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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 13, 2013 - 12:07pm PT
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Hey pees, check this out make plans and talk it up.
It is going to be a great event.
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ddriver
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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Feb 13, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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yous boyz better go... wish i could
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2013 - 03:21pm PT
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I mean when are you gonna get the chance to hobnob with someone who among other things to put up his own route on Everest?
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Feb 13, 2013 - 03:47pm PT
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Gotta believe there's gonna be some pretty spectacular shots at that particular slide show.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 14, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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Phil, start a new thread "heading" stating that George is going to limit his talk to religion, politics and the communist assault on the Second Amendment and you will experience a quantum leap in traffic.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 14, 2013 - 12:32pm PT
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So,.. one of the prizes is a suit from a thrift store?
One of these years George will give a slide show and reveal the best kept secret in the climbing world; what he does when he isn't busy being a dad or climbing.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2013 - 09:00pm PT
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BUMP
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 15, 2013 - 10:55pm PT
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I may be dere, Philo. You????
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2013 - 11:10pm PT
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Yea SteveDub I am planning on going and giving a ride to Tarbuster too.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 16, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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Phil
CU there!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Feb 16, 2013 - 08:55pm PT
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You guys will have fun. I'll see George next weekend at the AAC banquet in Berkeley.
George has managed to be on the very cutting edge of American alpinism......plus pursue a career in science and raise some wonderful children. He now at age 68 continues to climb at an enviable standard.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Feb 16, 2013 - 09:24pm PT
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I'm going.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 16, 2013 - 09:41pm PT
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Great, Grug!
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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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Feb 28, 2013 - 09:05am PT
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I put a link up on mountain project's home page about this. I'd like to go to it but I'll be at Joshua Tree that week.
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
ColoRADo
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Feb 28, 2013 - 10:46am PT
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Actually a free night for me. I'm in!
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2013 - 12:22pm PT
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Here is an excerpt from the Daily Camera article.
After a successful climb of Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh highest mountain, George Lowe became lost on the descent. It was dark, stormy and he was utterly alone -- a textbook way to die in the Himalaya.
It was 1990 and he had just accomplished a rare solo ascent of the peak. Fighting fear and exhaustion, Lowe systematically tried one gully after another. He climbed down, then excruciatingly back up, thousands of feet of steep snow and ice until he found his camp.
It was a superhuman effort.
"You just have to keep plugging," Lowe said in an interview with Climbing magazine two years after the ordeal. "You have to keep working with the problem until you solve it."
The problem?! He talks about life and death in such an eerily rational way -- it seems fitting that he earned a Ph.D. in physics and worked for years as a systems engineer.
And then there's his other life, as one of America's most accomplished alpinists for the last 50 years.
Chris Weidner: Experience the highs and Lowes of the American Alpine Club
By Chris Weidner, For the Camera
Posted: 02/26/2013 09:05:27 PM MST
Updated: 02/26/2013 09:11:35 PM MST
What: American Alpine Club Front Range Section Dinner
When: 5-10 p.m. March 6
Where: American Mountaineering Center in Golden
Tickets: $15-25 in advance at the Boulder Rock Club, Neptune Mountaineering, Bent Gate Mountaineering or online at brownpapertickets.com
More info: americanalpineclub.org
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Just got my tickets. It occurs to me that, although I've been rock climbing with George off and on for 23 years, he's told me almost nothing about his alpine exploits. That's just the way he is (modest) and the way I am (unimaginative). So, I'm hoping to learn a thing or two along with the spaghetti dinner and all.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Anyone in striking distance who cares about alpine climbing should not miss this opportunity.
George has a very full life which precludes him from doing slide presentations more than every quarter of a century or so.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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cracking me up bump.
thx,jim. wish you could be there too. hope the idaho trip is fun.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 11:17am PT
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Donini bump.
Anyone in striking distance who cares about alpine climbing should not miss this opportunity.
George has a very full life which precludes him from doing slide presentations more than every quarter of a century or so.
He is also too humble to tell his own non climbing friends about presenting a slide show.
Silly Wabbit.
Pre-show ticket sales are around 125. with room for many more. Talk it up and get people to the door. Food, beer, contests and George Lowe. What's not to love.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2013 - 02:01am PT
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Excellent event. Incredible slide show. Yummy food. Hilarious fashion show. And my life event poster got first place. I won a new 70 meter Sterling rope. Yeah!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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What, no pic of the winning poster?
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2013 - 11:14am PT
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Here ya Go Moss.
Here is the moment of victory,
Hey is that an Eeyonkee in the background?
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2013 - 03:59pm PT
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OK here are some picks from the AAC soiree.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 21, 2013 - 08:29am PT
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Oh, I hope you're wrong, Tim.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Mar 21, 2013 - 09:14am PT
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Wallace George Lowe, Kiwi mountaineeer. RIP. (15 January 1924 - 20 March 2013) Not George Lowe, American mountaineer.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Mar 21, 2013 - 11:25am PT
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Phil, tell me I'm wrong! It looks like in that "victory" picture, your fly is unzipped (accept my sincerest apologies in advance if I'm wrong:-)
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2013 - 11:32am PT
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Hahaha ha, yeah Ydpl8s it is. If you read up-thread you will see it was already caught and noticed. I wonder why no one at the party said anything.
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