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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Dec 20, 2006 - 09:15pm PT
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contrary to the "tr" image he still carefully cultivates ('cause he really don't give a fukk what we think), dick did some some pretty hard leads. "underklingon" comes to mind (took me several trips to do that enduro-fest without falls), plus some hard sh#t here in flag and elsewhere.
whenever the perverted itch to rack up and jiggle pro hit richard, he was always up to the task.
a man for all seasons, a man for all reasons, a man for all situations, an american original, for sure.
here's dick last february, climbing 5.12 crack in 14 degree temps. still got game, he does.....
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 20, 2006 - 10:02pm PT
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His he coming back for the holidays?
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Leroy
climber
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Haven,t said anything funny in years..It would be like casting pearls before swine here in Europe.Im here in the Alps.Val di Mello.The Yosemite of Italy.Cappuccino and pizza.See u here in the spring.
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Leroy
climber
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Haven,t said anything funny in years..It would be like casting pearls before swine here in Europe.Im here in the Alps.Val di Mello.The Yosemite of Italy.Cappuccino and pizza.See u here in the spring.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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I remember when Dick once said, "Just about everything scares me these days."
My admiration for the man went up immeasurably with this candid statement.
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Richard Sims
Trad climber
LeVagina,Co
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1977 or 78 tea at the Awhanee.. A gal house sitting in the schools principle home for the summer came up and asked, you guys staying here? Before I could speak one word Dick said Of coarse isn’t everyone . Dick quickly registered before me the she wanted to talk to me and was off. I quickly confessed home was a 60 blue and white VW van. Better to tell the truth as she already knew me thru a friend. Weeks later she asked why Dick was canning if he was staying at the Awhanee. I still chuckle.
Hey Russ
I do not know when Dick started selling gear. It was March in Josh (before he bought his first batch of friends from Jardine in the Lodge parking lot) Anyway I had a bad batch of 100 chalk bags that I re-stitched the C- loops. Dick was stuck in the Hidden Valley sick with his old telephone van broken down to boot. I gave him some food and chaulk bags to make money to fix his van .
Hey Dick I just crossed this site the other day I haven't read manny posts just jumping around came acrossed Leroy, We had some great times Be Well
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Richard Simms, are you the same guy who started making chalkbags out of the San Diego area sometime around 77 or so? I met you at the base of Whitney that winter and we climbed a few times after that.
Glad to see you here
cheers
Pat Nay
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Richard Sims
Trad climber
LeVagina,Co
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Pat
1976 It was you Gary and Dave who took me to Josh, My dad did not talk about me dropping out of school to climb till late 80s. But Thank You. When my oldest daughter had the Talk with me regarding Law school I understood. My wife says She said it better. I think my words were more like I’m not going to F>>>ing law school I taking a year off to go climbing.
I tell my Daughters my regrets are few and just things I shuda done before .......
So Pat, Gary and Dave thank you again. I may stray from climbing , white water took me away for a few years, But I find my self looking at the walls sometimes when I should looking down river. ......
Drop an email Rich Sims
Kevin
I do not know what Dick said but he swore he did not hit it with his EBs just scared it to death. To add insult to injury The runner that parked the box van in the Lodge parking lot was bringing the manager of the AW to meet the group.RCS
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Leroy
climber
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Dead squirrel?????? Never happened.Just amyth like Madsen kicken the dog off Glacier point.Why must I always play the clown?It seems to me that some guys remember everything I ever said and invented some on top of it.
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Leroy
climber
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By the way,The being affraid of everything quote was inspired by being run over by a car.Picked myself up off the ground and continued hitching from Malibu to Wash.After being run over by a car u expect houses to fall from the sky onto you.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dick was selling gear in HVCG and ran in to me and my partner Will. He introduced me to some dude named Rick, and we went climbing.
It was the first time i climbed double cross, which i led.
We then climbed Momma Woolsey. This climb starts with a thin finger crack that angles up and to the right. I have always seen people put their fingers in the crack, with their feet below, which is the way Dick led this climb. Rick follows and walks up the crack, above it, with no hands.
I turn to Will and say, who is this Rick guy? Will shrugs, and says he doesn't know him.
Dick comes down off the climb and says to me and my partner: "Wanna become famous, and get laid?"
Actually, he didn't really say that, but he should have.
It turns out that Rick, is Rick Ridgeway, and he is going to take some pictures of Dick for an upcoming Patagonia catalog. They ask if Will and I want to be in the photo shoot. We say OK.
The following summer i am in kicking it in The Valley. I am trolling for a Betty's in the Curry area, and hanging out in front of the Mountain Shop. One of my current projects walks by, says hi, goes in to the shop. I quickly follow.
I have been on this route a few times, but I can't quite send it. I fire the entry moves, but always seem to bodge the crucial sequence.
I engage my project in dialogue and am trying to comvince her that i am worthy, when all of a sudden i hear someone yell, YOU'RE FAMOUS! I turn around and see a Mtn. Shop employee coming over to us with a magazine in his hand. I say, what? He says it again. You're famous, your picture is in the latest Patagonia Catalog.
He flips through the pages, and there it is. Me, Will, and Dick Cilley in a stylish Patagonia blazer.
I turn towards my project, and her eyes are lit up like a pinball machine. I have just found my exit moves, and i know that i will top out.
Thanks Dick.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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"You're only as good as your last climb."
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Watusi
Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
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I remember being with Dick for the Burning Caddy episode!! We used to party quite a bit together and it was very late one evening...
After leaving Gabby's (The JT Saloon now) we arrived back at Dick's campsite. Now we were duly inebriated, to say the least! Well Dick produced a can of gas and told me to grab the boom-box. Dick proceeded to jump up onto his ride and started to pour out the contents of said can. At that moment he produced some matches and cried; "Play Pretty in Pink! Play Pretty in Pink!" for which I complied!
"Whoosh!" and Dick's vehicle is afire! And there he is, in all his glory, atop the roof, writhing and undulating to the strains of the Furs! I'll always remember how surreal this was...Just like a David Lynch movie! This went on for a time at quite a high decibal rate, until I saw a fearful look on Dick's face...Unbeknownst to me, the gas had started to seep into the trunk of the Cad, where all of Richard's precious gear lay! Needless to say this had a sobering effect on our hero, and leaping to the ground he hollers to me; "We've got to put this out!!" Or something of the sort, and after all these years I don't remember... but I think we tossed sand or something, but extinguished it nonetheless...
Well you can believe me that in the wee hours of the morning in Hidden Valley Campground, this had created quite a commotion! So after we had snubbed the blaze, and shut off the blaster, an eerie calm pervaded the scene. Broken by some angry climber yelling from his tent, and an obviously interrupted sleep, "What the F%$k is going on out there??" In answer came one of my favorite Dick Cilley quotes, as he calmly mind you, replied, "You'd better go back to bed, before someone gets hurt!"
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Hi Dick-
I remember you saying the quote about being scared when we were just off to do one of your horrendous topropes, somewhere in the Ahwahnee area if my muddled memory serves correct.
I got a picture of the Integratron from our motorcycle excursion up there together I'll try to post soon.
Are you in Josh now? It would be fun to see you again. We're planning to make a trip there this fall, possibly for Fish's sushifest, if we're invited.
cheers
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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As a few of us may know, back in the day Richard used to be quite a salesman.
I remember actually buying the shirt right off the back of Cilley for $.50c. It was a manny,moe, and jack shirt that you could actually see through. Still have that shirt to this day.
Chez
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Leroy
climber
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Those Manny moe and Jack Ts are the best .I wish they had themhere in Eur.I dont remember what they costed.$.20????You could see through it not because it was old.They came like that new.But that was part of the cache.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 26, 2016 - 04:11am PT
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Proud Bump
I stayed at Clean Dans . . .held down the fort, early 80s. . .
I think it was around the time that some wyde thing? 'Road Warrior'
? Went up?. . . .
I have looked for any sort of gunks comments
But all I found - a strange fully cut up, the way it shows below, mention
It makes no sense
There is no 'and friends' - the area of the climb is more around 'Stir Up Trouble' ?
But this is what the Google gave,
"Feb 13, 2011 - Jackie and friends at The Gunks. ... b. Jackie and friends Rock Climbing ... There is a trail up to the middle of this section just past the Black Boulder problem, ... Cilley Dicken': 5.12-, PG"
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jan 26, 2016 - 09:33am PT
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It's almost 9 years ago that I started this thread and still haven't heard anything close to as funny as those Dick Cilley remarks in my opener (although some gems on this thread). And a belated happy birthday if you're reading this.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jan 26, 2016 - 01:35pm PT
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What's my wildest trick? Dousing my Cadillac with gasoline and dancing on top of it while it burned to the music of the Pychedelic Furs"
I was actually there for this; it was in Loop B back when that was the wild west. He slowly moved in and around the flames coming off the hood wrapped Bedouin-style in a white sheet. It was a brilliant bit of performance art and chemicals were involved, of course. Actually that action was the high point, the apex, of a particularly crazy season. After the thin layer of white campstove gas burned off, the car looked and ran fine.
The man cuts a wide swath, on the rocks, on the road, in the bars, and in the bedrooms (or so I'm told.) An American Original.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 26, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
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"Yeah, Dick Cilley. He's a real cruiser." Jerry Moffat when asked if anyone in all of American climbing impressed him.
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