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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Sorry to hear this. I didn't know him, but several friends did. My condolences to them, and to his family.
John
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Only met him once when I lived up there, a character in the truest sense. Raise a glass for Doug, you know he is looking down on this human comedy and laughing robustly. Fair winds Doug.
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apogee
climber
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Very sorry to hear this. Condolences to his family & friends.
For all his quirkiness, Doug held a special, valued place here at ST...he will be missed.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Rest in Peace Doug...
My condolences to his family and friends...We'll be missing him around here too.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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They don't make 'em like that anymore...Laughing Robustly...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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The Alaskan Alpine Club has lost its driving force.
RIP
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Well sh#t. I always wondered where he went off to. He was certainly one deserving of a proper climber's wake. I raise a glass robustly!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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man, that guy could rant with the best of em. Uncompromising rants. I tip my hat.
RIP
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 26, 2009 - 10:47am PT
There I was, mind you, and it was desperate indeed, albeit as usual.
It was in the dead of winter in the dark of night, lost amid crevasses on a glacier in the heart of the Alaska Range. The mountains towered above and the storm raged.
A lurking suspicion blew by, against the wind.
Exposed flesh freezes in seconds, you know.
To this very day I am not sure if we survived.
What? You already heard the account of that first assent?
That's the problem with the old stories. Just as well walk away from the computer and go live a new story. A walk through the alley is better than reading the truly unique story of the first assent of Mt. Deception in the Alaska Range, among the others.
No, not that Mt. Deception. There are more than one, of course.
Or something like that.
Doug
RIP
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Sorry to hear this. You're walking for free wherever you want to now, Dougie. R.I.P.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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He climbed on through to the other side.
Now he is looking down on us and laughing robustly.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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The standard introduction.......
Yooooo, for good grief sakes...
There we were, mind you, and it was desperate indeed, albeit as usual. It was in the dark of night, in the dead of winter, in the heart of the Alaska Range, lost somewhere on the glacier amid gaping crevasses, the mountains towered above, and the storm raged. Exposed flesh freezes in seconds, you know.
And if you are reading this, you aint no mountain climber. The only real mountain climber is climbing right now, by definition. Anyone else may have been a climber, and may want to be a climber, but is not a climber right now because he is not climbing right now. Well, do you accurately use words, and thus mean what you say? Meaning what you say is a valuable skill in the mountains, and all other places.
Now that we do not have to deal with the inflated ego of those sorts who think they are mountain climbers, we can chit-chat about the Alaskan Alpine Club, Alaska mountain climbing, and laugh ourselves to tears over the antics of these humans.
You can learn that lesson from the mountains. The mountains always deal with what is, rather than what people say. Do the same and you will do well, if you know what questions to ask to distinguish between what is said and what is.
Interested in climbing in Alaska?
Buy or download a topographical map of where you want to climb, go there, climb, and have entirely too much fun.
Need any of the standard mountaineering information that people think they need?
Check out all the standard web sites, books, clubs, stores and such places for standard climbing stuff.
Want some non-standard stuff about mountain climbing?
Imagine that. You have stumbled onto the right site. That is what this club and Alaska are about.
But there are only words and visual illusions at this web site, so the wiser person will hit the off-switch, grab the topo map, and head out the door.
The hardest part of every climb, is getting out of town.
Nothing on this web site or any other web site can assist you in actual climbing, the act of putting one foot in front of and above the other, and hanging on, until you get to the summit. But this web site might give your mind what no climbing organization leaders and government drones want you to have, some knowledge also offered by the mountains, that is, how to be free.
Herein is just knowledge, if you sufficiently question what you read, with real questions, and answer your questions.
The extent of the fun you will have in the mountains, where you may otherwise be miserable, working hard and in danger, is predicated on the extent of the questions you prior ask of your actions, and your answers. Otherwise stated: The knowledge your mind seeks and finds.
And from a mountain climbing club, did you want the rhetorical garbage that ego-craving, control-mentality club officers tell you, usually telling you that you have to do what the government dolts tell you to do, and ask no serious questions, or did you want the knowledge of concepts you learned from your own mind's questions and answers which need no organization leaders or their petty corrupting power? Notice the questions that organization and government leaders flee instead of answer. Ask those questions until you recognize the answers that prevail against all questions, to discover that organization and government leaders serve only themselves, at your cost. You do not need them.
If you are a mountain climber, you need only the mountains and your freedom.
You may do as you consider logical, as wisely done in the mountains, and you will define yourself.
Climb on...
Doug Buchanan
The club web page slave.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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My condolences to Doug's family & friends.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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I'm so sorry to learn of this. Hope he is laughing robustly indeed.
Tom Stryker
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Many thoughts going out to his family and friends. A well lived life.
Susan
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Sorry to hear of Dougs passing, hope that where he is now is better than where he was. What a unique and interesting fella.
Bless the man.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012 12:54 AM, CST
Doug left peacefully and joyfully last night. As he wished, he was at home, in our bed, and I was with him, holding his hand to the last, when he opened his eyes, looked into mine, and let out one last breath.
He had already negotiated arrangement with the angels for his spirit's next adventure. I am not kidding. We got to listen to his side of the conversation. He called the welcoming committee "the questioners" and they seemed to get along very well. He spent a good part of the day holding forth and asking questions of them.
To Doug, whose spirit now runs free among the stars.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
BY JOHN DONNE
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
My magnificent husband, who has plans for returning in the future, is playing among the stars.
We have planned a celebration of his life at Mushers Hall, Fairbanks, on May 19, 2012. If the location doesn't work out, we will go somewhere else in Fairbanks and hold the event. If you show up, ask around—people will know where the party is being held.
If any of you need to reach me, you can email me at:
iloATiloilojonesDOTcom and I will get back to you.
Give me a few days to begin to get my bearings, though. My heart is very empty right now.
Thanks, Benowitz and Flaharty, for getting in touch with me about this thread—I was already a member here, but have not had any time lately to check stuff.
Also check out the posts on Caring Bridge for updates: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/dougbuchanan/journal
Climb on.
**
iloilo
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nature
climber
Aridzona for now Denver.... here I come...
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There is something in my heart that suggests to me that Doug wouldn't want tears to be shed.
He went for it and he went big. He lived life in a way that many just dream of or at the very least fall a little short of.
How can you not be inspired by the way he moved through his embodiment?
A pint in my hand.
lifted.
Cheers Doug!
om shanti,
Doug
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oh Man I always loved Doug's input. He was on the cutting edge of wild inside. May he Rest in Peace and come back to the planet soon.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Glad to hear Doug left in a good way with Love around
Best Blessings on his robust adventure
Peace
Karl
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