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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jul 12, 2007 - 09:16am PT
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Jello wrote; This thread is an example of that. Collectively and individually you've filled my fuel tanks to the top. I hope I can do something similar for all of you, someday.
You already have many times!
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jul 12, 2007 - 01:35pm PT
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Sung to the Doobie Brothers Jesus is Just Alright
Jello is just alright with me, jello is just alright, oh yeah
Jello is just alright with me, jello is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jello is just alright, oh yeah
Jello is just alright
Jello is just alright with me, jello is just alright, oh yeahhhhh!!!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 12, 2007 - 01:49pm PT
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hahahaha.
Good one Goatster.
We love ya El Jeffe.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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Jul 12, 2007 - 05:02pm PT
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they call him mello jello...
keep up the werk.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 13, 2007 - 12:21am PT
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Jeff,
before I take your picture could I get you to take the tiara off?
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jul 13, 2007 - 04:46am PT
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That can't be Jello. Last I was with him, he had perfect teeth. Nor is he that old. He looks as young as ever, but for the canes. Why are so many people saying so many nice things about him and never rake him over the coals, the way they do me? Makes me want to solo the Eiger. Even my friend Kim Miller comes to the thread, with good words, but says nothing on my thread. I'm jellous.
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scuffy b
climber
Bates Creek
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Jul 13, 2007 - 11:27am PT
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It's a picture of his camera bags, Pat. The model is Mr.
Cosmic.
Apparently part of your Karma involves being a target.
You react, so there is always somebody willing to toss a barb
your way and see what happens. Raked over the coals may be
putting things a bit strongly (of course, I'm not the one being
raked).
Toss barbs at Jello, and what happens? They are absorbed, force
is dissipated, they lose their sting. The futility of the act is
recognized
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reddirt
climber
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Jul 13, 2007 - 11:32am PT
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ok c'mon Ouch! & Co, do yer thing:
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Jul 13, 2007 - 11:36am PT
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Throw a hook into jello and it just comes back at ya when ya reel it in.
Now just for kicks though, this is strange, try it yourself. Google pics for Jeff Lowe and this is number 1.
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Jul 13, 2007 - 11:38am PT
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This is number 2, which may be expected, but that first one? sheesh.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 13, 2007 - 12:16pm PT
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Ouch is in rehab.
And those aren't CANES. They're just really long nut tools.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 13, 2007 - 12:52pm PT
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Not that kind of rehab.
He made racist comments about bear 46.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jul 13, 2007 - 05:22pm PT
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Why would I not respond to you, cosmic crag? I'm not that mean, really. I'm friendly. I'll respond to anyone who has anything basically intelligent to say. I only would cut out that projectile vomit, you know, that feeling of being the priest in the Exorcist and suddenly the face is full of pea soup? To censure something, "it" has to be "something," and those posts are "nothing."
Thanks for the compliment about chess. I have not played for a while. My last tournament, I won the Fruita championship (not an impressive achievement), and before that -- in two other tournaments in Fort Collins and Boulder -- I beat five experts and a master (or was it two? I can' remember), tying for second both times (I goofed and got two draws, which allowed a senior master to place first). But I've mostly given it up and can't remember how the pieces move. Royal has never beaten me, and he's still mad at me about it. He once was a move from mating me, but he didn't see I had a secret mate that came first. I hated to do it to him, but he's won many times at his own kind of chess as that leering psychological figure of Yosemite. I am a rank beginner compared to Alekhine.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jul 13, 2007 - 05:36pm PT
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I gotta admit, Jello is one of my heroes too. And one with personality, obviously. I'm hoping you'll make the first Vedauwoo bugaloo.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jul 13, 2007 - 07:02pm PT
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That poem was written by my chess teacher, the Russian Eugene Salome and published in my book High Over Boulder (I think, or maybe one of my other books). But not to get away from Jeff Lowe, our friend. I'm doing what I don't like others to do. Sorry, Jeff. Sometimes the conversation strays... Youarrda man.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Jul 13, 2007 - 07:34pm PT
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Indeed Jeff is the man!
One of the greatest people I have ever met in my time, no doubt! Plus he hauled my newbie butt around for a while in Eldo and sh#t (thanks!)
Hey Jeff - see ya' at the OR? (if you're going)....
Cheers bro! John
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jul 14, 2007 - 12:57am PT
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I shook his hand at a trade show in Seattle in the early 80's when he was pimping his Latok brand. I didn't wash my hand for a week. I was grateful that he worked a wholesale deal with dodgy Scumbag Mountaineering business. I still use some of that gear I bought for "resale."
To tell the truth, it warms the cockles of my heart (that's the ventricles you perverts) to see him here telling stories and shooting the sh#t. It almost makes one believe he puts his pants on one leg at a time. Almost.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Jul 14, 2007 - 02:23pm PT
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Jeff is human. That's what I like about him. He's flawed, as the rest of us. He's fallen on his face on occasion, blurted some stupidity now and then, as the rest of us. He has made his mistakes, still fights on, however, picks himself up, still dreaming up new schemes, still alive and energized by a spirit blessed with youthful drive. I love the story of his father taking him and brother Greg climbing, rambling the Tetons in youngest days. I hope somehow I can have such a positive effect on my own two daughters, that they will be able to realize their lives a little better by virtue of some light I brought or showed them. And while we say Jeff "is-da-man," well his brother Greg is equally so, a genuinely humble guy with more raw natural ability on rock than the world ever was quite ready for... Greg was one of my personal heroes. That rich Lowe blood.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Jul 14, 2007 - 03:06pm PT
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I'm really lucky to have tyhe respect and friendship of so many great folks. Off White, you go a little too far, though, not washing that hand for a week. You could've caught some Jellatinous wasting disease from me. And JB, the little climbing we did together was a wonderful schooling for me in the finer points of free climbing. Jim Dunn told me you were the best, and you demonstrated the truth of it. See you at OR. EEyonkee, I'll be at the first weekend Boogaloo. Look forward to meeting you there.
Oli's last post has it right. I'm definitely human, can't be too impressed with myself because of all those skeletons that rattle everytime I open the closet. Best to close that door very quick-like...
I can't help but think about Michael Reardon right now, a great
new friend with so much life and spirit. A unique personality that promisses so much for our little community of misfits. I hope like hell we haven't lost him to the rough Irish sea.
When you read this, imagine that Michael's back with us, posting his latest wild TR right here on the Taco. Let's welcome him with open arms.
_Jeff
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