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Double D
climber
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"You have to set the hook..." LOL! I think I forgot the hooks. I might need to re-rack and go at it again.
Seriously I think Bill knows about the Taco stand but like I said he's a man of few words.
Mike Borris, aka "Big Wally" is indeed alive and well. Last I heard he and Bill were working together. It was Mike who first scouted Cosmic Debris and Born Under a Bad Sign. He's a great guy.
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Jobee
Social climber
The Portal
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Great Thread.
Angie and Bill; awesome climbers, wonderful people, great parents!
If you two are viewing this, wishing you the very best; get on up here to Yosemite sometime.
Great images!
Hey Pat,
What a great shot; awesome to see you this fall at the face lift, you looked fantastic!
Jo Whitford
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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The Price is right for a bump...
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Yeah, Dave, when you next see Bill, tell him I said to say Hi!
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Chief
climber
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Great thread.
I had the privilege of knowing Bill back when he was "The Man".
Talented, soft spoken and a decent guy, no slagging, spraying or bad energy.
He came to Squamish for a visit and helped inspire all of us.
Glad to see him getting some recognition.
All the best wherever you are Bill!
Perry
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all....
once again, supertopo is a wonderful teaching tool...
happy appreciation thread to you bill price..
i sure dont know anything about all these folks
here except what i have read and learned here...
such a vast amount of wonderful history!
also--each appreiation thread draws out more
wonderful folks and THEIR stories too...
nice history here, to learn about doughnutnational, too...
and:
about rescues and those that took to do so...
thanks all for being supertopos heart and soul...
and for really appreciationing so many climbers, here, as well...
god bless :)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sh^t, I love it when some cool old threads pop up again...
Bill, we all love you here, come and say hello. You are a bigger part of all of us that I imagine you couldn't imagine.
Wayne Miller, the kid down the street on Sherman Ave.
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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We hicks out here in Colorado were convinced you Californian's invented him to make us even more insecure. Sort of a Oliver Moon stunt.
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colin rowe
Trad climber
scotland uk
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Jun 27, 2010 - 01:19pm PT
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I climbed in the Valley in the Fall of 1977 arriving from England. I somehow met Bill and stayed on the rescue site. I had just turned 21 and Bill was seventeen (Bill mentioned that he had first climbed the Nose age 15). I had had an aborted attempt on the Nose and Bill very generously suggested we could climb it together. This was analogous to a run of the mill athlete (Colin) going running with Sebastian Coe (a British Olympic Gold Medal winner). Despite Bill's evident ability ( taking excursions to the 'Burner' and doing everything free that had been done at the time) I was so impressed with his maturity, emotional poise and containment. He gently goaded me about the slowness of my aid climbing, and did say he would climb with me again so long as it wasn't an aid climb.
I recently telephoned Bill (2005) and spoke with him for the first time since we climbed together. Bill said to look him up if I ever came to California again. Unfortunately I now do not have his contact details and I intend to contact him when I come to Yosemite in Fall of 2011. So If you read this Bill or someone who could forward his e-mail address I would very much appreciate it.
My climb with Bill will remain a lasting and cherished memory. I would like nothing better than to go climbing with him again and reconnect to the very best in American climbing and its people.
Yours gratefully
Colin Rowe
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 27, 2010 - 01:23pm PT
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Great story, Colin!
Better still to get Bill to join in at some point!!!
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mike a.
Sport climber
ca
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Aug 23, 2012 - 09:07am PT
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morning, very cool pix, thanks for sharing , yes at one time b.price was on top of the climbing world, bill is the one who got me in to climbing, back in grade school when we were kidz, he lived down the block from me in menlo park, and was in my second and forth grade class. in high school we were always in the valley living in camp 4, and bill was in on the airplane crash thing as well, i talked to him last month to see if some time this summer if he wanted to hook up and climb, and i could show him some of the new cool stuff at shuteye, and he sounded psyched on checking it on, and he was psyched on showing me some cool new stuff at the donner area, larry land. he was one of the greatest on the couch climbers i ever saw, and was great at bouldering too. when i see his pix and his name on this form, it pumps me up to go climbing, thanks again for the cool pix of bill price, one of the greatest climbers most never heard of. :-), cheers happy climbing mike a.
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doughnutnational
Gym climber
its nice here in the spring
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2012 - 09:21am PT
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Thanks for shairng Mike and make sure to post photos when you climb with Bill. 20,000 replies to a political thread and 56 to a thread about a Yosemite legend on a climbing forum, what a shame. And Eric Peterson if your out there I know you have pictures of Bill, Augie, Double D .., get em scanned and post em up, please!
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Aug 23, 2012 - 09:39am PT
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Yeah Kevin, 20000 low quality posts from five posters vs 57 high quality from some talented climbers. Let's rope up soon, call me.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Aug 23, 2012 - 03:21pm PT
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Bump for Bill!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 23, 2012 - 05:56pm PT
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I've always said that the three most talented climbers I ever met were Ron Kauk, Peter Mayfield and Bill Price. All three were really nice guys as well.
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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May 13, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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Was climbing yesterday at Chapel wall, looked up and saw this climb.
Checked the book - found that it is Bill Price's Cosmic Debris.
Make the search who is Bill Price - and found this great tread.
Bump for climbing
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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May 26, 2015 - 08:01pm PT
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From Mountain Project
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 26, 2015 - 09:08pm PT
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Man, I wish we had more threads like this going on. Awesome history, photos, and stories. This is what climbing and this website should be all about.
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dhayan
climber
los angeles, ca
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May 27, 2015 - 07:32am PT
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^^^ My thoughts exactly - I'm amazed at how many awesome classic climbing threads there are floating around on supertopo, but I'd never see them unless they are on the first page.
Bump!
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hashbro
Trad climber
Mental Physics........
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May 27, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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I clearly remember when teenagers Bill (Dave, Kurt and Augie) arrived in the Valley from the Santa Clara Valley in 78 and proceeded to blow things apart as they hangdogged (and redpointed) many of the testpieces (Butterballs, Fish Crack, Phoenix, etc, etc, etc) that thwarted the rest of us.
Those boys were unaffected by existing paradigms, and refused to believe they couldn’t do the hardest routes of the time.
The low-key Bill was the king of cool, and he’s probably still climbing hard today.
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