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Scrunch
Trad climber
Provo, Ut
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 16, 2008 - 04:23am PT
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Inspired by another thread, which turned out to be something completely different. I just wanted to express my sense of awe and wonder at the man. The confidence, the control, the lust for life, the attitude.
Never met him, but Dan Osman is my hero.
Post up if you have a story, or just love Dan.
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Brock
Trad climber
RENO, NV
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Apr 16, 2008 - 11:16am PT
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In the early 80's I was a big BMX freestyle dude. I briefly remember meeting Dan O at the Pipeline skate park and laughing my ass off at some of his antics. Always had the go for it attitude. A bit of a wild and crazy guy.
Never ran into him again after I started climbing in the 90's. I think I would have enjoyed climbing and hanging out with him.
Peace Dan O
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Apr 16, 2008 - 01:34pm PT
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As a teenager learning how to climb he represented the wacky sicko pushing the edge of safety. His feats were always entertaining and shocking, and showed me clearly how I did NOT want to climb. I only ever met him once, very briefly in the Valley, so I never knew him as a man, but "Dan Osman" the character is burned forever into my mind.
Thanks Dan, for making the climbing world a richer and more interesting place.
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Clayman
Trad climber
CA, now Flagstaff
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Apr 16, 2008 - 02:03pm PT
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I blame Dan Osman for much of my corruption as a climbng youth...watching masters of stone over and over again put many bad ideas into my head. I still watch MOS at least once a week. i think my roomates are over it.
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Eggstele
Trad climber
Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe
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Apr 16, 2008 - 02:25pm PT
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I had the pleasure of hanging out with Dano a little through an old roommate. My first memories are from watching him climb way above his last point of proctection at Cave Rock and then leap off, catching huge air. It scared the crap out of me every time because I was not a climber at this point.
Next memory is watching Dano trying to find the front door to leave our house after about half a dozen too many 5 foot bong rips! He was never afraid to take things to the next level. I also watched him climb the 45 degree overhanging beams on the ceiling of our house, using a crazy chimneying type technique. I think he called it 11d.
Then a couple of years after I first met him, I actually started really climbing. I would be at Lover's Leap getting my first trad leads in on Bear's Reach, Haystack, etc. and see Dano there, literally running laps up the East Wall. He would be just as excited to here about by first 5.7 lead as he would have just soloing some sickly hard climb. And he could discuss every single hold on the route because he knew them so intimately. I remember him telling me of how he climbed Labour of Love before it became a bolted route, which is not very surprising, given his track record.
Then shortly after he died I had the pleasure of getting to climb the Dan Osman Memorial ice route, right of Psycedelic Tree. I climbed the route four times that winter, even getting the nerve to free solo it on the fourth time. I remember very distinctly feeling the spirit of Dan living on at the Leap each time I climbed it, especially on the solo. I imagined him soloing on the rock next to me, with encouraging words the whole way up.
I knew him as a very kind and encouraging person, always just as psyched about other people's accomplishments as his own.
From what I witnessed of him, he did all of these crazy things because he loved doing them so much. He put himself in the media because it helped(along with odd jobs) provide a finacial means so that he could always be out there pushing the limits and because we "all" love to watch it and give Dano and other badasses like him the attention they deserve.
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yo
climber
The Eye of the Snail
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Apr 16, 2008 - 04:35pm PT
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I've written this in twenty different Dano threads, but the downward Superman off that bridge will NEVER be topped.
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CF
climber
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Apr 16, 2008 - 06:18pm PT
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i have been pulling footage that i have of Dano and have been posting it on youtube
rope jumping
there are several others there and i have more i am working on
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GDavis
Trad climber
SoCal
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Apr 16, 2008 - 06:20pm PT
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PeteC
climber
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Apr 16, 2008 - 06:55pm PT
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I'm a grown man with a family now but every time I see that Osman footage I feel like the hormonal college freshman I was when it first came out-- giddy with excitement about the fantastic sport I had become obsessed with. Dan will always be my hero-- his Atlantis soloing footage with hair whipping in the wind will always be burned into my memory.
"It's a life wish."
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Mar 17, 2011 - 03:12am PT
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scotte
Trad climber
nathrop, colorado
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Mar 17, 2011 - 10:27am PT
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Dan was a good friend and a kind person. We miss you buddy.
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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Mar 17, 2011 - 11:15am PT
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i worked with dano on jay smiths house in moab.... he usually slept in until high noon!
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Mar 17, 2011 - 01:27pm PT
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Bump for the man.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 23, 2011 - 11:27pm PT
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An inspirational soul with vision!
i really liked his his stone work in the Cave, a shame it was desecrated.
And yeah, I wish he skipped the jumping thing.
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