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Gypsy
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How do you know Randy is looking at Jim Shirley? The photo was taken before I met Randy--probably in 1970 or early 71 by a man named Ron who lived in Portland. He was the then boyfriend of Terry Altman who worked at Degnan's. And long before Randy worked at North Face.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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No, no, Gypsy. It appears he's looking at Jim (or the baby) due to the juxtaposition of the photos is what I meant to convey.
I was wondering if he had ever inter-acted with Jim while he was on the sales staff at Telegraph and Stuart.
Asfar as that is concerned, I am more interested in finding whether Randy ever climbed with Doug Ross.
I also want to track down Doug or his sister, who was an NPS ranger, and is named Darin or something like it.
He may well have some photos or she may.
Let me compliment you on the MM show this week. I think I'm on my fifth or sixth listening. Alison Krause, ma o ma!
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Gypsy
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I haven't seen Doug or his sister since the 70's. I don't remember if Randy knew Jim Shirley but the name is familiar.
Here is a photo of the North Face staff of Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley when Randy worked there. We were on a x-country ski trip. I believe we skied to Dewey Point. I recognize Jeremy, Randy, me and Becky in the front row. Tom Applegate is in the back row along with Gretchen.
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Gypsy
Social climber
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Here is a set of proof sheets that Doug gave to me on a trip we did to the Marin Headlands.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Yep, that's Becky and she looks much younger in the picture to me than she was. The hairstyle's young, so that might be it. Tom is definitely the Tom I remember. I never met Jeremy. That's Gretchen Baugh, student at Cal, and that's likely her BF Charlie standing next to her on the far right.
Tom and Linda Applegate were living in San Rafael. She was a one-time hopeful in the LA area in acting, but don't quote me. He and Mitch made it to Berkeley from one of the LA sports shops, and Mitch left the management to pursue something, I know not what, and left Tom the gig. I never met Mitch, I don't know the fellows in the shot other than those we've IDed, nor do I remember the blonde sitting on the right.
Where' Doug, what happened to Doug, unless that's him in the beard, which I don't think is the case. Forty plus years and the Captain still looks the same. How does one do that? L'Oreal? Avon? What's your secret, for that matter? Don't tell me it's the young hairstyle!
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Gypsy
Social climber
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Well it was about 1973 so Randy and I would have been about 23.
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Gypsy
Social climber
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I must have taken this one and my position in the photo was taken up by Tom Applegate's wife, Linda
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Gypsy
Social climber
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No, I am pretty sure that is not Doug in the long hair and beard. I have no idea where he has gone too. He had some pretty far fetched stories. I've known a few other people who could tell stories like that. But I always said; 'I don't care if a story is true; as long as it is a good story."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Uh-yep! That's the lovely Linda A. They had a daughter named Signe, born about '77.
Uh-yep! The truth is strictly over-rated around here. Gotta loosen up the imagination and Entertain and Educate.
Our memories are like didoes in the ice. They vanish.
Yet they are simply covered with the snow of old age.
They remain till the thaw.
Imagina!
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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The funnest rope swing ever--somewhere in the Marin Headlands.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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So I guess we are on time for the ceilli, Gypsy. Cool beans!
I'm intrigued, curious, and wondering about the piper in that song.
Is he playing a Musette de cour or is it a Biniou?
there is not the drone of the Scots pipes, and I don't think that it could be the Germanic version of the pipes, either, though I've never heard the doodlewhack or whatevre.
Qui est-il?
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Gypsy
Social climber
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It is always described as a cornemuse--which is really just the french word for bagpipe. He is Breton, so probably some sort of biniou. Every country in Europe except Norway had a bagpipe at one time. They lost popularity when the accordion was invented. The Swedish pipe is called the sacpipa, the hungarian is the duda, the romanian is the cimpoii, the Italian is zampona, the Bulgarian gaida, the Spanish gaita. In the British isles there are a lot of pipes besides the Scottish warpipes. There are the Northumbrian small pipes, there is the uillean pipes of Ireland, etc.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loïc_Taillebrest
Here is a beauty of a song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZH2B3LHk0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Céilidh
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Gypsy
Social climber
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A nearby neighbor of the past three years here in the mountains of Appalachia was a bagpipe maker and player. I often heard him playing his pipes. When my friend Karen visited me two years ago I took her down to meet him. She plays the Bulgarian gaida and is one of the few women gaida players in the world. We had a wonderful afternoon with him swapping stories. About a month ago, he got up during the night and went out to the woods behind his house and shot himself in the head.
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Gypsy
Social climber
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The Norwegians don't need a bagpipe--who needs that when you have the hardingfele and dances like Telespringar and Valdres springar Which besides the Mezoseg of Hungary are my favorite dances in the world to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCipUC2iqkk
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Well Gypsy those are some great songs there. I guess I'm covered since one set of grandparents are Scottish, but what are the Finnish pipes?
"Norwegians don't need a bagpipe" - Michele is gonna be happy to hear that.
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Gypsy
Social climber
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Säkkipilli
Well I always say that when the languages were distributed, Welsh got all the consonants and Finnish got all the vowels.
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