am PT
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Welcome! Feel free to hang out here and spend hours each day making snide comments and funny remarks like Werner and Jim D. We love being abused by our heroes. We especially want to know your opinions on politics, religion, science, and ethics.
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dfinnecy
Social climber
'stralia
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Feb 28, 2012 - 11:42pm PT
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me and Croft go waaay back,..
Hey Peter, remember me? I was that kid with my Dad that bought a poster you signed for me. This was that time at UC Santa Cruz and you were giving a slide show.
And then there was that time when I was the dude on Nutcracker with my girlfriend while you were taking some clients up After Six. We ended up hanging out on top belaying. I said, "nice day, huh?' You said, 'yep.'
Yep, we go way back. Can I borrow $120?
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dfinnecy
Social climber
'stralia
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Feb 29, 2012 - 03:46am PT
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micronut wrote:
We've never met, but a black and white poster of you hanging under the Rostrum roof hangs in my garage, inspiring me to crank a couple pull ups when i walk by it on the way to the lawnmower.
That was the one I got signed at the slideshow! I need to get that and bring it back next time I'm home.
I also remember a shot of Mr Croft on what I think may have been 'Moongerms'. I can't remember if he was soloing, but it was an amazing photo and looked so out there.
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tahoe523
Trad climber
Station Wagon, USA
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Feb 29, 2012 - 11:49am PT
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When this guy buys bananas at the grocery store, gossip even as petty as his choice in produce can, sweartogod, travel over the sierras to cities as far reaching as San Francisco.
"Dude, Peter is totally cruxing out at the self check out machine. He's probably now off to run the Evolution Traverse in a day with only those bananas, but still."
I can't believe I heard about a stupid banana buying sighting, but nobody told me that you popped up on here to say hello! Despite your unwanted rockstar status, you make no effort to make those around you feel smaller. I'm inspired by how you carry yourself as a person, less by how hard you climb. Thanks for living up to all the hype. Hope that you'll regale us with a story from time to time and that we cross paths again one day!
Shino Jomoto
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 29, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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Peter, thanks for giving old guy's George and me beta on the Evolution Traverse. Regarding Leavenworth, I recall first meeting you when I was walking under the Nose on Castle Rock. I saw a shadow and looked up to see you very casually downclimbing the route sans rope, old school 10d as I recall.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Feb 29, 2012 - 12:30pm PT
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Extraordinary talent and positive enthusiasum combined with humility:One of our communities finest, thanks Peter!
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 29, 2012 - 02:05pm PT
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Hi Peter,
I kinda got to meet you on account of toting a video camera. It was still awesome, and I was so inspired by the person you are beyond the climber -- many people here have gotten that one right (bananas, jeez...) -- that I had to put you in the featured position to give us all the last word on Moving Over Stone.
Little story here. Peter soloed up and down, video rolling. So he gets near the ground and Mike Strassman, behind the camera, says "Hey, after you rest and if you feel like it, could you do it again so I can shoot cutaways?" And without touching down Peter just fires back up it. Fast, rolling through the moves so I couldn't even tell where the crux was. And back down again. Damn!
Wish I had actually seen more of it. I was right there, but mostly couldn't watch. I had decked soloing a couple of years before and was still too traumatized to watch.
Here's to you, Peter! Big respect, and I hope to hang out a little more with you in the future.
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Feb 29, 2012 - 02:25pm PT
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Just wanted to chime in and welcome you to the Supertopo Peter. I am from Vancouver Island B.C. where once (I'm told) you called home. Your accomplishments on stone are inspiring and well documented but it's your strong character as a person that sets you above the rest. You've carried yourself with a strong humble confidence that has allowed you to do great things and have never lost that boyish grin and enthusiasm.
As a part-time amateur soloist, I've often found myself trying to tap into that mental focus, whatever it is that has allowed you to excel and survive where many others have not. I think its proof that if you take the ego out of soloing what you are left with is pure and magical.
Thanks for being an inspiration to so many people you'll never meet, but I'm sure you need no thanks at all because like you once said... you just can't help yourself. :)
edit: On a side note, would you happen to remember an Island climber here by the name of Chris Barner? He's spoken of you before from time to time with great respect. He's sort of a local legend around here, still fighting for access and climbers rights and still putting up climbs on the island and the coast range, he just celebrated his 50th I believe this past summer.
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dogtown
Trad climber
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Marshall Islands atoll.
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Most definitely, cool to have you here. Welcome! I guess I can say welcome now that I’m back kind-a.
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bmacd
Boulder climber
100% Canadian
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Once upon a time, possibly 18 years ago, I couldn't help but to overhear through the paper thin walls of our local health clinic, someone trying to make the Dr for a benzo 'script. Anxiety, apparently, was his problem.
"Why don't you resume wearing a rope?" was my personal silent reaction, in the next exam room over. I was looking for a good writing arm, myself, at the time.
Evidently, we are now neighbors; this is a very desirable place to live.
This is a fictional piece. Any resemblance to persons alive or otherwise is unintended or coincidence; people may have been invented, events shifted in time and space to suit the author's fictional pursuit.
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bmacd
Boulder climber
100% Canadian
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+1 Tami
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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As I mentioned, this is just fiction.
Other parts of my short story have to do as an honest take on a local medical community with a reputation for refusing to write for controlled drugs under any circumstances, upholding a higher ethical standard.
Another chapter invents a character who's free soloed Astroman, and suffers from anxiety.
It's like some Oriental face saving ritual. On one side is the Dr.upholding the highest ethical standards. On the other is an athlete who can't quite explain why he's so amped, he can't sleep at night.
It takes a good bedside manner to cut it with the MD's out here.
Personally, I love Squamish. I think I've already mentioned my onsight of BBB. I guess if I'd had some small, I could have gotten some pro. But, since I was playing hooky from a Mountain Resort Design "confab" up at Whistler, I only had a 10.5mm rope, and a half dozen Bonatti 'biners. And my beautiful, non-climbing wife to hold on to the end of the line.
This left me just 2 bolts for pro, within 15 feet of the approach ledge.
Actually, my wife enthusiastically led up across the approach log bridge...steep mud...Tarzan tree roots which give out onto the main Apron Ledge. Only when I noticed cars on the hwy directly below did I realize that the ledge now consisted of grass growing out of a horizontal crack; I called my wife back to what appeared to be the start of the route.
ATC's didn't exist then, I was trying a Sticht Belay Plate for the first time. I thoughtfully threaded the rope through both halves. Then, I clipped the plate's perlon loop, held in place to the plate with each end passed through two holes and then burned a bit to swell in place. This I clipped to my wife's swami.
A bouldery start led to the first clip, just 10 feet up.
But, my wife thought it might be a good idea if the rope were to actually run through the 'biner which was clipped to her, rather than just the belay plate alone.
Looking down at the cars on the Hwy below, I thought that a good suggestion, and downclimbed to correct the situation.
The 2nd bolt was only another 10 feet above the 1st. BTW, the 1st can be reached from both a RH and LH variation. I don't remember any more bolts on a route, when I later bought a guidebook in town, was rated .10c.
I didn't sleep much that night myself, and it wasn't due to anxiety. I was way amped by the lead in context. Caught the eye of some parties on Diedre - they regarded me as an escapee from the asylum.
I'm not trolling...isn't "d#@&%e bag" a Back East female derogatory sexist expression, BTW? It's not my fault that the Clinic was so cheaply constructed that it was impossible not to overhear all of the adjacent exam rooms. The irony of whom many regard as one of the world's greatest climbers, hands down, trying for legitimate but inarticulate reasons to make a CV Rx has stayed with me ever since.
We're quite pleased to serve a heapin' helping of our hospitality, Buttermilk style.
And, if you haven't crashed into CII territory lately, chill. He's a Big Boy, and I think he has enough sense to smile at a distant recollection by one of the few obscure locals of the day who actually knew who he was. within our climbing pantheon.
A left hand compliment to fictional climber, Canada's Poster Boy, and Sam Hill to boot.
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YoungGun
climber
North
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^^^
I think we can do without your compliments and generous hospitality.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Okay, whatever.... BEST DARNED SLIDESHOW EVER was by Croft.
OS soloing in the Bugs, in the rain, on his knees... because his polypro stuck better than his shoes???
Then the whole massive projection screen fell over in slow mo on the crowd.
PBC early 90's.
Dudes a fûckin manimal. Respect.
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cowpoke
climber
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an escapee from the asylum. oh boy.
I'd been holding off on posting to this thread...like a deer in the headlights in the glow of this legend.
Welcome, Peter Croft.
Despite the strangeness of this place, fun stuff can happen. I once was mistaken for being you, thanks to avatars and the shenanigans of a certain someone: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=909976
Just think how exciting life would be if I was you and you were me: you'd still be backing off every other 5.10 you tried...imagine how exciting climbing would be then, right?!
Cheers,
Eric (5.10 still scares me) Dearing
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