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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Jul 27, 2011 - 04:20pm PT
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A Sierra Club cup in 1946 strongly suggests Sierra Club membership.
I believe Tom Higgins' wife is a niece of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall.
Tom (LongAgo) are you out there?
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jul 27, 2011 - 08:56pm PT
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BCP had light brown hair . . .
Yes, that's what I recall, having met her in the Tetons in the 1950s.
I somehow ended up with her personal copy of the AAC Climber's Handbook.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 27, 2011 - 09:03pm PT
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I somehow ended up with her personal copy of the AAC Climber's Handbook.
I'm trying not to speculate as to how that happened . . .
heh
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Jul 27, 2011 - 09:16pm PT
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grossman.
where is your WOS apology? are you a blowhard that says something with no action? (referring to you wanting to climb WOS and then not?
talk is cheap GM.....worthless to be exact. man up. otherwise your word aint worth sh#t.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 27, 2011 - 09:17pm PT
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^^^^really?
did you just email him first? why drag that into this thread?
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Jul 28, 2011 - 08:59am PT
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Steve, how bad do you want to know about that woman? Do you live in the Seattle area? Pat Emerson, wife of Dick Emerson lives in the View Ridge area of Seattle. Dick and Pat lived in the Tetons in the early 50's when he was a ranger there. She might be able to identify the mystery woman. Email me if you want her phone number...
Wings of Steel??? Is that some new rock band??? How did that make it to this thread??
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rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
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Jul 28, 2011 - 09:04am PT
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My guess it is Beckey in drag.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jul 28, 2011 - 01:25pm PT
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My guess is that Beckey knows her!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jul 28, 2011 - 04:40pm PT
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Here's the largest photo of Margie Henderson from the Angeles Sierra Club site.
1948
1946
Looks like a decent match (including the shirt), but it doesn't rule out other people.
[Good point, Alan!] I could post a photo of my mom which would look like a good match, too.
[But my mom would be wearing a wool shirt. White cotton suggest SoCal, to me, maybe due to photos of Tom Frost.]
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Jul 28, 2011 - 04:50pm PT
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Sure looks like a good match, though in my profession I am aware of the significant potential for mistaken identifications through photo line-ups!!!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2011 - 12:20am PT
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That doesn't quite feel like a match...Tetons connection?
Raven black hair is pretty distinctive.
I hope Irene checks her email!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jul 29, 2011 - 12:53am PT
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steve, did you check the Letters to see if that was one of the trips the Mendenhalls did then?
can't find my copy.
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Jul 29, 2011 - 11:29am PT
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sure looks like a match to me. Great photos!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Jul 30, 2011 - 03:02am PT
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She doesn't look like Ruth D. Mendenhall to me, but I emailed her daughter, Valerie and Val's husband Michael Cohen as well as P.M.ed Tom Higgins whose wife is related to Ruth, so we'll see if any of them chime in here...
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jstan
climber
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Jul 30, 2011 - 04:59am PT
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A picture of Ruth from Kerwin's source taken in 1953, 7 years after Steve's photo.
We want to know who the young lady is because it would make the days when we were so hungry to go up - seem a little closer. Perhaps we need finally to accept the fact we now have a lot of interesting things to do. Going up is no longer the only interesting task at hand.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2011 - 01:45pm PT
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I think we are still fishing...
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jul 30, 2011 - 05:41pm PT
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I checked the summit registers of "major" Teton peaks for 1946; no mention of Margie Henderson
http://www.tetonclimbinghistory.com/
1946 was a very active year, though, and many womens' names appear.
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Jul 30, 2011 - 09:42pm PT
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Steve, I think you are correct...great puzzle
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jul 31, 2011 - 08:50am PT
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If you zoom in the hot chick is wearing a fancy belt. Looks like you can see two leather flowerettes under her arm. Her facial expression looks quite calm, like she is new to the sport or something. Very clean new clothing but tattered tennis shoes. Hands show no scarring and she is not that muscular, just a thin gal.
What is the device that is racking the pitons together? It looks like on the rack is a large double lap-link item maybe used as a carabiner? Looks like a Austria horizontal piton, and three homemade flat vertical pitons.
Bottom left corner of the photo just in front of the ice pick, what is that item. Looks like flat head screwdrivers welded to something? Maybe a stove stand, but why the points?
Rock on! Marty
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