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LOWERme
Trad climber
Santa Fe N.M.
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Feb 26, 2006 - 03:31pm PT
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Spent some time hanging around the "Stone House" on the eastside in the 80s. You could still smell the Red Mountain!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 26, 2006 - 06:41pm PT
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Wow, the Stone House at the base of Lone Pine Peak would be a great place for a glass of wine.
I was at a decent party at Kyle Copeland's little downtown spread-Moab '91. Harding was doing a great job holding the attention of the best looking blond woman at the party; galloping along about his lust for Life, Sports Cars, Climbing and so forth.
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Dusty
Trad climber
up & down highway 99
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Feb 27, 2006 - 05:37am PT
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Most impressive, Fet. But why would Robbins and Chouinard sign a book that spends many of its pages flaming them?
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the Fet
Trad climber
Loomis, CA
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Feb 27, 2006 - 03:03pm PT
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"But why would Robbins and Chouinard sign a book that spends many of its pages flaming them?"
Because I asked them to ;-)
They both have a great deal of respect for Warren. I think they all came to realize you can't dictate your style to everyone.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 27, 2006 - 03:11pm PT
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It's respect for the person my friends. They respected Warren the man.
One need not respect the style, only the person.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 27, 2006 - 05:17pm PT
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Werner,
it would appear that for far too many climbers the concept is difficult embrace in practical terms.
Ron
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 27, 2006 - 08:35pm PT
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Piton; simple,interesting,someday hopefully usefull point.
'Could have something there.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Feb 27, 2006 - 09:21pm PT
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yeah, if you ever met Mr. Harding only once you will remember him the rest of life! My wife still loves to remember the nite "that little guy who invited us over to his van to drink more wine @ 2am".
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Weenis
Trad climber
Tel Aviv
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Feb 28, 2006 - 01:18am PT
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When I was fifteen and climbing @ Devil's Lake the world seemed huge. I searched for books on climbing. I found a copy of Downward Bound @ my high school. Only book so I read and reread it. Thinking this is the way, I pursued it. A few years later I met Warren and told him about his influence and now my convictions. Man, did he laugh, laugh and try and convince me to go on some wild FA because he knew I loved wide cracks and only weighed 120 lbs.
It's cool to have a copy of Downward Bound signed by Warren and Beryl Knauth... Kinda like tears in the rain.
Thank you Warren, thank you for your successes.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 28, 2006 - 01:22am PT
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Weenis,
Sounds like you might know fell DL alum Jeff Vogtschaller, is that the case?
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"Place thy protection well lest the ground rise up and smite thee..."
 Devil's Lake Trial and Error School of Rock Climbing
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 28, 2006 - 10:36am PT
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Weenis:
"someday all those memories will be lost, like tears, in the rain"
Roy Batty(sp): Rutger Hauer "Replicant" character in "Blade Runner" flick w/Harrison Ford.
'One of my all time favorite gooey but sincere and cool lines.
The Book:Philip K Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
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Weenis
Trad climber
Tel Aviv
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Feb 28, 2006 - 12:30pm PT
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Hey Healyje,
I knocked around the Lake in '77 and soon went to the Valley. I don't know Jeff Vogtschaller but I can appreciate his quote. The common term for "grounding" at the time was to "quartz".
"Tears in the rain"... pretty cool quote...
And perhaps one day soon androids will dream of electric sheep.
But now let's get back to Warren.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 28, 2006 - 12:34pm PT
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Maybe. But not the way Vulgarians dream of virgin wool.
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WBraun
climber
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Well we all lived together one winter with old Warren in C4, he was old and beat at that point in time. I never talked about climbing with him, I just listened to him. I knew his days were numbered.
I saw him very much as just another human being we all are. We just sorta hung out and were cool.
He passed away a few years later, it was no surprise.
Beneath the fragrant tall cedar trees in the shadows of the great granite walls, the eb and flow of life and death .......
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 16, 2010 - 11:46am PT
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I go with the Batso Flow...
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Sep 25, 2010 - 12:22am PT
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I knew Warren from about 80' till his passing ( and he usually didn't recognize me for about 43 minutes) and anyone that new him, respected him. Forget the grand stories of wine and women, when Warren set his mind to a project, it was in the bag.I have stories of WH's glorious last years {that should go untold ,except around the campfire). He gave us our climbing history, whether he was making it or fighting against it, I respect Mr. Harding for everything he was.
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BooYah
Social climber
Ely, Nv
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Sep 25, 2010 - 12:26am PT
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Damn good post, Mr. Miller. Warren was a lot of things, but if he was on it, it was gonna get done. One way or another. Everyone should know someone like that.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Sep 25, 2010 - 12:47am PT
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I hope that when I go that I will end up where Batso is right now so I can join him in "gittin er done".
I wonder sometimes why life just keeps pushing on head of us, just leaving so many of us behind.
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