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Hardly Visible
climber
Port Angeles
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Absolutely incredible!
Best stories to show up here in quite a while.
I'd read any that you got.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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A surfeit of riches...
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dipper
climber
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Bump,
This is what we are after around here!
Thanks Don for these pearls from the past.
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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Don,
Incredible writing. Please continue.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
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Dang
Thanks
That's pretty much all I've got to say
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adam d
climber
CA
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Keep 'em coming...these are pure gold.
More Gunks vintage stories in your head?
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Thanks Don!
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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What a treat.
Absolutely superb, mind blowing.
Thanks so much, and its much appreciated.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Hey Don, I'm not up on my Yose Legends trivia and I was a bit curious. What do you do these days and where do you live? Hope you don't mind my prying.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 4, 2008 - 05:33am PT
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Longer story!
I'm retired. Live in Bishop. Am the life behind the Bardini Foundation.
Need more details? See www.bardini.org and study the newsletter archives.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Excellent!
Just read DR's musings on the Bardini Ridge or arete or something this summer...your friend must have been an inspiring guy. We should all be so lucky as to have devoted friends to keep our spirits alive in the world.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
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"Last time I saw ol' Beckey he was in a bar nearby - The Fringe - and he was lookin' down some girls shirt."
hahaha Sounds like Fred - You know Fred's gettin' old tho, when a topless girl can't entice him up a couple hundred more feet of El Cap! Can't say we didn't try, with the proper motivation! :)
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Here's a nice picture of Alan Bard & Walter Rosenthal,
by Tom Carter:
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jbar
Mountain climber
Inside my head
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Nov 15, 2008 - 08:45pm PT
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Been reading through most of the Lauria posts. The imagery in the story about the base jumpers really caught me. After reading the first paragraph I had to quit and come back. Comtemplating myself sitting on that ledge and watching what I thought might be two climbers falling was too much.
Don, put this stuff in a book! I'd buy it. These are awesome recollections, campfire stories, etc. I hate to think these stories may be lost in generations to come.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Nov 16, 2008 - 08:44pm PT
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WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
What a great thread.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2008 - 06:06pm PT
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McNutt on Guano Ledge, Leaning Tower 1970
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2008 - 01:44pm PT
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bump for Kimber
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There is No Other Me
Social climber
Reno NV
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Nov 22, 2008 - 07:29pm PT
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Back in the 1960s, Don's wife, Anna, confided in me that Don (the Engineer) insisted that she make every hamburger patty exactly round, with nary a bulge nor crack anywhere on its outside edge. She found this sculpting rather time-consuming. I found it downright weird, because hamburger was not a food item ever allowed in my parents' house. (Of course, Anna could have been lying, but why would she?)
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 22, 2008 - 07:37pm PT
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Excellent domestic anecdote!
Continue please... more snacks and tidbits.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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Okay, I don't know which Cohen to blame, but I know it was one of you. I never insisted that Anna make them that way, I only put that chore on myself - it guaranteed even cooking on the grill. At least that's my excuse.
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