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WBraun
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Mar 26, 2019 - 07:55am PT
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One more kant hurt :-)
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Mar 26, 2019 - 04:16pm PT
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johntp
Trad climber
Punter
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Mar 26, 2019 - 04:25pm PT
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I Sure regret I wasn't taking pictures early on. Could have added a 1941 Buick
Roadmaster and later a 1950 Studebaker to the memorabilia.
Me as well. Rarely carried a camera BITD. Digital has made it so much easier. So many good times were not recorded that I wish there were photos of.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 27, 2019 - 06:58am PT
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Wow, lots of great photos in the last couple pages!
Mastadon's offerings from Mike White showing Drone and Brossman in 10 gallon straw cowboy hats are so vintage it hurts, in a good way.
Mike Bolte's portraits of Bill Fry (Frey?), Messick, Pinky bring it all back.
Old Fat Trad Guy 2: that group shot of the Wilderness Bound crew really sings!
I would love to see a full thread on that crew. You holding more photos?
There's so much going on here:
Looks like the trip leader on the left next to the blue Jansport D4 frame pack. He's shielding himself with his blue ensolite, while young woman to the right has her hand out in case he's about to throw it at the guy to her right, who is chucking pebbles at the trip leader. Young woman #2 standing in the longsleeve orange shirt is pointing the finger, calling out the photographer! Old-school army green A-frame mountain tent off the side of the road. Long wood-shafted ice axes strewn about, all of them 70 cm or taller, 2 guys in the upper right corner are grooving on a rare patch of Pac Northwest sunshine – I feel like I'm there!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 27, 2019 - 07:03am PT
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Roy, I never would have known the lanky Miss P is Pinky, as I have only ever met her at Facelift just before she retired from running her campground.
Great gal!
Thanks for the identification.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Mar 27, 2019 - 07:13am PT
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Marty Lewis, his Bonneville, my boom box and I. TM, 1981.
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Oldfattradguy2
Trad climber
Here and there
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Mar 27, 2019 - 07:35am PT
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Tarbuster, You got a lot of it right! except the person pointing is a guy, he actually grew up in New Paltz, his dad was professor at SUNY.
I have more photos to post at some point (link below)...What I wish I had was a photo of the trip leader sitting in a van with a broken key that got us busted for taking "free" showers at a KOA, we got off easy they made us pay for camping. Just to think that my parents paid for me to learn stuff like this instead of petty long Island criminal stuff.
https://toddeo.smugmug.com/History/My-Parents-Paid-for-This/
Need to scan with a better scanner....
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Mar 27, 2019 - 09:11am PT
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Camp 4 parking lot in March 1974 or ‘75. We were the only people (morons) staying in camp.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 27, 2019 - 09:21am PT
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Don
When are you gonna be in El Cap meadow again so we can talk sh!t about everything under the sun again lol?
:-)
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Mar 27, 2019 - 09:26am PT
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El Cap meadow? I’ve been there half a dozen times in the past few weeks. I came by your little workshop cubbyhole looking for you but you were probably off free soloing Twilight Zone or something.
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Leigh Stephens
climber
Chico
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Mar 28, 2019 - 08:38am PT
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This is such a great thread, these pictures are awesome. Thanks everyone for sharing! It's cool to see more stuff about this part of Drone's life that I was too late for :)
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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from the 1980s: Bob, his rig and Bill Frey's (correct spelling of Frey by the way Tobia and Tarbuster).
Story I got was Mastadon rebuilt Bill/Drone's Chevy in the parking lot down in the Valley when the gas station was still there by the main store.
EDIT: as I said, Bob Ashworth is the human in the photo, the trucks in the photo used to belong to Bob (the biggest rig on the left) and Bill Frey (the smaller, but still pretty big rig on the right)
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Mike,
Funny how I misspelled "Frey". I email and text him all the time and have always spelled it correctly (except on any post).
I sent him a text the other day to look at the pic I posted of the truck on the Drone thread. I'm sure he will accept my apology and he understands the way my mind works.
Thanks for the correction.
I attempted to rebuild the rear end in the TMCC parking lot, but ran into problems. Mastadon bailed me out and did it correctly. Unfortunately Bill tested it after my attempt and drove it to Mammoth before it started coming unglued. Not sure which was worse the failed repair or Bill's disappointment in my efforts.
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WBraun
climber
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I remember that truck like it was yesterday.
That truck setup was pretty common for climbers back then ....
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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I remember it like yesterday as well, after spending so much time in and under it.
I sent the pic that Mike posted to Bill. He replied that wasn't he in the photo, it is Bob Ashworth. Could have fooled me.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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That sure does look like Bobby Ashworth, Tobia.
I worked in the Yosemite Village Mountain Shop with him (and Andy Cox, RIP) his first year with Curry.
A real solid guy with whom I never got to climb.
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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I remember Bob hanging around the TMCC, but it looks like Bill Frey pose.
The last vehicle I knew Donnie to have was an old Dodge Valiant station wagon.
Edit:
I just read Mike”s post, I misread it. I’ve got to get my eye”s checked.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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a bit far afield from parking lots but Mr Frey and I have taken some pretty fun bonefish and birding trips to various Bahama islands in the last five years. For his friends here who have not seen him in a few decades
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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The old Camp 4 sign where it resides these days.
I NEVER would have recognized Bill Frye and i know him pretty well. He looks like he could be in the witness protection program on a desert island.
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