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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Aug 10, 2007 - 01:35am PT
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I don't have any good shots of Roger.
I have one of he and Errett, with some other derelics, at the Deli, in 1974. We drank 17 bottles of wine that day. Errett puked all night! I'll look for it, but it's not a good shot.
Cashner has photos of Roger.
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Jim Wilcox
Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
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Aug 10, 2007 - 09:31am PT
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"Well I never became what you would call a "real climber", but I did transfer to Ravenswood as soon as possible I continue to climb poorly to this day. "
Kevin, I figured if any thread would make you post this would be the one. And while we all appreciate your humbleness, you were, and stil are, one hell of a climber. I'm sure Pat would agree.
You earned the right to hang with the Big dogs.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 10, 2007 - 01:47pm PT
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Bill and I used to play together as kids when I lived in Menlo Park on Sherman Ave. I moved and later began to rock climb. I heard about this guy who was a real yosemite climber named Bill Price and wondered if it was the same guy. I eventually ran into him in yose when I used to hang out with Yerian. It was the same guy, and he actually remembered me. Wow. A real "down to earth" guy with a great smile and a big heart. Cheers, Bill.
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 10, 2007 - 02:15pm PT
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Howdy Kevin! Great to see you here.
Peter
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Aug 10, 2007 - 07:20pm PT
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Hi Jim, good to see you again too dude. Yeah, Kevin always was overly humble given his go-for-it style of climbing.
bergheil
Pat
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Jim Wilcox
Boulder climber
Santa Barbara
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Aug 10, 2007 - 08:24pm PT
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Yo Pat!
Hope all is well. Saw your livin' in my hometown now. Good area, lotsa fun. Just stay away from Sierra Madre-buncha derelicts there :)
Had the privilige of climbing with lud a month ago. Besides bouldering I hadn't been on the sharp end in forever. So, of course day 2 is on Power Dome. Kevin was a sport and took over the leads when I threatened to throw up. Guess I looked serious.
I was at Kevins's wedding and met Diegelman(nice guy)-but didn't meet Bill Price.Bummer. He obviously left a mark on some other talented people
Kevin on Bald mountain near shaver lake June 07
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Aug 11, 2007 - 11:21am PT
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Silly Willy Price-1982.
Photo by Blitzo.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Aug 11, 2007 - 11:24am PT
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Grand Illusion.
Photo by Blitzo.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Aug 11, 2007 - 11:40am PT
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Wow Blitzo your black and whites are really nice.
Do you have a portrait gallery somewhere?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Aug 11, 2007 - 12:07pm PT
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No, I'm not much for portraits. I'm more into landscapes.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Aug 11, 2007 - 01:13pm PT
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I'll post up some portraits for you, Crowley.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Aug 11, 2007 - 03:27pm PT
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Werner,
I remember that rescue well. It was a really fun time, the helicopter ride up and all, and happily, nobody was hurt. But at the end of the day, it turned out to be a pretty frightening experience. Thunderstorms were approaching as you and Kauk went down, and the group on top tending ropes, who I remember included Mike Graham and Sibylle Hechtyl, started to get very scared as dark clouds and stray bolts seemed to gather in a circle around Halfdome, which had one clear patch of sky directly overhead.
As we were hauling up the belay ropes, we all started noticing our hair standing on end and then a mild buzzing noise in our ears. This seemed amusing until it suddenly dawned on us that this was probably a prelude to a strike and from then on we tended the ropes as flat as possible on the naked summit. I remember that if you lowered your head about a foot, the buzzing would go away and we all tried to stay below this invisible ceiling. All I could think about were the signs posted on the summit, which said something like, “If you see any thunderclouds on the horizon, go down. People are frequently killed by lighting on Halfdome.”
The helicopter was an old Bell, the kind with the bubble cockpit. It was so underpowered that it had to switchback to gain altitude and it held only two passengers, seated on each side of the pilot. So it took many trips to get everyone down and Mike and I drew the last flight. I remember the silence and the lonely feeling as the chopper left. We tried to make ourselves very small, lying on ropes on the vast, flat summit. It started raining and the minutes dragged on as we waited, expecting that at any time the fatal strike would hit. Finally, we heard it approaching, then the helicopter rose over the South face and landed a few yards from us. We sprinted and jumped in, as glad to get on board as in those photos of the last flight out of Saigon.
The pilot took off before we even had our seat belts on and then I forgot all about the fear of lightning as I saw what was coming. We were skimming along about 10 feet high, and heading directly for the abyss of the Northwest face! I thought to myself, “ This is going to be good” and I was not disappointed. In slow motion, we approached the edge and then the bottom dropped out.As I watched that incredible face retreat behind me, the helicopter canted left and dove sharply down toward the valley. I will never forget it.
Rick
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Aug 12, 2007 - 12:15am PT
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Would love to know what Bill is up to these days. Super guy and great climber - a natural, one of the few I ever saw.
Ask Bill about the pick up he had covered in shingles -- that all flew off. Angie and the kids are world-class.
JL
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
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Sep 14, 2009 - 05:57pm PT
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All recognize Bill as what he is - extraordinary!
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Double D
climber
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Funny, I missed this thread first time around. Bill was an awesome climbing partner and friend. He’s the most naturally gifted crack climber I’ve ever seen. When I first met him he and his Jr. High buddies were nailing a 5.8 sandstone crack at our local bouldering area, Rattlesnake Rock and I started getting real intense with them for doing it…ya know it was just after Galen and Doug’s National Geographic clean ascent of Half Dome. He just sheepishly looked back, didn’t say a word. Fast forward 3 months he’s now in my high school and we became best buds.
Bouldering with Bill was at times comical. He really didn’t dig it all that much and rarely put any effort into it (in his early days) but then he’d pull off a test piece that we’d been working on for months totally out of the blue. Put a rope and rack on the boy, it was a whole different story. He could hang in there and place those crummy old hexes like nobody's business.
Rick Cashner and Bill at the Nose reunion
A very young Bill Price on our winter ascent of the Prow. Bill was 15, I think.
Thanks for all who risked their lives on that rescue. Ricky, your story of coming off the dome in the chopper puts things into perspective. That was a grim situation for us.
Blitzo…your photos are PRICEless! Tom you must have some other good photo’s of Excalibur like the one in Yos Climber of the bong and firewood stacks, no?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I sure wish that I would have recognized Bill at the Nose event. Any chance that he would be willing to post about his climbing exploits here on the ST?!?
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martygarrison
Trad climber
The Great North these days......
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Gosh blast from the past. I knew Rick when he was with Angie, then hung with Bill and her when he was working a hard route at lovers leap. I did the second accent of mainline or something with them working a route over to the left. Bill had just done the grand. Great folks, wish them well!
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Double D
climber
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Bill's a man of few, selected words. I will email him this link. He's not one to talk about himself, so I don't think we'll hear from him. He is a very gifted story teller and I hope he does joint the ranks of decay here.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dave- e-mail him several of the primo Valley links to let him know who is around and how warm the ST campfire is. You have to set the hook...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Daryl Hatten convinced Bill and Boris ( surname? ) "big wally" to come to Canada around 1979
I think his name was Mike Boris. I climbed with him a bit when he was up at Squamish with Bill. Mostly he seemed to go by Big Wally, though. Kind of similar to Darryl.
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