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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:27pm PT
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My condolences to Hayden's family and friends.
Terrible.
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krahmes
Social climber
Stumptown
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:48pm PT
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I was sad when I heard the news and then as the details came out, I was at a bigger loss as the tale became a tragedy. Condolences to family and friends of Inge and Hayden. A rogue avalanche in early autumn…
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:57pm PT
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Condolences to the family and friends of these two.
As a parent, climber and skier this just makes me sad
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 10, 2017 - 09:27pm PT
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Wow...
RIP.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 10, 2017 - 09:35pm PT
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Hayden grew up at the right time, in the right place, and had the best possible father to be the alpinist and climber we all dream of becoming.
Watching our youthful hero from afar, he seemed so well-adjusted and in such good humor, I held him out as a beacon for my hopes of the generational continuance in the artful practice of movement and striving toward sharing and fulfillment that we all find so alluring in the mountain crafts.
This (the whole story) is just beyond measure.
Sincerest condolences to Inge's family.
Michael, Julie, my heart goes out to you and your family.
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bbbeans
Trad climber
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Oct 10, 2017 - 10:03pm PT
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What a legend. RIP dude.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Oct 10, 2017 - 10:41pm PT
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Ah sh#t is about all I can say at the moment.
S...
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Wen
Trad climber
Bend, OR
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Oct 10, 2017 - 10:54pm PT
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I'm just so sorry, to the Kennedy and Perkins families, but also to the climbing community at large as we endure another loss. The passing of such young, vibrant, eloquent and accomplished people make no sense. May their families feel the love of our tribe surrounding them today, and in the many days ahead.
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Oct 10, 2017 - 10:59pm PT
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usually i can see a glimmer of silver... in just about anything.
but so far, this one seems to me to be black through and through.
only thing i know is that by all outward indications, we lost two of what we need to make this a better world.
i wish there was something/anything more substantive to offer than condolences to inge’s and hayden’s family and friends...
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Oct 10, 2017 - 11:23pm PT
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He had lost already two of his friends to similar circumstances recently. Sometimes Grief is too much to bear. Peace. So sad.
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Oct 10, 2017 - 11:26pm PT
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our hearts go out to the parents and families of both individuals, especially julie and Michael. hk had definitely elevated to a mastery of many climbing elements, and we salute his accomplishments, skill, and drive. steve schneider and heather baer
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Oct 11, 2017 - 06:35am PT
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This is a tragic business, the very dignified words of Hayden's parents perhaps show the way forward.
Condolences to all who knew them.
Regards,
Steve
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CPorter
Trad climber
London
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Oct 11, 2017 - 06:40am PT
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It reads like a Greek tragedy. RIP to you both.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Oct 11, 2017 - 06:44am PT
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Such tragic news!
My heart goes out to the parents and close friends of HK, and Inge.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Oct 11, 2017 - 07:18am PT
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There's not much I can add here except that it is a measure of who Hayden was that so many of us who never met him are still broken up about his passing. I only encountered him through a podcast, his recent writings and other stuff on the net. He seemed like such a genuine good soul, not to mention insanely talented on the vertical. Condolences to his friends and family. Indeed, his parents' words are impressive.
I need to learn more about Inge. The mountains sometimes ask too much of us.
BAd
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steve shea
climber
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Oct 11, 2017 - 07:23am PT
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A tragic love story. Condolences to friends and family.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Oct 11, 2017 - 10:04am PT
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I'm still struggling with the sadness. My heart goes out to the family's.
The Gallatin Forest Avalanche center will have a report forthcoming.
I've not seen 'Beacons' mentioned. I worry.
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 11, 2017 - 10:21am PT
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The worst thing that can happen to a parent is receiving the word that they have lost their child. Around the turn of the last century, Dr. Maurice Bucke wrote a classic book on COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, a state where past, future, death, life, are no more; it is all One. Like the Kennedy's, he lost his son in the prime of life. He wrote a letter to his son at the beginning of the book as a dedication. Here it is, maybe the perspective will help:
"A year ago to-day, in the prime of youth, of health and of strength, in an instant, by a terrible and fatal accident, you were removed forever from this world in which your mother and I still live.
Of all young men I have known you were the most pure, the most noble, the most honorable, the most tender-hearted. In the business of life you were industrious, honest, faithful, intelligent and entirely trustworthy. How at the time we felt your loss--how we still feel it--I would not set down even if I could. I desire to speak here of my confident hope, not of my pain.
I will say that through the experiences which underlie this volume I have been taught, that in spite of death and the grave, although you are beyond the range of our sight and hearing, notwithstanding that the universe of sense testifies to your absence, you are not dead and not really absent, but alive and well and not far from me this moment. If I have been permitted--no, not to enter, but--through the narrow aperture of a scarcely opened door, to glance one instant into that other divine world, it was surely that I might thereby be enabled to live through the receipt of those lightning-flashed words from Montana which time burns only deeper and deeper into my brain.
Only a little while now and we shall be again together and with us those other noble and well beloved souls gone before. I am sure I shall meet you and them; that you and I shall talk of a thousand things and of that unforgettable day and of all that followed it; and that we shall clearly see that all were parts of an infinite plan which was wholly wise and good. Do you see and approve as I write these words? It may well be. Do you read from within what I am now thinking and feeling? If you do you know how dear to me you were while you yet lived and what we call life here and how much more dear you have become to me since.
Because of the indissoluble links of birth and death wrought by I inscribe to you this book, which, full as it is of imperfections which render it unworthy of your acceptance, has nevertheless sprung from the divine assurance born of the deepest insight of the noblest members of your race.
So long! dear boy."
YOUR FATHER
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Gene Pool
Trad climber
A trailer park in Santa Cruz
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Oct 11, 2017 - 10:36am PT
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Damn. What a devastating loss.
I met Hayden and his Dad in Tuolumne years ago when Hayden was in High School. They were climbing for a month or so together. They ran past us on Fairview dome. He had a small set of nuts and a couple cams. Rest day. Next day they were messing around on Medlicott...The BY of course.
We hung out a couple evenings around a camp fire. Seeing him and his Dad certainly influenced me in having kids. For Michael - a true lover of Mountains - to have had that time with Hayden must have been a peak experience in a life of many summits.
I can't let myself imagine his heartbreak.
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