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Jimbo7
Trad climber
Pocatello, Idaho
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May 19, 2015 - 12:43pm PT
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Gene will be missed. I climbed with him through out my high school years in the late 60's and after in the 1970s. He was a my first climbing partner and mentor. He was a great climber and loved the sport. The memories are many and now, all good. He stuck with it long after I had a bad run in with frostbite on an Easter Climb in the high sierras and stopped climbing. Gene did a lot to further climbing in the Lover's Leap and Sugarloaf areas with his climbing guides. He spent so much time climbing there and loved it. Our first wall climbs in the valley in the mid sixties instilled his love for the area and the climbers fellowship. It has been a lot of years since we had spoken or seen each other but we connected on email late last year. The news of his health was a tough blow, but he seemed to take it in stride.
He will be missed by many.
Jim Hicks
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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May 19, 2015 - 12:47pm PT
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Beautiful post Jimbo7
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Rosamond
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Dec 17, 2015 - 09:56am PT
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I only just heard that Gene has passed. He wrote the first true topo to my home area, Donner. It was a xeroxed thing of about 20 pages, and was much coveted. He used to pick me up hitch hiking to the crags, because, as a teenager, I rarely had enough gas money to drive, when every penny was being spent on gear. I never knew him well, even though we lived in the same town. But his drawings helped fuel my teenage imagination and put me on the track of dozens of climbs that I now consider to be Donner classics. He was a good guy.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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One year bump for a very good man.
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the goat
climber
north central WA
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I was out of the country this time last year and missed Masta's original post. I met Gene in the valley around 1974-5. He was working at the Ahwanhee if memory serves me. Anyway, did a couple of climbs on the Apron and remember him being a truly nice guy, friendly, unassuming, yet a focused and talented climber. 40 years later he still stands out in my mind as one of the classiest guys I ever had the chance to meet. RIP buddy.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Cheers Gene.
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