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Park Rat
Social climber
CA, UT,CT,FL
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Someone asked if Fred Becky was a stonemaster?
The obvious answer to that is no but he is related to
Fred Flintstone!
I think they're about the same age. Chuckle
Carry on.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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It ain't genetics, Locker, it's geriatrics.
Fred's got it in spades.
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Marsupial Rat
Trad climber
Australia
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Fred’s motivation is truly extraordinary; he stayed with me for several days when he visited Australia in 2010 and here's one of him with Singer Smith.
“Whattttt Singer, you mean I can see college football in this thing? It’s incrrrredible” …..
Fred wanted to shoot a roo and barbeque it. When told we could go to the supermarket and buy some, he binned the idea.
“Forget it, wouldn’t be the same. Where’s the rock around here?”
More of Fred in Oz here: http://susysingerinavan.blogspot.com.au/
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WBraun
climber
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Americans are stupid.
They said dinosaurs are extinct.
WTF man .... this Becky dinosaur is still living ...... :-)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Awesome.
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aspendougy
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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The photos were great, but I would have loved to have seen video footage, just to see how he actually moves up the rock
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go-B
climber
Hebrews 1:3
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Fred you rock, and we salute you!
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Becky is an inspiration to us all!!
GO FRED!!!!!!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Locker...You'll make it to 90 easily... 90 RPMs on the pocket pussy that is ....RJ
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Fred Becky is the man. Did you notice the higher he went the darker his hair got.
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MisterE
Social climber
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The fact remains "He will steal your route and your girlfriend" - it's just that now you are safe above 5.6 on the routes.
Fred is a true lifer.
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SicMic
climber
two miles from Eldorado
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Fred was great in Boulder. He couldn't hear worth a damn, but gave a great show and went climbing in Eldo the next day. We should all be so lucky.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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The fact remains "He will steal your route and your girlfriend" -
hmmm...actually i once stole his route and girl friend in the Wind Rivers...
he posted up about it in the Alpine Journal...lol
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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cheers Fred! more photos! I have a few here somewhere
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Go Fred Go!
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dirt claud
Social climber
san diego,ca
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Good read on your blog there Marsupial Rat, tfpu, gives some good insight into Freds character, that so cool you got to hang out with the man.
Edit:
This part cracked me up.
"I put a top rope on Piccolo, a fun 11 (5.4/5.5), and Fred climbed about 3/4 of it before lowering off. Before he even made it back to the ground, he sat down on a small ledge and fell asleep drooling on the rock for at least 90 minutes while Susy ran some laps on the route and discovered that she likes climbing again."
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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The word is if Fred borrows $50 don't expect to get it back.
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Back in 1973, David Lunn, Phil Arnot and I did the Becky route on Mt Adams. It was a lot of fun! Thanks Fred!
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