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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Jun 29, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
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super cool photos you guys.. keep the scans going..
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Jun 29, 2010 - 06:47pm PT
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That is an AWESOME picture of Slings!! Totally the way I remember him.
That was a shocker the way Andy tied. I first met him when Jim Orey and I were doing what became the 4th ascent of The Muir Wall. I was leading out toward Heart Ledge and ran out of rope. So I was stranded 25 feet below with no way to anchor. George Myers and Andy were sitting on Heart Ledge, having fixed up above on the Salathe. Andy tossed me a loop of fixed rope to anchor from. That night we all shared beers.
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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just a couple of corrections: first to day, David Yohalem did not die of TB, as reported. I should know. He´s alive and currently living in England. Has also lived and or worked in Antarctica, Central America and Denmark. Still climbs at a mediocre standard. Wears an old pair of Mythos.
The wake where Werner was fire walking was Tim Harrison´s. The rnager trying to quiet us down was Meade Hargis. Yes, that´s Drone to Yohalem´s right in the picture. Chris Falkensten used to maintain a page called ´Old friends´with pictures of (and by) Tom Carter including several of Dirty Dennis Miller and Chuck Cochran that were clasics of their kind. Also of Dave and Phil Birchieff. A couple of Yohalem, too.
Ciao for now.
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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Jan 13, 2011 - 06:56am PT
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BTW, C4, EBs were available in 1971 in the Valley. Got my first pair there in 1971. $12. And expensive at that! Also availabe at that time: RDs, PAs, RRs - all made by Galibier and my favorite Pivetta Cortinas (super comfotable in slings and good for friction when broken in/down -- kind of like me). If one was lucky, one could find Dolt blue boots, a varappe rather like EBs, but not quite so uncomfortable.
I shared a flat with Randy and Gypsy (Flores) in Seacliff, when we were all attending Cabrillo JC in '75. We made a film called 'Off the Wall' about a person forced to climb buildings due to residence in the flats. Randy directed and filmed, we co-wrote and I was the builderer.
Cheers
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Jan 13, 2011 - 07:31am PT
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You haul 'im-
I'm a yank from Yosemite living in Kent too! Just a few miles from ya, actually. Little place called Hernhill, by Boughton-Under-Blean, Between Chaversham (ha) and Canterbury.
You ever feel like having a pint, let me know.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jan 13, 2011 - 11:41am PT
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Pat Ament is apparently the only person with quality pictures of me climbing in the early 60s; but he's holding out on me. The only one I've seen is one that he shared for the first time yesterday on the 'Fail Falling' thread.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 13, 2011 - 12:13pm PT
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I did not know him well, but that pic of Slings made all sorts of BITD memories flood in!
As always... MORE PICS!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Jan 13, 2011 - 12:20pm PT
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Great Thread! Both the pix and the memories. Yes, Jeff Mathis' campsite was a real classic, and he always had a smile and made one feel welcome at his place. I remember him as having a girl friend, Lynnette Davis, I think was her name. Anyone remember or have pix of her? I've gotta dig for some pix now...
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Jan 13, 2011 - 01:17pm PT
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Weschrist, BITD chicks were who left because you climbed too much.
Now they are who you wish would be your rope gun.
This is a great thread. Thank you all for the pics and memories.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 13, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
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How 'bout Ellie and Bruce? As I recall their Sheik of Arabi abode woulda
made Mu'ammar al-Qaḏḏāfī give a nod of approval.
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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Jan 13, 2011 - 01:42pm PT
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Actually, the Sheik tent belonged to a guy named Jim Matsen (sic, but definitely NOT Madsen, who fell on a rescue on the Dihedral). He was a friend of the Hawkins', Mike White, Drone Stevens, James Wright and David Jensen (Kid Carrot) from Washington. On loan from Lompoc.
About Pat Ament: does anyone remember when he sold Chris Vandiver's guitar to John (nee David) Weitzer? What a hoot.
Slings (Steve Williams) will always live in my memory as the man who woke to find a bear straddling him, screamed, tucked himself into his sleeping bag, peeked out, got swatted, screamed, tucked, peeked and got swatted again. He was a wonderful mellow soul, somewhat freaked out after being the one to find Madsen's body (headless) at the base of El Cap. Had a 54 flathead Ford. We even wrote a song about him: Lighting Slings, Lightning Slings, see how high he bounds. Lightning Slings, Lighning Slings, two feet off the ground. Feared by the good. Loved by the Bad. Lightning Slings... Williams.
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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Jan 14, 2011 - 07:30am PT
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Boo Dawg-- Lynette Davis was Gypsy Flores' sister. No photos, but a real cutie. I used to have quite a few photos of those times, but all were lost in the Big Thompson flood of 1976. Oh, well... one still has memories.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Jan 14, 2011 - 01:37pm PT
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Reading up-thread the great story of Tim Harrison hitch-hiking with his trailer. Hearing him tell about the rides he got was JUST HILARIOUS!
RIP, Brother.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Jan 14, 2011 - 08:27pm PT
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Wow, Throwpie, I have never seen that photo of Randy and myself on the beach in Santa Cruz.
Randy died Good Friday, April 1st 1983 climbing the cross on Mt. Davidson. He was 33.
I have photos of those days too and if I ever get a scanner set up I will post a few. I have one from Andy Cox's wake with Brian Wyvil and Ben Campbell-Kelly and others around a table. I didn't take the photo so I don't know if it is okay to post that one but I know many people would love to see it.
Anyone know where Rick Sylvester is these days?
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 15, 2011 - 10:14pm PT
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That's weird eh?
Slings told me he found the head and freaked out and became an alcoholic .....
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Jan 15, 2011 - 10:43pm PT
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bump for climbing
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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Jan 18, 2011 - 06:02pm PT
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Since the event pre-dates my arrival in the valley, I'll accede to Erb's version. But I remember hearing from Slings pretty much what Werner said. Still, I'd love to hear from him. Slings abides!
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Shameless Yahoolihan
Trad climber
west malling, uk
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ThaDood- Nicely's was ALWAYS competitive. Went there with Sheridan Anderson, George Sessions, Phil Birchieff and a Polish nuclear physicist named Maria at the time of the filming of High Plains Drifter at Mono. After about three hours we got tossed, even though we complained it was all you can eat. Their response was: yes, and that's ALL you can eat for 2.95 (food was cheaper then). We proceded to drink and get 86'ed from every place in town. Sheridan had just been told by Galen Rowell that he was being profiled in Summit as 'America's foremost alpine cartoonist', so he was buttonholing everyone and asking if they knew who he was. Totally pissed: do you know who I am? America's foremost alpine cartoonist -buy me a drink. And get one for the kid (me), too. Next day I was his netter as he caught trout for all in the rescue site. A great man!
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