C4/1971
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 15, 2010 - 05:22pm PT
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Hints:
1. Camp IV & El Portal in the early seventies, East Side after that.
2. Made the best pipes from deer antler....
3. Managed the ski shop in Pico Rivera in the sixties.
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The Warbler
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the edge of America
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Feb 15, 2010 - 05:24pm PT
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Millis.
Taught me how to handjam.
RIP wildman.
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 06:57pm PT
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I am busy scanning the seventies and I have quite a few of Millis. Including Jtree in '74. I'll put them up.
Always had a soft spot for him, in 1972 he almost died on the Column when his swami (homebuilt) came apart rapping off the roof above Dinner Ledge. His upper body strength allowed him to reach and grab the rope, and then i lowered him to the ledge. I took pictures of him afterwards and I think he tossed them. I have one he took of me before we rapped off, with a 1000 yard stare....
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eKat
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BITD2
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Feb 15, 2010 - 07:07pm PT
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It's Millis, for sure!
He spent some time living in Castella at a little place I used to own at the base of Castle Crags.
Kath
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Mimi
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Feb 15, 2010 - 07:09pm PT
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Very sorry for the loss of your friend. What happened to him?
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eKat
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BITD2
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Feb 15, 2010 - 07:12pm PT
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Mimi, don't you remember Dennis Miller?
His link to this mortal coil was severed by skin cancer.
:-(
Kath
P.S. By the way. . . that photo is THEE best, most peaceful shot I've ever seen of him.
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 07:14pm PT
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Thanks EKat! He was a very special human being, and I always thought the Bhuddist Monk was him.
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Mimi
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Feb 15, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
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No, eKat, never had the pleasure.
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 07:25pm PT
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Millis in his environ....
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eKat
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BITD2
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Feb 15, 2010 - 07:28pm PT
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That's more like it!
:-)
Kath
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 07:41pm PT
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 07:43pm PT
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C4/1971
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 07:44pm PT
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I like the Copenhagen can....
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Don Lauria
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Bishop, CA
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Feb 18, 2010 - 10:09am PT
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Here's more on Millis. I have some of his elk horn work, but I'll have to take some photos.
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Don Lauria
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Bishop, CA
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Feb 18, 2010 - 01:39pm PT
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A bump for Millis
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scuffy b
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Where only the cracks are dry
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Feb 18, 2010 - 01:54pm PT
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One of Millis' hopes was to assemble an anthology of non-climbing tales,
working title Horizontal World of Yosemite.
A lot of what has happened on SuperTopo the past couple years would have
absolutely delighted him. Backstories, nothing but backstories, that's
what he was after.
I saw him after nearly a 20-year gap. I said, "The last time I saw you,
you were climbing the last pitch of Great White Book, naked, dragging
your clothes behind you."
Millis: "Hmm, I wonder which time that was..."
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hoipolloi
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A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Feb 18, 2010 - 02:37pm PT
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did he fake his death and become an actor?
Paul Bauer
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Feb 18, 2010 - 03:07pm PT
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That first picture is fabulous, and the way I'd like to remember him. It's hard to believe, but the last time I remember actually talking to Millis was on Washington's Birthday weekend in 1973 on the Coulterville Road near the start of The Void. I had just endured a very decisive failure on The Cleft, and Dennis was just warming up for a good day at the crags.
Thanks much for the post.
John
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ron gomez
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fallbrook,ca
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Feb 18, 2010 - 05:10pm PT
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GREAT post, thanks, I love the "old" shots from back when. Lauria if you can take some photos of his work and post that would be cool!
Peace
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Feb 20, 2010 - 12:14am PT
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Millis's handiwork.
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