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Jun 30, 2015
06:26pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
Warbler, it's easy to see your love and devotion, and your engagement in getting the story straight. It's a bummer when things get published and you feel you could have tweaked them just a bit here an... |
k-man |
Jun 30, 2015
06:12pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
At this point I'm assuming this wording is not Roger's, but in fact John's :
"They climbed extreme stuff, they were loud, and clearly differentiated themselves from the old fuddy duddies who were c... |
Largo |
Jun 29, 2015
07:16pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of ... |
rmuir |
Jun 29, 2015
05:34pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
Roger, I think the only reason that Stonemaster climbing became 70s climbing is that few people from that era bothered to write narratives about their experiences back then. And merely running down a ... |
Largo |
Jun 29, 2015
12:36pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
our book was just a window into a small group and what they did and how they lived.
Missing photo ID#416371I regret you weren't able to make it to Oakdale two years ago, Largo. You were missed by ... |
mouse from merced |
Jun 29, 2015
12:21pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
The Stonemaster book was fashioned around Dean's photos and was his vision from the start. I didn't write anything exclusively for the project but just chunked in stories I'd done over the years. And ... |
Largo |
Jun 28, 2015
02:26pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
"In America, legend and celebrity usually wins... "
An astute and accurate observation.
I could be wrong here, and no disrespect to Largo, whom I count as a friend, but wasn't it John who once utter... |
TYeary |
Jun 28, 2015
01:27pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
"my point is that there is a cult of celebrity around these guys when we all, in our own ways, contributed to climbing"--Patrick Sawyer
In the early seventies, in my self-imposed exile to the flats... |
mouse from merced |
May 20, 2015
09:09pm PST |
Emulating Dangerous Sports - True or False
Again - noobs are going to do crazy sh#t - be they try to drive like NASCAR racers or free solo like Honnold. But the notion that say, a free soloer is setting a bad example for others, is quite possi... |
Largo |
Apr 27, 2015
04:36pm PST |
Will Yosemite Pioneers Be Forgotten?
I've been working on a New Book for the past two years with Largo called "Yosemite in the 50's" The Iron Age. It will be avabile the beginning of September, Published thur Patagonia Books. This is a G... |
Bullwinkle |
Apr 26, 2015
02:15pm PST |
Werner....your photo in on/in the Houston Chronicle
Norwegian -- "please grant me honorary induction into the stonemasters tribe of fame."
I can't do that, I'm not a stonemaster, never was.
I'm a nobody.
StoneMaster = That's Warbler, Largo, Rick... |
WBraun |
Jan 11, 2015
01:00pm PST |
The New "Religion Vs Science" Thread
Largo,
I was reading your wiki page. Who put it together?
The part that irritated me was this quote, which I disagree with:
While Long and the Stonemasters branched out into diverse disciplin... |
BASE104 |
Dec 28, 2014
02:49pm PST |
The New "Religion Vs Science" Thread
Mike,
My comment that we humans are no longer evolving "normally" is based on one thing: We are now almost free from natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Almost anyone can have kids and pass... |
BASE104 |
Nov 5, 2014
06:13pm PST |
The New "Religion Vs Science" Thread
Largo posted thusly:
As we have seen over and over, A) science and discjursive thought is reductionistic, and B) when we reduce down to particles all the stuff that seems real to our senses... |
BASE104 |
Oct 30, 2014
12:29pm PST |
Richard Harrison has passed away
Richar and I, both teenagers, on the sling belay, pitch two, Valhalla, Suicide Rock. Photo by Rick Accomazzo.Credit: Largo
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Largo |
Oct 5, 2014
05:47am PST |
Losing Tobin, Thirty Four Years Ago
Was reminiscing with my younger brother, Tom, about our big bro yesterday. It's been thirty four years since losing Tobin October 5th, 1980. We talked a little about how things might have turned out d... |
Bushman |
Sep 11, 2014
10:39pm PST |
Bisharat's Valley Uprising Nostalgic
I don’t know why Sender films embarked on this project… but they have a relatively good business sense and probably thought it would be commercially successful. And it is certainly true that looking a... |
Ed Hartouni |
Sep 11, 2014
02:52pm PST |
Bisharat's Valley Uprising Nostalgic
Two cents, gladly shared among my peers. The rest can try to catch up.
This writer, Bishrat, he's clueless.
It took guys their whole extended youths to put this dirtbag, noble hipster vision ou... |
mouse from merced |
Jul 18, 2014
08:58am PST |
What's the story behind Jammit at Suicide?
Us Stonemasters stumbled along right after Donini showed up and we chased whatever he was up to, including Jammit. There was some other shallow gash Couch did with Dent that was pretty sketchy on the ... |
Largo |
Nov 28, 2013
10:36am PST |
Largo: What I've Learned
I once heard Tucker Tech say, and paraphrasing now,that of all the Stonemasters, John was the only one to " get it".... |
10b4me |
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