Dirtbag Diaries with Jim Herson and family

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mikeyschaefer

climber
Sport-o-land
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 12, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
Forgive me if this has already been posted. Jim Herson and family, Anne, Kara and Connor recently did an amazing podcast with the Dirtbag Diaries about climbing as a family.

If you don't know who Jim Herson it means you should probably study up on your valley history and super under-cover crushers. In the 20 years I've been climbing in Yosemite I haven't met Jim but probably because if he is in the valley he is always climbing and doing so very quickly!

Have a listen here; http://dirtbagdiaries.com/ultimate-weekend-warrior/

And here is a link to Jim's incredibly entertaining blog; http://vocr.sri.com/herson/climbing/tr.html
overwatch

climber
Arizona
Jul 12, 2016 - 01:51pm PT
Hey you are apparently no slouch yourself.
This should be good that guy is a crack up thanks for the thread
micronut

Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
Jul 12, 2016 - 03:17pm PT
Fantastic. That dude is an animal. Just read the recent story of him climbing HD with Connor, his 12 year old son. Loco.
kunlun_shan

Mountain climber
SF, CA
Jul 12, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
TFPU! Enjoyed Jim H's enthusiasm for climbing with his talented family.

Both the podcast and his blog.

Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jul 13, 2016 - 05:44am PT
Awesome thanks! Hope to run into Jim and his family one of these days, although I'm likely asleep when they slow down.
couchmaster

climber
Jul 13, 2016 - 05:46am PT


That's inspiring badass stuff.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jul 13, 2016 - 08:25am PT
That TR with Connor on HD really is beautiful and inspiring on multiple levels. One thing I appreciated on this latest was a little more insight into the parental calculations, while still bending the minds of what most people would consider possible. The mental dialog sounds so similar to what I and many other parents identify with, albeit ratcheted up a few hundred notches.
jose gutierrez

Trad climber
sacramento,ca
Jul 13, 2016 - 10:11am PT

I did not know who Jim was (my ignorance), but my partner and I were astounded as we had to climb as fast as we possible could to barely stay out of the way of him and 2 kids on Steck-Salathe! Hope that I can have as much fun as him with my family someday.
Vitaliy M.

Mountain climber
San Francisco
Jul 13, 2016 - 01:03pm PT
One of the coolest climbing families around! Jim's sense of humor and writing is great, wish he wrote a book one day, I bet it would be a best seller. I don't read much climbing related literature aside from the AAJ and a few occasional articles in magazines, but his trip reports about climbing with kids and elsewhere are great. Wish he posted here more often...
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jul 13, 2016 - 01:08pm PT
^^^^ that pic from Jose, that is exactly the spot where I was groveling and grasping the vegetation in sandy conditions, with last pro halfway down the chimney (or maybe just after the start of the Narrows?). Didn't waste much time there but had a mini "what if" epic moment when falling was a possibility.

Mind-blowing to imagine the crusher family cruising up that thing, as a weekend on the way to bigger and harder stuff.
O.D.

Trad climber
LA LA Land
Jul 13, 2016 - 02:42pm PT
Each time I read about a Jim Herson climbing adventure featuring his young children, I feel more and more inadequate. Thanks a lot, Jim.
kunlun_shan

Mountain climber
SF, CA
May 23, 2017 - 11:55am PT
A little bird told me this morning that Connor did the Nose In A Day recently!

I may be wrong, but think he's in Grade 7.
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