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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Jul 13, 2018 - 05:08am PT
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Almost can join the roster but I still have a few years to go.
You are right Jim. New pastures and vistas are the key to staying motivated. How people can climb the same routes over and over is beyond me.
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jul 13, 2018 - 05:56am PT
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^^ To each his own.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jul 13, 2018 - 09:35am PT
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Mebbee RGold, JoGill, and I should have a "60 Years of climbing "elite group?" I should add Bob Culp (Bobert) to this list, too.
This is for Piton Pete:
Oops! Forgot 11worth (Jim Phillips).
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jul 13, 2018 - 10:26am PT
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Hmmm...I don't seem to have much in the way of current climbing photos to prove to PPP I'm not posting exclusively from my sofa.
Here's one from nearly a year ago, the Open Book on Disappointment Peak, Tetons.
Oh, and here's another one, also about a year old, by SuperT's own Audrey Todd.
For a sense of (sigh) the passage of time, here are two shots of me and Dick Dumais taken 37 years apart
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jul 13, 2018 - 01:18pm PT
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^^^^^^^ @ Andy Cairns (MH2)
Wow, Andy!!! Thanks for the glowing endorsement above. It is always gratifying to be acknowledged by someone with your experience, wide ranging accomplishments and overall 'gravitas'. I am humbled.
Please accept my apologies for not commenting earlier on your post #14, on the first page, where we are treated to a photo of your recent unnamed climb on Mt. Maxwell. May I presume a little, and suggest a name? It is such a beauty that only "Miss Universe" could do it justice. And that rock (marked with an X) which fell off? What a surprise! It looks so bomber. I would love to repeat such a gem of a route. Too bad it is a three day drive each way.
Your photo on this page is fantastic, and illustrates how the most banal view of a bug and some fingers can become so much more in the eyes of a master photographer such as yourself. The quote was so profound, I was almost moved to tears. Ah yes, life is fleeting indeed.
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okay, whatever
climber
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Jul 13, 2018 - 01:35pm PT
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Where is Dick Dumais these days? I remember him from his days at Komito's in Estes Park (and maybe even back when Steve had his Boulder shop, before he moved to Estes Park... 1970 and before, or so???), Neptune's in Boulder, and also as a "character", shall we say, in the 1980's when I lived in Boulder.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 13, 2018 - 01:47pm PT
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Dumais is living the good life in Jackson Hole. He has a longtime sweetheart and ample funds to pursue his main obsession...golf.
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Roadie
Trad climber
moab UT
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Jul 13, 2018 - 02:45pm PT
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My mom just told me I ditched the family for an hour on our vacation to The Black Hills and climbed a fifty foot chimney. They were mad cuz they thought I'd been eaten by a bear or abducted by Indians. Then they saw me topping out and were really pissed. I was eight then, it was august so in another few weeks I guess I'll be there.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jul 13, 2018 - 04:58pm PT
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Uh, oh. Discombobulated.
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Kligfield
Mountain climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 13, 2018 - 08:29pm PT
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For my first roped climb: Willy's slide ice climbing in winter 1965 with Dave Seidman and other from Dartmouth Outing Club.
For my first roped rock climb it was the Betty (5.2 in the Shawangunks) Spring 1966.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 14, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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How long have you been a YOYO?
this Gnome gnows & has seen more than a few summers pass.
I've been jumping up & down since '66-'67, when, at Temple, I would not sit through services. Hammond Pond. The rock was across from the parking lot, like a playground, it called out to me or to my Austrian dad.
Rock climbing; a call to the mountains is a well documented thing,
For many, a thing from youth,
often, necessarily, thrown over as the search for life's paths leads down city streets. For some, it seems, at 1st only skin deep.
When looked at from such a lofty perch as is this 50 yrs?
CLIMBING
There is no greater foil, no match to it.
As a metaphor , as life it self.
It is a source of rejuvenation !
I was lucky to have had 2 solid decades of year round near daily climbing too,
For me, More Than Skin Deep
dang though:
)I wish my Toes didn't hurt(
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johnr9q
Sport climber
Sacramento, Ca
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Jul 14, 2018 - 08:01pm PT
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I didn't get seriously into climbing until I was 45 and that was 29 years ago but I do have a home movie of me roped up and climbing when I was 17 so that would be 56 years ago so I (sort of) qualify.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Jul 15, 2018 - 06:46am PT
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First tied in with a bowlin on a coil and gold line rope 1965 at Stony Point. Been climbing every season since.
Yours truly on my 67th birthday last Friday the 13th
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 15, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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Emulate those stones and gather no moss.
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Jul 15, 2018 - 08:25am PT
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I started with the Sierra Club RCS in 1968, on Little Table Mountain, north of Fresno, in the company of Rich Calderwood, Chris Denny, Burke Zane, and others, whose names I don't recall.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Jul 15, 2018 - 09:43am PT
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Next year
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jul 24, 2018 - 03:09pm PT
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Anyone know these folks?
* Apologies to Mr. Edwards if I overstepped.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 24, 2018 - 03:32pm PT
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the conns, jan and herb. the subterraneans on the left
i guess i'm in ... call the RCS '67 checkout as my formal start with the loma prieta chapter at castle rock.
my intro to an overhanging dulfersitz under the guidance of my 8th grade cohorts was few years earlier,
spelunkers though they were (sorta)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jul 25, 2018 - 02:43am PT
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Devils lake Wisc, fall’ 63. Had bouldered / scrambled on some of the Jenny lake boulders in July or August
Age 8
Autonomous collective?
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Jul 25, 2018 - 08:36am PT
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For some reason I'm just seeing this thread--though the fact that I had cataract surgery--one sign of ageing--the day it was posted is my excuse.
My first climbs were top ropes with some high school friends on Breakneck Ridge above the Hudson River in NY in the spring of '63, though I had many years of hiking, mostly in the White Mountains, but also including Mt. Whitney, before that--and was already an avid 'armchair mountaineer' (as I still am). I started climbing seriously that fall at Devil's Lake with the Wisconsin Hoofer Mountaineers at the start of my freshman year in Madison--still remember having an epic on Wiessner's that day.
I haven't stopped since, with my most recent climbing a gym session last night and a trip to one of my local crags last Sat.--funny climbing with 2 'different eyes'. As for new horizons, not quite the same as Jim going to the Karakoram, but I'm hoping to travel out to California to climb with Mongrel at Shuteye in September.
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