Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Jan 22, 2013 - 09:15pm PT
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Peter - great shot of Raffi! Nice find. Thanks.
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2013 - 10:06am PT
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Bump - let me know if anyone has some Bedayns and/or other vintage gear for sale. I'm always looking. Thank you.
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2013 - 08:47am PT
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Dug this out the other day...NOS!
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Mar 21, 2013 - 09:58am PT
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My most personal associations with Raffi occurred during the winter of '74-'75 when I was living in my van in C4. At the time the NPS had instituted a new Master Planning process for the park, after a huge public outcry when the previous plan had essentially given too much power to the Yosemite Park and Curry Company, recently purchased by MCA.
I attended the first round of public meetings in the Valley, Mariposa, Oakhurst, etc. When the meetings were expanded to the Bay Area, I preceded them and with Raffi and RD Caughron, organized an AAC meeting where I explained the meetings' format, and we discussed various strategies for getting the climbers'/AAC's messages into the process.
Raffi's energy, humor, and generosity were always evident, especially in smaller gatherings at his office in Berkeley which normally included RD, Mike Warburton, Raffi, me and others. He was also involved, with the AAC, in the first group of Russians who came to the USA on a climbers' exchange. We had a great time showing the Russians the Bay Area and introducing them to Yosemite. Mike did some climbing with them and, with Raffi's help, Mike went on the next year's Russian exchange and climbed with them in the Caucasus. I still remember clearly Raffi's smiling face, his easy laughter, and his heart of gold.
Haanster: Great photo of Raffi in WW II !! And thanks for posting that Yosemite Gazette article.
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane ~:~
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Mar 21, 2013 - 03:02pm PT
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Mellissa - I bootied one a few years ago from the talus below El Cap. I found one in the talus below the Column as we (myself & W. Landry) were on the approach to SWFWC ('74). It was a real score, even back then, since we figured it belonged to some Ol' Timer (lol) who dropped it on an early WC route. I ended up giving it to him (WL) when he split back to San Diego, as a token of respect & brotherhood...he seemed pretty pleased (perhaps he still has it).
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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BooDawg - whish I could get a time machine...sounds like a great time to have been a climber!
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Mar 22, 2013 - 11:57am PT
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Sorry, not selling mine.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 22, 2013 - 01:41pm PT
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Not selling this one either. Picked it off the Nose in '67 when Boche and I were doing the 8th ascent. Dick Williams, et al, had done the 7th.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Mar 22, 2013 - 04:46pm PT
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Dick is still out at the Trapps on most good days - maybe you should mail it to him?
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2013 - 10:08am PT
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Well if any of you change your mind(s) let me know...obviously they're getting harder to find. Have not seen one on Ebay in quite a while.
My recent $ offer was too low. I'd pay $25-40 each now. Depends on how many, etc
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jstan
climber
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Peter:
Thanks for the photo!
I had just one conversation with Raffi. More than anything else he wanted to encourage people. You can see that even in a picture.
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