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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 19, 2012 - 09:44pm PT
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Came across this fun sign alongside the Merced river this weekend. Guest appearance from the great Bardini. Miss you Alan.
Custom dock, Bay of islands several years ago returning from Fiji on our boat. Dam, Allan gets around.
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David Wilson
climber
CA
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:11pm PT
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Nice to meet you on Saturday Joe. Last time I saw Ken I was about 10 years old I think......
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fosburg
climber
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Jun 19, 2012 - 10:28pm PT
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Wall-eye, you non-phone answering bottom feeder, damn straight!
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jun 19, 2012 - 11:19pm PT
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This thread needs pictures....
My Favorite picture....I think it's Mastadon's Picture, or is it Tom Carters? ....Taken from the~ Tenaya Lake Waterskiing thread.
Hey Walter......
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2012 - 11:44pm PT
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 20, 2012 - 12:15am PT
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Here is my favorite picture!
Actually, it's from Carter's collection, but still my favorite so he will have to choose another. Ha ha.
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Jun 21, 2012 - 01:11am PT
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Spent the day with Gary Bard... we toasted the lad yet again. What a stupendous character. May his inspiration continue
Thanks Dr Woo
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Jun 21, 2012 - 02:18am PT
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(1st pic) WTF is that gestapo rat trap?
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jun 24, 2012 - 02:58pm PT
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Francesca D.
Cleaned your picture up a little; hope you don't mind.
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Francesca Drake
Trad climber
California,Truckee
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Jun 24, 2012 - 07:09pm PT
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Tobia no worries we ran into him and Don Lauria in the back country, the other fellow was their client, he was good friends with my husband. Thanks for the share.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2012 - 08:47pm PT
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Somewhere on the South Island of NZ, headed to Mt Ruapehu, stopped off for a quick pint but Bardini beat us to it.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jun 24, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
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When Allan and Carter got together it was like a comedy show. They could have gotten rich doing standup. No lie.
His greatest gift to me was introducing me to wine bouldering, which I have a feeling preceeded him by at least five decades. One winter I would pile in and go ski at mammoth with him and the crowd. He would hang back and give me lessons all day as long as I could more or less keep up with the pack. They were all on nordic skis. I'm from Oklahoma, and it showed. Whenever I talked to the other cat drivers on the radio at night, they all cracked up.
Last time I saw him was at Doug's wedding in Kirkwood. We all piled in and rented a full blown condo...splitting it a number of ways. He was just starting to get into whitewater.
I took my wife up the Owen Spaulding very late in the fall once. I was in my nike's and there was solid ice in the cracks. It would be easy to slip.
Be careful on the easy ground. It has claimed many.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jun 24, 2012 - 09:57pm PT
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He cracked us up at AMGA meetings.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 26, 2012 - 04:29pm PT
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Here's a few to remember. Jules Barklow's portrait and John Moynier's Ski shot.
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Sam R
climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Jun 26, 2012 - 04:39pm PT
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The last time I saw him, he was with a client in the Palisades. He squinted up and said, "Looks like 100% chance of sun showers today, Sam! Cheers!" I miss seeing him here in "the promised land"...
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Jun 27, 2012 - 02:48am PT
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Bump for Guido
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 27, 2012 - 10:59am PT
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Life is a crapshoot and a poker game! One of Bardini's many well-worn expressions.
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hossjulia
Social climber
Eastside (of the Tetons)
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Jun 27, 2012 - 11:10am PT
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What Silver said.
Ironic that I am sitting at a coffee shop in Jackson right now, and look out at the Tetons every morning from my bandit-camp. Even though I never met the great Bardini, I think of him often with this view.
Very sorry I never had the pleasure.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2012 - 08:55pm PT
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Here's to you Allan, on this day the 5th of July, 2012.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I remember it well, I was there. A truly sad day for the vast army of friends Bardini was able to assemble with his glowing personality and his innate kindness.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Gentle bump for an old buddy.Unknown photographer.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I think of Alan whenever i walk or ski by the big cabin up at the Mammoth Mine...Bard , Carter , Oakshott , and the other usual suspects hung out in that cabin on occasion when they were guiding ski tours for Dave Beck...Those old cabins are collapsing into ruin but the memories live on...rj
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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I lived at his house shortly after he passed and my house was closing. His spirit was there.Epperson was the neighbor and Don Lauria was my landlord.Awww...BITD.
Bardini Lives!!!
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Right on RJ! Bardini's charisma was left as legacy in places like the Trapp Lodge in Vermont where as ski instructors, we were given particular leniency by our boss for crazy behavior because Bardini and the Californians had been crazier and been crazy with style when they worked there the previous seasons...
... long live Bardini and the pursuit of fun!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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eKat- Consider scanning and sharing those letters here. Nothing beats personal correspondence for great stories. Not a lot out there about Walter either considering his talent as a climber.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Such a happy guy. It infected everyone around him. I dunno if I ever saw him get upset, pissed off, or talk sh#t on anyone.
Saying a lot, considering that those things are pretty rife among climbers.
Yeah, I miss him too.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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Allan, we think and reflect on you often, especially on this day. The years fly by but our memories of you and times back them are still vivid and can only bring a smile to our faces and a tip to you mate.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 25, 2016 - 12:34pm PT
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^^^ pretty badass picture
MH2, is that the gate at the end of the publicly accessible road to White Mountain?
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Jul 12, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
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