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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 10:34pm PT
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I'm am pretty sure this is Fishy looking for the exact spot where I will attempt to murder him, ha!
Just a couple of fools getting ready for the day.
I'm fairly certain this is Frerricks feeding rope to the Pieman in Tuolumne. Can anyone confirm?
No doubt who this stud is.
This is a Poloroid! Not exactly sure where in the monument this is though.
Hidden guns at work, stand clear please. :D
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 29, 2019 - 10:40pm PT
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Mega!!
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 29, 2019 - 11:02pm PT
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On to Moonie..,
Sometime in late summer '82 Doug and I decided to do the Salathé wall. My memory, as bad as it is, I can't recall 8f it was before or after doing the Nose with the Driver. Someone may recall but no matter, I had the wherewithal to note on the back of the photos for this excursion but not the other. Anyway, route decided, Doug thought 8t best to do a warm-up climb to get in shape for it. Of course I just sheeped up and said sure moonie, whatever you like. So we set off to do Clyde Minaret.
Hiked in one day and camped near a small lake near the base. Up before the sun and off we went. I don't remember it being particularly difficult, I just remember being scolded about one belay he didn't think I did well enough. Not enough pro in in the event of a fall and we'd both tumble to the bottom or some such nonsense. I reckon it was fine and since I'm here telling the tale I also reckon the scales on the matter tip in my favour. In any event we made it to the top, scrambled back to base camp just as it was getting dark again and hiked out the next day.
The next week or so and we did the Salathé. I'll only post a couple of photos so as not to bore anyone. It's a good bet that most here have done it and seen hundreds of photos by now so here's mine......
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 30, 2019 - 06:02am PT
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Manx for the winning~schwimmingz & it was post number 1234 !!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 30, 2019 - 09:57am PT
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Welcome to the forum, Kent!
You should definitely post more pictures of the Salathe. It doesn't matter if we've seen it before or how many times, we want to see your photos.
As to the facts and sequencing of the Sundance belay escape maneuver: Kent, I had been feeding you pipe loads and sips of Budweiser while you were paying out the rope over easier terrain. This was prior to Russ taking a slip higher up (at or near the crux), not exactly during. I know this because I was watching him when he fell. I looked to my left and saw that the rope was free from your hands and you were looking side to side as the rope was whizzing around your waist – wondering what had happened. The Fish grabbed the rope and saved himself!
So yeah, it happened twice. We were all kids once.
Good on you for moving to Australia and making a life there. Sounds like your memories are pretty good thus far, let's hope you keep that prognosis at bay as long as possible!
– Roy
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 30, 2019 - 10:09am PT
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^^^^^^
Haha! Budweiser too!! You dudes are savages!
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Mar 30, 2019 - 07:47pm PT
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I will take your, and Fishes, word for it Roy. I remember once but I also remember being just me and him. I'll apologize once more and I'll move on to the Driver.
I am fairly certain we did the nose before the Salathé making it my first big wall as I'm certain a forced 2day event on Washington column doesn't qualify as such. While I made notes on picture backs of pitches and such I neglected to put a date. I remember calling my mom beforehand while in retrospect the call afterwards might have added years to her life or at the least more sleep to her nights inbetween. This recollection also lends towards it being a first because I have no memory of ever doing it again.
I remember Russ calling my mom a hypochondriac on more than a few occasions but we were very close until she passed shortly after my move down under. She sewed blue foam mat material to the inside leg sections of my harness as I had found it to be somewhat uncomfortable when practicing with the thing. It did make a difference in my comfort level to be sure.
The climb.... We were met with moisture to some degree every day as I recall but nothing too bad save for the first day when we decided to bivvy in dolt hole. Well I was more in than out with that role reversed for Greg.
The rest was mostly uneventful except for one standout moment. I don't remember the day or the pitch but Greg was cleaning and he was having a helluva time getting one piece out. He cursed and he huffed, he swore more and then he just said "F*#k this, I'm going to sleep!" I laughed but was dumfounded as he crossed his arms, closed his eyes and had a look on his face similar to a child pouting about having to stop playing and get ready for bed when the absolute opposite was all they wanted to do. I do not recall the final disposition of the offending piece. Whether it was sacrificed or eventually collected are gone from my memory but the 15 or so minutes it took him to regain composure and soldier on are not.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 30, 2019 - 08:00pm PT
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No worries on the droppings Manxie... no apology needed. I don’t think I cared then and I certainly don’t now. That is just how we rolled back in the day. Nowadays there would be a 300 post thread on it and much armchair analysis...
"F*#k this, I'm going to sleep!" Hahaha! Too funny!
Keep posting up! This sh#t is superb!
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Mar 31, 2019 - 06:58am PT
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Found this old photo of Tom Grimes, he is in the Rt photo 1984
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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I read earlier in the thread where Vickie posted about free concerts in mammoth and that brought back a few memories but I'll need help on a detail.
After one particularly long summer and some of us were low or out of money but didn't want to head back to LA yet someone had the idea to go to mammoth and apply for food stamps. I think I went there with Craig but am fuzzy on this detail. I do remember the pos van I had and it may have been the summer I had driven to Yosemite after buying that van while visiting my dad in Kentucky. The thing was a '66 Dodge that was so badly rusted you could see the road through sections of the wheel well. (Too many winters back east driving on salted roads) But it had a built up bed with storage underneath, shag carpet on top and curtains my step mom made so was ideal, at the time, for camping. I drove my van, and I'm going to keep saying Craig until someone corrects me, Craig drove his vehicle. We did successfully obtain food stamps and camped in the Twin lakes campground for a bit.
I do remember wanting to go to one of those concerts mentioned above but we had no brewskis and that was a problem. You can't buy booze with food stamps but they would give you cash money change for purchases under $5 so we made several trips in and out buying candy bars and whatnot until we gad enough cash to get the brews. I think the concert was Jose Feliciano but I remember it being packed and not being able to see much (kind of like Jose, ba-dum-tis).
If memory serves Craig got a job labouring in construction for a bit and after my driveshaft fell out when a u-joint failed I got a job at the Chevron station. We would still make a few trips into Tuolumne but Craig left that scene while I stayed on, working at the Chevron until it got too cold and finally heading back to LA. Good times.
I think it was after this that I ended up in Sierra Madre canyon next to Jeff because I do remember selling that pos van to pick-a-part after I bought a newer'67 Dodge van sans shag carpet but also set for camping.
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The Manx
Social climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Jeff, not that brilliant. When I got the job I went and told them that I didn't need them any more. I don't recall all the details but I ended up paying everything back! So it was more of a student loan kinda thing, ha!
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Nice blast from the past Kent.
In the future some national parks' historian will have to figure out how these boulders were named after a tailless cat....
The Salathe was one of my favorite wall, my notes have us climbing it summer of 1982. No one else on the wall, those days are gone. The Fish and the Boxer did it before us and said it was awesome. I remember the Fish telling us one of them dropped the haul bag from a belay and the bag went for a full rope length fusing the knot in the haul line.
My memory of you dropping Russ was when you two climbed the Swallow (back when it was rated 5.8) at Taquizts, quite a bit of slander about the rope jumping your back.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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My memory of you dropping Russ was when you two climbed the Swallow
It was on the Sham... the aid part. Thin crack, then a bolt then a #1 stopper... I got on the stopper and it shifted... I said "heads up" and was trying to step back down into the aiders on the bolt... stopper pulled and I was gone. I remember holding onto my balaclava as I tumbled through a bush and went a ways. Didn't lose the 'clava though. Must have been cold up there.
From the small blue Taquitz guide:
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Buggerville
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Apr 10, 2019 - 09:34am PT
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Aloha Kent,
Thanks for the great pics. Many fond memories of JT and Yosemite high country. I'll never forget you driving me to Bishop Hospital so sick they shot me up with penicillin.
I cut school once and we went to Santa Anita. I put $2 on each grey horse that day and they all won...$140. Good times!
Bring the ohana to Big Island sometime. Lots of space. Your sister in Buggery, <3 V
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The Manx
climber
Brisbane, Australia
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Apr 11, 2019 - 03:14pm PT
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Hey Vicki,
Good to see you. We talk often of getting back to the states but mostly for the kids to see Disneyland. I'd like to get back and visit my birthplace in Honolulu but funding holds us back. I take it Tripler Army hospital is still there? Mom used to tell us stories of playing with scorpions 🦂 on the beach but my memory doesn't go back that far, heh.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Apr 11, 2019 - 09:50pm PT
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^^^^
Looks like Mike Paul over there in the MC Hammer pants.... along with the Oregon Bong Squad
(Lol... sorry Mike!)
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Buggerville
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Apr 12, 2019 - 07:46am PT
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Yeah Tripler still there. Crowded island, nearly a million peeps.
Scorpions? You must have lived on the west side. Desert. The Big Island is special. Has those high peaks and a wide variety of climates. We just had a late winter storm, as much of the country is. Snowed on Mauna Kea.
AKDOG aka Moon Fuzz, thanks for sharing more pics. Good times.
Aloha Friday everyone!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 12, 2019 - 07:59pm PT
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Kinda random and not really related to any sheep molestation and I'm too late for Throw- Back Thursday but...
How's the "gracious living" going there Russ?
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Apr 12, 2019 - 08:17pm PT
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^^^^
Cool postcard! Like they say, “it is fine in 29”
A short back story to the Manx.... we met in high school... early in the morning, like first period gym class. We had swimming. F*#k that, too wet and cold for me, and I guess the Manx too. We both had doctors notes for having bad ears or something. We ended up playing chess every day in the bleachers, in street clothes, while them other fools swam around chasing a ball or something. Not sure how we ever endedup at the crags.... I remember going to JT with the Fuzz and Driver and Boxer crew.... I cant remember how we lured the Manx out there.
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