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bob
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:49am PT
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Tipped a beer (a few) to Bean here in Salida, CO yesterday evening at a local bar with some old friends. Most of us came up from Prescott, AZ to be raft guides during the mid 90,s and moved on or are living in this area. I'm just visiting and am so pleased that this took place. I needed it. We told stories of around the Arkansas River and the antics there, but there were also stories from all over. Some of the stories people were a part of while others were just great tales told with giggles and probably a bit of loosness as to the validity of the actual tale being spun. Certain personalities lend themselves to such boosting of the facts! :) It was a pleasent session and a lot of laughs. I mean tear jerking laughs. Not to mention some tears for the man.
The town that normally doesn't have sick downpoors had one and then the sky opened up to one of the best sunsets I've seen in a while. Hard not to make a connection.
Love you Bean..........thanks for the memories!
Bob J.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:28am PT
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he tore thru this existence with
wayward enthusiasms and heart-driven zeals,
i am sure he'll make keen sense of the next....
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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seems like a low-key/cool guy who did some cool stuff in his time, seems tougher than most
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Holy Crap, I missed this somehow.
Very sorry to hear about B.B., didn't even know he had passed.
Didn't know you Bean, but you seemed like a really cool guy from the pics and kind words I see here.Hope you are doing well on the other side and that your family and friends are doing ok.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 20, 2012 - 11:02pm PT
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Good call silver.
I forgot to bump this a couple days ago in rememberance of Bean.
Dude charged with grit and heart.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
California
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Jul 21, 2012 - 04:35pm PT
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Miss you bro!
Wish I would have made it down to Patagonia and climbed with you like we talked about so many times.
See you on the other side, my friend.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Jul 21, 2012 - 05:48pm PT
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We were able to top out this free standing pillar on Mt Chamberlin last year. We named it "The Bean Pole" in memory Of Bean Bowers. Godspeed Bean.
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Conrad
climber
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Jul 21, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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Nice Photo Pirate.
Quite the line up.
Is that Micah Dash fourth from the right?
Yeah Bean.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
California
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Jul 21, 2012 - 10:30pm PT
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Is that Micah Dash fourth from the right?
That's right, sir!
Yup, quite the lineup indeed. Pick ANY two random climbers in this group and I think they'd pretty much get it done, anywhere.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Jul 24, 2012 - 11:06pm PT
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Borrowed from the OuterLocal tribute that Christian Beckwith wrote:
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I’ve been up to a lot here in the Fitz Roy area, most of it non-mountain-climbing related: building, bouldering, guiding and lots of mate. The time in the mountains has been full value, though, and I’m celebrating life because of all that’s happened. Jonny Copp, Josh Wharton and I got three meters from the top of Torre Eger when the whole piece of the summit I was on gave way and sent me flying with it thirty meters to the base of the ‘shroom. Jonny asked me if I was alive before bursting out laughing….
The ‘shroom lead had taken me three and a half hours. It felt like melting A4, and pretty much ended that way: twenty-eight sharp points, thirty meters, an ice-slab landing—and I walked away with a sore back. I coulda spit on the son-of-a-bitch’s tippy top from where the fifteen-foot-high, six-foot-wide flute of rime crumpled beneath me…. All this after a cold open bivy and some serious choss climbing for the previous thirty-six hours and a way-bold lead through an overhanging Bombay tube….
All in all it was the most climactic non-summit I could ask for, and this week I’m just really appreciating life. Friends, health, the colors in the sky…. The experience was simply a vivid reminder that all is good and mundane and seemingly going your way until suddenly it is not, and then luck or the lack thereof steers our inevitable destiny. Guess it just wasn’t my day, so I am taking my winnings to go live fully through a few more, and trying hard to remind myself to keep it nonmundane and dynamic, always.
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Wish I'd known you, Bean. See you on the other side.
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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Jul 24, 2012 - 11:33pm PT
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I've got a story for you. Bean and I climbed in the winds in 03. We did Pingora, and Wolfs head, with the 5.10 start.... muddy finger crack, all sweet. I've got a video of him yodelling while I was walking the rail down below.... He was so funny and cool. We topped out, and He was on the phone talking about two climbers who had been struck by lightning on the Grand... He said we should get our asses down asap. Once we got to the bottom of the decent, he decided to glisade (sp) down a snow slope. I'd never done it, but I was like "what the hell", so off I went. My big 240 pound ass was gaining some serious speed and I was digging in... His eyes got real big and he said, DIG IN, DIG IN!!!.... Boulders were approaching quickly, but I got stopped. We ran into another Doug from some guiding service, guiding some folks over to the left of the glacier pool, and some folks were diving in that cold water.
Afterwards, he asked me to borrow my journal and pen.... I think he went and wrote some poetry. I've got more stories to come. This was just one that was an awesome day in the mountains with the one of the coolest climbers, friend, and guide I've ever had the pleasure of roping up with. We planned on doing Moose's tooth, but never got to it. I'm hoping me and JenC can do the climb it this fall in his honer. He was one of a kind for sure. Tough, stubborn, and a ferocious climber. Greatly missed.
Doug
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Jul 25, 2012 - 01:16am PT
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doug, I hope you do get to climb that thing this fall
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Jul 25, 2012 - 01:22pm PT
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That was a great tribute by Christian. I missed that first time around.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Real nice tribute in the new Rock and Ice by Josh Wharton. Not online (yet); worth picking up.
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The Alpine
climber
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May 23, 2015 - 09:37am PT
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/\. What he said!
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jul 20, 2016 - 12:59pm PT
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Read this thread supertopo. Stop your name calling and bickering over the small sh#t.
The bickering still hasn't changed but you still occasionally get a gem of a thread like this one although the circumstances are tragic
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Jul 20, 2016 - 01:42pm PT
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Bean Fever!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 20, 2016 - 02:14pm PT
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Bean was a member of that tragic tribe of people who are suddenly taken away while still at the peak of their powers. My twin brother was another. He was only a few years removed from running a 2:26 marathon and still going strong with climbing as his new endeavor. A brain tumor appeared seemingly out of nowhere and he was dead four months later at age 49.
Take nothing for granted....each day is special.
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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Jul 20, 2016 - 02:14pm PT
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Nice bump.
Thank you.
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