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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Feb 20, 2015 - 11:33pm PT
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that is an excellent story Tami
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 21, 2015 - 05:26am PT
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I use CS3 because I have an old mac with an operating system that won't let me go any higher at this point A friend of my son's wants to upgrade my operating system for me so that I can then upgrade to CS6 in photoshop. I use photoshop not only to flip the slides but also to clean them up. They are smudged, dirty and faded. I have iphoto and preview but use them only once in a while.
Great story about Jean McKeith, Tami.
When Randy and I stayed with Bugs, he drove us all over the place. Although he was a very mild tempered person, when he was behind the car his personality did a 360. He gripped the steering wheel very tightly and cursed every car that came his way or was in front of him. He cursed and shouted such obscenities that I was worried for him.
About a year or two later I was back in Yosemite returning to Camp 4 from somewhere. Across the parking lot, I heard someone calling my name. I looked over and there was Jean sitting on the tailgate of a pickup truck with a camper shell over it. "Oh Gypsy, would you like a martini?" "Why sure".
She and "Alistair" had just driven down from Canada. "Bugs is not a happy driver." she said.
The art of the understatement.
In Edinburgh, Bugs let me read his journal from when he was with "The British" in Antartica. HIs job there was to climb and name mountains. Some days his only journal entry would be "Snow".
He also showed us a slide show of the Scottish ascent of the Eiger. He was disappointed that National Geographic wasn't interested in the story.
HIs daughter, Arran, lives in Canada. She is quite the adventurer too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 06:17am PT
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It is a fact of living in cold climes
that snow will come and stay sometimes.
And overstay on occasion.
Flying Spur Ranch, where Shirley Sargent took up residence, is just next to Foresta, and both are around 4,300' to 4,600' elevation, plenty high for a good load of snow most years.
Without going into legal and access blather, it was a private residence of Theodore Solomons, the man whose work resulted in the John Muir Trail eventually.
He homesteaded a 21-acre site overlooking the McCauley Ranch and the Merced Canyon and it had its own source of water. It was remote,but meat and veggies and milk could be had from the two ranches, the McCauley and the one belonging to GEORGE MEYER, a German immigrant.
The place ended up as Miss Sargent's home. It had apples growing there, too.
[Yvonne was Mrs. Solomons.]
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 21, 2015 - 10:37am PT
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Llamberis in North Wales about 1973
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 21, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
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As a young climber, I just wanted to be English. I studied all the ads in Mountain Magazine. I always made sure to light a cigarette before any lead, just like Joe Brown. No mountain parka for me...I wanted an anorak, whatever that was. Milar mits, knickers, damp wool sweaters....it's raining? perfect conditions!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 21, 2015 - 12:52pm PT
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Kind of like this bloke? Pure bred Scot fully kitted out in wool and
doing the E Ridge of Bugaboo in boots, of course. But he didn't smoke.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:12am PT
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Accidentally deleted this photo that I had posted earlier in this thread due to a senile brain fart
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Feb 22, 2015 - 02:05pm PT
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Love that image Gypsy!!!!
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WBraun
climber
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The old camp 4 gas station is still there in the background of this photo.
It's now a parking lot for cars.
How did cars even get there without gas ..... ? :-)
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Tami, what a wonderful story. His mom was a gem. Bugs use to set up a screen tent for her on Lake Teneya to avoid the mossies and the two of them sitting there on a hot summer day was hilarious.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Werner
Looks like a Pontiac LeMans
Mine was gold
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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We (my family), had a '66 Pontiac Tempest identical to yours, unless you had the hotter LeMans; which I believe you did seeing the trailer hitch (on Werner's).
Another one ↑, ours was maroon.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Oh Tami !
I lived in Interlaken for two long climbing seasons. Time of my life. I just love the interconnections.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Werner yer quite the lucky guy having such a beautiful woman by yer side for all these years.
Peace
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Mar 12, 2015 - 05:24pm PT
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What a great picture of you two Werner.
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Poloman
Sport climber
Anna, Il
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Mar 15, 2015 - 06:26pm PT
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Really enjoyed all the photos! I was at camp 4 in the early 70's. Randy Hamm and I were on the triple direct route when Dennis Miller destroyed his crotch with the rope. They kindly left us a bunch of water and gorp, on a ledge, when they left. I went to the valley with Chris Reveley and was there for a couple of months. Great time!
Don't know if you remember me but I remember many of you...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 15, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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I remember not being able to meet you.
This would have been interesting.
The El Cap route you & Randy did, the 3D--in order to help you guys get down more easily, Throwpie & I went up Eagle Creek to seek you two out, but we couldn't find our butts let alone two guys in a big empty place, so we went back down the way we came up.
Mouse
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2015 - 06:52pm PT
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We also drank your beer and smoked your joint. Sorry.
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