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GnomicMaster
Mountain climber
Ventana Wilderness
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Mar 31, 2011 - 08:42pm PT
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Tahquitz, Feb. 9th, 1971. The day of the FUCKING San Fernando earthquake, and I fell attempting a route the name which now eludes my leatherizing brain, and ripped a gash in my ASS and had to have stitches. Were you there that day, too?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Mar 31, 2011 - 11:09pm PT
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Gnomicmaster: Here's that Sheridan Anderson RR cartoon.
and the more human side of Royal "winding-down" from another new route with Liz:
RR kicked my ass at "drunk-foozball in Moscow Idaho in 1974. (sorry no photos)
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GnomicMaster
Mountain climber
Ventana Wilderness
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Actually that is not the cartoon to which I alluded. That cartoon you show with RR wearing a cape and leaping from rock to rock is a totally different cartoon, and that is the one that RR told me he does not like, and for good reason. No, the cartoon to which I alluded showed RR "CLIMBING", not leaping, with a super-hero costume, and he was reaching behind himself, thrusting his hand into what would seem to be his chalk bag, and the caption said "My god, he's reaching for the grease!"
Totally different cartoon, and perhaps totally different cartoonist. It appeared in either a Summit magazine or Ascent magazine, circa early-1970s. I had all the Summits and Ascents from the late-1960s until the late-1970s, boxed up for years, but I finally tossed them all 5 years ago, so unfortunately I can't now go back to find that cartoon.
I even had all the Mountain and Climbing magazine issues from those years. Mountain was a Brit publication, and all its stories and photos were of European and Himalayan climbs. Very internationally informative on the topic of global mountaineering.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Hell, screw Royal, it sounds like you would have bit the dust too if your feet hadn't caught those knobs.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Bump for Erb and Royal........
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Yeah cool story Dick Erb. Climbing in Southern Yosemite, your name is right up there with Royal. Thanks for all you've done here.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 23, 2017 - 09:48am PT
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Royal bumpage...
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Tamara Robbins
climber
not a climber, just related...
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Just came across a couple farcical (!) cartoons of Dad in the original "Descent".... which I hadn't really looked at before but it's well worth it! Classic stuff. Anyhow, haven't seen the one mentioned above but I will keep my eyes open for it, and post if found!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Climbed the Hermaphrodite Flake lately??? Royal meets Elaine if I recall correctly. LOL
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Brian More
climber
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
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Hi Tamara,
We spoke a while back regarding a memorial for Royal. Any updates? Please let me know when you have a second.
Thanks,
Brian
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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As a younger climber I just loved Sheridan Anderson's stuff as he just nailed the climbing culture of the day. Years later Tami took up the cudgels of Anderson's work with equal effectiveness. As a subset of society we climbers have been well served by the cartoonists who so righteously lampooned our silliness, and we are all richer for it.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Wyoming
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He has many really much more powerful images of RR; here the two men were having a lot of fun. The cape for exampe was a trash bag.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Ahhh, long lost art of the hip belay. It works just fine. Hardly anyone ever dies.
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Tamara Robbins
climber
not a climber, just related...
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Dec 19, 2017 - 09:08pm PT
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Brian - Will advise as soon as we are confirm date etc. Can you please send an email to Royal@postpro.net so that I have your info? Same goes for others looking for info on memorial..... Thanks! (my personal email will work also - both go to same place but one is redirected into a Dad category, making it more efficient.
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