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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 30, 2009 - 04:15am PT
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My son turned 5 yesterday;.....He's grown up around climbing and climbers;.....seems like just yesterday we took him home from the hospital. Happy Birthday, Beck.....you RULE...and you ROCK....we love you! He wanted to go see the new Transformer movie for his birthday, and he got a Nintendo ds for his birthday present....I'm saving up for the Russian mail-order bride for his 16th birthday,....I want to be alive when I have grandkids.....
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jun 30, 2009 - 04:29am PT
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Happy Birthday Beck!
You are so lucky to have been born into such a great and powerful tribe. There are many great warriors with many moons behind them in this tribe. Your father is one of them.
We expect much from the young ones in our tribe. We expect you to grow to be strong and brave. Not so much the strong and brave of the muscles and the spear, but strong and brave of the heart. We expect you to grow up to have a great love of freedom, and no fear of what lies over the next ridge. We expect you to be smart and have a great love of your family. We expect you to be a deep soul and have a great respect for our mother, the Earth. We expect you to care enough about the tribe that you will be all these things and help to guide us into the future when it is your turn to carry the sacred torch.
Welcome to your time of growing.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 30, 2009 - 05:34am PT
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hey there say, todd...
happy birthday to beck...
as into supertopo, i do check...
hope his day was great...
with just the right amount of cake...
and hope the day was full of sunshine and joy...
and all things, beautiful, for a five year old boy...
*course, except for the ol' mail-order bride---i reckon that can wait a mite... ;)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 30, 2009 - 08:56am PT
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Happy birthday, Beck!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jun 30, 2009 - 09:05am PT
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He's such a cutie! Happy Birthday, Beck! And Happy Birthday to you too, Todd. It looks like you truly celebrate not only the milestones within your family, but the every day stuff as well.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jun 30, 2009 - 09:07am PT
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Adorable as usual! Happy birthday!
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2009 - 10:34am PT
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Here is Beck's cake;...he's into Starfy the starfish......
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scuffy b
climber
Sinatra to Singapore
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:32am PT
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If you've got a wagon full of softballs that you need emptied
out,
Beck is THE MAN!!!
Happy Birthday!!!!111666
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:50pm PT
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Happy Birthday Beck,
now go tow your dad up something
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Chinchen
climber
Flagstaff?
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Jun 30, 2009 - 12:58pm PT
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Happy birthday dude!
Kids are such a blessing! He looks like a great little guy! We need to have a tacokids meetup!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jun 30, 2009 - 01:12pm PT
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Rope Gun In Training!!! ( RGIT )
Woot!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 30, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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Scuffy's right, iIve seen him do it!
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Jun 30, 2009 - 05:33pm PT
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Beck! Happy birthday, dude. Good luck changing dad's diapers.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jun 30, 2009 - 06:01pm PT
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WOW !!!!! Beck Guy is 5 !!!!! Cause for celebration. Take a whole week and tell Mom and Dad it's Beck's week. Hope you have a super time and give your Mom and Dad big hugs, cause you've got a couple Grate ! ones.
Happy Happy Beck, From Lynne
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CynthiaL
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:20pm PT
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I can't believe Beck is 5!!! Happy Birthday!!!
I have to admit that when he was born the way I remembered his name was Beck's beer. I'm guessing that's not what he was named after...
Anyway, it looks like you guys had a great family celebration. Way to go!
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:24pm PT
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Maybe it was...........hehehe.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 30, 2009 - 11:37pm PT
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Todd...what a handsome young man. He's lucky to have you for a father.
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Y'know Beck, sometimes when the light's just right, even adults catch a glimmer of your world. You do know, I can just tell. Not too often of course -- can't expect too much -- but once in awhile you catch 'em at it, just staring far away sometimes, or getting silly when their big friends come over. Or you can see it in your daddy's eyes when he reads you a story or when he's getting ready to go climbing, or laughing out loud at something he's telling us on the computer.
Well, just now I caught a glint of that in your eyes in your daddy's photos, and it reminded me of something I wrote one day about being...
FIVE
I was five years old that first Sierra day, running on pure whim. From the tent down bright sand to the lapping edge of Tenaya Lake, deliciously cold. Over to a rock. Slap that rock. Laugh and run to a pine tree. Roots. Sap. Rub that sap into the sand. The sand is sharp. It's all bright, brighter than the coast hills of home. Breathe in the brightness, everything quickens. The lake shatters the sun, scattering it up under my Cape Cod hat. Granite domes ring the lake, to keep it from spilling into the sky. I burn off the first of many noses.
We come back every summer. I have a feather sleeping bag, army surplus, nestled just under the eaves of the tent, outside with the stars. In the morning I button my maroon wool shirt right up to the collar, throw chips into the fire, smell coffee. Now I have a brother. Charlie and I hike in the cool woods; we lash rafts to paddle out to each of the rock islands, and fish. I snag a fishhook in my brother's scalp, so we drive all the way down to the hospital in Yosemite Valley.
As my legs get stronger, the Sierra grows...
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2009 - 02:38am PT
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Cheers Todd, nice pics.
Curt
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