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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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I can't wait to see everyone!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
Will know soon
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Way behind on life due to hard drive crash. Where can we stay on the 21st ? Any ideas ?
lynnie
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Only two weeks to go,
FRANK SACHERER REMEMBRANCE & YOSEMITE OLD TIMERS REUNION
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2010 - 03:22pm PT
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I'm in Colorado currently and getting ready to head to California in a few days. I still have a lot of campsites available in Wawona and Groveland the night of Saturday 22 and the group campsite in Hodgedon on the 23rd.
If anyone wants to use these, please contact me.
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larabee
Trad climber
Cottonwood Arizona
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Tom Cochrane, Didn't i buy AC equipment from your dad 20 years ago. I met you in the Comfortmaker warehouse in Anaheim Ca...You had just got into climbing...I could be wrong....Could have been Tommy Thomson...
Larry
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Anastasia
Mountain climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Bump!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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I just wander from room to room.
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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Bump
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Boulder Creek CA
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Larry, I appreciate your reaching out; but I grew up in Boise Idaho where my dad worked for Idaho Power; and I started climbing in the 1950s.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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I am coming up probably Friday midday. Wouldn't want to miss the Central Oven, you know. Roger Breedlove is also coming; probably with me. I might stay around for a few days too, as there are some things to work on. I also have to speak Saturday night.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Rik Rieder confirmed today that he is attending--and bring a new pair of shoes!!!. For early 70s climbers, this is a special treat. Ed Hartouni is our rope gun (or maybe Alex Honnold--"Hey Alex, you forgot the rope forcryingoutloud.")
Steve Wunsch, in an e-mail told me, "...Sacherer was my most hero hero the whole time I climbed in Yosemite, I am truly sorry that I can't make it."
Another hopeful, Barry Bates is tied up, but I will get to see him, and climb a bit--5.7 c/d--in June.
Worrall, Graham, and Cosgrove are working in on it.
We'll get everyone together for a reunion eventually.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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I should have added that Higgins is thinking of coming. He needs encouragement though. He is afraid that the event is somehow going to be awkward. I will work on him some more. He, by his own account, is "strange". Love him though. We had dinner again a few weeks ago with Al Steck at Fred Long's gal, Nancy's place in Piedmont. V. fun. You know (g), Higgins isn't too bad once you get a couple of belts in him.
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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I will really be disappointed if Tom cannot make it. It would be great to see him and he is in the thick of the 60s all-free climbing in the Valley. I also want to report that those of us who attended the Nose50 reunion were all a little worried about what to expect, with, I think, a fear that somehow we would just be hanging around with nothing to do and nothing to add. I was very surprised how easy it was to feel an easy connection and community with climbers whom I barely knew and climbers I had never met. We have such a strong, common connection.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Stoked! Skip and I will be up Thursday-Sunday. Thanks, Jan for the camping sites!
Really looking forward to this! What day to do Sacherer Crack is the next question...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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NO question here, Roger.
Reunion. Those few seasons back in the sixties began a movement that has only grown more fiery and passionate by moment, lo now these 50 years!! It is not clear that we know fully why we are doing this, but we sure are still doing it and inside it, we get so terribly enriched and often pass it on to our closest.
Frank was one of just a couple few who took up the original conjecture, actually formed it, and then put themselves on this anvil. Can climbing justify its deaths there? If we count, there are very very few that have come from climbing at the top end. So the question is really a general question for all climbing and not pointed at or merely writ large for cutting edge players. Which returns us to the original point: What an ART.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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gee, I haven't been a rope gun in, let's see...... forever....
but I'll try, mostly it'll be an "off the couch rope gun" sort of outing. My new Acopa Legends worked well in the gym on Thursday... an appropriate shoe for this particular meeting.
But I'll have all the stuff needed to try anything. I can bring some hexes if anyone wants me to try "old style." Not many pitons left, and besides, people would object.
I'm going up early Friday morning, and I'm planning on being around until sometime on Monday... so lots of time to get together and play, "ride the stone" as we learned in the Yuji video. It would be great to talk to Tom Higgins, I only got to shake his hand at the Ament presentation a few weeks ago. But I can understand his reticence...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2010 - 12:14pm PT
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Here's a Campsite update.
I have managed to reserve a group campsite which officially holds up to 30 in Hodgedon (Camp site D) for Thursday and Friday.
Saturday is still a scramble. There are sites at Wawona and Groveland (far away I know) for 36 people.More may be available at Groveland.
Sunday we have another group site for 30 at Hodgedon (Site A) which is good until Thursday morning.Other group sites are available if needed.
Everyone who has written me or posted here has a guaranteed place. I will check again in two days and then I'm on the road again. Will probably check one last time on May 15. If you don't post or make contact, then you take your chances and better arrive early.
:)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 10, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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Jan, maybe you could post a list here of those you know are coming, at least those who're willing to have their names appear here. Maybe even say something about their situation, if known, e.g. "place at Hodgdon 21st, 23rd, 24th". Who knows, a list might encourage the lurkers and such to chime in?
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larabee
Trad climber
Cottonwood Arizona
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May 10, 2010 - 01:10pm PT
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Ok Tom, Thanks for the comback.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2010 - 06:37pm PT
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Here are the people who've contacted me that they're coming or other people have named(I hope I haven't forgotten anyone).There are doubtless others who have booked their own accomodations and not written.
Ourom-1
Stannard-1
Grossman & Mimi-2
Haan-1
Cochrane-2
Glen Denny-2
Beck-2
Dozzier-1
Erb-2
McKeown-2
D.Robinson-2 (if possible)
Colliver-2 (if possible)
Powell-1 (if possible)
Kamps-1 (if possible)
Hartouni-1
Breedlove-1
Steve & Zip-2
Worrall-1
Graham-1
Cosgrove-1
Leichtfus-1
Riley-1
Meek-1
Ament-1
Yaeger-1
Susie-1
Jaybro-1
(Not able to attend = Chris Jones & Steve Roper)
I too am hoping that Higgins can be persuaded. Perhaps it would be helpful to him to know that what the Park Service, Ken Yaeger and I have agreed on is a secular remembrance of both a person and a historical era, which Ken and I at least, hope will be the beginning of a series of such events.
The immediate reason is the extraordinary circumstances surrounding Frank's exhumation and repatriation, but we hope it will turn into something bigger than that.
I know that I have worked out all of my unresolved feelings already, mainly on Frank's biographical thread, and I hope that this will be a joyous celebration for everyone of Frank, climbing and the climbing community.
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