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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 16, 2013 - 01:15am PT
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Mar 16, 2013 - 11:21am PT
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Kor's expression is priceless
Read the story where he tries to do the Diamond in winter in Godfreys book "Climb"--the story of their escape is really intense.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 16, 2013 - 01:13pm PT
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looking over this vast thread many things are amazingly obvious....
1) hugely increased internet bandwidth has become available in the 6 odd years since the start, so the sprawl of such a thread over 10 installments seems a bit anachronistic
2) while the production of the Stonemasters book was wonderful, and perhaps lends a more durable record of that time, this thread has a "tonal" quality not captured at all in traditional book production.
3) in spite of our tendency to view what that ever is happening now as extending into the distant past and future, this is a bit of ephemera which will someday be lost.
4) attempts to translate this into other media should be executed, and with all the imaginative creativity of the people who populate this thread and lurk on it, I would expect those efforts to provide exceptionally compelling works, but they will only enhance what is here...
5) while we think of this as a "camp fire" around which we all sit and talk, even an event around a real "camp fire" misses the mark, though I truly enjoy it when it happens, the race of time does not lend itself the timeless continuity afforded by this particular medium
So enjoy it while you can, this is an extraordinary collection of voices, one I would never imagined possible. It is a lightning flash illuminating those dark corners of memory formed in a youth 42 years ago.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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A short second hand story.
A fellow I climbed with for a bit in '74/75 was a reasonably talented young climber of the time. He was bivvying high on the DNB with a partner. One of his awakenings in the pre-dawn hours he saw headlamps in the forest approaching the Nose. He thinks to himself "wow that's an early start". An hour or so later the three headlamps are still climbing, now in the Stovelegs. He thinks to himself "they're still going, must be a rescue".
Some time later in the morning he sees a team somewhere around Boot Flake and he and his partner carry on up the DNB.
By the time they get back to The Valley that afternoon, Bridwell, Long and Westbay have returned from their 1 day ascent.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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A short first hand story. About '76 my regular partner and I are out in Stoneman meadow looking up at Steck Salathe with binoculars. Contemplating whether or not we were stoopid enough to attempt it in a push. Discussing how much food and water we should take. Camp at the base? Bivvy sacks on the climb? The usual Gumbies in the Meadow nonsense.
Along comes a Stonemaster (Bard? Kauk?, I don't recall) and gives us The Look (although friendly enough). "If you plan to bivvy, you will".
Smiled and walked away.
We durned well knew we weren't capable of doing it in a one day push. He obviously knew as well.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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4) attempts to translate this into other media should be executed, and with all the imaginative creativity of the people who populate this thread and lurk on it, I would expect those efforts to provide exceptionally compelling works, but they will only enhance what is here... (Ed)
I don't know why someone hasn't correlated all these stories, done the research, and put up a historical website on the stonemasters similar to what I have done for bouldering and early rock climbing. Books are expensive but the free internet endures (at least for now). Of course, there is no compensation to the designer other than the satisfaction that historical feats will be available for all to enjoy.
Someone (preferably a stonemaster) volunteer!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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A few years ago, there was a partial archive of stories on Mike Graham's site at
http://www.stonemasters.org
but the stores are not there now (or at least they are not linked).
Probably removed in favor of the book.
(and www.archive.org doesn't work to retrieve it because the pages were not static)
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Jun 27, 2014 - 08:22am PT
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Yeah sorry about the bad link. Our Web site was hacked pretty bad over a year ago. Had some sort of worm that went after bank accounts inserted into it. I was literally forced to take it off line by BoA. For the time being we just put up a commerce site at www.stonemastergear.com but we are working on adding all the achieved stories back in to it. Have a few more I’d like to share still…
Cheers,
Mike
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