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Dickbob
climber
Colorado
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Jun 15, 2010 - 08:56am PT
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I never met the man. I wish I had.
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Les
Trad climber
Bahston
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Jun 15, 2010 - 01:34pm PT
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Hard to believe it's been a year.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 15, 2010 - 03:00pm PT
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On Saturday Daphne and I climbed Washington Coloum Direct; my first OW 34 yrs ago and the climb that further corrupted a relatively corrupt 19 yr old into a life of adventure. I can't help thinking that the timing of this was a Brutus rumble through the force!
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Jun 15, 2010 - 03:30pm PT
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jaybro, congrats on your offwidth reunion. you make campolindo proud. i think it's cool that doing offwidth will always make us think of brutus. shipoopoi
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 15, 2010 - 04:03pm PT
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Thx, and amen on that last part, Steve!
Ps, you do pretty good by Miramonte, yourself.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Sep 24, 2010 - 02:58pm PT
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Here's an excellent trip report that just popped up on an unrelated google search:
Windhorse
http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/169980/windhorse-first-ascent-lone-pine-peak.html
In the land of the highest, harshest mountains on the planet, humans
have developed a way of tending to spiritual concerns while
concentrating their time and efforts on more immediate matters like
survival. From porches, housebeams, trees, and from rough rock cairns on
the highest mountain passes, they string prayer flags. The Windhorse, a
mystical creature, carries prayers from the flags to the heavens on the
wings of the wind. Ubiquitous in the Himalayas, prayer flags are seldom
seen in the West. Thus were my partners and I surprised and pleased this
summer when approaching Stonehouse in the southern Sierra of California,
to see tattered prayer flags fluttering in the ever-present breeze.
South Face Lone Pine Peak: Brutus approaching the big roof on the 8th pitch during the first ascent of Windhorse.
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HighTraverse
Social climber
Bay Area
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Nov 27, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
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Climbed the Flatiron in the Pinnacles on Turkey Day.
Only about 10 ascents since April 2009. When it was climbed by Brutus of Wyde.
I never met Brutus but know a few who climbed with him. Spent a moment or two in silence. Thinking of Brutus, Em and his friends.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Hey, wanna go climbing?
Brutus wouldn't want me going on about the date in particular, but getting some climbing done, now that's Brutus style.
i think there is a cam that needs to be recovered, or possibly some 'spring' skiing. hrm weather is looking good.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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no way ding, that snow ain't gunna stick up thar. That thing was bone dry all the way up and down, except for a patch up high. (i call it a cheat-snow)
:)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Did 108 open? I'm still a wee bit to the east
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 7, 2011 - 06:48pm PT
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I think of Brutus whenever this one plays....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aqS6UN6WlI
'In Your Eyes' - Peter Gabriel
love.... I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes
love, I don't like to see so much pain
so much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive
and all my instincts, they return
and the grand facade, so soon will burn
without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
in your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
in your eyes in your eyes
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jun 10, 2011 - 03:03am PT
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not yet dingus, but upstream was the idea.
wanna head into the canyon? you know the spot I like.
should be great weather
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silentone
Mountain climber
wisconsin
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Jun 11, 2011 - 05:47am PT
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Bump
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jun 11, 2011 - 12:52pm PT
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Good on Ya!
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Les
Trad climber
Bahston
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Heading out to the Winds in a few weeks to do some climbing, including the Northeast Face of Pingora, and of course came across one of those classic Brutus of Wyde route topos for the route (from naclassics.com). Thanks, Bruce. Your spirit lives on.
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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From 2007.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Jun 11, 2012 - 03:58am PT
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I have been thinking of Brutus lately. It's about that time.
Every climbing weekend is a gift.
Thanks Brutus.
Btw, Brutus, I think I found another Spire to climb. The thing will probably teeter over and I'll surf it down to the river. Should be fun!
lol
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Fishy
climber
Zurich, Switzerland
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Jun 11, 2012 - 05:31am PT
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Thats me sitting beside Brutus in the Facelift pic above - was glad to meet him. He had a great presence, and left a lasting impression. I never got to climb with him - but he still sticks in my memory.
Fishy.
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