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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Aug 24, 2009 - 03:56am PT
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go get yer check ups ya'll, Curt wanted awareness raised.
RIP
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 24, 2009 - 04:21am PT
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hey there curt, say, i am sorry to be late here for leaving a blessing---but i did post-up fast on the other thread... (then i was off line for awhile)...
first, my deep condolences to your family and loved one, and my prayers that they will have memories to cherish, that will ease all future pain of missing you...
now, may the newness of god's eternity, continually be more and more as special--as the promise says it will...
god bless, and thanks for sharing your life with all of us at supertopo, you've been a nice brother to all...
and yes, the lord takes the pain, see...
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redrocker
climber
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Aug 24, 2009 - 06:54am PT
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justthemaid,
Thanks for the link to the video. One man with an acoustic guitar is a favorite form of music for me and that was as beautiful as anything I've ever seen and heard.
Condolences to all who knew and loved him.
RIP Dirt.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Aug 24, 2009 - 07:29am PT
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Some of the compositions Curt posted on the internet were his own creations.
He was a composer as well as a extremely skilled guitar player.
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Jim E
climber
away
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Aug 24, 2009 - 07:52am PT
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Rest in peace, Curt.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Aug 24, 2009 - 08:15am PT
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I always thought the "rest in peace" thing was sort of a pat response; when there weren't words, you at least had those to say. But for Curt, I truly can wish him to rest. In peace.
He railed til nearly the last of his STopo postings; he did not "go gently into the night" as that poem goes, though his very last posts were not filled with the humourous awfulness he had seemed to enjoy so much to wield. I won't pretend to know what he thought, felt or wanted to say.
He loved words, and I think that, more than that I was a new to the scene climber(and female), was probably the common thread between him and me.
His family has a big loss now to grieve, and it has been such a long travel on the path.
I have some photos to share. And though I did not have an amicable time with Dirtineye for much of the last while, I hope nobody will be upset that I share them.
On a trip to Joshua Tree that he so didn't want to go on. The one thing he did seem to enjoy was the many various plants that were in bloom during that spring(2005).
He took this photo on that trip, using my camera.
He loved plants - EXCEPT Poison Ivy. Here he is pulling down some that he had "Round Up"'d the year previous, on a new route he was working on when I knew him. I belayed him for like 10 hours each day over several days, on two separate trips, while he worked that route, which he finished (I believe) with Shannon Stegg in fall, 2005, and called it Soup Pillow. He called it that because we had cooked a pot of bean soup and had some left over. I had put it in a big ziplock bag for the cooler and it was still warm. I said something about the air-filled warm bag being "like a soup pillow." But maybe he renamed the route.
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Short4Bob
Trad climber
Morgantown, WV
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Aug 24, 2009 - 08:48am PT
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Rest easy, man. You were stubborn as hell and just as giving. The hard part's over now.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Aug 24, 2009 - 08:53am PT
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RIP.
climb and play on...
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RRK
Trad climber
Talladega, Al
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:02am PT
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Thanks Skip- and Happie (and of course Jennie) post some more climbing shots if you can. Looking down the line at all that gear with the yellow mark is bittersweet - I've got 1 piece of it - a yellow tcu that once was Shannons but which Curt marked over. It stays in the console of my climbing truck - though the karma is undoubtedly superb it is too valuable to risk loss.
RRK
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:25am PT
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Rest in peace, Curt.
My condolences to his family and friends.
Jennie--was the photo with the trumpeters at Red Rock Lakes
NWR? Gorgeous!
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
Arkansas, I suppose
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:32am PT
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Dang.
RIP Curt
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:40am PT
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One of the true Supertopo characters. Life's not fair. Condolences to family and friends.
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:43am PT
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Giving my thoughts to his family and friends.
Guy.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:54am PT
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It's been a tough story even watching his life unfold from a distance.
My best to Curt's family and good friends.
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RRK
Trad climber
Talladega, Al
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Aug 24, 2009 - 09:54am PT
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I'll try to do a little photo tribute but am hampered by quite a lot of things so they'll come in slowly over the next few days as I locate them and find a way to post them up. Here's Curt on a 1 pitch route in Alabama (circa 2004) with catch by Scott Perkins. Look at all the gear hanging on him then remember "the fine art of screwing the second".
RRK
ps any pics are appreciated and I am saving all that are posted
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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Aug 24, 2009 - 10:02am PT
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Nice Nita,
RIP Dirt.
Peace, love, and support to all his family and friends.
Thanks for sharing yourself with us.
Farewell.
Chris
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Aug 24, 2009 - 10:03am PT
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My condolences to his family and friends.
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2009 - 10:06am PT
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Funny... I'm finding that Curt was always the one holding the camera, so I don't actually have many pictures of him.
I posted this in the "Best Wishes", but I'll re-link it here.
This is an amusing trip report of a trip we took with RRK and Shannon Steg up to Laurel Knob south Carolina. It ended up being the last two days Curt ever climbed.
What I really down-played in the report was how really REALLY sick he was. Every step of those hikes was torture, and they weren't nice easy hiking trails. Curt, literally, could only walk about 50 feet at a time before he needed to sit down and rest. I'd never witnessed such raw determination in my whole life. He wanted to see Laurel Knob. It ended up being an incredibly important experience for him
At the end of that weekend he was totally psyched. Talked about coming back again "when he was better". I knew with total certainty that Pantertown Knobs was the last climb he would ever do.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=724731
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RRK
Trad climber
Talladega, Al
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Aug 24, 2009 - 10:06am PT
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here's a staged shot lowering off a climb at Palisades, Al. circa 2003 with a "how to rock climb" book clenched in his teeth. (For those who were asking at the time, this was how to keep Curt quiet.) I couldn't get the cover to show up in the pic and it was interfering with having fun so we just canned it. Boy he really loved those big tricams
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Aug 24, 2009 - 10:16am PT
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Sad...I'll miss him around here.
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