Stonemaster Stories; Part X--What? Still more!?

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Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Mar 16, 2013 - 01:15am PT
bump
hobo_dan

Social climber
Minnesota
Mar 16, 2013 - 11:21am PT
Kor's expression is priceless
Read the story where he tries to do the Diamond in winter in Godfreys book "Climb"--the story of their escape is really intense.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Mar 16, 2013 - 01:13pm PT
looking over this vast thread many things are amazingly obvious....

1) hugely increased internet bandwidth has become available in the 6 odd years since the start, so the sprawl of such a thread over 10 installments seems a bit anachronistic

2) while the production of the Stonemasters book was wonderful, and perhaps lends a more durable record of that time, this thread has a "tonal" quality not captured at all in traditional book production.

3) in spite of our tendency to view what that ever is happening now as extending into the distant past and future, this is a bit of ephemera which will someday be lost.

4) attempts to translate this into other media should be executed, and with all the imaginative creativity of the people who populate this thread and lurk on it, I would expect those efforts to provide exceptionally compelling works, but they will only enhance what is here...

5) while we think of this as a "camp fire" around which we all sit and talk, even an event around a real "camp fire" misses the mark, though I truly enjoy it when it happens, the race of time does not lend itself the timeless continuity afforded by this particular medium

So enjoy it while you can, this is an extraordinary collection of voices, one I would never imagined possible. It is a lightning flash illuminating those dark corners of memory formed in a youth 42 years ago.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 3, 2014 - 02:38pm PT
A short second hand story.
A fellow I climbed with for a bit in '74/75 was a reasonably talented young climber of the time. He was bivvying high on the DNB with a partner. One of his awakenings in the pre-dawn hours he saw headlamps in the forest approaching the Nose. He thinks to himself "wow that's an early start". An hour or so later the three headlamps are still climbing, now in the Stovelegs. He thinks to himself "they're still going, must be a rescue".
Some time later in the morning he sees a team somewhere around Boot Flake and he and his partner carry on up the DNB.
By the time they get back to The Valley that afternoon, Bridwell, Long and Westbay have returned from their 1 day ascent.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Apr 3, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
A short first hand story. About '76 my regular partner and I are out in Stoneman meadow looking up at Steck Salathe with binoculars. Contemplating whether or not we were stoopid enough to attempt it in a push. Discussing how much food and water we should take. Camp at the base? Bivvy sacks on the climb? The usual Gumbies in the Meadow nonsense.
Along comes a Stonemaster (Bard? Kauk?, I don't recall) and gives us The Look (although friendly enough). "If you plan to bivvy, you will".
Smiled and walked away.
We durned well knew we weren't capable of doing it in a one day push. He obviously knew as well.
jgill

Boulder climber
Colorado
Apr 3, 2014 - 03:15pm PT
4) attempts to translate this into other media should be executed, and with all the imaginative creativity of the people who populate this thread and lurk on it, I would expect those efforts to provide exceptionally compelling works, but they will only enhance what is here... (Ed)

I don't know why someone hasn't correlated all these stories, done the research, and put up a historical website on the stonemasters similar to what I have done for bouldering and early rock climbing. Books are expensive but the free internet endures (at least for now). Of course, there is no compensation to the designer other than the satisfaction that historical feats will be available for all to enjoy.

Someone (preferably a stonemaster) volunteer!
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Apr 3, 2014 - 04:11pm PT
A few years ago, there was a partial archive of stories on Mike Graham's site at
http://www.stonemasters.org
but the stores are not there now (or at least they are not linked).
Probably removed in favor of the book.
(and www.archive.org doesn't work to retrieve it because the pages were not static)
graham

Social climber
Ventura, California
Jun 27, 2014 - 08:22am PT
Yeah sorry about the bad link. Our Web site was hacked pretty bad over a year ago. Had some sort of worm that went after bank accounts inserted into it. I was literally forced to take it off line by BoA. For the time being we just put up a commerce site at www.stonemastergear.com but we are working on adding all the achieved stories back in to it. Have a few more I’d like to share still…

Cheers,

Mike
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