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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Oct 14, 2017 - 07:46pm PT
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'nuther bump for the thread that brought me to Super Topo many years ago.
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BBA
Social climber
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Oct 26, 2018 - 05:37pm PT
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Bump for Frank. Oddly enough, in an accidental jog of my memory of Frank, I was just reading "The Greatest Story Ever told - So Far" in which the importance of beam stability was outlined to upping the effectiveness of crashing protons or whatever together at Cern to ultimately find the Higgs boson (The God Particle) - ha, ha. Good job Fearless Frank! If not the proof, we'll settle for the particle.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 26, 2018 - 05:52pm PT
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Thanks BBA for bringing this back to the front for a spell, least we forget.......
You, Footski and I should get together one of these years!
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Frank Sacherer, John Morton, and I had all worked at times for the "Rad Lab," now the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the hill above the UC Berkeley campus. The big accelerator, the Bevatron, was surrounded by concrete blocks to contain the radiation field. We often worked at night. Occasionally we would take a break and boulder on the concrete blocks, which were separated by parallel-sided jam cracks of varying widths from finger cracks to about 4 inches.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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A recent post by Tamara Robbins has settled a question discussed up thread concerning the original name of that famous crack now known as the Sacherer Cracker. I had remembered that John Morton wrote to us in Geneva to tell us about the name and referred to it as the Sacherer Crackerer. Now, from Royal's notebook comes the confirmation of that as the original name.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Nice flashback to the Sacherer Cracker. We had breakfast with Mike Sherrick in Oakdale. I remember when the start was still aid. Chris Fredericks was one who had worked on trying to free it. He would entertain us with a detailed description of the problem, including as I remember, a 'red knob'. I like Crackerer.
The day I climbed it, there was a couple climbing the Mark of Art, a slippery looking thin crack which was an offshoot to the right. The guy leading went right up it. Later I asked where they were from and he said Tucson. This was my first inkling that there might be pretty good climbing there.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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I remember Rowell was best mate with one of Lawrence's sons and they would have these insane keg parties in the Berkeley Hills accessible only by one of Galen's "modified" cars. Apparently they also had special access to the "Rad Lab" and on occasion would raise hell there.
The dad of one of my high school buddies was a security guard at the Lab and we had some interesting night time excursions over the years. When times were simpler and security was relaxed and we were crazy enough to get away with things.
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mountain girl
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 01:04pm PT
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Thank you, Ed.
Very interesting and impressive.
Ingrid
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John Morton
climber
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Nov 12, 2018 - 01:39pm PT
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The 1/2 time scanner jobs at the lab were a climber favorite. You could work anytime day or night, and I could do my week's quota in one Sunday evening.
Here's an off-topic tale from a security guard at the rad lab:
He had been a sergeant in the army in Germany. Elvis was his driver, and one night they were stuck somewhere and had to spend the night with their jeep. The hood was warm, so they slept on it, nested like spoons.
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Hendo1
Trad climber
Toronto
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May 31, 2019 - 04:47am PT
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Bump for one of the most extraordinary threads in the history of the Internet.
I never posted much on this forum over the years (someone else had usually posted what I was going to say anyway) but as a final contribution I'd like to bump the Frank Sacherer thread to near the top of the pages.
It is amazing how Ed Hartouni's modest initial question led to so much being uncovered and to new faces appearing on the forum. The Internet can at times be a real cesspool but this was it at its best, people getting together to fill in blank places on the map.
Happy trails,
David Henderson
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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May 31, 2019 - 11:38am PT
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I have this entire thread downloaded onto my computer including the photographs. Ed Hartouni has mentioned that he is still interested in writing a book about Frank so we can hope that this thread and its many wonderful quotes will contribute to that effort as well.
Again, thanks to Ed for starting it and to all who participated.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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May 31, 2019 - 02:31pm PT
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This thread also led to a memorable get together in Yosemite in spring 2010, to remember Frank.
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