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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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May 19, 2011 - 02:52pm PT
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Heck, Ron Kauk is the man Tom Cruise tries to act/be like...
The man has done good.
:)AFS
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tom Carter
Social climber
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May 28, 2011 - 06:42pm PT
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Bumping Bundy!
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cms
climber
toyota, tacoma
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May 28, 2011 - 08:03pm PT
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Ive met Ron in toulumne, the valley and at castle rock sp. All three times he was most humble and happy. Not sure how he does it but whatever he is doing he is doing it right.
Hell of a climber to boot.
Thanks Ron.
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tinker b
climber
the commonwealth
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May 29, 2011 - 12:29am PT
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my favorite video of ron is in stone masters 1 when he has the cowboy boots on the slab.
on a more serious note...
i can't put into words my appreciation for ron and his role in our community.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 29, 2011 - 02:39am PT
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Belayed me on "The Cave" at Mt. Woodson in '86 a few days before the contest... put an ear to ear grin on a twenty four year old's face back then!
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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May 29, 2011 - 05:11am PT
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Ron Kauk at the 1986 Mt. Woodson Bouldering Contest...
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ryankelly
Trad climber
el portal
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May 29, 2011 - 12:18pm PT
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bump for Ron, he is beyond cool
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Outdoorvangelist
Trad climber
San Juan Capistrano, CA
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May 29, 2011 - 01:07pm PT
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Got to spend some time with Ron on his infrequent A16 tours and on a fun Ford commercial in '00-01 sometime... lucky me.
Check out this 5 min vid, featuring Ron at 2:35 or so... from the Snowbird comp in 88 http://youtu.be/iwIemWO9JU0
keep on rocking it Ron, and hope to see you at OR again in August.
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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May 29, 2011 - 01:23pm PT
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^^^^love those socks!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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May 29, 2011 - 01:59pm PT
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Right when I was getting into climbing, at age 17, my Mom gave me Galen Rowell's book "The Art of Adventure".
The photos of Ron Kauk on Astroman were mind blowing to me and fueled my drive to become a climber.
Still haven't done Astroman but when I climbed Figures on a Landscape, one of the other stand-out images from that book, I thought about Ron Kauk and how I was well on my way to my goal.
Ron embodies what I admire in a human and in a climber- soft spoken, environmental ethic, passionate.
He continues to inspire me, 24 years after getting that book as a gift.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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May 29, 2011 - 11:01pm PT
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Bump for Kauk,
He and Werner were two of the more welcoming Valley regulars when we first showed up as wide eyed noobs back in the seventies.
Ron's been an inspiration on and off the rock ever since and he continues to move across the stone and through life with the same enviable grace.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Another of Ron on the Lie Detector at the '86 contest...
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2 l l
Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
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The belay sure is pulling the rope tight.
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CF
climber
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tm store 8/31/00 7:23 pm
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CF
climber
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 12, 2012 - 04:35am PT
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So that's chappy, eh? All these years I was thinking more like, eh, Tom Crow. I mean Cruise. :)
blinded by the light....
Where in hell but the Taco?
Could ya still see a jock o
The vaunted seventies, yeah.
I want to know right now...
Write us a song, Mars. Sing it for Klemens.
Thou shalt not warble, thee must sing.--the Bird King
edit: "Drunk again, been drinkin Gordon's gin" and got my Chappies confused with the Worralies. That was a Elvin Bishop line, the gin. But write us a bleeping song. About some Vendetta, some Avenging Angel, some nightmare. Anyone climbed like you could make a song. It's 5 f*#king 2.
I'm glad you like it in California. Ohio doesn't deserve you.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 12, 2012 - 04:37am PT
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Personal fave:
TNF Catalog cover, Spring 1985.
Kaukulator.
The Thing About Ron (THAR)--
He always looks so good from a distance, even. Like that cover on TNF's catalog. Or on the cover of Mountain 138 in Tuolumne. It is just FN spooky.
"I never met 'im, but 'is nyme's a rall bonzer."--drunken Ozzy climber in praise of R Ron.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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May 25, 2012 - 01:30am PT
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I once complimented Ron on his ability to emulate native American discourse.
Ooops!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 25, 2012 - 01:32am PT
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^^^^
That's funny, Don. What was his reply or was there one?
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