What can you say about Tucker Tech?

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S.Leeper

Social climber

somewhere that doesnt have anything over 90'

Apr 13, 2017 - 06:41pm PT

Time for a Tucker update! Any sightings?

Flip Flop

climber

Earth Planet, Universe

Apr 13, 2017 - 06:56pm PT

He kept the cams camming when it mattered

k-man

Gym climber

SCruz

Apr 13, 2017 - 09:19pm PT

Isn't Tucker the guy who the legend about the dude who could jug with one hand while drinking a beer with the other was based on?

Branscomb

Trad climber

Lander, WY

Apr 14, 2017 - 09:32am PT

I didn't know him, talked to him once or twice in the Valley. I liked the man...he seemed like a really good man. I never had that much courage to let go of the 'things you're supposed to do' so I admire people like him that can be free.

BigB

Trad climber

Red Rock

Apr 14, 2017 - 10:32am PT

Lynne,
Is that Wendell you refer to in the pic posted above^...Wendell Broussard(vegas)?

jstan

climber

Apr 14, 2017 - 12:47pm PT

The couple of times I talked to TT, he never mentioned ST. What we do or say seems not terribly important to him. Good!

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Apr 14, 2017 - 01:03pm PT

What's not to say about Tucker?

I was hanging out in Hidden Valley climbing with friends, and occasionally picking up partners in the campground when no one else was around. One morning I was cleaning up my campsite, and I came across this old thrashed rope which I had long ago retired from leading. I'd kept it around for top roping. On this morning I looked at it and decided it was done – I threw it in the dumpster.

A couple days later I had plans to go climbing with Tucker Tech. He showed up at my site saying we should go try some new route called Tail Gunner, which I had never heard of. “Bring your rack, I have a rope.” And we’re off to find another new obscurity in the Wonderland of Rocks.

Finally we located the climb and start getting ready. From his back pack Tucker pulls out the very rope I had retired to the dumpster, looks me straight in the eye and says “I cannot understand why someone would throw a perfectly good rope in the trash.”

I was not sure if he had seen me toss the rope, or if he had just come across it while scavenging. I didn’t ask.

Tail Gunner is a great climb, by the way, if you can find it…

WBraun

climber

Apr 14, 2017 - 01:38pm PT

When WWIII ends with everyone dead from radiation poisoning Tucker Tech will still be standing and holding his beer saying ....

"Hey! Where'd everyone go?"

jstan

climber

Apr 14, 2017 - 02:15pm PT

Indeed. Beer has a very high cross section for neutrons and is independent of neutron energy.

StahlBro

Trad climber

San Diego, CA

Apr 14, 2017 - 02:43pm PT

TT preparing for the apocalypse last year.

Bad Climber

Trad climber

The Lawless Border Regions

Apr 15, 2017 - 07:59am PT

Serious ST gold right here. Long live TT! Kind of rocking the "Walter White" look in that last pic.

BAd

10b4me

Mountain climber

Retired

Apr 15, 2017 - 08:38am PT

F10

Trad climber

Bishop

Apr 15, 2017 - 10:02am PT

Rocks and beer, two of his favorite things

Trad climber

Calgary

Apr 15, 2017 - 11:24am PT

Did Tucker build that?
I went climbing with Tucker and Todd one day. While driving around the town Tucker had us make a detour so I could see the stone walls he had built. They were impressive and he was very proud of them.
Tucker must have been an Anasazi at Chaco Canyon in a previous life.

Lynne Leichtfuss

Trad climber

Will know soon

Apr 15, 2017 - 12:42pm PT

No, Big B, Wendell Smith from So Cal. Used to be TGT here on ST til they booted him for insensitivety.

TYeary

Social climber

State of decay

Apr 15, 2017 - 01:24pm PT

I was staring up at Todd as he balanced 15 feet above me, cat like, from one small edge to another. Braced against a boulder, belaying, I was anticipating a fall at any moment. Todd's best foothold was a dirt clod that was being reduced in size every time he shifted his weight. The accumulated dirt had been deposited by rain in a horizontal crack and had built up a sizable mound. This mound was now slowly but surely crumbling away under his shoes and raining down on my sweaty face as he sussed out the next moves. After what seemed like an eternity, Todd had arranged the pro and climbed above the now very diminished dirt clod. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone scrambling up to me from below. It was Tucker.
Now, it is a matter of fact, Tucker likes his beer. If you're at the car, in the parking lot, at at the trailer, he's very generous and will ply you with libations. However, once he has loaded his BD haul bag up with his “supplies” you're on your own. It was an unspoken rule, once on the trial he didn't share. If he humped that beer in, he was the only one drinking it!
I squinted to see Tucker standing there and looking rather pitifully at me. There I was, holding the rope, dirt mixed with sweat, mud streaking my face and hands, looking like I had just lost a mud slinging fight. Which, I guess, was about right. I had been a sitting duck for all the debris Todd had been knocking off above for some 45 minutes now. At this point Todd was now off belay and rigging the anchor on top of his newest choss pile creation, Poly- Amorous Perverse, 5.10c.
I couldn't tell if Tucker was truly pitying me or felt empathetic, having himself been a victim of Todd's endless search for the next dirt pile, but he did something NO ONE had ever seen before. He lifted his right hand and thrust a beer into my muddy mitts! “ Here, you look like you could use this”, he said bluntly. I was at once shocked, and grateful. Tucker giving up a brew, miles from the resupply cooler in the car; well this was a first. I gladly accepted the gift and downed it in a long tilt. I don't care what people say about Tucker, he's alright in my book. Now, if we could just get him to shower regularly......
TY