Tuolumne Meadows Appreciation

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JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Sep 29, 2007 - 12:05pm PT
After a day of fun,

Back in the campground.
Lovin the photos,yes, I do climb a bit.
Joe.
Tarbuster

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right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2007 - 01:25pm PT
Roy & Helga, blowing the foam off of a Budweiser:

Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Sep 29, 2007 - 07:02pm PT
Took my son to appreciate the Meadows on his first western road trip, when he was 13. Needle and Spoon was a highlight.



Appreciated it so much we went back with Wootles the next year.



Later, the lad became Californian.
Tarbuster

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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2007 - 12:17am PT
Jennie Bergeron:

davidji

Social climber
CA
Sep 30, 2007 - 01:59am PT
tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber
concord, california
Sep 30, 2007 - 02:00am PT
topping out on cathedral peak
damn it i told him to use the sunscreen
davidji

Social climber
CA
Sep 30, 2007 - 02:01am PT
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Sep 30, 2007 - 02:12am PT
great stuff.
Bless ed Be Tuolumne.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2007 - 11:37am PT
High times and silly moments at YMS, 1980's (behind the gas station...)

Rope up with the best!
(Guide profiles)



Keepers of the flame:
(messick, brossman, ashworth, kerr, hawkins)



Flamers of the keep:


(wally, tim, eddy, sabine, peter)


Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Oct 1, 2007 - 12:45pm PT
Tar, your wonderful library makes me wish that in my youth, I'd taken more pictures of people, and fewer pictures of rocks
which mostly look the same now as then.
maestro8

Trad climber
Sunnyvale, CA
Oct 1, 2007 - 01:42pm PT
le_bruce

climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
Oct 1, 2007 - 01:52pm PT
Great pics, Marshall.
Inner City

Trad climber
East Bay
Oct 1, 2007 - 02:03pm PT
Tar,
I knew certain among your photo library were bound to appear in this wonderful thread. I kept checking back with a kind of morbid curiosity...on the "lighter side"--Tuolumne is the best place in the world. As a dad now, I look forward to spending time on the beach, each year, with my growing brood (now 3 kids!)

Recent postings notwithstanding, your thread domination continues unabated....Hobbit Book IS the best!

DR
Tarbuster

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2007 - 11:03am PT
Helga on The Handbook:

photo by CF
Tarbuster

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2007 - 11:06am PT
Third Pillar, Mt Dana

Variation starts, right of the standard route:
(my line, Pajamarama, starts at a detached square block, then along the right of a prominent fin; I think Maysho did the next one right)



Shelley on the outside variation of The Ear, mid route:



Jenny, topping out on the final head wall, just before a storm:


Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Oct 2, 2007 - 11:49am PT
Quite a life in photos! Your slide collection must fill a whole closet, sitting there dusty and dark for years until scanners
and the internet happened along and you could bring them back to the light.
nita

climber
chico ca
Oct 2, 2007 - 02:16pm PT
TMJesse, Pretty classic pictures from your kid life, thanks for posting them..tons of snow on Unicorn.



Tarbuster, In case you forgot the lovely woman's name in the purple shirt- next to purple rope....It's Jennie B.
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
Oct 2, 2007 - 02:25pm PT
LongAgo wrote these words long ago:

“Upon hearing a conversation such as this one, TM Herbert would probably have said, ‘All right, to your corners. At the sound of the bong you’ll have one minute. Bottles and logs permitted.’ But TM didn’t arrive in Tuolumne until a week or so later. When he did, we set out to do a new route on a dome near Medlicott (the dome is tentatively called The Lamb, and the new route, Lament, III, 5.10). TM is the only climber who is an expert at both whimpering and karate. One section of the new route was 5.10 smallholds climbing, and TM began his mind-blowing moans at the sight of the tiny crystals. After various pops, whistles and screams, he managed the section and calmly claimed that the climb was one of the nicest he had done. Apparently even 5.10 can be kicks in Tuolumne.”

In the original 1969 American Alpine Journal article, for some reason (no fault of LongAgo’s, I’m sure) the magical place is consistently misspelled “Toulumne.” I sanitized the quotation above. But anyway ... I was at an impressionable age, back when I first read this passage by LongAgo, and I immediately added Lament to my list of life’s goals. Like all my other goals at that time I was not ready for such a lead yet. But a few years later I came back, to run out the tiny crystals imagining “mind-blowing ... pops, whistles and screams.”

Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2007 - 07:59pm PT
Ed Barry:
(the "little king")


Mark Chapman:
(ask Warbler about this guy...)


Vern Clevenger:
(did a "few" routes up on those domes)
(plus, check out Donny Reid's blue cruiser, on the right)

Tarbuster

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right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 2, 2007 - 08:06pm PT
Yes Chiloe,
Quite a stack of dusty old slides to be sure & the dust shows up great when you scan them too!

Nita,
Yes, Jenny Bergeron; she was a lot of fun, and I'm sure the two of you worked together at the lodge. When I was done with guiding, we'd go climbing, she'd then head off to the lodge and I would go eat at "side hall" remember that? Pretty good fare for the employees I must say.
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