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splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 29, 2014 - 11:25am PT

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa

Time & Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 @ 7:30 PM (Social hours and free beer for members at 6:30)

Directions: From Highway 101 at Santa Rosa go west on Highway 12 to Stony Point Road Exit. Go straight from the middle lane at the light onto Occidental Road. The Round Table Pizza is on the right just down the road.

Hawaiian-born, Berkeley-raised Peter Haan began climbing in summer of 1963, not quite 15 years of age. The golden age of Yosemite was in mid-swing and yet Haan was still a teenager. Consistently involved as the years have gone by and several distinct eras come and gone, his first solo ascent of the Salathe Wall, first free ascent of the Left Side of the Hourglass, the first un-roped ascent of Crack of Despair and other free climbs in the early Seventies, still stand tall in our history.

Now forty years after these climbs, Haan still remains involved on a variety of levels, writing for Alpinist Magazine, Rock & Ice, The American Alpine Journal, and is deeply committed to an unusual type of sometimes narrative Photoshop imagery related to his understanding of climbing today. As these years went by he graduated from UC Santa Cruz in philosophy and also has maintained a career in architectural woodwork fabrication and general construction, based in Santa Cruz while serving on committees and boards of several associations. His other sports have been skiing, surfing, dressage and cross-country jumping.

Peter will present his art and some of the climbing highlights of the last half-century of climbing. Haan theorizes that much of the compulsion to climb at the extreme level, risking everything including one’s life is a quest for myth, meaning and yearning for a hero’s journey in the terms of Joseph Campbell.





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Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 29, 2014 - 11:31am PT
Man! I wish I could make this one!
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Oct 29, 2014 - 11:33am PT
voting about 150 too far away...

Bump
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
Oct 29, 2014 - 11:49am PT
This sounds great! Wish I could be there.
Bullwinkle

Boulder climber
Oct 29, 2014 - 09:16pm PT
Dudes a Legend, don't miss the chance to see this man tell his story. . .df
BASE104

Social climber
An Oil Field
Oct 29, 2014 - 10:11pm PT
Yeah, he isn't carrying much of a rack!
Mtnmun

Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
Oct 29, 2014 - 10:14pm PT
Hey Peter, have a fun night at your talk. I know you will be awesome. Jude
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Oct 29, 2014 - 10:17pm PT
Are these events video recorded?
I'm a big fan but I live in Arizona.
Not even the lure of Round Table Pizza sweetens the pot enough for that drive! Sorry Pedro!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 30, 2014 - 05:22am PT
Second on the video tape suggestion!!

But don't feel self concious, Peter :)
splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2014 - 11:08am PT
I'll look into the possibility of video.

I need to pinch myself sometimes when we get this caliber of presenter to our little climbing club at a Round Table Pizza. :)

Good eye Warbler.

Cya on Tuesday.
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 30, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
Well, I wish you all could come too! First of all, though, let's try and handle the scurrilous attack by Tami.

My crazy Hawaiian birth certificate is a book actually with several pages and faux rattan covers. The front cover, the first page with silly poem by Shelly. I was born there 3 years after the war. My parents were at the U of H, having moved from U of Utah Salt Lake. Hawaii was a US Territory back then.



Can't show the actual certificate for fear of evil.

The Meatgrinder:

The rack: after this spot, I and most others on lead, go into an off width that also has off-fists, at least for me. You run it out for awhile and place a bong in the midst of the trouble. Thus you see "a" bong on the hardware sling. This was the fourth ascent of the Meatgrinder, 1970, Bridwell belaying me. Red Zinger would be behind me, a climb to be. Loved the Grinder. It was actually an edgy lead back then and daunting from the ground. When Kor lead it before me, he just lie backed it for many feet and ignored the off width challenge. Quite bold, and Layton of course always impressed us all.

That is a very rare photo of I-12 at Indian Rock, climbed unroped. I did it maybe six times. Horrid fall from there I am sure.

The current photo of me was taken at Todd Gordon's house during the Bridwell/Tarbuster/Nidever fun-fundraiser and dance-a-thin including bagpipes. Terrific event. Someone stole the auctioning steer skull though, leaving us with a bad feeling. It would have brought $400, too.

The first photo was taken by friend Darwin Alonso a day or so before the First Free Ascent of The Left Side of The Hourglass. I am squatting there in the remnants of the log shack that Jean Baptiste Lembert lived in when he began to raise goats up there in the Meadows about 1890. As a memoriam to him some time after his savage murder down-Valley (1896) , a bunch of friends moved this long-abandoned roofless cabin over to the picturesque soda springs in front of the Sierra Club stone building. It is there today of course.
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
Oct 30, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
Awesome Peter-thanks for the perspective of all the eras.
H

Mountain climber
there and back again
Nov 1, 2014 - 06:33pm PT
Peter, thanks for coming up. I've been hoping for this for some time. Really looking forward to seeing you again.

That skull got stolen? I didn't know that. Bummer. Great gathering and party in spite of that.

See you in a few days.
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Nov 1, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
Man, wish I could make it!
phylp

Trad climber
Upland, CA
Nov 1, 2014 - 10:10pm PT
Oh crap. If I wasn't living 9 hours away from this I would go for sure.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Nov 2, 2014 - 06:46am PT
Peter, you know Skip and I would be there if we possibly could.

Really sad we can't make it. :-(
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Nov 2, 2014 - 10:50am PT
5 days heads up just ain't enough. How'd that happen?
splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 3, 2014 - 10:40am PT
bump for tomorrow.

Toker - I try to get these announcements out earlier, but sometimes that backfires and the post goes back a few pages into oblivion to never resurface.

Definitely not the case with this one. :)

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Nov 4, 2014 - 11:21pm PT
Great fun to catch up with everyone in the North Bay

and always a pleasure to hear Peter.

Thanks all!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 5, 2014 - 06:44am PT
We need a full review, with video!!
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