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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 05:27pm PT
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Thanks for all the great work, Steve!
Cool photos on this thread, Mimi!
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 15, 2009 - 05:41pm PT
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Let's see, just a quick check of the Taco and then down to work.
Uh Oh, it's a Grossman thread. And I just have to respond. Again...
It gets worse. I need materials. I know that's around here somewhere. But where? This guy's gonna get me organized yet, something several wives never managed.
Photos? Nope, not in that box. Maybe downstairs. Oh, here's the ice piton I needed for Steve's other thread. Was that days ago? Weeks?
Oh yeah, I was looking for slides. Not in this stash either. Only ten thousand images to go.
Hey, look what I found here! This is cool! I should start a thread. Yeah, right after I post up the stuff I started in on after a conversation with Steve months ago.
It's a day and a half later; what was the question again?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:00pm PT
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You know Doug, maybe you are smoking too much. Or is it possible not enough?
cheers Guido
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:04pm PT
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Ya get my appreciation for sure, Steve. Keep it up!
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:06pm PT
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DR is da man no matter how much he's smoking!!!
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:12pm PT
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Thanks Steve!
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:34pm PT
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Thank You!
I just read the Norman Clyde interview,
and am thankful for your post. History and
education together, good stuff.
Cheers!
edit,
caption?
the joy of climbing?...what a couple of great smiley mugs!!!
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:57pm PT
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Cheers back at ya, Tami!
Takes one to withstand one!
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Feb 15, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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Yep. I get to see all of those old articles that I used to lay on top of my textbooks in accounting class all over again.
He picks some good ones.
I raise a glass of milk to ya. It would have been wild turkey, but my wife will put the leaches on me again.
And look at Doug. Hasn't changed one bit from the neck down in over a hundred years.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Feb 15, 2009 - 08:14pm PT
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Steve makes this site GO.
You the man, Steve!
JL
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Feb 15, 2009 - 09:44pm PT
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SG-
Thank you, from a native Tucsonan.
Jefe Bret Harte
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 10:19pm PT
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Thanks for the warm and fuzzy, folks!
I try to cast a wide net while digging and posting in order to keep five decades of experience engaged here on one thread or another.
For every article I go after, ten show up worth posting. Over coffee and evening beer I make it through a couple. Some of the historical threads are monumental when people with direct experience weigh in. I try to set the stage and see what happens!
And Ed--Don't Crush That Dwarf--Hand Me The Pliers! Love that link!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 10:42pm PT
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good Guido.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 15, 2009 - 11:43pm PT
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Mari and I were climbing at a fairly obscure little crag at Index on a damp, cold day a year and a bit ago. Had the place to ourselves for a bit, until a party of four showed up. Two guys, two women.
It was a small crag, so we were all kind of in each others laps for the day. They turned out to be really nice folks. Pleasant to talk to, good company for an afternoon at the crags. No idea who they were, but seemed like our sort... You know, kinda like homeless people in ancient clothes.
The afternoon wore down, and eventually Mari and I decided to head home. After we were out of sight, and almost out of hearing, I faintly heard one of the guys say, "mumble mumble mumble Mimi mumble mumble"
Mimi? Could it have been?
So I emailed them the next day, asking "Was that you guys?" And sure enough, it was.
The point of this little story is that it's easy to say nice things about your old friends, and easy to say nice things about people you know only virtually, or people who treat you well becuase there's something in it for them. But in this case, there was nothing in it for them, no need to be nice to two strangers. But they were. So here's a toast to S & M.
Oh, yeah, the other guy was Off White. He was nice, too.
D
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bachar
Gym climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 11:51pm PT
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What's Steve's old variation to the Salathe called?
It's like six pitches long, 5.11+ and runout.
We were horrified when he put it up....
Has anybody repeated it?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Feb 15, 2009 - 11:59pm PT
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Steve and Mimi, it was grate to meet you both at the Nose Reunion. You are fun and special people. I have mentioned before on the Taco how much Steve's great, quality and informative posts are appreciated (specially by us neubies). Super pic of yo both. Cheers and Peace, Lynnie
Edit: anytime you're in the SD area mi casa su casa :D
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 16, 2009 - 12:02am PT
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Steve Grossman !!!
Our personal savior where *all things climbing history* is concerned.
I am mildly ashamed to realize we hadn't done this appreciation sooner...
And because it's tradition for me to steal Off White's terrific photographs, AND post them:
You two look ... well, Mah-veloussss!
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Feb 16, 2009 - 12:13am PT
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Marvelous, indeed, Tarbuster! Steve is always digging for gold, then giving it up to all of us. And Mimi...she has her opinions, for sure! Two confident, giving and creative people. They've earned our love and respect. I really hope to have some hang time with them in the near future.
-Jello
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 16, 2009 - 02:47am PT
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jb,
> What's Steve's old variation to the Salathe called?
> It's like six pitches long, 5.11+ and runout.
> We were horrified when he put it up....
> Has anybody repeated it?
Do you mean Turning Point, which climbs right of the start of the Salathe' / Free Blast?
It goes more than 6 pitches - it goes to the top, sharing some pitches with the Muir along the way. I don't know if it has been repeated.
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