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WBraun
climber
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
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Huh?
This don't make any sense?
You were just standing around with Richard a few weeks ago?
There was a thread here about him.
The last time I saw Richard was so many years ago in the cafe.
He said he's leaving and moving to Red Rocks.
Anyways what happened?
This sh!t has got to stop ........
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
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Yes it does Wern.
No kidding Ricky, Ruppell, and S-Monkey. I remember when it all began for him even. It is hard sometimes---a little bit and roughly sighing here---not to hate everything, what with the way all things have an end.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
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In the climbing game, Richard was all in...
Seems like he was a man who was all in about everything; a courageous man with a big heart and high integrity. Never met him, yet he inspired me from a distance.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:26pm PT
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to all who know how much rock this Man commanded and consumed
This is hard to fathom
WTF happened? with some,with All in fact, the end comes to soon that thing that is just out of view .lost in the periphery.
Shocking sad news and then with some it is more.
Grab a guide book full of his climbs. Look at some of those climbs!
These are old ridged stemmed 'blow the rock out' cams and the mix of old and new on those long runs. they were barley bolted and then when they did you knew that it would need to be there.
Rambling .......sorry........ HE was quite the quiet hero.
with Quips, lazersteely word barbs and funny way of pointing out the obvious.
Peace and love to all that have lost their close friend
Condolences and weeping
a Bon fire is burning
at the DIABASE home
tonight.
Edit at 12:30 with no warning a storm blew in but like a gale really something
It is balling outside
dumping buckets
weird that is 3:30am for me
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:29pm PT
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Nice Warbler!
Thanks Everyone!
Heart felt condolences to the family..
Sorry Largo, and Rick.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:30pm PT
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Met Richard Harrison in JT a couple times eons ago with my husband, Dan. Richard was one super nice person and humble. Peace and comfort to all his loved ones, family and friends.
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ruppell
climber
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
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Peter
Things end for all of us. Something along the lines of you can never hate the player you can only hate the game.
For better ow worse Super Taco is the go to resource for the player. There is more climbing content here than you can shake a stick at. It makes me stoked to stand on those shoulders. And a lot of times be able to talk to the guy or gal whose shoulders I'm standing on.
Every "passage" thread is just that. A passage of great stories and memories. Shared by the remaining players who where there. I finer tribute in this day and age would be hard to come by.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
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I met Richard at Red Rocks many years back while on a climbing trip with the late John Roshalt and Maurice Reed. Richard was very helpful with route bata and we attended a Tom Frost slide lecture at the university together as well.My sincere feelings go out to his family and close friends. Too many great and powerful spirits are passing lately! It just doesn't seem fair.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:51pm PT
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Very sad news.
Rest in Peace Richard.
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Bushman
Social climber
The island of Tristan da Cunha
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Oct 25, 2014 - 09:55pm PT
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That's upsetting news.
There was a time in my life when I looked up to Richard and the Stonemasters like they were some kind of supermen. Whenever someone like him leaves us, or whenever anyone I hold dear finally goes, I feel another year older.
-Condolences to Richard's family and to all of his friends on behalf of the Sorenson clan.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:04pm PT
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sorrowful news
love to his family and friends
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:06pm PT
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An icon and visionary.
I met him once in Red Rock in the 80s, riding a sport bike, along with all the amazing routes he was doing at the time.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:08pm PT
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Not sure if I ever crossed paths with Richard, but best wishes to all his friends and family.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:22pm PT
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How do you measure a life?
One way is by the amount of laughter. Richard was a very funny guy, with an irreverent, sardonic sense of humor.
I consider myself very fortunate to have shared so many laughs with Richard, John, and the rest of you knuckleheads.
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:25pm PT
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Hahaha, fuking classic .....
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:32pm PT
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That is one awesome photo, Rick A. Thanks for sharing.
As Herman Buhl was to you, the Stonemasters were to me. RIP Richard, thanks for showing us how it's done.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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Oct 25, 2014 - 11:17pm PT
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Some of the finest routes I've done, all over the West, were Richard Harrison routes.
Sorry to hear this news, condolences to his family and those who called him a friend.
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Reedly
Social climber
The High Desert, CA
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Oct 25, 2014 - 11:57pm PT
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I knew Richard and climbed with him and his crew some when I lived in Vegas in the mid '90s. He seemed eternally psyched and ready to climb. It seems crazy that he's gone now. Condolences to all his friends and family.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 26, 2014 - 01:05am PT
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I just found out about this from Cosmic on Facebook, of all places. So terribly sorry to hear the news, and send my deepest sympathy to family and friends, but particularly to his daughter. We lost another great one.
John
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Oct 26, 2014 - 03:15am PT
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I am stunned and deeply saddened by this terrible news. He was a true all-around master of climbing arts (free, aid,short and desperate, to long and toothy) and once you got to know him, underneath that quiet exterior, you discovered a tremendous person of great character who had a wonderful sense of humor.
Whenever I ran into him he was always friendly and affable. He brought a cool head and deep respect for the traditional values that make climbing so amazing. I am dismayed by the reality that I will never see him again in this life. Those who knew him know exactly what I mean, those who never had the pleasure of his acquaintance will never know how beneath the cool, placid exterior, lived a deep soul whose accomplishments spoke loud. His respect for the process rather than the finished product, was a profound influence on myself and so many others of my generation.
My deepest condolences go to his family and friends. RIP Richard.
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