Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
mastadon
Trad climber
quaking has-been
|
|
|
May 18, 2010 - 11:27pm PT
|
You're right, Carter, that does look like Drone "The Snake" Stevens on the right. Nita must have been about 15 at the time. The others look familiar but my brain hurts trying to remember.....
|
|
Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 12:18am PT
|
I want to repeat Fuzzywuzzy's question about David Yohalem. It's sad but in this thread Bill Bonebreak and David were the two people that I remember by name, and I would hate to think that they are both gone now. Wasn't Gene Folley part of this crowd? I remember Mathis and Linda by their faces, but could never have come up with their names. There are some similar photos of this time at http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/950570/Indian-Rock-and-the-Valley-around-1970-some-photos , but none of this particular group. I have a photo of Bill that I will try to dig up.
|
|
C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 12:33am PT
|
Gene was a part of the group. From SF, he had one of the best camping trucks I saw in the early seventies. I liked it when Gene got into rockets and fired them from El Cap Meadow at climbers on the various routes...
|
|
Fletcher
Trad climber
not very much, recently.
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 12:37am PT
|
I, for one, am really enjoying this thread. I was a mere lad of 9 or 10 in the early seventies when these photos were taken, but there was part of me that has always wanted to be there.
Keep 'em coming. This thread's a jewel.
Eric
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 02:22am PT
|
in 2030, I want to be able post just like this.
may threads like this live forever
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 02:27am PT
|
You're right Kevin, I forgot all about Barbara.
Damn missed that one and didn't even recognize Drone.
|
|
PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 09:23am PT
|
Great thread.
Anyone know what happen to Gene Foley?
Last heard from him in the mid to late 90's.
|
|
throwpie
Trad climber
CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2010 - 12:19pm PT
|
Randy Hamm's death was quite a shock. Andy Cox and Jack Dorn, both friends, also killed...Randy and Gypsy were great friends of ours...lost track of them along the way and then found out about his fall on TV. Yosemite was such a big part of my life...I grew up in Merced as did Mouse and Mathis, both of who really taught me the ropes. I always felt like I was just on the outside of the scene. Too many great climbers and characters at the time, and I was always in awe. Gene Foley was a friend also...last time I saw him must have been in the late seventies when he lived in SF. Werner, I remember well...we bummed cigs from each other...I'm sure he wouldn't remember me. How about Cowboy Larry Moore? And Steve Williams? And Skeet? So many others....I haven't really climbed seriously since the early eighties, and never really climbed seriously then, I guess. Anyway....
Here's a shot of Randy and (pregnant) Gypsy after a surf in Santa Cruz.
|
|
Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 12:24pm PT
|
Awesome stuff. My favorite kind of posts (maybe cuz i'm getting older). I didn't show up to Camp 4 until '79, when I was 16, and even then was a pretty sporadic visitor. Makes me wish I had brought my camera.
|
|
Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 01:50pm PT
|
Steve Williams aka "Slings"
|
|
Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 02:03pm PT
|
Great picture of Slings, Tom. Maybe a little too characteristic but always a welcome face and smile.
|
|
Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 02:14pm PT
|
Here's one of the "Rev" also Prez of "The Flames" of Merced. Jeff had the sweetest set up at camp. He was the SAR leader up in the Meadows the first summer Cochrane and I were on the team. So much fun and really showed us around. I remember early one morning - Jeff reading a page of the Bible before putting it to "use", "Ladies and Gentlemen, uncles and aunts and all you peoples in the Levi pants...."
He basically quit climbing after the accident on the Yawn with ? Ross. Blocks in the OW nearly caused some major injuries.
Great old friend to many.
David Yohalem
Hey Roger! That isn't my photo - but I've witnessed the "verve".
|
|
throwpie
Trad climber
CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2010 - 03:10pm PT
|
This is really fun. Digging through boxes of photos... I'm glad I started this thread...its nice know theres still folks out there that shared that time and space with me.
My wife and I lived in the rescue camp up in the meadows one summer...Must have been 72? Never went on a rescue though. Got to go to a Lloyd Price fish fry...I do remember an elaborate bear hang in the camp. Near the end of the summer Jeff, Nancy (his girlfriend at the time, and still a close friend of ours) my girlfriend, now wife Peggy and I took off in Nan's yellow VW convertible to Montana. Four of us plus gear in that car...ah youth. An adventure for sure. I think this was a year before his Yawn accident. I think a block pulled and mashed his finger pretty good. He was a ways out and had to downclimb on bloody jams. I do remember it freaked him out bad and that was about it for his climbing. I should look that old boy up...I haven't seen him in years.
I have this one shot of Jeff climbing on a crag near Red Lodge Montana. Also in his cool hat.
|
|
Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 03:49pm PT
|
Throwpie -
That wasn't when we were over at Sodasprings was it. Remember Phil Birdcheff working on his wooden bust out away from camp?
The Rev is quite a dancer. Still cuts a rug like no other. Lives in/near Groveland.
Keep digging for those shots!!!
|
|
throwpie
Trad climber
CA
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2010 - 04:21pm PT
|
No, the rescue camp was behind the store as I recall. Could have been '73. I DO remember Niceley's all you can eat chicken dinners over the hill in Lee Vining. I know I have more pictures, I just can't find them.
|
|
C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 09:35pm PT
|
Love the picture of Slings. My memories of him are Camel cigs and beer, and mooching food in the cafeteria.
Also loved the pic of Randy and Gypsy, good folks. Also miss Andy Cox, but it was a great wake. Rangers kept trying to shut it down and the fire kept getting bigger. Image of the night? Werner balancing a burning broom on his nose and walking across a four foot tall bonfire. No liquor was involved....
Ed Barry. Awfully fun to climb with , as was Donini. And John Long was funny, third classing Chickenhead Delight with the rope in a hangman's noose...
RIP Peter Barton and Tim Harrison...
|
|
TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 10:07pm PT
|
I remember P. Bircheff '74, at one of the more remote spots across the road, carving a bust of a MT. Man that looked allot like himself.
|
|
C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
|
|
|
May 19, 2010 - 11:10pm PT
|
climbed a lot with his brother Dave, and hung with the nurses at the clinic playing Panzerblitz. We had some great climbing days...he lives outside Hemet these days...looking for anthropology sites in the desert...
|
|
throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2010 - 05:15pm PT
|
The first time I met Tim Harrison, he had just hitch hiked up 395 to the meadow with a little teardrop trailer. He had a clamp on hitch and said he had no problem getting rides. So cool. I got to climb with him a few times before his accident. I remember setting up a toprope on the Death Crack with him and a few other thrillseekers...coming off produced the best rope swing in the area. I don't think it had been led at that point. (I'm probably wrong) While we were up there, we heard someone yell "you're gonna die!" coming from a car parked by the lake. That's Bridwell, someone said. We all survived.
|
|
SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
|
Fun stuff, throwpie--but remember,
most climbing shots are buttshots or headshots. . .
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!