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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:04pm PT
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Thats in Los Angeles
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:09pm PT
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It cost them 11 million dollars to fix the trail to Lower Yosemite Falls?
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:13pm PT
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Wow, they have a gaint see saw for children!
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pyro
Trad climber
say's degreading things Mr dumbass
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I'm glad they have clean bathrooms!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dang, that might be the episode I saw filmed a little over a year ago (and have never seen); watch for teenaged japanese tourist girls waving into the camera in the credits.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:16pm PT
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They just showed a kid in a wheel chair going up to the falls.
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Dude, we guided Hewell Howser and a cameraman up the trail to the top of Half Dome. A memorable gig.
He was the consumate populist all about engaging the plethora of society that gets up those cables. We pulled over on a ledge right above the steep part, I held the camera, (the actual cameraman was totally gripped and just continued crawling to the top. Hugh was unfazed by exposure and proceeded to interview many of the folks coming by. There were some facinating stories. One old cruiser was heading up to do a handstand on the summit for his 70 birthday. Apparantly he was third in the tradition started by his grandfather do bust that move on their respective 70th!
Many other tales, and those tourists do make an impressive effort to get all the way up there in day...Our party camped and partied with the trail crew.
I was surprised how many hikers recognized him. I had never seen his show.
Peter
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:18pm PT
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Talk about Tourists!
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:19pm PT
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The ranger is kind of mad about the tourists climbing on the rocks to get to lower fall.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Any unicycles?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"Fatal accidents occur here annually."
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Yeah it sounds pretty geeky and he is, a but my co-leader was a top local naturalist and we were promoting our hiking biz, (yosemite guides.com) so it was very valuable and we got to spread a little ecological literacy over the airways.
pm
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:34pm PT
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Now he has gone to Shasta Dam, the largest dam in the United States.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2006 - 10:46pm PT
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Man, that Dam at Shasta is Gaint.
550 ft wide - 400 ft tall.
How does it hold back all that water!
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pyro
Trad climber
say's degreading things Mr dumbass
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Jul 10, 2006 - 12:05am PT
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Keep up with, "desperate house women".
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Jul 10, 2006 - 12:13am PT
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The Hugh Hoser thing is a repeat. Having been to the Shasta Dam I can tell you it is very cool and very big.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Jul 10, 2006 - 02:24am PT
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When I was assigned to fire station 35 in Hollywood Huell came by to do a short piece on firemen. I think it was just a excuse for him to hang out with a bunch of "handsome" young men. Anyway, he asked me if I had ever rescued a cat out of a tree. I replied that that kind of stuff only happens in the movies and that we only respond to real emergencies. Well the very next alarm came in as a baby stuck in a hole. Huell jumped on the truck and we responded to a home to find a young woman hysterical saying her baby was stuck in a hole. We grabbed out ropes and EMS equipment and hurried to the hole only to find a kitten stuck in the bottom of a footing hole in the backyard. Huell just couldn't get over it. It made his day. It was the one and only time I have in the last 20 years rescued a cat.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Jul 10, 2006 - 12:06pm PT
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Yeah, Howser is gay and all of that and who gives a sh#t about that. I think it's incredible and refreshing how he is able to engage all kinds of people and get at their stories. He has a rare kind of sincerity (or at least it seems that way on screen) and enthusiasm that is quite different than all the silly narcissists that usually do interview shows.
I worked with a cameraman (a black guy) who was Hugh's main camera dude for years and he always had great things to say about Hugh, a trooper and a guy who wasn't afraid to work his ass off. How many guys his age would even bother to hike to the top of the Dome?? He's a pro in my book, and I've always loved his show.
JL
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10b4me
Trad climber
California
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Jul 10, 2006 - 12:39pm PT
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so what if he is gay, big deal. his hows are cool, especially the one he did at Waterwheel Falls.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 10, 2006 - 01:29pm PT
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I think its all an act.
So is Hugh gay, I have suspected that for a long time.
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