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Misha
Trad climber
Woodside, CA
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Rock on, Doug! Congratulations!!!
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Thank you Peter, and thanks every one for the fine words.
I am indeed on the road; hadn't even thought to check the Taco for days. I'm stressing a bit about pulling this slide show together for tonight. Adventures in PowerPoint, adventures in scanning, adventures in plugs to hook the computer to the projector. Been 'midnite musing' about adding tunes behind some of it, but that will have to wait 'till next time.
Uh, Bruce...slight correction. Here's the proper orientation of the photo you posted.
I always liked this photo, being a fan of disorientation in its many guises. So I figured it was a stroke of genius on Gordon Wiltsie's part to cut it into a circle, as the move is sideqays anyway.
BTW, this is the Buttermilk, early on (those shoes are a giveaway). The climb came to be known as the Circle Boulder. Took me many weeks to send it, though now it's a warmup for Saigon down on the corner of the same superb stone.
Thanks again for noticing, and Cheers!
Doug
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Are those Black Beauties on your feet, Doug!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2009 - 03:52pm PT
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okie
Trad climber
San Leandro, Ca
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Another one of my favorite pics of Doug was taken of him on the "Jesus is coming soon, repent" clifflet right near Bishop. Anybody got that one to post here? It's on the last page of Ascent 1975/1976.
That important, though somewhat faded message is still there on that cliff behind some ramshackle houses, next to an off-width...how appropriate!
Congratulations to Doug! He's more than a writer, a true visionary.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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That would be the "get right with God" crack just off 395.
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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The "Get Right with God Crack"
Congratulations Doug.
I can't imagine you and the techno-wizards not melding somehow!!
TC
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I wonder if the landowner will still threaten to shoot you for Getting Right with God (left side in or right side in) on his property?!? LOL
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Well DR. you know I have alway's been a bit disorientated anyway!
Bruce.
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JesseM
Social climber
Yosemite
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Well Deserved Doug,
When I first read "A Night on the Ground a Day in the Open", I had never been to the Range of Light. Doug's descriptions and stories made the Sierras come alive in my imagination. I got through many boring lectures at Emory day-dreaming about running down talus fields after cruising up a white granite peak, and gazing at stars with cool mountain air and the shadows of mountains surrounding me.
I still credit you Doug, for being another beacon in my sub-conscious mind to come out to the Sierras and to be a part of the wilderness of this awesome range!
Cheers,
Jesse McGahey
Yosemite Climbing Ranger
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travelin_light
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Way to go Doug! What an accomplishment!
Charles I.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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DR-
Congrats, and thanks a lot for the inspiration you've provided me.
"Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving".
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Jim Herrington
Mountain climber
New York, NY
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Nov 13, 2009 - 10:00am PT
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Talus Bumping.
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BW
climber
Big Pine, CA
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Nov 13, 2009 - 11:56am PT
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Clever scree, Jim
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:01pm PT
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Dawg, Doug, That's the California Quarter coming out on December 1st, isn't it?
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FeelioBabar
Trad climber
One drink ahead of my past.
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:14pm PT
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His book is my favorite collection of climbing writing...that has been read over and over again.
Cheers to DR!
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wskish
Mountain climber
Saratoga, CA
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Nov 13, 2009 - 12:54pm PT
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DR definitely deserves it!. Congrats Doug. "A Night on the Ground..." is the first book I reach for when I'm missing the mountains.
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scuffy b
climber
Whuttiz that Monstrosicos Inferno?
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Nov 13, 2009 - 03:59pm PT
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Congratulations, Doug.
Thanks for all your good writing over the years.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 14, 2009 - 07:46pm PT
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DR thinking, that with just a little bit of practice, and discipline he could be the first person in history to get both the Nobel Prize for Literature and Medicine concurrently.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Nov 14, 2009 - 08:17pm PT
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Cheers DR. Keep it coming.
Funny that BASE104 mentioned the annual trips w/ WRH III. Brought back some memories. I remember one spring morning towing your red Honda to town, picking said individual up at the airport, taking him to Wheeler's where he geared up. Then giving you two a ride to the North Lake trailhead. Your pack had to weigh 80 lbs. Christ, it was bigger than you!
If BASE104 ever repays you that case of wine, I hope he delivers it personally. I'd like to see that crusty guy again.
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