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BBWolf
climber
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Oct 25, 2010 - 04:11pm PT
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Thank you Dean Potter for asking the night's most thoughtful question. I hoped to hear more from the panel.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Oct 26, 2010 - 09:53am PT
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Was a wonderful time as said above. These events bring home how lucky we all are to be involved in climbing. The friendships, the sharing of experiences, the great times in the past and the adventures in the future, I appreciate being able to share time with legends, friends, make new friends and realize that my inspirations, motivations, goals and thoughts are shared by many others in this circle! To sit this weekend and just listen to all the stories being told by Bridwell(16 hours in the car up and back!)Hartouni, Cochran, Russell, Bullwinkle, Potter, Kauk, Robbins, Fitschen, Frost, Denny, Skelton, the gorgeous Whitford, Braun(s), Dill, Lober, and everyone else was truely PRICELESS! Had the weather not been rainy, we would have missed this because we would have been climbing!
Hope to post up a few shots later.
Thanks to everyone I saw, listened to and visited with!
Peace
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Oct 26, 2010 - 04:33pm PT
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Here's some of the shots from this wonderful weekend. Hope you enjoy.
Peace
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 26, 2010 - 08:18pm PT
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Thanks, guys - that's excellent.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Oct 26, 2010 - 09:40pm PT
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One of the funny stories I HAVE to recall this weekend. Jim Bridwell who started the search and rescue team in Yosemite was there a couple of weeks ago for a film assignment. After a day of filming and interviewing he decides to take a walk over to Camp 4 and check out his old "home" so to speak. Walking through the camp he comes to the tent cabin confines of the current search and rescue site. As he decides to walk into the boundaries to see how the current state of affairs are and to talk to some of the current "members", no sooner does he cross the "boundary line" into the SAR site, he is confronted by a young blond female who informs Jim that he is "in a private area and must immediately leave the boundary."
Now this is Jim Bridwell, Big Wall Jim, creator of the SAR team being asked to leave the area HE created!!! Jim only said he informed the young blonde in so many words that she should be more tactile in her approach to those that encroach on HER hollowed grounds.
I got a laugh outa that one! Poor old man Jim!
Peace
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca
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Oct 27, 2010 - 03:42am PT
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I love leaving for the valley at 1pm and getting there just after three. Had it not been raining I could have gotten a lap in. The rain is nice in the valley when you can actually appreciate it.
Here's some images from the day.
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Jane Levy
Trad climber
CA
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What a wonderful celebration despite the rain. I'm sorry I couldn't be there for it. I remember how exciting it was to be on top when the guys came over the edge. The first continuous ascent of the nose was a tremendous achievement. Here are some scans from that day. I've had these little prints for 50 years and wish I knew who took them.
If anyone knows, please let me know.
Enjoy!
Janie Taylor Levy
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Jane Levy
Trad climber
CA
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I'm not an expert at uploading photos and here are more,[photoid=176528] not in the order I wished them to be seen.[photoid=176525]
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Mimi
climber
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Thanks Jane! Super photos. Please tell us more. Topping out with a smile is always a joyous time.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2010 - 08:48pm PT
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Nice photos! Jane, thank you for adding to the thread. Any chance I could get high resolution copies from you? I would put them with everything else that the Yosemite Climbing Association has collected over the years. I purchased a stock media photo from the summit and perhaps that photographer took them. I will have to look up his name. Frost looks like he doesn't know what to do with that champagne.
Ken
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Gene
Social climber
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Those guys look like they could send it today, well...maybe over five days.
Jane Levy,
Thanks for the wonderful pictures. Perhaps a narrative to go with them.......?
g
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I second Gene's request - how about the story of the support team, first waiting and watching in the meadows, then trekking to the summit? There must be a story or two in it!
And excellent photos - TFPU!
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john hansen
climber
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So is Royal hauling the bags the old fashioned way,, hand over hand,, before he invented a better system?
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Dang Jane wish you were at the presentation! GREAT shots and from a TOTALLY different prospective. Would love to hear some of your stories from that historical day(s). You NEED to start coming to some of these events.
Peace
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Very Nice, Jane! Thanks.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Looks like a good time had by all.
Love you all!
Bruce.
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