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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jeff, whadya think? Isn't Joe a kick?
Joe you have a way! Sorry I didn't get to visit longer at the SF.
So who has a climbing story where they found themselves saying "What would Jeff Lowe do?"
(for me thats usually when I say, "Uh oh, not me!" and pull out the drill. lol)
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Ron...You've used a drill?
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Duke
Social climber
PSP
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Haven't met him but from what I have read deserves a bump.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Not as often as people give me credit for Mal.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Really, this is very nice, like showering in a soft warm rain, or surfing a rainbow with seabirds cawing in a somehow sonorous way as they ride the wind on either side of your head.
I gotta finish my "...companion" story. You folks have earned it, and I'm curious as to how it's going to end, as well.
-Jello
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Probably best not to ask why the rain is warm Jeff.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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But Ron, it is warm...and yellow...and smells kind of pugent, too. HAHAHA! Now don't you try to rain on my parade, Ronbo, or I'll take my pitons and go home.
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ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
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Just last week I was thumbing through an older AAJ('92) and Lowe and behold the man himself soloing a new route on the Eiger...what a great read!
As the kids would say , " that is sick dude"....or is it " ill"
Toasting a cold one to you Mr. Lowe
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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hey mal, i just got word you've opted out. look babe i just informed the dominatrix -- whose parents, my IN-LAWS, will be here all weekend from new york -- that i'm ducking out come hell or high water for the fest. major stink-eye has ensued, but hell, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.....
(ten'll get ya twenty she ditches her parents to go...)
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Ron can't tell the difference between a golden chisel and a drill.
I just got off the phone with BVB. He asked who will be at sushifest. I tossed out a few names that didn't get him excited and then mentioned Jeff's name. That got him going. Seems like appreciation to me.
I'm really looking forward to this sushifest. At the last one I was really busy. With this one I have way more time and am way more relaxed. I'm looking forward to hanging out with people and getting to know them better - Jeff is really high up on the list of folks I hope to hang with.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mal: "Ron...You've used a drill?"
Shoeless Ron, exposed. Hmmm...
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 10, 2007 - 03:21am PT
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Ron,
You guys were working too damn hard and long at the SF - good fun, but I'd still like to make it down and get out on some rock with you - maybe this fall...
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reddirt
climber
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Jul 10, 2007 - 03:41am PT
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Jello-
PM sent earlier, but it not be making it through your spam filters.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 10, 2007 - 09:08am PT
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Nah, he just took his pitons and went home (for an umbrella?)
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Mees
climber
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Jul 10, 2007 - 06:10pm PT
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I've never had the pleasure to meet Jello but one winter during my first season of ice, I think I may have read Waterall Ice about 100 times. It was my bible and I felt very close to the author. his wisdom and passion for the craft bled through those pages. A friend had some Latok gear which I was able to use a few times, he let me try some pants, think they were called the Salapets(sp) to this day they are still the very best ice climbing pants I've ever worn. Don't remember going to any climbing areas out west that didn't have a Lowe route or 5. Here's to a living legend that has given so much to the climbing community. words don't really do you justice
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michaellane
climber
Spokane, WA
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Jul 11, 2007 - 03:40pm PT
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Jeff Lowe was one of the very first famous climbers I ever heard about back when I started climbing and began learning about the big boys who shaped our sport. When I finally got to meet him some years later and actually work with him, I felt like I was meeting Mohammed Ali or Michael Jordan or something. He seemed mythic. Not so, of course ... he's very much a "normal" guy. Even though he's had world-class success, he remains approachable, humble and gentle in spirit. Class act, Jello ... glad to know you.
--ML
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jul 11, 2007 - 04:42pm PT
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Remember our trip to Ama Dablam in '79?
First and last to the Great Ranges for me.
(Got dangerously stupid in that thin air.)
First for that upstart Kloberdanz Kid, David Brashears.
Just another jaunt for Jello, the Energizer Bunny of the Khumbu.
Humble you certainly are. I love you for that, just for starters.
But only second place for humility on that trip.
No one could top our fearless leader, Tom Frost.
Humility aside, you did rather shine at route setting.
Could often figure it was you, even a mile away above base camp, stringing out the fixed line. (Shooting film made that mile of evil polypro water ski rope a necessary compromise.)
Without stringing those spools, you would have alpined it up and down long since, and ambled across the valley to worthier north faces. Eventually got there though.
When I finally did tag the summit and ooze back down (descending being the best Jello imitation I could muster), you were kind enough not to remind my wiped-out self of brash talk about accompanying you on that solo jaunt up the SW face, one day all the way up and back down to our camp 3. "Yeah, it was a bit harder than I thought. Had to hang the pick of my axe on rock edges a few times there at about 20,000'." That was before we had a name for dry tooling.
Salud, Brother! It's great to share this Super space with you.
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L
climber
A Light Glider on a Rising Thermal
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Jul 11, 2007 - 06:55pm PT
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Jello,
You're the hottest looking guy to ever put on a woman's floral swimsuit top and cut-off shorts up to your...er...you know.....tan line.
But as handsome as you are on the outside, your inner beauty is even more spectacular. The words you write on SuperTopo are filled with insight, generousity of spirit, and an honesty in dealing with the vicissitudes of life that few of your peers share.
It's obvious the first half of your life has been a rolicking adventure; it appears the second half is shaping up for more of the same. No sidelined-spectator-sports for you, my friend!
Thank you, Jello, for shining the light for all of us.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jul 11, 2007 - 08:55pm PT
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Jeff: We've never met but heres how you influenced me
First frameless pack
Hummingbirds and Big Birds
Every place i ever climbed you and yours had already been there.
You helped pave the way for a lot of people who did not think that climbs could be done in winter or on long steep ice and the stories that I've read about Latok-Amazing.
I've enjoyed reading your letters on this thread.
Thanks and all the best
Dan
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Jul 12, 2007 - 02:24am PT
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No, Kim, YOU'RE the best; as is L, and DR, Hobo, Tar-man,Hanklor and so on and so on. This mutual fascination we have for steep places opens our senses to each other. We can begin to see or sense the truth behind the facade called reality.
Werner, of course, is one of my personal heroes. But heroes, too, are a facade.
-JelloLove
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