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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Sep 21, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
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Cat t and all the rest of you I knew her I am so sorry. I can see by the look in her eyes that she was full of life and stoke and beauty. Though I never knew her I feel her loss and feel for all those who knew her well. May the memory of her joyful spirit help you all along in the process of grieving for this seemingly fantastic young woman. A sad day indeed. My deepest condolences.
Scott
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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Sep 21, 2016 - 09:45pm PT
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Sadness overwhelms me..
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Sep 21, 2016 - 10:08pm PT
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So sad to hear of this.
My sincere condolences to all of her family and friends.
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Nick L
climber
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Sep 22, 2016 - 12:37am PT
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Yep Maria always kept us so stoked at the crag, on the mountains, in the car...
We will miss her so much.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Sep 22, 2016 - 01:04am PT
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I can't believe sometimes I am still here and then see such bright young ones lost, it just takes my breath away. Makes me blink to try to get why yet another is gone
I hear ya Keith.
Condolences to all.
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 22, 2016 - 08:19am PT
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My deepest sympathies to all who knew her.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Sep 22, 2016 - 12:54pm PT
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I'm so sorry to read this news, and even more sorry that I didn't get to meet her. My great sympathy to her family and friends.
My mother, who died at 104, used to say that her passing would finally give meaning to the term "untimely death," by creating a timely one. In a different sense, Maria's passing must almost define an untimely one. She must have been a talented, determined, brilliant and, perhaps most importantly, giving person. What a loss.
John
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cat t.
climber
california
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Sep 22, 2016 - 01:10pm PT
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John, thank you for your words. It's a much more eloquent way of putting it than whatever I was scream-crying at fivethirty this morning about "story arcs cut off in the middle."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 22, 2016 - 02:20pm PT
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My eyes Filled with tears, as this morns' news hits
It strikes to the very hart of this disease; we call life,
to Be - We eventually must Not Be. . .
If the abilities to go, aren't there anymore
it feels as if we have gone, not ready - already -
Just gone.
The old wise one never leaves, she is always up, watching the climbers.
Wishing them safe passage but not to fast, for she knows that climbers rejoice
as her glory, her heaven sent light comes into sight.
As climbers, more than any -
Love and revele in her arriving at full, casting shadows in the dark
and at full moons we howl, and climb, passing into the night.
I was struck at noon yesterday, the last day of a summer from hell
struck down in the knowledge that again without saying ;
"Hey, it is so good to see you again after all of these years"
Or things like "you told me so!" Or "would you believe that I have kids?",
"Who is that? Wow the young ones are so impressive these days"
I can only add words of grief and condolence to the folks more struck,
the most gutted by this next, never the last, passing through and on.
The rope is the way, the paths we take go everywhere, some get to follow the way.
Some get to live to see another Moon rise, but,
and it is the hard butt that gets you at the base of your trunk,
Like a punch.
For some of us, from the finest to the most banal, get the final call to go,
while out in the rain 'N snow.
Under the watchful Moon who's tears at our passing often show.
For us, those that remain, we must trudge on, the envy fading to terror, as our own mortality -the end beckons (us)
Each step we take while we are sure footed means less than that last one twisted step
That ends it all.
Rest? For the women and men I am thinking of, rest meant watching the moon rise from a high perch, snuggling with the very life that we now mourn.
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With the greatest respect TEARs & hugs of condolence, peace
Gnome,0D
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Ryan Tetz
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 22, 2016 - 03:05pm PT
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How did she fall?
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alina
Trad climber
CA
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Sep 22, 2016 - 04:07pm PT
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She and Ian were on the East Ridge of Bear Creek Spire.
They were doing the climb with a rope but were tying in only for some sections. Towards the summit, they were soloing and Maria was ahead. A big chunk of rock broke from under her feet and she fell to the snow field below.
That lady was a crazy ball of energy that constantly made feel I wasn't squeezing enough hours into my day. I don't have much to add to the stories posted so far.
I spoke to her dad this morning... their grief is absolute.
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Sep 22, 2016 - 04:41pm PT
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Maria sounds like a brilliant person and it's so sad to hear of this accident. Condolences to her family, friends and climbing partner. May she rest in peace.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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don't know what the East Ridge is, but if it's the obvious ridge, the NE Ridge, as described by Secor or Croft texts, that's somewhat concerning. When I climbed that (solo) more than 10 years ago it felt very solid. and given the traffic it sees, I would think pretty much anything suspect would have been trundled
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SimonW
climber
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Sep 22, 2016 - 06:49pm PT
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I can't believe it.. I only knew Maria briefly as a gym partner but she was SO strong and SO smart.
If it could happen to her it can happen to any of us. Be careful out there.
RIP Maria...
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Twain Harte
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Sep 23, 2016 - 07:05am PT
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Oh man this hurts...
She was always down to adventure with friends:
And she would always jump from the highest of rocks, into the muckiest of water.
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roy
Social climber
NZ -> SB,CA -> Zurich
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Sep 23, 2016 - 07:18am PT
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This is terrible news. My condolences to her friends and family. It is a tremendous loss. Roy
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pell
Trad climber
Sunnyvale
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Sep 23, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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So sad. She was so nice and young. Condolences to family.
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