Long day, time for another 80th birthday...Jim McCarthy!!!

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Kligfield

Mountain climber

Boulder, CO

Jul 3, 2013 - 10:42pm PT

Happy Birthday Jim!

You were simply "the best." It was a pleasure and privilege to climb with you.

Roy

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jul 3, 2013 - 11:39pm PT

LOL

Never saw that shot old friend!

Cheers (gotta give you an etrier primer, after all it's all we can do these days).

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Aug 4, 2013 - 10:14pm PT

I'm real glad I saw this thread.

Thanks for all the good that you have done for the sport.

It is a sport, right, or you wouldn't have been on that vintage cover.

And happy belations to you, as well.

Or cache the greeting this year for next year, then I can be first...

Manny Moore.

jstan

climber

Aug 4, 2013 - 11:25pm PT

The welcoming atmosphere at the Gunks, so enjoyed by us later folk, was set by yourself, Dan Smiley, Hans, and Fritz.

Hard to say anything more meaningful than

Thank you!

J

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Aug 4, 2013 - 11:57pm PT

I remember when I first met Jim in Boulder in the early 1960s, and
when he climbed a little in Eldorado. I always thought of him as
"the man," or one of them.... We have remained friends all through
the years. He was of great help to me when I worked on the history
of free climbing and drove to my house which, then for a short while,
was in Idaho. We sat for hours and talked climbing. He has an
impeccable memory.