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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Congrats Doug!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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Congratulations!
Just don't be getting any funny ideas about streaking or mooning the awards committee.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Way to go, Doug! Happy to see this.
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hooblie
climber
"i used to care, but things have changed"
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nicely done doug. your skills will serve you well when pressed to describe the dazzling lights and rarefied air. but first catch your breath, we'll be holding ours. oh, and i'd be a little leery of largo, crushing handshake and all.
that's just how it's gotta be, amongst the titans
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Joe
Social climber
Santa Cruz Mountains/Los Gatos
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nice Doug. very well deserved. kudos.
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WBraun
climber
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Congratulations Doug
Thanks for everything ......
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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The Literary Award was established to recognize excellence in alpine literature by American writers. Recipients of the award have contributed extensively and over many years to mountain literature. Recipients are not selected through a submission process.
Past recipients:
John E. Harlin III Awarded: 2008
Alison Osius Awarded: 2007
John Long Awarded: 2006
John Sherman Awarded: 2005
Mark Jenkins Awarded: 2004
Bradford Washburn Awarded: 2003
Galen Rowell Awarded: 2003
Tami Knight Awarded: 2003
Rick Ridgeway Awarded: 2002
Audrey Salkeld Awarded: 1999
Michael Kennedy Awarded: 1998
Broughton Coburn Awarded: 1997
Jonathan Waterman Awarded: 1996
Allen Steck Awarded: 1995
Steve Roper Awarded: 1995
Elizabeth Hawley Awarded: 1994
Jeff Long Awarded: 1993
David S. Roberts Awarded: 1992
Ed Webster Awarded: 1990
H. Adams Carter Awarded: 1988
Greg Child Awarded: 1987
Jonathan Roblee Krakauer Awarded: 1986
So that makes four recipients who sometimes post here, and maybe a lurker or two.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
Will know soon
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Super great to meet you at the FaceLift this Summer in the Ditch, Doug Robinson ! Here's Doug on left, Dave Yerian and Matt C. along with our wonderful Anastasia. :D
Here's Doug, Lynnie and Dave. We had such a fun time yakkin'. Funny how the great and well read are also shoeless and just a blast to spend time with. :DD Lynnie
Big Congrats to YO Sir....Really !!!! How incredible are your laurels ?!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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wonderful recognition for a thoughtful writer
If you are more at home
In the mountains than anywhere
You are a mountaineer.
No climbing is required.
Being among the peaks
It will arise spontaneously
With no other motive
Or justification
Than itself.
To be a mountaineer
Is first to love the mountains
Then to climb them.
Technique
Can never replace
Devotion.
 Doug Robinson
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em knot
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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Doug's "Moving Over Stone" got me started back on rock in the 80s -- it's still one of the best instructional and inspirational climbing videos ever.
Congratulations on the award!
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Brian
climber
Cali
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Well deserved! Congratulations Doug.
Brian
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Congratulations!.. MR Robinson..
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Doug - my mentor, my friend - you've written my mind and feelings for decades. It's nice that you're getting some well-deserved recognition.
You are a glowing gem in our midst.
-MuchLoveFromJellow
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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No one cares what I think, but upon further reflection . . .
. . . if I average all of your ink & paper (let alone those inscribed on stone) creations, I have to give you a 9.75--I guess I really can't think of anyone more deserving.
Bravo!1
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Fletcher
Trad climber
somewhere approaching Ajna
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That's some fine company you've joined. Congrats Doug and thanks for all that you've given.
Doug's poem Ed posted is a keeper!
Eric
EDITED to clarify that the poem is written by DR.
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10b4me
Ice climber
the reticient boulder at the Happies
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congratulations Doug, its well deserved.
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Pretty good company Doug. Congratulations.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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that poem is one from DR himself
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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This makes me very happy. I have known Doug for over half of my life, and always kept in touch. He has tons of notes and jots that he has taken over the years, and I always bitch at him for not putting more of it down on paper. He has been getting pretty productive and is still pulling down. He can write about Pratt because he climbed with Pratt. Most of those guys are nursing arthritis by now. Doug was just born to be in the mountains. He lives a life of pure joy when he can leave the baggage of the flat land behind. I still owe him a case of wine that I pilfered when he was gone for a few months. I wonder if he still takes Randolph Hearst 3rd on the annual ski trip across the Sierra.
Our lives can go in many directions, but he has remained true no matter what the cost down low. I expect he will die at 100 somewhere up in the Sierra skiing way back out there somewhere. Sumbitch still doesn't even use chalk. I doubt he has ever placed a bolt in his life except on Half Dome, and precious few of those. He was along for the ride on what he thought was a beautiful route.
I am a little down in the mouth today. I am a petroleum geologist and we just planted a million dollar steering tool and got stuck wayyyy out in a horizontal well. I only own a fraction, but it is going to cost me about as much as a house if we can't free it.
Ahh, the oil business. If you want to make a million dollars, you start out with two million.
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Michael Kennedy
Social climber
Carbondale, Colorado
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Fantastic! A well-deserved award.
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