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LilaBiene

Trad climber
Dec 15, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
Not sure if you're referring to Daryl Hatten, but just in case you are, his daughter also learned a lot about her dad thanks to the fellow climbers here.

Incredible, unbelievable interconnected group of amazing souls here...
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Nov 27, 2013 - 09:16pm PT
Bump.

Found this when i was looking for something else. A couple of excellent pieces here. Thanks John!

Updated link for the original tale:

http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/john-long-what-ive-learned?
covelocos

Trad climber
Nov 27, 2013 - 10:18pm PT
i learned to tie a bowline from reading John's books. Among other things.
jgill

Boulder climber
Colorado
Nov 27, 2013 - 10:59pm PT
I spar with John a bit about science and meditation, but his writing is superb! He is a gift to the worlds of climbing and adventure literature.


;>)
JOEY.F

Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
Nov 28, 2013 - 12:38am PT
I'm glad this resurfaced, never saw it before. Inspiring to say the least...
Fletcher

Gym climber
A very quiet place
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2013 - 01:58am PT
I updated the link for the original post. Thanks for noting that, Big Mike.

Eric
Todd Eastman

climber
Bellingham, WA
Nov 28, 2013 - 02:05am PT
Alas, a younger Largo wrestles with the demon of ambition! Results on rock are relatively apparent, other aspects of life are less so and require setting personal standards.

Belay on, but don't fall...
10b4me

Ice climber
Bishop/Flagstaff
Nov 28, 2013 - 10:36am PT
I once heard Tucker Tech say, and paraphrasing now,that of all the Stonemasters, John was the only one to " get it".
PhilG

Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
Nov 28, 2013 - 12:05pm PT
Locker, I completely agree with you!
I can clearly picture the first time I saw John climb. He charged up a blank, unclimbed slab at Granite Mountains (CA). He must of been 15-16 years old?
I remember thinking gravity wasn't a strong enough force to keep that boy down.
What a tremendous gift he has been to the climbing community.
Don Lauria

Trad climber
Bishop, CA
Dec 3, 2013 - 06:17pm PT
Bruce,

Small correction. Some of the Tuolumne Guides of the mid-seventies did indeed decide to create Italian names for themselves, but it was Allan, not Dale, that became "Bardini". Later to be known as "The Great Bardini" to his adoring clientele. Yes, Gramicci, and Bobo ... and Tom Carter became "Cartilucci"[sp].

As for me, never having been a Tuolumne guide and being of Italian ancestry anyway (my grandfather immigrated from Lauria, Italy in 1895), it was Warren Harding that decided I wasn't Italian enough and dubbed me Don Lauriano of the Albanian Mafia.

Sometimes I just ramble on ...
wilbeer

Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
Dec 3, 2013 - 07:07pm PT
I have read "What I've Learned" 4 times,and,will probably read it at least 20 times more.Brilliant.
jon fowler

climber
Dec 3, 2013 - 07:22pm PT
I'd like to take this opportunity to post what I'VE learned - from John Long..... and pay tribute to the individual who, single-handedly, inspired my entire career in rock climbing; the one who gave us - the ones greater than 175lbs. - hope that we, too, could go as high as we chose in the vertical world; all the way to the NIAD! east coast style!

John Long has a way of highlighting the greatest parts of climbing - the experiences, the camaraderie, the life stories; and he manages to relate us to those stories in a way no one else has been able to do; and is able to provide clarity as to why we do it all anyway.

John Long makes the unthinkable - possible. He is able to transform what the mind can conceive into a reality;


Couldn't have done it without him.

Signed,
Some Dude
melski

Trad climber
bytheriver
Dec 8, 2013 - 08:03pm PT
under a full moon in el cap meadows with alittle boust of lysugic,,i,,,understoud that yes the rock dosent care and thats all i;ll ever be,,,and as native indians knew,,everything is equal,,,largo just spells better,,thanks john,,,
rmuir

Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
Dec 8, 2013 - 10:14pm PT
"...but I believe it was Dalesandro Bardini and Michaelangelo Grammici [sic]..."

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