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Mighty Hiker
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Outside the Asylum
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Oct 15, 2017 - 07:19pm PT
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The redoubtable jstan, at the Facelift in 2007. A true friend, who rather lives up to the aphorism "The unexamined life is not worth living".
Here he is with Tom Frost and Royal Robbins, the first time they'd met in person.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 15, 2017 - 07:25pm PT
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Bump for Jstan!
He's someone to emulate!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 16, 2017 - 06:14am PT
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great Bump!
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jstan
climber
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Oct 22, 2017 - 04:39am PT
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Wilber describes the litter experience very well. In my case my truck is more widely recognized than am I. A coworker volunteered she wants my truck after I am dead. If I will her Christine, they should get along very nicely.
The way Facelift as an experience has flourished shows we have all manner of opportunities for expanding the interest base. Need to get a Go Pro. Even a cartoon life history of a poor persecuted coke can might work.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Oct 22, 2017 - 07:27am PT
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Wilber came upon a fine idea for his exercise. Got to keep that one in mind. Thanks, Anders.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Oct 22, 2017 - 11:37am PT
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Bump for some good people, Jstan, Bercaw, and McGowan!!!
I'm better for knowing them.
ditto for the 3 Johns (sometimes, in the Gunks, they were the 4 Johns when John Bragg joined in)
now that Berc has made a rare ST apperaance (3rd post in 11 years!!!) I'll throw in a little McGowan to round it out...
John mugging it up for the camera, when he and Carol came down for a visit a few years ago
John and my son. McGowan kept him in stitches the whole time. My son didn't quite know what to make of John, but he certainly was entertained
they was like peas and carrots
hope you other Johns enjoy
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 22, 2017 - 08:32pm PT
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Well, gosh. I know all three of them. Haven't seen
John B since, maybe 1976? And McGowan, prolly 1978. I was lucky to
climb with both. (Jstan was way ABOVE my level, still is)!
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jstan
climber
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Oct 22, 2017 - 10:40pm PT
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We all were incredibly lucky to have a chance to spend time at Carderock.
At work I was building as system based on DEC's 11/34 running Fortran. Fortran was retarded when it came to string handling, something I needed. The lab let me hire McGowan to solve the problem. I knew he was going to succeed one day when, out of frustration, he slammed the teletype saying, "I will not let a box defeat me!"
I think we need an anthology of all the Carderock stories
Edit:
In truth we all are "who we are." But I was privileged to encounter John who, I have to say, was the most primal character I had ever encountered. To stay at his terminal living on only peanut butter till the EMT' took him to the hospital, that's f*#king primal. Through the people we know we learn about ourselves. That's a real gift.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Oct 23, 2017 - 08:11am PT
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Mike Warburton was living in Washington, D.C. when an Army (or was it Navy) rappelling demonstration inspired him to start climbing. Carderock was where he began. He wouldn't have been old enough to drive there. His family moved to California and Mike adapted.
Mike on the right:
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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I think we need an anthology of all the Carderock stories
Yes, YES, we do!!! :)
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