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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 10, 2007 - 11:23am PT
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Here's a sleeper. Sheryl Haber; over 3000 different climbs at Joshua Tree, as well as climbed many places and climbs in the Western U S as well as all over back east. Many first Ascents too at Joshua Tree. ...she ticks the routes!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Feb 10, 2007 - 12:15pm PT
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Cool thread Melissa,
There were several women that climbed regularly in Yosemite during the '30's and '40's. Among them were Marjorie Bridge (Farquar), Olive Dyer, Doris Corcoran (Leonard), and Mildred Bennett.
Ken
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HalHammer
Trad climber
CA
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Feb 10, 2007 - 12:17pm PT
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Yeah that Rocks and Roses book is pretty cool. Found it on my Moms shelf the other day and started reading it, bunch of old stories by female climbers.
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Mateo Pee Pee
Trad climber
Ivory Tower PDX
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Feb 10, 2007 - 05:38pm PT
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Glad to see Liza Anderson and Linda Givler listed. Over a period of several days in 1973, I remember Liza doing her first three ice climbs, NW Coulior on Middle Teton followed by the Enclosure and Black Ice on the Grand. We threw in the Snaz, Irene's Arete, and a couple of other climbs in for good measure. As Ed Barry used to say, she was a gem of a climbing partner. Does anyone know her whereabouts?
Climbing Pico Colon in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with Linda in 1979 was another great experience.
Climbing has been fortunate to attract so many great people, I love seeing these names again.
What happened to Hitchy (Dave Hitchcock) and Ed?
Keith Hadley
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Feb 10, 2007 - 05:46pm PT
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All I can say is chick that rock climb harer than me are a beautiful sight!
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 10, 2007 - 08:24pm PT
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hey Keith,
They are not chicks but chicks dug them, I saw Ed Barry and Dave Hitchcock 4 years ago at an East Side camp 4 reunion. Ed is living near Sonora in Jamestown. Hitchy at the time was a golf pro part time in Palm Springs and part time at Pine Mt. Lake near Groveland. By the way another reunion is being planned for early July.
Is Liza Anderson the Liza who became Liza Paschal for some years? If so, she is a kick ass fly fishing guide in Idaho, and manager of the Elephants Perch store. I always have a nice encounter with her at the OR show.
Peter
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 10, 2007 - 11:15pm PT
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Hitchie's back on the Eastside Pete, poundin' nails in Mammoth.
So some things go full circle, sort of.
Hitchcock & Dave Bircheff, last summer:
I know, I know, it's 'sposed to be a chick thread, but just consider this a little foyer/coffee talk in the lobby post during intermission, half way through the show.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 10, 2007 - 11:18pm PT
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Margie Floyd (Now Margie Evans) has quite an impressive climbing resume;.....from Sierra peaks, first Ascents all over, lots of desert towers;.....just a bee's dick over 5 feet tall, and a climbing machine. (She's now mostly retired from climbing and is addressed as "Mom" .) She is awesome.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 10, 2007 - 11:20pm PT
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How tall is that again Todd??
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 10, 2007 - 11:28pm PT
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Just a bee's dick, beadwagon....
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 11, 2007 - 01:31am PT
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Let's have a look then...
Yup.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 11, 2007 - 01:41am PT
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That's the one, beadie... she kicks butt....(Who's the old dude with her?... )
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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Feb 11, 2007 - 01:48am PT
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Todd Looks like a Kayaker I met on the Colorado River. about 95?
Todd MR E one and the same
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Feb 11, 2007 - 01:52am PT
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The handsome gentleman with the lovely Margie Evans, is, in fact, Mr. Evans...Mr. DAVE Evans, sir....(yes sir.)...First ascent of Figures on a landscape, and someone who has climbed THE Totem Pole .(As well as all sorts of gnarly other climbs everywhere/all over the place)...(Bow down, please...) Bad Azz Mo Fo.
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Mateo Pee Pee
Trad climber
Ivory Tower PDX
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Feb 11, 2007 - 01:48pm PT
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Didn't mean to start a thread drift but thanks to Peter and Tarbuster for the Hitchy/Barry update. Damn, Hitchy looks younger now than he did 30 years ago!
As you may have seen there is a new apprecation thread for Liza.
She's awesome in every respect.
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Janet Wilts
Trad climber
Moose
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wow, lot of people from the past mentioned here....
you've named most of the ones that climbed in the old days....to catch some of you up to date....
Sue Harrington was last in the Moab area....
Barb Eastman is still going back and forth from salt lake to tetons
I'm still a ranger in the tetons....(last 18 years)
Gail's in Jackson, WY...near me
lot of others are still in the Bishop area....
Janet
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2007 - 09:59pm PT
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Welcome, Janet! Thanks for posting!
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Cyndie Bransford; climber.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nice pic of C Bransford.
Yes, Marlene put in her time on the rescue team; very sweet and tough too, fought off cancer in the mid 80's.
But whutabout those Wilts girls...
Welcome to the forum Janet!!!
Tell us a story, please.
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G_Gnome
Sport climber
Everywhere, man...
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A name I haven't seen in this thread is Eve Uiga/Laeger. Eve has many first ascents to her name, led hard 5.11, and has done more peaks in California than anyone else I know. I believe she was also the first woman to free climb the Harding Route on Castle Rock Spire. Eve is now one of the experts on California native plants and is also doing work on lichens and mosses in Alaska and California.
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