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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 23, 2010 - 04:31am PT
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Anyone know what happened to Mr. Brueckner?
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Dec 23, 2010 - 11:06am PT
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I saw Keith once last year. He was out for a day. His knees are really bad, and I don't anticipate seeing him out here again.
Great guy.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 02:24am PT
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Was that out in Josh? Gosh, he must be near 90 no?
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 05:58am PT
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Yeah that's the man himself! Yes, it was in Josh.
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 08:09am PT
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tinker b
climber
the commonwealth
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Dec 24, 2010 - 08:56am PT
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hey he was born on the very same day as my dad!!!
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 09:40am PT
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Yeah I have the guide book. Keith gate me a copy years ago. He is a very smart man. We had a very long and fun conversation about chaos theory while we were climbing. We also had a friend in common, Murray Gell-Mann.
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Debby Norwood
climber
San Diego
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Feb 11, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
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Keith has been married to my mother for the last 24 years, and he is still alive, but hasn't been able to climb for the last couple of years. He'll be 88 in March, and would still LIKE to climb, but his body is just not up to it any more. I was lucky enough to go to Chamonix with my husband, Keith and my mother in 2002, and Keith was still climbing the Alps at that time. He was an amazing tour guide, able to name every peak and remember the number of times he climbed each....which were many, many times. He still asks about going to Joshua Tree to climb, but he's not up to it anymore, something he finds hard to accept.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Feb 11, 2012 - 05:51pm PT
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I used to see Keith up at Woodson all of the time in the late 70's and early '80's. Usually I was just by myself, soloing stuff. We'd typically talk for just a few minutes. I remember one time being up there with a girlfriend and her dog. We exchanged pleasantries with Keith and party and, while doing so, my girlfriend's dog bit one of Keith's younger, female companions(might have even been a daughter). Glad to hear he's still around.
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Ken
Trad climber
Arroyo Grande
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Feb 11, 2012 - 06:08pm PT
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Keith,
Ken from Woodson 1980 thru 1986 says hi.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Feb 11, 2012 - 06:29pm PT
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Thanks for the update Debby. Keith is a great guy. Tell him hi from Hilde and Robert in Joshua Tree!!!!
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Debby Norwood
climber
San Diego
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Oct 20, 2012 - 03:08am PT
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I will pass along your salutations. I'm sure Keith will be glad to hear you've said hi. He really misses Joshua Tree...he talks about it often.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 20, 2012 - 04:46am PT
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A postcard from the Chamonix area to Mr. Brueckner
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Oct 20, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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I remember Keith from when I was in high school and hitching up to Suicide Rock with Richard Harrison and seeing Keith on a weekday running the equivalent of a modern-day Mini-Traction rig. That is, he'd string a top rope and climb using I think a Gib's ascender or something like that. Keith did a lot of hard routes that way and I was always curious how it arrived at that system/method.
Wish I would have taken him on a few routes, but he was very much into his own thing it seemed. Hope his memories are good ones.
JL
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Oct 20, 2012 - 02:01pm PT
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I climbed the Salathe with Keith I think in 1978. Morning on El Cap Spire and I am getting out the caffeine pills. Keith, in a very worried tone: "Eric, what are those pills?" I explained and he said "Do you have enough that I might have some?"
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Oct 21, 2012 - 11:14pm PT
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I met Keith a few times at Woodson at the end of the 70's. Still have my red guidebook.
Best wishes to him and hope he gets out to JT yet!
Rick
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CHARLOTTE BIALEK
Boulder climber
New York
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Sep 21, 2014 - 06:00am PT
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I am one of Keith's 5 daughters - he also had two sons - and am very sad to say that he passed away peacefully Friday, September 19, 2014. Climbing was essential to him and some of my happiest memories are of Keithie hiking in the Sierra's with me racing along behind in bare feet - a thing he did not approve of but I survived blister free! - He introduced us to the joys of glaciers (and food!) in Chamonix and bouldering in Joshua Tree and at Mount Woodson. He wrote the saddest cards I have ever read while rained out in Norway and stuck in a tent for what seemed like weeks but he also wrote extensively detailed notes/books about climbs. I will have to reread them now. He was a physicist who loved problems something which made climbing perfect for him. He was also one of the founders of UCSD.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Sep 21, 2014 - 06:17am PT
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Sorry for your loss. Sounds like a great man. Condolences to all friends and family.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Sep 21, 2014 - 06:35am PT
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I used to run into Keith all the time at Woodson throughout the 70s and early 80s. Just a steady, consistently friendly guy.
I'm very sorry for your loss, Charlotte, and have nothing but very positive memories of him.
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