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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Mar 25, 2008 - 03:16am PT
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Happy Birthday, Spiderman!
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Mar 25, 2008 - 11:39am PT
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Bert-day salutations from one of the Montucky gang.
Drive for show, putt for dough.
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Mar 25, 2008 - 11:59am PT
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Thanks for ongoing inspiration, John.
You leave me shaking in my shoes.
Uh...in your shoes?
Love and respect,
Doug
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Mar 25, 2008 - 04:44pm PT
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Happy Bday Jack! Funk on!
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
Meyers,CA
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Mar 25, 2008 - 04:51pm PT
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Happy Birthday Bachar!
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Bachar was born in 1957. He grew up in Los Angeles, California and started climbing at Stoney Point. He attended UCLA where his father was a math professor, but dropped out to climb full time. Obsessed with the sport, Bachar immersed himself in books on physical training and nutrition, and soon was able to outperform his fellow climbers.
John Long, whom Bachar met in the early 1970s, shared his interest in physical training and convinced Bachar to try free soloing, starting with the classic Joshua Tree route Double Cross (5.7). Bachar also put up notorious bouldering problems in Joshua Tree such as Planet X (V6) and So High (V5). The committing crux move of the latter problem is 25 feet off the ground[1].
Bachar made a name for himself in Yosemite with his unroped ascents of New Dimensions (5.11a) and The Nabisco Wall, a three-pitch affair (Waverly Wafer (5.10c), Butterballs (5.11c), Butterfingers (5.11a))[2]. Bachar's superb physical fitness gave him an edge; his campsite at Camp 4 was filled with exercise equipment, including the hanging ladders that became known as Bachar ladders. At his peak Bachar was able to perform a one arm pull up with 12.5 lbs of weight attached.[3]
Confident of his free soloing ability, Bachar posted a note in 1981 promising a "$10,000 reward for anyone who can follow me for one full day." No one took the challenge. That same year he put up Bachar-Yerian (5.11a) in Tuolumne Meadows with Dave Yerian. One of the boldest first ascents ever, the 500 foot face climb is protected by a mere 13 bolts, each one placed while tenuously hanging from a hook. Bachar was a vocal critic of climbing tactics such as bolting on rappel which came into vogue during the 1980s.
In 1986 Bachar and Peter Croft made an link up of El Capitan and Half Dome, climbing a vertical mile in under 14 hours.[4] In the 1990s Bachar free soloed Enterprise (5.12b) in the Owens River Gorge and The Gift (5.12c) at Red Rocks for the Masters of Stone video series. He was featured in the documentary Bachar: One Man, One Myth, One Legend (2005) by Michael Reardon.
Bachar lives in Mammoth Lakes, California and is Director of Design of Acopa International LLC, a company which manufactures rock climbing shoes.
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We all know this, it was just nice to find this on wikipedia. You're a star, John! Party like it's 1999! Yesterday...
Happy Birthday Dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmIN8RNBUg
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Mar 25, 2008 - 05:21pm PT
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Feliz ano, dood.
JL
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bachar
Gym climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Mar 25, 2008 - 07:12pm PT
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Thanks again everybody!
Largo, let's hook up for a Half Dome day at Josh again... heh heh
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Mar 26, 2008 - 01:06am PT
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Hey John,
Name's Doug and a I hail from Tennessee. I regret not having the opportunity to meet you thus far. You are indeed an inspiration.
Happy Birthday Bro,
Doug
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Mar 26, 2008 - 01:47pm PT
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Belated Birthday Wishes John:
First Lead of Acid Crack
Clean & Jerk
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2008 - 04:46pm PT
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Bump because it never hurts to get a Birthday thread up to at least sixty post...
Smiles,
Anastasia
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Mar 26, 2008 - 06:11pm PT
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Belated happy bd. Remember, you're only one day older than you were yesterday.
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Mar 26, 2008 - 06:40pm PT
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happy belated birthday !
it was an honor to meet you at the OR show this year. hope you are healing from that nasty pull dude - that has to hurt...
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lucho
Gym climber
San Franpsycho
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Mar 26, 2008 - 07:09pm PT
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Happy Birthday John! Hope all is well with you. Lookin forward to seeing you in the Meadows again this season. Take Care Man.
Lucho
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Loomis
climber
Lat/Lon: 35.64 -117.66
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Mar 26, 2008 - 07:10pm PT
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A little late, but Happy Birthday John!
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jgill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 31, 2008 - 11:18pm PT
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Happy birthday, John! You are the best.
John
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sawin
climber
Orange, CA.
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I think there is Spider and Spiderline documentation missing.
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!