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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Thanks Ken for your vision, leadership and positive energy!
I truly enjoyed the opportunity to work with everyone on its succcessful outcome. Sorry I couldn't stay for the dance, hoping to have many more chances in the future.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Yeah, Great job Ken, thanks for the whole thing! special thanks for the tool-free-zone.
Great seeing you again and meeting your family!
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MisterE
Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
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My trip report:
Showed up on Monday and got an opportunity to help Ken, Anders and Eric #1 moves stuff from Ken's Monday and Tuesday. I gotta say, Ken has amazing stamina, as his house is being remodeled during all of this. Tuesday night Nature showed up and we feasted on sushi, and played some music around the campfire.
Wednesday I picked up 65 pounds of trash in 3 hours out of Camp 4 overflow and the bus parking areas. That night, I got a chance to meet Royal, got him to sign my Denny Book, and he told me a bit about my Dad, Mike Borghoff. He then sat next to me during the whole movie! What an honor! Note: If anyone happened to get a picture of us sitting together, I would VERY MUCH like a copy. He was all smiles and patted me on the shoulder a few times. I also got Tom Frost's signature in my book. I hadn't seen Tom in over 10 years. An interesting story about Tom: When I ran into him in '95, we both realized it had been 30 years, almost to the month, since either of us had been in the valley!
Their movie was fantastic! We all gathered around th Yellow Pines Campfire "B" again for sessions of real-time spray and disjointed spurts of music.
Thursday I had the pleasure of picking up trash with Harrison Hood, a really great guy and fellow tradesman around LaConte Boulder and beyond, we gathered over 200 pounds of trash that day and had a great time hanging out and talking. That night was the Sharma movie - that was amazing, as well. Then, back to the campfire for more sushi and a bit too much sake. Late that night, I decided to stay at K-Man's house in Yosemite West and help him move a fridge in the morning. He went out the Yellow Pines driveway and took a right!!!! Jeez, that woke me right up!
The next morning I woke up in his beautiful home, glimpsing Cookie Cliff through the kitchen deck. What a place! We moved the fridge, I cooked some breakfast for us and he gave me a ride back to the Valley. He offered me a place to stay anytime I was in the area! w00t!
That day I found 200 pounds of garbage, (185 of it in an old concrete-filled tire used for tetherball). I went back to the Face-lift booth to see if I could find a truck to move this beast, but no-one had a truck available, but I spotted a shopping cart someone had picked up. I did a little spatial calculation, and rolled off with the cart clattering, feeling a little foolish as I got looks from tourons. I loaded the tire on and muled it back to the weigh-in. Phew!
Later that day, five of us had a fun adventure on the river...
Saturday I was tired from walking, so I worked the weigh-in and trash sorting area, thinking it would be easier. NOT! I did the pick-up circuit for a while with Ken's truck and riding shotgun with Grant, who smelled awful, having recieved a liquid-lettuce shower cleaning out a bear-box. Grant's a great guy, we hung out a bit in the Meadows earlier this summer.
I left Sunday morning, wanting to hit Vegas when it was cooler.
Thanks to Ken for an amazing effort in all of this. Also, for use of his tent (I lost mine driving off with it on the top of my car Monday), the gas card that saved me much time, and the post-cleanup beers. Great to meet you, Ken!
It was a real honor to meet all you folks, and a special shout out to Rick Cashner, who collected around 4000 pounds of stuff.
Ed Hartouni, you are one cool dude!
My total for the week was one abused liver, one dirty and sore body, not much climbing, and 350 pounds of trash.
Also, this year was the 45th anniversary of my visiting the valley!
See you next year! Erik
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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How come I didn't get a Bush Cheney T shirt Fatty?!!
It could almost serve as a "get out of jail free card" or Halloween costume in some circles.
Great meeting some new supertaco folks.
Peace
Karl
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nice job everybody!
Quite impressive and very beneficial.
(Got any wine drinking pics?)
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jun 13, 2009 - 06:43pm PT
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