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Lionheart
Trad climber
Brier, Wa.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2010 - 02:35am PT
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Mastadon,
Steve Ansell shots...wow. Al Givler and Jim Langdon took Steve & I on our first rock climbs. Showed us their pitons, web harnesses. Included some FAs in the Enchantments. He was 12, and I was 14. We climbed the next several months together and then I never saw him again. Thought he quit that first season--Never thought I'd see him immortalized on a climbing site. And now you show him with a beard! He must've been avoiding me...or matured awfully fast. Priceless!
Hey..."RIP" Dave Anderson? No s***! What happened?
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 03:14am PT
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Don L,
Dave Anderson died in January 1998 (age 43). He was injured in a small avalanche near Salt Lake City (broke both legs and hip), but was evacuated OK to the road. A helicopter was then to transport him to the hospital, but it crashed shortly after takeoff, killing Dave and 3 rescuers.
http://www.avalanche-center.org/Incidents/1997-98/19980111a-Utah.php
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Lionheart
Trad climber
Brier, Wa.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2010 - 05:46am PT
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Thanx Clint; So, of the mid-70's Doorish Climber's House, Dave Anderson and Catherine Freer cut-out w/honors, I chickened souped, and Pete is starting to rack as many FAs as Becky....All that's left is Cal Folsom--what's he doin? -Anybody?
And about Anderson--what a loss. His positive outlook stood out as much as his climbing ability. Dang!
And how about the Greenwood House (Carlsted, Antarctica Kieth, et. al.)?
The Seattle core was tight back then.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 11:53am PT
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I was going to CWU in E-burg back in 1977-82 and went out with the climbing club a few times. Fred Stanley was a prof and headed the group and I was amazed to watch him lead Washboard(10d) on Grand Central Tower at Peshastin in mountain boots. Mild mannered professor was bad ass climber.
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mazamarick
Trad climber
WA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 11:53am PT
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Don,
You need to make it to the WA climber's picnic at lower Woodland more often, your questions would be answered.
Attendees last year:
Dalby, Harniss, Langdon, Marts, Gonzalez, Carlstad, Davis, Hansen, Firey/McCarthy, Joe Firey, Harder, Swedin, Daley's, Heath/Daiber, Hyatt, Cruver, Brugger, Tarver, Silva and several others my ailing memory can't recall.
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mastadon
Trad climber
quaking has-been
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Feb 28, 2010 - 12:22pm PT
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OK, Mr Leonard. You need to get with the program. Most of the people we used to associate with are still around. You’re the one that disappeared. I’ve got dozens of slides of our winter attempt of Thin Red Line. Since scanning and posting takes a fekkin’ lot of time, so you won’t see them for a while.
Time to hit the wayback machine. Some of these pictures are re-posts and they’re not all L-Worth but they’re all Washingtonians or ex-Tonians.
Donn Heller Liberty Bell 1971. I’ll keep your spirit alive, brother.
Tom Kuehn El Cap ’74 or so. I wonder where Tom is now??
Timson, bus stop outside the Ahwahnee, early spring ’74 or so. Can you tell what book he’s reading
Gary Palmer (of the Demented Household fame), L-Worth ’76. He actually had hair then….
Steve Ansell outside Roosevelt High school 1970 or so. His parents thought this was the best picture ever taken of him. I’ll be seeing him in a couple weeks. He’s coming to my area for a “bridge tournament” of all things (what sort of place have we come to?)
Cal Folsom, his then-wife, and Dave Anderson at J-tree, mid ‘80’s
Russel Erickson Squamish mid 80’s
Dave Davis, Town Wall mid 80’s
Rick LeDuc, Tuolumne 1980
Anne Tarver, Tuolumne 1980
Lenny Peoples, sun worshipper, Midnight Rock 1977
"Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them" Rose Kennedy.
Ron Burgner on our ill-fated winter Liberty Bell trip with Nephew’s dogs Zipper and Yoey and, I think, Don Leonard’s head in the background, 1973
A picture is worth a thousand words. What a bunch of low-life losers. From right to left: Kit Lewis, Rob Harris, Lenny Peoples, and me, Squamish 1977
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Chief
climber
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Feb 28, 2010 - 12:30pm PT
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Holy stabs from the past Batman.
Thanks for the photos!
What about Donini's plans for first weekend in June?
I probably won't be able to climb, but I'll be able to curl a pint, hold a rope or point in a nostalgic and maudlin fashion.
Edit;
Jim says pints and war stories at Gustav's, 20:00 Saturday, June 5.
Perry
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 12:35pm PT
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Didn't Russel Erickson use to hang out at the UW climbing rock summer evenings? He spoke in kind of a quiet voice, like "hey, how you doing? Yeah,yeah I can send that.."
Kit Lewis used to hang with Jim Nelson allot and Quinn Conig. Those guys were a little obnoxious when they had been drinking! I was in Boy Scouts with Jim and he used to make us younger scouts swim swamps and things like that to toughen us up, I didn't think it was that funny at the time.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 01:47pm PT
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I want to know what happened to that fabulous photo of Stanley
doing Angel Crack in his boots which hung at Der Sportsman.
The 'Marc' slide says JUL 75 on it and now I'm wondering if I
took it up at Asgaard Pass. A mind is a terrible thing to
waste away.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 28, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
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Perhaps there should be a get together of all who can remember being served "beer" in Der Sportsmann, in galvanized buckets.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 28, 2010 - 04:14pm PT
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Quin was one of the strangest rangers I've ever met.
Nice enough, but strange. Never woulda tied on with him for money.
He does have a darn nice route in Darrington named for him though.
Y'all ever hear about his 1500' ride down the N Face of Monte Cristo?
Barely fazed him.
Mike Heath as he looked starring in a Wausau Insurance commercial
that aired on 60 Minutes. Filmed at Mt Baker and Castle Rock.
(I know, the white balance sucks)
For those who don't know he founded the Swallow's Nest with Bill Sumner.
For the Cali crowd he is the same who did the Aiguille Extra route.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Feb 28, 2010 - 04:20pm PT
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Not White Balance, "temperature" and "cast"
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Feb 28, 2010 - 09:38pm PT
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Timson - reading Coming Into the Country by McPhee?
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RDB
Social climber
way out there
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Feb 28, 2010 - 10:22pm PT
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First time in Der town was '73.
GCT in th '90s
Liberty Crack in '74
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mastadon
Trad climber
quaking has-been
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Feb 28, 2010 - 11:16pm PT
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Desert Solitaire
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truclimber
Trad climber
Nevada
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This is a really cool thread. Growing up in WA
Knowing how cool the people are up there really makes me miss it.
My first hanging belay on gear was in LWorth. I know that dates me.
Really cool getting to the history of the climbers of where I come from, something that I would have never known if it weren't for this thread.
Makes me proud.
B
I gotta get my butt up there and do some more climbing.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Way cool thread. Maybe some of the gifted Supertopians here could help these guys that took their time to scan all these cool old photos and fix em up a bit. As long as nobody minds?
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Wayno,
Here's a couple of bj's darkest ones
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bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful, BC
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Whats going on in modern day Leavenwirth ? Has it had the same kind of surge in interest that Squamish has seen since the mid 90's ?
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Plumbbob
Mountain climber
Juneau, AK
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What a great thread!
So many people that have posted here that I got to know years ago. In the 1970's I had the good fortune to live in a house on Wilson St. and on weekends many climbers crashed there.
I was part of a group from Wenatchee that started in the Wenatchee High School Alpine club in 1971. Don Young, Brad Rogers, Marth Bean, Lori Fink gave me my introduction to climbing and then we were mentored by older clibers that included Mark Weiglt, and Julie Bruger. They taught us to climb clean and free. We were inspired by the routes that we were told about that had been put up by Mead Hargis and Del Young who hailed from the "East Side".
When I get home to Juneau I will start to post some pictures to this thread and site. I have lots of old pictures from BITD.
The photo of the climber wearing boots on angel crack is hanging in Gordon and Natalie Briodies living room in Leavenworth. Her family owned the place it used to hang.
Bob Plumb
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