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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 1, 2014 - 09:35pm PT
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mucci- It's the roots to the radness with everything in between.
guido- You've already fully cooperated and testified so you got immunity from persecution but never from harassment!
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Very cool Steve! Know you've been working hard on this for quite a while. Good to see its becoming a reality. Let me know if I can help.
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Thanks Steve! Looking forward to see how this turns out.
Is it going to be all online or are you going to make it a touring show?
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Steve - congratulations!! That is awesome news. Thank you for doing what you do.
Looking forward to collaborating with your Nonprofit! Let us know what needs to be done.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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That's a great project and a huge one, Steve! Hope you get all the support you need.
How will it relate to YCA.?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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This is a big deal and very important to many of us.
Big thanks to you Steve for rolling this out!
*Extra credit goes to Mimi for standing by her man throughout this startup!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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nice, looking forward
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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I will be needing my own, dedicated exhibit, Steve. And I've saved those nose hair clippings like you asked.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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In spanish, nachas is common slang for butt cheeks.
The word nacha specifically refers to one butt cheek.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2014 - 09:59pm PT
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Esta NACHA es mia, sin duda, BIOTCHITO! LOL
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Bubba Ho-Tep
climber
Evergreen, CO
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The NACHA mission is: To gather, document and celebrate climbing history in image, word and artifact with special emphasis on personalities and events in North America and fostering climbing culture.
So you will no doubt be including the WOS saga.
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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If I want some primo climbing history content I just search Steve Grossmann as thread topic author on the Taco. 10 out of 10 times it's solid gold. I'm guessing NACHA will also be a huge task and an even greater contribution to the community.
Thank you!
Lasti
p.s. more on Mark Wilford's Eastern European tour of 1983 (?) would be interesting.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
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Thanks for the Stoke Folks!
I am always catching up so...
BBA- Your Roper red guide to Yosemite and early Tahquitz guide will be among the first to be reproduced and made available in full once I get The Climbing Museum website funded and online. Bill was one of the first to appreciate and materially support my work and also sent along some Sierra Club Bulletins that I have excerpted in threads like the Shiprock history thread.
If all I did was excerpt and make readily available all of the relevant existing published magazine and journal content that would be huge and that is only part of what the Museum will become with some considerable help.
If you have offbeat books, magazines, catalogs, journals and other photo or paper records of historical importance please contact me as I am trying to create a proper and comprehensive archive.
bvb- My people have been collecting your toenails while you are asleep so if you wake up with cold feet, it's just me! LOL
Wayne- Ken and I have been supporting each other from the outset and will continue to do so. The YCA is sponsoring NACHA at events like the Oakdale Festival to allow me to do my work. The YCA is a fantastic gathering point for all things Yosemite and Sierra Nevada climbing history.
My own historical interest is more extensive and so I felt the need to put NACHA in the oven.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Will there be much Canadian content?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Will there be much Canadian content?
While milling around with a bunch of climbers waitng to get down a short descent gully in the Gunks a while back, a young guy approached me and said, in a very New York accent, "Est ke se votree premier fwaw ecee?" (He'd heard me speaking French with the Quebec climbers I was there with, so points to him for trying to make a foreigner feel welcome.)
I told him I could speak English, and that yes, this was my first time there. He thought about this for a bit, and then said, "So, are there any mountains in Canada?"
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Ghost's comment reminds me of something that happened to me a long, long time ago. A carload of us descended on a pub in Sultan, WA, on our way to Leavenworth during the (Canadian) November long weekend. The very nice but not-too-smart barmaid asked where we were from; we said Vancouver, Canada. She wanted to know how deep the snow was in Vancouver (about the same as in Sultan: zero) and if we had the dog-sleds ready for winter.
One of the girls in our party was using borrowed I.D. The barmaid asked her to spell her middle name; Joy had no idea what it was. But she was very pleasant about it, and the beer soon arrived for everyone. I guess she figured that wen and if the cops arrived, Joy would be able to spell it by then.
We met nothing but friendly and helpful people on those trips.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2014 - 09:19am PT
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So much superb climbing and rich history in Canada and Mexico that casting a broad net with NACHA didn't take much deliberation. The history is too meshed to even consider trying to compartmentalize it.
By creating NACHA my hope is that, with a bit of encouragement, interested and knowledgeable folks will take the time to record what they know if the result has a definite home with purpose and reach. We get a taste of that kind of historical disclosure and sharing on this forum which is why I have invested so much time and energy here and will continue to do so.
The ST is the finest climbers forum that I have found so far when folks stay on the topic of climbing. So many accomplished and indelible characters spend time here despite the background noise.
Lasti- I will get Wilford to write down his recollections from his amazing tour during the 80s. We spent some time chatting about that trip over beer in Boulder recently so I really need to catch up with him for an interview to capture it. Mark is an amazing resource along with being one hell of a good climber!
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Sep 14, 2014 - 03:34am PT
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You are gentleman and a scholar Mr Grossman!
I am looking forward to Wilford's stories.
Lasti
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