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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2013 - 11:39pm PT
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Jane, that photo is amazing, like father like son morphologically speaking. The essence of spitting image if ever there was one.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Yes, I had to go back and read the caption twice to make sure who was the father and who the son. I remembered thinking that I'd never seen him looking quite that neat and tidy in Camp 4 but that his father looked just like him - or the reverse.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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My scanners only go up to about 9"x12" but I'd be happy to help out (and there are some tricks to get digital versions of the images using a dSLR too)
email me details via the STForum mail utility
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Night Vision! Another memory about Tom pops into my head.
In 1964, when Tom was just starting to climb, we did Yosemite Point Buttress a week or so after Sacherer had freed it. We started a bit late, and I was slow at leading the crux, so we arrived on top after the sun had set. I was in a hurry to head toward the top of Yosemite Falls and down the trail, but Tom seemed unconcerned about approaching darkness, and I soon realized why. As we descended the Falls Trail in the dark, there was no way I could keep up and he got to the Valley floor at least an hour ahead of me.
Tom asserted that hiking in the dark was a skill that could be learned, and he taught a few of us later that year in a sojourn to Muir Woods in the Bay Area. Just look when you can for openings, and feel the trail with your feet, he said.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jane,
Several things need to happen with Tom’s images at this point.
They all need to be gathered together as a definitive or final whole.
They need to be archived digitally (high res scans) with some cataloguing system. Just the scans, no corrections as they are archives.
Corrections/repairs should then be done to the images that you want or are relevant to say, us here on Supertopo and the climbing community.
The more important or relevant images among them should then be made available here and other similar venues.
Perhaps some of these images might find their way into our literature as well, given time. That is how valued some of his work will be, I am certain.
He had a variety of media and some of it is quite important to climbing and some perhaps to Best Studios and the Parks. He was after all a type of professional photographer working at a crucial time in our and the Park’s history. I think you will find glass-mounted large format negatives, 2-¼ negatives (his Hasselblad phase), some 35mm ones ( I remember him having a Leica) and of course prints of varying sizes, some mounted even. Although it mostly will be black and white, I think he did some color too, I remembering back to 1970-71 when I knew him well.
It might turn out you would want a high class service to do this archiving work at least. I would recommend Dickerman in San Francisco on 1141 Howard St 415-252-1300. Although I also do this kind of work, Seth Dickerman’s lab is wonderful and very experienced. They also have a website where you can take a look at them: www.dickermanprints.com
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Thanks Peter, Clint and Ed, from all of us, in offering to help Jane with Tom's pictures. Tom's pictures deserve to be archived properly.
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Barry Bates
Boulder climber
Smith River CA
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It's times like this that I almost regret looking at supertopo. The loss of such a Wonderful person, and old friend that I have not seen for years but have thought about not infrequently is sad news. I'll always remember Tom for his great laugh, wonderful sense of humor, love for climbing and the arts. The last time I saw Tom was not long after he started working at the shipyard. He mentioned the stress he was under and how hard the adjustment was transitioning from climber and artist to a high pressure job in nuclear engineering. I'm not surprised that he pointed out problems and perhaps became a whistle-blower It's who tom was. The world would be a better place with more Tom Gerughty's
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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I agree Barry.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Threads like this are so worthy!
Khanom very nice addition! +1
My sincere condolences to the family and friends.. + prayers
Posts like Jan's are indispensable.
Jim Donini, I hope you could use ur fame to bring forth your message for your daughter.
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Gimp
Trad climber
Grand Junction
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Increasing loss of inpatient psychiatric beds in this country is a very real issue. No shortage of marginally legitimate for profit "treatment centers" for the wealthy. But treatment for real organic type psychiatric disease is hard to get, particularly if a crisis occurs that requires an appropriate hospital setting (even when a means of payment is available).
One of my surgical colleagues just went through the struggle of this process with is own son who despite very good outpatient care was having a severe break that required admission.
No easy answer as "real" psych beds are very expensive and have low profit because of poor payer mix.
Health care dollars are just not spent wisely in this country and are too often gobbled up by an over abundant, over priced parasitic administration that really does not provide the needed element: actual healthcare.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2013 - 01:01pm PT
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Jane, those are wonderful! I remember Ton's fascination with slowing down movement in his compositions.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Since Tom worked in the lab with some of the leading photographers of the century giving seminars there as well as Ansel of course, Tom had astounding opportunities. I always thought he was awfully talented and hoped he would be able to maintain photography as a profession.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Thanks for the photos j. Gerughty. I had not seen Tom's work before as he started serious photography after I knew him.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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It turns out Gail and I live a few miles apart down here in Corralitos and we have many friends in common in the art world here, Cabrillo College also.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Soon 2B in Arizona
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Welcome to Supertopo, Gail
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Tom's FA and FFA activities in Yosemite Valley
Captain Hook, Right 5.9 FA 1963 Glen Denny, Eric Beck, Dave Cook FFA 1965 Tom Gerughty, Chris Fredricks
Crack of Despair 5.10a FA 1962 Frank Sacherer, Galen Rowell FFA 1964 Frank Sacherer, Chuck Pratt, Tom Gerughty
The Dihardral 5.10c FA 1961 Tom Frost, Royal Robins FFA 1964 Frank Sacherer, Tom Gerughty
Goodrich to the Oasis 5.9 FA 1966 Eric Beck, Mike Cohen, Tom Gerughty
Higher Cathedral Spire, Southeast Side, East Corner 5.10a FA 1965 Tom Gerughty, Chuck Pratt
The Hourglass, Right Side 5.10a FA 1962 Bob Kamps, Frank Sacherer FFA 1964 Frank Sacherer, Tom Gerughty
Jack Pinnacle, Left 5.9 FA 1964 Tom Gerughty, Dave Calfee
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Fabulous photos. Thanks for posting, and for the link to Gail. I still have several great mugs she made, with carabiners or bongs for the handles.
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