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okay,whatever
Trad climber
Charlottesville, VA
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Feb 10, 2009 - 10:33pm PT
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I realize that this thread is more or less dead after a year, but thought I would post this anyway. A friend of mine asked me recently to recount the story of Coral Bowman's fall on the Naked Edge, and that more or less spurred me on....
Coral and I were housemates, along with Dan Hare and Scott Woodruff (all great people, and better climbers than me) in the late 70's. She was climbing the Edge with Sue Giller, and due (I believe) to the sort of carabiner mishap thing that can happen to all of us if we're not careful, the main rope she was rapping on (to retrieve a stuck pack, I think, which was of course on the haul line) all of a sudden lost its anchor, and so there she went, and she managed to grab and stop herself on the 7/8 mm haul line and get to a ledge. I'm sure I couldn't have done that, though Coral had the advantage of being tiny.
Anyway, I knew Beth Bennett and Jim Michael and Dan Michael and Jim Holloway and other folks from that era, and I still look back on those people and times fondly in spite of being in my mid-50's now!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 10, 2009 - 11:20pm PT
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Just a few posts up,
JIM BRENNAN wrote:
"Characters abounded, what about Dick Cilley? the guy could bother at the same intensity of a errant Labrador puppy dog....."
heh.
hah hah.
hahahahahhahhaahhhahahahahhahahahah...who-weeeeee...
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dickcilley
Social climber
A cova Dos Nenos
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Feb 13, 2009 - 09:02am PT
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Been called just about everything. But a Lab pup???
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Feb 13, 2009 - 10:09am PT
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What's Hidetaka Suzuki been up to? Last time I saw him was at the Phoenix Bouldering Comp like 9 or 10 years ago.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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"Ghengis" Karn is working at Metolius AFAIK
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Mike Honcho
Trad climber
Glenwood Springs, CO
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Nov 23, 2018 - 01:55pm PT
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Necro Post!
BITD, but not all that far back, there were some very visible movers and shakers in climbing. Where did they all go?
Geoff Weigand: oh my GOD! Lord that guy was such an as#@&%e. He was such a massive turd in most every way I truly wonder where he went and what he's doing?
Caylor
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Nov 23, 2018 - 04:49pm PT
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
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#necro!!
I loves me some Geoff Weigand... had many good times with the “yella boy”. Dude was a master sh#t talker and could pick at a hidden scab on the most hardened individuals until they wept. In fact we were just talking about him last night... hope he is well and feisty whereever he might be.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Nov 24, 2018 - 06:56am PT
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Living it up in their Mobil homes down in the yucca valley
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Nov 24, 2018 - 08:34am PT
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^ that's f@%$ing rad! Sorry to stalk you for a while christ, but that made me smile.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 08:58am PT
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So, if I’m reading this right, the rock will set you free?
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Nov 24, 2018 - 09:03am PT
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i may have forgotten, how does the rock feel? oh yeah, let me know if you need a shed built on your boat Riley. hope things are good
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