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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
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Just remembered another Hemming incident. When we started in San Diego we were all stony broke most of the time and good hardware was hard to come by. In addition, the "leave no trace" ethic had been mentioned, so we worked pretty hard to remove pins. Anyway, one time Gary went back east and came back with a huge rack of pins. Only later did we learn that when he got a look at the Gunks and saw all the fixed pins, carefully placed by club elders, he thought he had found a gold mine. So he applied the western ethic and harvested. I imagine the air turned blue when the vandalism was discovered, but a lot of Gunks fixed pins found their way into Tahquitz and Yosemite granite, via Hemming. But the east got its revenge by sending the Vulgarians to Yosemite.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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Ah, the Vulgarians!
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
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Cover
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:41pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:42pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:43pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:43pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:44pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:45pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:46pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:46pm PT
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Guck
Trad climber
Santa Barbara, CA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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Sorry this last page is out of sequence. Overwhelmed by technology!! This article understates the immense influence Gary had on young alpine climbers like me. For many, he is still the hero he was in the sixties!!
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2012 - 06:36am PT
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Fair play
I think this gives such good context to the whole place Hemming came to occupy and represent for subsequent generations such as myself too.
I remember reading this back in '96 and just recognising that so much of what we think of as iconic from the alpine climbing of the '60's is represented here.
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2012 - 07:05am PT
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Dom Green
Trad climber
Sheffield UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2012 - 07:13am PT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Dom
I agree; I think you have a really interesting and iconic subject to work with here. Carry on, certainly! Obviously there was quite a bit going on with Hemming; it's true he mirrored his era, making your account or movie potentially awfully intriguing while being important in much wider ways. Hopefully you will find out enough to give your work terrific richness and mis-en-scene. He obviously had a bunch of lives going on simultaneously.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Mar 26, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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Dom, hopefully you are still carrying on with your Hemming project. I just finished Joe Fitschen's book Going Up and found Hemming mentioned often in the volume. You might find some it interesting, although Joe doesn't really focus on Hemming.
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