Camp 4 Reunion, Yosemite 9/25/99

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Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Oct 22, 2010 - 07:40pm PT

Boopoch, I am fairly certain it is Harry Daley. He was at the Reunion and I actually talked to him for awhile. Eccentric, vigorous.

BooDawg

Social climber

Polynesian Paradise

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2010 - 12:47am PT

I think you are right, Peter; Harry is/was short and solidly built like our guy here.

Abenda

climber

Oct 23, 2010 - 01:15am PT

Are these the last photos of Harding ... so sad

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 23, 2010 - 02:01am PT

All this, and no photo of the Camp 4 plaque. Well, that's easily fixed.

TripL7

Trad climber

san diego

Oct 23, 2010 - 02:14am PT

PH- "I am fairly certain it is Harry Daley."

If you listen to BooDawg's 1st video link "Camp 4 Dedication...". At 2:57 you will here the photographer(i presume) instructing him(Mr. Who?)to come forward. "Paul, come forward just a little bit, that's good...!". Therefor his name is "Paul"...me thinks!

Regardless, this is a priceless thread, thanks million's BooDawg!

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Oct 23, 2010 - 07:09pm PT

Boo/Clint/Haanster

That is most certainly not either Sherrick or Daly.

At the time of the photo it was a mystery to all who the guy was? I remember mystery man getting anything and everything he could carry autographed so I figured he was going to cash in someday on the gathering.

Daly was at the Reunion but I don't recall seeing Sherrick.

cheers

Guido

crunch

Social climber

Oct 23, 2010 - 08:48pm PT

Beautiful photos, Boodawg. Thanks.

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Oct 23, 2010 - 09:40pm PT

Abenda, no there are later photos but yes these are only 18 months before Warren was gone...poignant. And also we see John Bachar in the video, gone 10 years later.

Guido, I searched the Yosemite Climbs excel spreadsheet for Pauls. There are a bunch but all of them are modern era, 1980's and later, oddly...the only Paul I can think of from the old days was Paul Burner (sp?). I think you knew him too. It would be 47 years since I saw him though. This is what I think our Harry Daley looks like--- it is a Harry Daley from the internet and looks like the Harry Daley I talked to at the Reunion in the dark...

and doesn't look like our "Paul". However where IS Harry Daley in the photos? He did make it to the talks that night; that was when I spoke with him.

'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber

like Ontario, Canada, eh?

Oct 23, 2010 - 10:06pm PT

{sigh} I'm soooo sorry I missed this! My partner Jon Fox climbed through the night, with me shivering on my ledge belaying and trying to stay warm under a couple coil of ropes, and we ran down the East Ledges the next day. We were told that the event was taking place at Tamarack Flat and blasted up there, only to find it empty. Sheesh.

I bought the video as a consolation. The best part was that Warren Harding got the most applause - by far.

Thanks for the amazing photos!

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Oct 24, 2010 - 12:31am PT

Ah yes Mr Peter that is indeed Harry Daly-famous for his yodel-" Bung.......... yo oh lo et teeeeeeee.

Great guy and big part of the original S Cal group. Also a very talented photographer. Now that would be a coup to get him on here with his vast portfolio.

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Oct 24, 2010 - 12:40am PT

hey there say, BooDawg.... oh my! ... such wonderful pics and all, shared here... wonderful group-history, at that!

thank you so very very kindly! ...
god bless...
:)

BooDawg

Social climber

Polynesian Paradise

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2010 - 03:43am PT

Lynnie, Thank you for your ever so kind words; Guido and I VERY MUCH enjoy our extended conversation with you and Julia at TPR.

Thanks to all who expressed their appreciation for these photos. I’ve been wanting to post them for a long time.

Abenda: there are certainly later pix of Harding, but you got me thinking, “Did Harding ever return to C4 or the Valley after this event? Mary Lou Long and Roger Derryberry would know. But the phone # they gave me in Bishop during Labor Day doesn’t take messages. Maybe Lauria could get them to call or email me. Roger prides hisself on staying un-connected to the world electronically. Anybody else know or have later photos of Harding in C4 than these? On the chance that this was the last time he was in the Valley, here are a couple more:

MH: Thanks for posting the plaque picture. I didn’t know it was there or I’d have gone to see it this past summer.

Peter & Guido: I agree that Peter's pic is Harry Daley; and yes, we was a VERY cool dude, just being in his presence made me smile.

I’m not sure what else we can do to figure out the “mystery man.” If the guy who was making the video mentioned his name as “Paul”, and we could figure out who made the video… On the other hand, if he was just an imposter, not a 50’s, 60’s or 70’s climber, as seems more & more like the case, maybe it doesn’t matter. If he were into a stunt for the attention he’d receive, perhaps it’s best to just ignore him.

Here are a few more pix just to keep things lively here... I posted this one on the Historical Photos thread, but hey, let's have more feminine energy in the climbing world!

And a few more:

Wayno

Big Wall climber

Seattle, WA

Oct 24, 2010 - 04:05am PT

Nice thread, Ken. I love this stuff.

Peter Haan

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Oct 24, 2010 - 10:37am PT

Booch, the videographer is Chris Falkenstein, our "CF" here. Unfortunately an avatar two characters long doesn't search here. We call him, "Fall" by the way, at least bitd.

http://yosemitestock.com/contact

Plus this "Paul" is right alongside Lauria and others we know. Plus Booch, you haven't said a THING about Lizard's new hairdo!

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 24, 2010 - 12:22pm PT

Ken, the plaque is about 10 m east of Columbia Boulder, beside the 'upper' path through Camp 4. Not far from the base of Midnight Lightning.

The plaque for Raffi Bedayan is at the base of the large tree near the SE corner of the boulder, but I don't think I have a photo of it.

BooDawg

Social climber

Polynesian Paradise

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2011 - 06:43am PT

It's Friday night, and I'm sipping on OJ, Mango Juice and Spiced Rum, and since I can't drive to a crag, I thought I'd post some pix as part of my moving project.

I am going through my pix trying to decide what to bring to CA with my scanner, so I can continue to put up new stuff while I'm in the Yosemite area. Looking through these again, there are some choice ones I didn't post on the first round, and it's winter there, so here are some others from the same afternoon... So here's a bump!

PhilG

Trad climber

The Circuit, Tonasket WA

Feb 5, 2011 - 08:49am PT

BooDawg:
I believe that is Gene Foley on the left and that sure looks like George Myers' smile.
Thanks for the post and the bump. What a fine collection of handsome photos of some truly great people.