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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 18, 2014 - 09:13pm PT
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was ten years ago tonight in Telluride. Hard to believe he would be 60 today.
Before I gave him his real gift, a Zeiss monocular, I gave him a box labelled "Geezer Kit" containing Depends, Metamucil, Polident, Geritol, Ex-Lax and an actual prescription for 2 Viagra from a doctor friend.
Afterwards I rode down the hill with Mike Pennings and Dan Magee, and was surprised to discover that when Donini and Crusher and I found fresh footprints at the secret rappel approach to the Witch the previous October, that it had been Pennings (with Johnny).
Make 'em count people.
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Feb 18, 2014 - 09:15pm PT
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Happy Birthday Charlie!
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Feb 18, 2014 - 09:24pm PT
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Hey Charlie! Hope you are partying with Jack and all the rest tonight....60 is a big number. Not sure they count them anymore wherever you are........miss you.
Pam
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Feb 18, 2014 - 10:14pm PT
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Cheers to you on your birthday Charlie!
We all miss you my old friend!
I'll be seeing you a little further on down the road!
Aloha, Olaf
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thudge
climber
CO
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Feb 18, 2014 - 10:34pm PT
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Ron, thank you for his remembrance.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Feb 18, 2014 - 10:49pm PT
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Haha, nice set of gifts to CF Ron....really well done.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Feb 18, 2014 - 10:52pm PT
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Happy B-Day Chaz . . . so grateful for the time we shared.
Catch you on the flip side brother.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 18, 2014 - 11:51pm PT
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To an old friend, we miss you Charlie!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2014 - 09:38am PT
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I've got to find that photo of Charlie in Long Canyon smiling while reading Donald Duck, Mountain Climber.
Was anybody there at the slide show he gave in Estes Park in October 1990?
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jstan
climber
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Feb 19, 2014 - 08:14pm PT
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I first noticed Charlie at Carderock when he was maybe 16 or 17. Why was he noticeable? Because you could tell he was always happy to be wherever he was. This is not a minor characteristic. It is the most major characteristic of all. When we lose a person like this. for whatever reason, it hurts.
And the hurt does not, just go away.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Feb 19, 2014 - 09:40pm PT
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A life lived and cut short. I was looking through old emails and came across one from my friend Allen. I wonder why I have lived while so many more worthy have passed.
Cheers Charlie and thanks. The Colorado crowd had a big part in my life.
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Smokey
Trad climber
Colorado
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Feb 19, 2014 - 10:26pm PT
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I climbed a bunch of high end (for me) stuff in Eldo and RMNP with Charlie in the 1980s. Charlie was such a great partner. One of the biggest "if's" was would his old VW bug make it up the hill???? I last saw him in Indian Creek around 2000. Was walking along the trail at the Cat and said "hi" to this guy I didn't recognize (it had been a while) belaying his lady up a route ... the inflection and tone of his voice made the instant connection ... it was none other than Charlie. What a great human being. So sorry he is gone, like we all will be one day.
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deeski
Trad climber
North Carolina
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Feb 20, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
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I just couldn't let this thread pass without posting a special Charlie memory. I have kept all of his postcards sent to me from his travels all over the world... each with his unique handwriting. Charlie helped out with so many of the adventure trips that I put together years ago for the students at the Telluride Public Schools Outdoor Programs ... Yosemite, Moab, Backcountry Ski Hut Trips b/t Telluride and Ouray, Caving Trips near Eagle CO, Naturita... Lost World and 16Z, and Ice Climbing near Ouray, etc,etc. and it was so special for all of us to check out his postcards from his travels and adventures. The students and I felt a part of his adventures through his postcards... and I miss the arrival of those postcards so much!!! We love and miss you Charlie!
Dee
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Sep 22, 2016 - 05:25pm PT
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Here is a Charlie Fowler route not many climbers have seen, since few visit this area. The route follows the right skyline of the buttress. The "Golden Dihedral" route on Ambush Peak-Wind Rivers.
I've done the route 3 times, over the years, and just came back from there,
a month ago.
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