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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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