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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 24, 2013 - 09:45am PT
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I have climb with the guy and still think he a myth.
Great guy, amazing climber and tough as nails. Hope you had a great birthday Jim.
Jim on the 5.12 headwall on Wunsch's Dihedral, South Platte, CO
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Johnny K.
climber
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Jul 24, 2013 - 09:54am PT
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Much respect to Mr. Donini in all aspects of life,he isn't just an amazing badarse climber,he is an amazing person all around,cheers!
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jul 24, 2013 - 10:07am PT
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No myth there. He's the real deal.
Happy Birthday Jim.
Plaid
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Jul 24, 2013 - 10:07am PT
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MYTH! how could some old dude climb that much? i may or may not have seen him at snowshed a couple years ago in the middle of winter, but i'm really not sure, so definitely going with myth.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Middle-of-Nowhere, Arizona
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Jul 24, 2013 - 10:21am PT
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Had the opportunity to meet Jim back in 2004. He told me that whenever I was in Ouray, I had a place to stay. Hope that wasn't a myth.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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Some portraits of Donini
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Powder
Trad climber
the Flower Box
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:41am PT
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It might seem like a myth, but it's real!!!!! As real as one can be!!
He's a man and he exists!!! : D
Saw and met Mr Donini twice in the Valley, one at the auditorium and the other time at Yellow Pines.
And the man is not old!! We're all as young as each other in geologic years! ; D
Kudos to Jim, you've always been an inspiration and I love your posts!! I'm so glad and feel honored to have shared the same planet with you. *^_^*
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:44am PT
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If only there were more Jim in each of us.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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^^^^^^
Dude can stay 100% out of me
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:56am PT
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My fair opinion is that we need one more smurf besides the one we've already got...
Cosmic: What about a Donini smurf American-Italian style?
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:15pm PT
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A man admired for his magnanimity and sense of humor as well as his climbing excellence...
We still await the "Great Debate"...
(thanks Peter Haan!)
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
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Gym is a f*#king MAN. You look up Man, Chesthair or Gumption in the dictionary, you'll likely see his mug.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:18pm PT
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Legend.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Happy birthday Jim.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
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Jim is an all around great guy, who I was lucky enough to climb with for a couple days,
I'd go with Legend!!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:47pm PT
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A myth is ath good ath her thmile.--Lenny the Lithper
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 12:52pm PT
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Neither man nor myth; he is a Bodhisattva. *
* a being oriented toward enlightenment, Bodhisattvas are "in the world but not of it" according to Buddhist sutras which also state a Bodhisattva foregoes his own final enlightenment until all other beings have been liberated.
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micronut
Trad climber
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Jul 24, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
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Not a single photo of him on lead in this thread. Is he mainly a top roper? Each to his own I suppose.
Happy Birthday.
Micronut.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jul 24, 2013 - 03:12pm PT
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I heard he toproped Cerro Torre with a big lasso.
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Crump
Social climber
Lakewood, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 03:58pm PT
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Myth!
There are no pictures of him when he was young therefore he is an alien!
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Crump
Social climber
Lakewood, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 05:17pm PT
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I was meaning that is like an E.T. Type of alien, for clearly he is non-human!
Must come from an empowered race from a planet far far away!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 06:13pm PT
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Takin' my drum to the Creek bra . . .
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Paco
Trad climber
Montana
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Jul 24, 2013 - 06:35pm PT
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I always loved Peter Pan... in my childhood imaginings he was my best pal. I never expected to actually meet him. Especially not in an old man's body.
Karl
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Yeti
Trad climber
Ketchum, Idaho
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Jul 24, 2013 - 06:43pm PT
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Man, myth, Moai and survivor. Happy Birthday, ageless one.
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MisterE
climber
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Jul 24, 2013 - 08:22pm PT
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Jim's a great guy, he still has his silly moments
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:22pm PT
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He's a fine youngster with a great future!
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:33pm PT
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Here's photographic evidence that Donini has led a pitch. If you look closely you'll see that his right fingers are grappling with the rock while his left hand is clipping the draw.
And this was me belaying him...
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Jul 24, 2013 - 11:37pm PT
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He's more of a blue Camelot than an Alien.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Jul 25, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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Naw, I saw him. Right in front of me. He's real.
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MisterE
climber
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Jul 25, 2013 - 12:56am PT
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This thread gives me hope for my future as an older climber...
I got nothing else.
Thanks, Jim.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 25, 2013 - 02:31am PT
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What can you say to a guy that has heard it all. Happy trails, Jim.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jul 25, 2013 - 09:44am PT
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I climbed with Jim when he had just started rock climbing.
I witnessed his first Spring in Yosemite.
Definitely a myth.
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Jul 25, 2013 - 11:28am PT
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I just hope I'm still on the green side of the grass when I'm his age, let alone leading 5.11...
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Dec 26, 2015 - 07:18am PT
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Man, Myth, or....
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Dec 26, 2015 - 07:59am PT
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I don't take any but if there was a supplement called Jim Donini, I would take it.
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Dec 26, 2015 - 09:03am PT
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Never heard of him.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 26, 2015 - 09:06am PT
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What's a "Guacano"?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 26, 2015 - 01:21pm PT
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Business Donini style. Climbed all day, 6:00 P.M., comfy chair, red wine, calendar/appointment book.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 26, 2015 - 06:19pm PT
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JD, JD, he's our man, if he can't do it, nobody can!!!!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 06:53pm PT
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Superman?
At a minimum he can read and talk at the same time. Or is it listen?
"What song is Jim listening to right now?"
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Dec 26, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
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Classic zBrown... but his song?
That old reprobate is currently listening to the song of the Patagonian wind.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Dec 27, 2015 - 01:23pm PT
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What's a "Guacano"?
a cannoli stuffed with Guacamole, very popular in Chile, especially with the Guanacos
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Dec 27, 2015 - 04:42pm PT
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Having climbed (and third classed climbs) with Jim in the early seventies I can assure you that he is human. He is also one of the most focused climbers I have ever known, and that focus has warped into the myth.
That said, I had huge amounts of fun in Yosemite with him, and learned to become a better climber because of him.
In retrospect, I see that he has taken many climbers under his wing over the years, and enriched may lives by sharing his climbing prowess.
He is an excellent example of what humans become with focus, knowledge, and a love of life.
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Dogtown.
Trad climber
Marshell islands atoll
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Myth?
More like old School Rocky Mountain legend.
Right there with Layton Kor and a few others.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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I can't deny his existence, nor can I confirm his existence. I guess that makes me agnostic?
Or perhaps he is all and nothing. The entirety of all that has been, is, and will be. The very stuff of which we are all made, and there for I too am Donini. Would that make me a pantheist?
I think this might require another beer.
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Friend
climber
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Frickin living legend man.
Wish I could say I knew Jim other than just bumping into him in IC a couple times.
Classic climbing personality.
Warbler.. killer story, well told, as usual. Write a book, seriously!
Andrew "not that burch" Burch
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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jim is "the man" in my book. i hope i can go after the nose in a day when i am seventy. he is an icon down here in patagonia. i would love to get on something down here with him, but i am afraid i could not keep up on the approach(i can hold my own once i hit the rock). he has been shredding in patagonia for five decades now. ss
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 17, 2017 - 07:46pm PT
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Doesn't even surf, does he?
Anyway, One of the most admirable folks I've come across here.
Great skills, kind, sense of humor, moral.
Music not his strong suite, but I got to him once.
EDIT
SMART AS A TACK
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Nov 17, 2017 - 08:26pm PT
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Rope gun extraordinaire, great cook, funny guy and I swear, he knows everybody.
Climbed with him for a few days at the Creek, schooled me on real crack climbing. no guidebook required with him, he has it dialed and he knows all the gear needed on everything, incredible memory.
and he climbs now and then :)
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Nov 17, 2017 - 10:48pm PT
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Good bump. Never climbed or met him. Jim's legacy reminds me of Beckey and many others. Driven, focused, modest. I'm glad he posts here. Very measured.
I don't give anyone celebrity status. He is a person that has persued the path he chose. Good on ya Jim.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Nov 18, 2017 - 02:25am PT
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Jim is an all around great human being,
Mentor to many, and a top contributor to our community.
Thanks Jim 👊
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2017 - 07:58am PT
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SmoothDrool, you are a lucky ruminant indeed to have Jim for a climbing mentor.
Your stoke and his combined could fire up a whole caravan of climbers on the worst chosspile in the country.
You two deserve one another, mates.
Berg heil from Merced!
Their first date.
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Nov 18, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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definitely part Yeti
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Nov 18, 2017 - 03:36pm PT
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Love that bouldering shot!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Nov 18, 2017 - 03:45pm PT
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Always ready for a climb, the harder the better.
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E.L. "One"
Big Wall climber
Lancaster, California
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Nov 18, 2017 - 04:17pm PT
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Aside from his obvious climbing accomplishments, Jim is a quality human being. Thank you Jim!!
Cracko
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Nov 19, 2017 - 12:08am PT
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The year was 2010. The expedition members: Jim Donini, George Lowe, and, forgive me I've forgotten their names (I'm older than Jim), two Belgians (father and son).
The purpose: The Evolution Traverse in the Sierra Nevada
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 19, 2017 - 07:17am PT
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astray
Sport climber
where the heart was
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Nov 19, 2017 - 07:57am PT
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he is neither.
jim is a timelessly executed phase change,
occurring between man and myth.
he is the in-between.
man-to-myth. myth-to-man.
he slides back and forth, with effort, i'm sure.
between the two entities
providing us spectators a spectacular show.
it reminds me of the many times
when my eyes get excited upon a pair of breasts, exposed.
and as they, they eyes dart back and forth between the two
glorious domes, i only see and seek the cleavage.
so jim is akin to the cleavage. man is right breast.
myth is left breast.
i never was allowed to nurse.
instead i got force-fed a rubber nipple.
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Leeprechaun
Social climber
Austin
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Nov 19, 2017 - 03:00pm PT
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I met the man in the Creek last month. Believe he was doing tequila shots in the Supercrack parking lot.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Nov 19, 2017 - 10:34pm PT
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Isn't that Fred Beckey?
Curt
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 26, 2017 - 07:27pm PT
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Bump & run.
"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
--John Ford/1962.
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Stewart Johnson
Mountain climber
lake forest
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Nov 19, 2018 - 02:55pm PT
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He looks so much better than
Kieth Richards...
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