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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Bananna peels are over-rated...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 16, 2009 - 09:42pm PT
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Anderson Fairy Tales Bump!
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Nov 16, 2009 - 11:44pm PT
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New Standard Revised Edition
The
Curtis Creek Manifesto
Being A Basic Guide To The Art Of Fly Fishing On Moving Water...
written,conceived,and illustrated by SHERIDAN ANDERSON
The Author,
Sheridan Andreas Mullholland Anderson
-angler,artist,wander,eternal
foe of the work ethic.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Nov 17, 2009 - 07:49pm PT
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Thanks to Tami for starting this great thread, and all those that posted cartoons or comments. Special thanks to steel mnkey for two pieces I had not seen: the Obit by Robbins, and the Calendar.
Does anyone still have old Mountain Gazettes, that they can scan & post: "Mabel of the Mountains," another great series of Sheridan's cartoons?
Here is my all time favorite from Sheridan Anderson.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Nov 17, 2009 - 08:26pm PT
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Hobo Dan asked for this. Shows up in Mountain Magazine in 1973 and then in "Games Climbers Play."
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Nov 17, 2009 - 08:35pm PT
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Sheridan is the Bomb Diggety.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 17, 2009 - 08:46pm PT
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An absolute classic diabolical Batso from Mountain.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Nov 17, 2009 - 11:04pm PT
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A little bit of me in this one.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Nov 17, 2009 - 11:11pm PT
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This thread brought back so many wonderful memories! I had the good fortune to spend five months in Camp 4 in 1965 with a handful of climbers and Sheridan Anderson. Since I had a broken arm, Sheridan and I hung out a lot together during the day while others were out climbing. That summer, the tradition was for everyone to report back to him at the end of their day as to how their climb went. The following day Sheridan would be drawing cartoons based on what he had been told.
I have no idea what happened to these dozens if not hundreds of personalized cartoons he drew over the years which were never published. Very stupidly, I also never asked him for those he did of myself and Frank. I wonder if they were passed along in his family?
Certainly the social highlight of Camp 4 in 1965 was the celebration organized by Sheridan to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. He had drawn a very large, detailed, and colorful cartoon postcard (10 x24 ") which he later mailed to the mayor of Zermatt. That evening however, we all gathered at his campsite to party and make toast after toast to Whymper and the boys.
As we got progressively drunker, the toasts grew louder and louder. Finally around midnight we were yelling out hip hip hooray for each reknowned climber or ascent that had ever been done anywhere in the world. Of course someone called the rangers, who seemed quite flattered and amused to be asked to sign the large cartoon postcard as well, being assured that their names would be forever memorialized in Zermatt. They also suggested that our party should continue down in the meadow where Curry Company employees were also partying out of earshot of the camp grounds, which we did.
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Nov 18, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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So when's the giant Sheridan Anderson coffee table book coming out? And who's working on it...?
Needs to be done, the complete SA...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 18, 2009 - 01:33am PT
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What about the learing one with the sheep?
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Nov 20, 2009 - 12:11pm PT
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Last time I saw Sheridan was at DR's in Round Valley - much too much wine was consumed.
Anybody have the, "The Little ape shall lead them" cartoon? Prophecy - you you believe in that stuff?
Sheridan claimed to have taught Pratt to climb. Anybody confirm that?
SG - Millis is Dennis Miller. See photos of him at the Waterskiing Tenaya thread.
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Tea
Trad climber
Behind the Zion Curtain
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Nov 20, 2009 - 01:23pm PT
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Awesome tribute to the master! Great posts!
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 20, 2009 - 03:26pm PT
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Mr. Meander here...got into this story on another thread. Thanks, Tami, for pointedly suggesting I copy it over here:
I have an audio tape he made just a few days before he died. Sheridan knew he was going to die, though I was far too deep in denial to hear him at the time. We went out for supplies, which besides a blank cassette included a fifth of Jack Daniels and a case of beer. This was in Vegas right after one of the winter trade shows when the outdoor industry used to pigyback on the Ski Industries of America at the Convention Center.
Sheridan was living with his granny in a walkup apartment up on Charleston, to "take care of her." She was pushing a hundred, but it was an open question who was taking care of whom. He pulled his boom box out onto the formica kitchen table, uncapped the Jack, pressed record and got down to business. Granny was watching wrestling in the next room. He knew I would be worthless at remembering accurately what he had to say, but I was the only friend who showed up so he was taking no chances. I did not do my share of the talking or the drinking that night, but I still have the tape and one of these days we can transcribe it and get a really rip-roaring Sheridan thread going.
I have plenty of other Sheridan artwork -- original and unpublished -- to share too. Some of it a unique form of "comic chess" played by passing the drawing board back and forth with other artists at his flat on Potrero Hill.
I never got to accompany Sheridan to what seemed to be his main social outlet those final years living with his granny -- a strip club. He kept suggesting it, and I guess I was too broke and too prudish to loosen up and see that it would have been a rare chance to watch him work a pretty interesting venue. Think Toulouse-Lautrec at the Follies Bergere, only scaled up to Sheridan's frame, ported out to six-four and well-over-300-pounds. He would regularly take his sketch pad into a bar and use it to introduce himself to the whole room. And not just the Mountain Room in the Valley, either. In the Sixties I trailed him around SF, watched Sheridan stride into many a North Beach hang, and the Blarney Stone in Cow Hollow that had killer fish-n-chips right out back. And when I returned, to work at the startup of Outside Magazine in '77, Sheridan was still there and came up to the office and dragged the whole staff, Will Hearst included, either across Third Street or to his then favorite Irish Pub out on California Street in the early Avenues. It changed the entire evening for everyone present. Can you say raconteur?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 20, 2009 - 03:37pm PT
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I would really like to har that tape/read the transcript!
Did he meet the undeground cartoonist S Clay Wilson while hanging in the city? Is that how Von Mabel met the Checker demon?
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Nov 20, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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scuffy b
climber
Whuttiz that Monstrosicos Inferno?
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Nov 20, 2009 - 04:54pm PT
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hanks for the link, Monkey.
That's a good profile.
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 20, 2009 - 05:38pm PT
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Back cover of the book. I like Sheridan's self-deprecating bio:
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