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Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Apr 26, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
I just posted an account of Daryl's Tom Egan Memorial Route on Snowpatch Spire in the Bugaboos. I did a line just left of it and thought about him while we spent a couple of days up there.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2112425/Tom-Egan-Wall-Snowpatch-Spire-Bugaboos
rick sumner

Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
Apr 27, 2013 - 03:41pm PT
Well Daryl's daughter,what a cute little rugrat to be. Your baby now must be a crawler at least, if not a climber. I worked and climbed with your dad the summer of '79 in california. He had a tremendous sense of humor, often making me double over in laughter.Last saw him in the spring of '82 at his home turf of Squamish.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 27, 2013 - 09:35pm PT
hey there say, steve, very glad you bumped this... i had never seen the updates, or the new baby...

thanks for sharing :)
daryl_hattens_daughter

climber
saskatchewan, canada
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 29, 2014 - 02:14pm PT
Hey everyone, just checked back, been awhile. Thanks for your posts, yes both our children are climbers!!! Hahah- our youngest (Riley- 10 months) like tongs into trouble, we have to watch him closely, always into mischief. He likes the thrill of getting into trouble- which, if I am correct is just like my dad!! Thanks again.
Greg Child

climber
Mar 31, 2014 - 05:25pm PT

Here is a picture of your Dad. I climbed the PO Wall with him in 1977. I remember him very well.
Tarheel

Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
Mar 31, 2014 - 06:17pm PT
I climbed the NA Wall with Daryl. Eric Weinstein, was my climbing partner in Yosemite spring '75. That March I was sitting in the Lodge worrying about the fact that I didn't have a climbing partner and the weather was getting really good. I was an outsider and not that talented so I had good reason to worry. Three guys walked up to me. They asked if I was Tim and then said that Eric was going to be my climbing partner. I was super lucky. We got along well and climbed together every day, doing about 50 hard routes and then climbing the Nose on El Cap.

Eric introduced me to Daryl, who had the reputation of being the best aid climber in Squamish (Eric must have been the best free climber). Daryl wanted to do something super hard, either Tis-sa-ack or the NA Wall.

We figured we did something like the 15th ascent of the NA. We were both really poor and borrowed a lot of equipment. Daryl led both the 3rd and 4th pitches in exchange for me leading the wide crack and big roof. It was amazing cleaning those pitches. Many of the pins just fell out from the tension of the rope, and most of the other didn't require a hammer. He did these super shallow stacks with a Leeper and baby angles. I don't know how he got into the top steps without his knee dislodging the stacks. He could have made it A2 with copperheads but instead did it A5 with stacks since he thought heads were cheating. He had a really strict traditional attitude towards style of ascent.

Daryl wanted to go down from Big Sur Ledge when he changed his mind about quitting smoking on the climb. It would have been easy to go down since we had fixed ropes to Easy Street for Dale Bard in exchange for him lending us an auxiliary rope. I convinced Daryl if we went down we would never come back and would regret that forever. We found some cigarette butts and rolling papers on the route, and that worked for him. He needed to have a smoke before leading a pitch.

We had an incredible adventure. I wish I had owned a camera then. I really miss Eric and Daryl, who together made that a fantastic spring for me.
thekidcormier

Gym climber
squamish, b.c.
Mar 31, 2014 - 08:42pm PT
Bump.

EDIT; Awesome picture Greg, and great story Tim.

Love hearing these old Hatten/Weinstein stories.
Greg Child

climber
Apr 6, 2014 - 11:12am PT
I'd hope that Darryl's daughter and Eric's parents get to see that photo. You Canadians should pass the pic along if you have contact with them.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Apr 6, 2014 - 01:15pm PT
That is a classic shot Greg!

Thanks for posting it.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Apr 7, 2014 - 02:07am PT
Tim, your words really resonate with my experience climbing with Daryl. A truly spirited individual.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Apr 7, 2014 - 02:08am PT
hey there say, 'darly hatten's daughter' ...wow!!!

great to see you stopped by to us all know how you are ...

very nice!

:)

happy god bless, to you and family, through the years, :)
Greg Child

climber
Apr 8, 2014 - 12:47am PT
Something I recall about Daryl that resonates with me, and which happened the day after that photo was taken... when we got to the base of the PO wall, The 4 of us (Hatten, Weinstein,Kim Carrigan and myself) were rather humbled by the looming project we'd set ourselves. Daryl took his piton hammer out from his holster and held it up like mighty Thor and banged it into a block of granite, and yelled "The PO team is here!" It got us moving. He was a driving force on that climb.
daryl_hattens_daughter

climber
saskatchewan, canada
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 8, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
Oh wow!! That picture is awesome, looks to me that (from what I know/hear) that this picture captures who my dad really was. Thanks so much for sharing it, it looks professionally taken too!!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 31, 2014 - 09:28am PT
Bumping
bump
BUMP!
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Dec 31, 2014 - 10:05am PT
One of the best Daryl stories was the encounter with the graduation party of Squamish high-schoolers at the base of the Grand.I heard the story from the other two guys there at the time, Dave Yerian and Richard Alden. Yerian really needs to tell that story here. Dave? Cough it up, bro...

...if he isn't too busy writing that damn book. Git er' done, Dood.
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