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mctwisted
Social climber
superslacker city
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May 15, 2011 - 10:52pm PT
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bvb, i've got one for ya!
bill, walt, sue and i would every winter go up to n.cal. to boat as the waters ran thin down here in yosemite. it was always a great two week adventure, not sure if the whitewater or the camping was the most fun! way out in sasquatch country we would find creeks and rivers to run, usually raining quite a bit so fun rigging of the tarps at bivis.
anyway we were to meet walt the next day and had time to do a small creek (tomki) and still have time to meet him the following day. class 3-4 and low water so it was a low stress fun run that sorta ran in a big loop with a five mile run and a one mile shuttle back to the put in.
bill, sue and i start off and are a few hundred feet downstream and the cool (seemingly wise) beagle that we had made friends with at the putin was following us, i was always in front (and kinda jacked up to be efficient on time or whatever), then sue and bill in the back. we were in a very tight small creek with fair sized rock drops with vegetation involved and lots of attention to not get whacked by it. bill realized that the cool pup was not going to go back (and we believe had been wanted to do this run for a long time.)
soon the terrain became cliffed out as we were into the main gorge and bill would console the pup (when it would voice loudly that it was scared) and bill would talk the dog into hair raising river crossings to the other side of the river, over and over bill would softly console the pup through the sections, one at a time, very pateintly till we got through the thick of it.
things started to mellow and we made the takeout only to find that mctwisted had failed to grab the keys and stupidly had no hidakey.
bill and pup started jogging right away without even a discussion one mile to bills truck.
i think bill's new friend did that run several times after being guided down it by bill
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 15, 2011 - 11:09pm PT
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À la recherche du temps perdu
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mctwisted
Social climber
superslacker city
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May 15, 2011 - 11:21pm PT
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oh yeh, and bill really helped me last year on the green river trip (8 day)
here are a few river pics.
thanks bill
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tom Carter
Social climber
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May 16, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
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Dan -
Great story of the Dog Whisperer!
He can cast a spell on his clients too!!!
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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May 16, 2011 - 02:30pm PT
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coot,
there is no way you've know bill for 35 years
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mr p
Big Wall climber
eastside ca
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May 16, 2011 - 07:16pm PT
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the only person i know who drives better after 6-16z 8 balls
he is a pro at everything..........
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Just going through my notes and filling in the blanks on stuff from the 80s.
The stuff below is just from memory; from putting together lists of things I did with individual people.
This is as good as any place to log it!
In the Valley, 1985 through 1989 - Billy and I climbed, though not in order listed:
Henley Quits
Chingando
Gollum Left Side
Meatgrinder
Vendetta
Pulpit Pooper
The Sermon
Twilight Zone
East Buttress Lower Cathedral
PowerPoint Higher Cathedral
Here's to you Bill!
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weezy
climber
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i had a pretty funny experience with coiler and swilliam in a random c4 site that belonged to a couple of brits. coiler was yelling at the tool for shooting at a bear across the street and they swung the lights in our direction. swilliam bee-lines for a tree and makes like a matchstick; i think he had more to lose than me or coiler. coiler continued with his monkeyshow unabated, of course, and the brits were none too happy. there was alcohol involved.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Bill rocks on my list!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Ride on Potato Gunner...
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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I'm with Carter, Billy is my friend, too.
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Bill with his "belay glove", classic Bill
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Got some GUD fishing beta from Bill this last summer, hey Bro, we should hike in a few and wet some lines!
Peace
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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i am so lucky to have done several walls with bill and a bunch of free climbing. i am not so lucky to have tried to keep up with him while drinking. he is a classic, no holds barred kind of guy. ss
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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He's as humble as he is a great person. All joking aside, what a great friend to us all. And, cheers!
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