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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 11, 2010 - 02:18am PT
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You want FACTS?
Dean Potter is the man. Incredibly inspirational, forward thinking, CONSTANTLY pushing the limits of whats possible - you gotta give it up for this guy!
There are those out there (jackasses, etc) who seem to follow his threads with much negativity, but that is founded more in their simple ways of thinking. People always praise what a cool dude he is (met him in Yo Valley once, talked to a nobody like me like i was cool or something!), everything I've seen of the guy tells me he is a great asset to our community.
Post up good Potter stories - his article in Alpinist was one of my favorite, and my first trips to Yosemite were partially inspired by Masters of Stone V. Woo hoo!
Here's a really interesting video documentary that really shows a realistic side of these super athletes. I was surprised to find out how non-celebrity and realistic life is for a guy with such an aura.... and he comes out really humble too. Also some good Bullwinkle footage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsagruTOXA8
anyway... saw something on another thread and thought it was time to give this man his props.
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Dec 11, 2010 - 03:45am PT
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AWWWWWWW GEEEEEZ!!
Does D Potter pay you to start BS threads, GDavis?
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Papillon Rendre
climber
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Dec 11, 2010 - 03:50am PT
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Please seek some counseling.
-PR
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 11, 2010 - 09:36am PT
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Davis, I agree. Dean is not only a really interesting climber and maybe a lot more innovative and imaginative than most top climbers, he is really damn bright also.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Dec 11, 2010 - 09:44am PT
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He's been nothing but nice to me.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2010 - 11:18am PT
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no MTucker, I'm still getting paid for drilling your mom like BP :D
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T2
climber
Cardiff by the sea
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Dec 11, 2010 - 11:40am PT
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I am with you greg I think potter is a badass and can appreciate his intensity for adventure.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 11, 2010 - 11:52am PT
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Well, I'm not happy that he had the cheek to rename Acromaniac rather than just take credit for the FFA (albeit on a constructively scarred crack).
But I don't like the way Moabophiles have scapegoated him as an arch fiend, if you will.
Dean is a very talented climber with visionary drive, but if I was as tall as him I could put up unrepeatable aid routes! lol
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:05pm PT
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Dean Potter is a ET hybrid.
He is part Man and part Angel.
He is Nephilim. Perhaps he is good Nephilim?
He is out of this world in ability, strength and shear guts.
He exists within another dimension that mere mortals can only dream about.
He has Superman like abilities.
Truly incredible and inspirational.
(You heard it here first. Lol)
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:06pm PT
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Yeah DP is one of a kind and way out in front of most of us in three different sports. Inspiration to me and many others. Mistakes? Sure, but don't we all make some from time to time? In his case the good out-weighs the bad by miles and miles and miles! Long may he run...
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:07pm PT
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Dean who????
Alex Honold is the only guy I hear about these days.
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rurprider
Trad climber
Mt. Rubidoux
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:25pm PT
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Like him or hate him, you have to appreciate Dean Potter's drive, vision, quest for adventure, and climbing ability. And he's a pretty nice guy.
ps. MTucker, you appear to have your Potters confused? Hope this helps.
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:30pm PT
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Yeah, he is a pretty amazing guy from what I've seen.
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Jobee
Social climber
El Portal Ca.
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Dec 11, 2010 - 12:55pm PT
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For Tucker.
"It is better to receive than inflict an injury."
Dean is an extraordinary human being with a heart that sparkles like a diamond; I love him!
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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Dec 11, 2010 - 01:27pm PT
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heather and i are big fans of dean. he is larger that life, one of the bravest souls i know, and our friend.
one time when i left my winnebago in el cap meadow for too long, range jack hoeflich was out to bust me, but dean, on his own initiative, found the hide a key, and moved my rig more that once to throw jack off track. how nice was that?
his season in patagonia when he soled cerro torre once, and fitzroy twice, and only roped up for one pitch, is remarkable. dean is the man, a cool dude, and a true sould searcher. shipoopoi
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Dec 11, 2010 - 04:40pm PT
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I think he's great-pushing the sport to a new place, way ahead of his time. What he's doing now, most of us may catch up to many decades from now.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Dec 11, 2010 - 04:53pm PT
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Thanks for posting the link to the slack line video. Amazing. Potter is an inspiration. If he can solo those slack lines, what's stopping me from going for that next hold above a good bolt or a solid piece? I will never do climbs or other uber stunts like Potter, but we climbers all face the same internal struggles. We are united in overcoming our fears, uncertainty and weakness, whatever those may be.
I was especially touched by what Potter said at the end of the show about being happy each day regardless of the activity, the challenge. Finding a centered appreciation for existence is something everyone seems to struggle for, extreme sports junkie or not, but for people like Potter, I can see where finding happiness in the mundane would be tough slogging. I comes across and a genuine, thoughtful person, and I wish him only the best.
BAd
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Dec 11, 2010 - 04:57pm PT
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I'm with Greg Davis: mucho appreciated fer sure.
That's not to say anyone is saying anyone else is perfect, cause no one is......jus sayin' is all.
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Rudder
Trad climber
Long Beach, CA
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Dec 11, 2010 - 05:16pm PT
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For me, the "guys" have been:
Warren Harding
Royal Robbins
John Long
Ron Kauk
Lynn Hill
Dean Potter
Alex Honnold
Climbers are a smallworld clicky group... like a small town. An old saying about small towns is it is easy to makes friends and enemies... the friends come and go, but the enemies you keep forever. I feel sorry for professionals in small clicky activities... they generally take more grief from those scrutinizing their success than a professional in a mass appeal profession, and without even close to the same monetary compensation.
I appreciate Dean Potter.
That said I worry about Dean, Alex, and others. They get paid so little and it appears the only way for them to get paid at all is to do mind blowing free solos. Peter Croft said something to the affect, if you're free soloing for anyone other than yourself, then you've had a cruel joke played on you. I worry that Dean, Alex, and others have too much pressure on them to free solo.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 11, 2010 - 06:01pm PT
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I have to Love Dean Potter for his vision, his spirit, and for approaching climbing in order to deeply explore himself.
Larger than life folks are always going to do something or be some way that rubs us the wrong way. I think, for the wild path that Dean Loves, his faults, like mine, are ones I can accept and forgive.
Don't be mistaken, what Dean does is part gift, part athlete, and part Magic
Peace
Karl
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 11, 2010 - 06:06pm PT
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holy shite, GDavis drills MTuckers mother?
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Dec 11, 2010 - 06:42pm PT
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guy does amazing things.
but i predict that this thread doesnt last as long as a bashing one
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Burt
Big Wall climber
Las Vegas, Nv
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Dec 11, 2010 - 06:46pm PT
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who doesn't drill mt's mother....
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 11, 2010 - 06:52pm PT
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Is she a MILD?
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2010 - 07:14pm PT
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No Ron she's a MILTHSSCFO.
Mom I'd Like to Tell Her Son to Chill the F Out.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Dec 11, 2010 - 08:10pm PT
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Haha. Thanks for the link GDavis. There's a clip of me learning to slackline at the Gordon Ranch on that vid.
Dean was my slack/highline mentor. From rigging to walking I have learned much from this guy.
Dean is a visionary and an artist. He's also a really nice guy
Viva la Dean.
Bullwinkle, post some pics of Whisper.
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go-B
climber
Revelation 7:12
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Dec 11, 2010 - 08:12pm PT
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What he does scares the sh@t out of me!
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Eggstele
Trad climber
Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe
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Dec 13, 2010 - 12:30am PT
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BUMP for a BADASS!
I know "the grass is always greener" but, from an outsider looking in, I admire and have respect for your world.
Keep on keepin' it real!!
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Dec 16, 2010 - 03:59am PT
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People who are unique and talented and clearly some kind of individual
genius will always have an entourage of enemies. It seems to be
the nature of things. It's hard to name a great climber who didn't have his
detractors. Every experience I have had with Dean has been a good one.
He has always been friendly and warm and has treated me with respect,
even though he has shot far past any levels I ever played at, in climbing.
Dean said some very intelligent things about my Gill film, actually
gave it some deep, sensitive thought. If I could think of something
negative to say, it would be so overshadowed by the positive, that there
would be no point in mentioning it. Yes I know there must be some things
that have irked others, but maybe there are two sides to the story.
I have always been amazed by some of the things people have said about
me, I mean the really false stuff. The true stuff, well they don't
even get that right...
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tonym
climber
Oklahoma
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Dec 16, 2010 - 10:27am PT
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NIce guy for sure!
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 18, 2010 - 10:46am PT
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Dean is a good monkey, and I'm proud to call him my friend.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 18, 2010 - 11:06am PT
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LOL
Is there such a thing as a short night at the glue pot?
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Dec 18, 2010 - 11:23am PT
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Dean is the only free baser I respect.
Edit: Rick James is pretty cool too. Richard Pryor and Locker are some cool free basers as well.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 11:26am PT
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wow locker, thats super disrespectful.
You think you can get that service without PAYING cold hard cash???
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 31, 2011 - 05:00pm PT
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Wow! That's a LOT further than I want to fall off a boulder......
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 31, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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That's taller than most climbs at Rumney.
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Sergio Colombo
Mountain climber
Red Rock
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Nov 29, 2011 - 04:02am PT
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Met Dean on Cathedral Peak this past summer after coming off the summit. I spent an hour watching him going back and forth on the line like if he was walking on a street. While I was thinking to myself I would never have the balls to even attempt such a thing, he leaped on top of the pinnacles barefoot, ready to walk the line. My hat goes off to him.
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Nov 29, 2011 - 08:14am PT
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I think Dean is living his life. Should we all be so committed and passionate.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 29, 2011 - 10:03pm PT
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nice line.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
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years back,I was having lunch at the deli where Dean was also seating on the table eating so I asked Dean what he thinks of all the recent incident involving base jumpers and he said" I am considering and rethinking jumping since recently too many people on his list got either hurt or died. I was also in the valley when the call came in that afternoon. wasn't a good news.
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Killer K
Boulder climber
Sacramento, CA
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I like that you can hear the crow in the background telling him to go for it..
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Bump for respect
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domngo
climber
Canada
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I shook his hand on Sept 18st 2014 - he was hanging around the bridge while my friend Jon & I were racking up with PTPP for a slow and kind've steady ascent of BttB. It felt kind've silly as Pete wrangled us together mid gear explosion. He assured us both that we'd walk away at least with a handshake...felt like a older relative wanting you to officially meet The Principal (or in this case The Dean) whom was in the midst of shooting the sh#t with the other teachers. Corny as the encounter was it nevertheless was a great pleasure.
He died on my birthday. As sad as it is his passing reminds me every year to live the way I see fit & dream mega big. Huge respect. RIP.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Dean Potter was/is a very special person. He lives on.
Face Lift '09 had plenty of climbers out to celebrate the book, "The Stone Masters, California Rock Climbers in the 70's. I asked Dean to sign mine.
"What should I say," Dean asked, "I'm not really an old school stone master?"
As we talked it became obvious, Dean was keeping alive the Stone Masters. That's how he signed it, Stone Masters, the next Generation. A humble, likable Dude who will Never be forgotten. Cheers.
If I mentioned this before, no matter, it bears repeating.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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May 16, 2017 - 12:12pm PT
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Lest we forget....
shine on
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 16, 2017 - 12:15pm PT
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Surfing this morning, I found the man.
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quartziteflight
climber
Who knows?
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May 16, 2017 - 03:53pm PT
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I always considered him an inspiration and a phenomenal athlete.
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WBraun
climber
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May 16, 2017 - 07:30pm PT
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That's a good photo above.
Especially in black and white.
Top of turtleback dome .....
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Rill
Social climber
Ireland
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Sep 29, 2017 - 12:19pm PT
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Gone but not forgotten.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Sep 29, 2017 - 08:29pm PT
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Hueco. I have this mixed tape that keeps me awake when I drive. Dean takes it back to the Jetta and sits, by himself, cranking 'My Way' by the Pistols over, and over, and over.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 29, 2017 - 09:00pm PT
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Greatly admire Dean Potter
He was not though the dog whisperer
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Sep 29, 2017 - 10:24pm PT
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Was thinking- he was safer on the rock than anywhere else.
Same as Wolfgang and Walt.
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domngo
climber
Canada
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May 15, 2019 - 07:49pm PT
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Just about 4 years to the day! Jeez, what a spark of life. Respect and gratitude
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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May 18, 2019 - 05:29am PT
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Bump for the garlic
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Rill
Mountain climber
Ireland
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May 30, 2019 - 03:12am PT
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Bump for the 4 years...
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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May 30, 2019 - 10:23am PT
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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May 30, 2019 - 11:47am PT
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Leashless...Egad!
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