Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
| Messages 1 - 69 of total 69 in this topic |
Grippa
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 17, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
|
Desert legend. RIP
His writing and books inspired so many to explore, and love the desert. He was the ed abbey for rock climbers.
|
|
johntp
Trad climber
socal
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 03:47pm PT
|
NO! Condolences to family and friends.
edit: loved his desert climbing tales.
|
|
goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:04pm PT
|
Ahh foo, his guidebooks fueled many adventures.
|
|
Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
|
Seems like a "Renaissance-man" kind of guy. I would have enjoyed knowing him.
Condolences to family & friends.
There's a nice bio of him on the Adrift Adventures web-site. Just scroll down a little bit.
http://www.adrift.net/areas.html
|
|
crackfiend
climber
Springdale, Utah
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
|
RIP
The definition of Desert Hardman...
I heard a good interview with him recently on the Enormocast podcast. Here is a link to it herehttp://enormocast.com/?p=1635
|
|
Grippa
Trad climber
Salt Lake City, UT
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
|
|
|
Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:38pm PT
|
He was great to work with. When he did the guidebook that contained all the sections for the San Rafael Swell, he was generous, thorough, and kind. He sent me an autographed copy of the guide when it was published.
I really like the original Desert Rock guidebook that contains so much history. That doesn't seem to be included much in guidebooks anymore but I enjoy reading it and I think it helps at context to the nature of an area.
Condolences to friends and family.
mike
|
|
Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
|
That is unwelcome news but I am glad that he isn't in pain anymore.
I had the pleasure of doing a full biographical interview with him a year or so ago and had a chance to get to know him a little as we went through the years. Eric had a very full and interesting life and had lots of stories to tell about climbing in the Pacific Northwest and the desert. His guidebooks opened the desert up for the rest of us and he maintained an active connection with that climbing community as it evolved until his body began to give out.
Rest in Peace good sir. It was an honor to hear and record your story.
My sincere condolences to his family and community. He will be missed and remembered by many.
|
|
Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:46pm PT
|
A sad day for the climbing community.
I knew him only casually, but he seemed like the nicest guy you could hope to meet. My sympathy to those who loved him.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:52pm PT
|
Thanks Eric!
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 04:58pm PT
|
He certainly was the real deal. He will be justly remembered for a long time.
|
|
Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 05:05pm PT
|
Sad news indeed. A true gentleman. I loved his coffee shop in Seattle (I think), where the walls were lined with climbing photos. And his guidebook to Leavenworth (with Fred) had a large influence on me.
|
|
Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
|
Eric had his own coffee shop near the Seattle Center around the time of the Seattle Expo in 1962. He really liked cafe culture and actively wrote poetry and hosted readings as part of creating that environment. That coffee shop didn't last long as I recall him saying but it was entirely his show and so it likely is the one that you are thinking of Tricouni.
|
|
rick d
climber
ol pueblo, az
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 05:49pm PT
|
adios dirt man.
the record keeper is gone. Desert Rock was a titanic job and Eric did a great job starting the ball.
|
|
Ghoulwe
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
|
Another desert climbing legend gone. RIP Eric.
Eric Barrett
Spokane, WA
|
|
wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 07:20pm PT
|
Before his guidebook came out it was very difficult to get any info. about many of the desert towers that were legendary. We stopped at Lin Ottinger's Rock Shop where we met Eric. He basically opened up his file cabinet of desert beta for us and told us to have at it. Up to that point, the only beta we had on the Totem Pole was "don't stand up on top." Most of what Eric gave us was what was put in his first guidebook soon thereafter, and was very helpful for our climb of the Bandito route.
Great and gracious man, even after my partner told him (respectfully) that he was against a desert guidebook. R.I.P. Eric.
|
|
ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 07:28pm PT
|
His desert guidebook is my favorite mid winter reading material.
Never met him , but I know we lost a good one.
|
|
Larry
Trad climber
Bisbee
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 07:49pm PT
|
All my respect.
|
|
couchmaster
climber
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 08:16pm PT
|
Wow, RIP good sir. Great life of adventure. Glad you recorded some of it Steve. Anyone know how many FAs of obscure desert towers and other routes he had?
|
|
Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 08:19pm PT
|
+1 Cragman
|
|
Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
|
Eric and Lin O. were my first desert climber friends when I moved to the SW in 1980. From day one, Eric was my pal and we spent many hours "chewing the fat" about desert climbs and adventures. After I moved away, we corresponded by mail for years, and every spring break I would return and always stop by to visit Eric and have a chat or go out for a meal or a beer....for 23 years in a row we went back to the SW;..always visiting Eric as customary....it was mega-awesome. At Xmas, he always sent one of his cool hand made glass ornaments, and always a cheerful heartfelt letter. I sent him a lot of info on climbing on the Rez for his first guidebook;...he was facinated by it, very appreciative, and treated it like it was actually something worthy and cool (which remains to be seen;......some fairly "challenging" rock). Everytime we visited Eric, he was always very happy to see me...and me to see him. Often we would invade his small trailer with fairly large party group;......he was always very welcoming and stoked to have climbers visit. He was eager to share info, collect info, share a photo or a book, tell a story, or hear a story. I saw Eric's slide show in Moab at the rock shop once;...the pictures were awesome;...even the ones he "lifted" from me and made copies of when he was working on the original desert rock one (one of the best guidebooks on earth climbers have agreed on)......I was sort of pissed and honored at the same time;...pissed that he "borrowed" my photos without permission;...honored that he borrowed my pictures and thought they were cool enough to have in his show. Eric was the coolest;........quirky, awesome, sincere, gimpy, and always Eric-like. I looked up to him a lot, and appreciated his friendship over the years;......especially when I really didn't have many friends in the area;...I had Eric and Lin.....then later Kyle and Steve Swanke. I was very fortunate to call Eric my good friend. Rest in peace, my dear pal;......and thank you for everything.........thank you so........
|
|
BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 08:36pm PT
|
Very sad to hear of Eric's passing, he was the consummate desert rat and his guidebooks inspired many fine adventures...
|
|
Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
|
I never got close to meeting him, but just as consumer of his Desert Rock book: Thanks dude. Que te vaya bien.
These are from Matt's daughter Heidi. She mostly dropped out of climbing and gave it to me when I started (too infrequently) going down to the Desert South West. She has friends down there and still visits more or less yearly.
sorry about the quality. I can actually scan them if there is interest.
PS: can anyone effing believe that 91 was 20+ years ago?
|
|
klk
Trad climber
cali
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 10:11pm PT
|
sorry to hear.
back when i was a grommie, eric helped to inspire me to move from pwn to sw.
condolences
|
|
Rob Roy Ramey
Trad climber
Colorado
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 10:30pm PT
|
I will never forget a white-knuckle ride up the River Road to Castle Valley with Eric at the wheel, hours after meeting him. It was dark, rain falling, and Eric was gunning his old Volvo sedan at high speed. The tires would groan with a low-pitch squeal on curves, while Eric was sipping red wine from a large mug, stories flowing, and all the while, a wiper without a blade drug back and forth across the windshield in front of me and with that horrendous, fingernails-across-the-blackboard sound on every stroke. I thought for sure we were going to die.
That night, we weren't going climbing, we on our way to measure bighorn sheep skulls for my dissertation research. The goal was to determine the evolutionary origins of the area's now extinct native bighorn population. Eric took an interest in the project, and with great enthusiasm, made sure that I had access to every bighorn sheep skull in or near Moab: in private homes, NPS storerooms, and sitting among fossils or hanging from the wall in Lin Ottinger's rock shop. This was the first one on his mental list.
Three years later, we were standing in the snow on the Island in the Sky collecting blood and parasite samples from bighorn sheep, brought in one-by-one slung under a helicopter, for processing and radio-collaring. The goal then, was to answer a long-standing question about whether the parasite that killed off bighorn across large swaths of the West, starting 150 years ago, were native to bighorn or introduced with domestic livestock. It isn't easy to find someone to join you on a freezing cold day to dig scabs crawling scabies mites out the ears of bighorn sheep, but there Eric was.
Many of you remember Eric as a friend and great climber, or and later as guidebook writer, and a lucky few, as a mentor. I will remember him for these reasons, but also doing his part to give back answers to the land he loved.
Thank you Eric.
Rob Roy Ramey II, Ph.D.
P.S. The answers: The native Canyonlands bighorn were a branch of desert bighorn sheep. The respiratory disease that killed them off was introduced from contact with domestic sheep. The scabies mites were introduced with domestic sheep and/or other livestock. The ~1.5myr divergence between bighorn and domestic sheep explains the susceptibility of bighorn to these pathogens and parasites, and the necessity to prevent contact between them.
|
|
crunch
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
|
|
|
Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
|
|
|
Dec 17, 2014 - 11:43pm PT
|
Bummer :(
|
|
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 02:13am PT
|
The man was as much a part of the fabric of climbing as anyone!!
He felt deeply, and the level of purity and care for the wild spaces that he inspired must be maintained in his honor.
RIP
a great desert rat has passed, and left us with a legacy of greatness.
|
|
pix4u
climber
Sonoma, CA
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 07:17am PT
|
When I got a flurry of emails this morning concerning Eric, it turned out that what I suspected had happened...his passing. He had been a friend of mine since 1960. In recent years I visited him at his different residences in Moab. He was always very engaging. I last talked to him on the phone earlier this year, urging him to complete his yet unfinished autobiography of his fascinating life (as I have done several times over the last 15 years). Yet it never did get finished and that is a loss to the mountaineering world. I'm attaching a few images along with this post.
|
|
pix4u
climber
Sonoma, CA
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 07:20am PT
|
Another more recent image with Eric in it.
|
|
Manny
Social climber
tempe
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 07:43am PT
|
RIP Sir. Your book was the key to my love of Canyonlands and the Wingate rock. You inspired many and I was pleased I got to at least meet you.
|
|
wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 07:58am PT
|
Hey Rob Ramey, how long ago did the desert bighorn vanish from Canyonlands. I ask because I feel like I've seen them in Taylor Canyon in the last 10 years. (Ok, maybe the last 15, not sure.)
Maybe turning the unfinished autobiography of Eric into a biography would be a good project for a prolific photographer and writer like Mr. Cooper.
|
|
Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 09:32am PT
|
Heckuva nice guy and climbing icon. Always wanted to touch base with him again in Moab...heavy sigh...
He sent me a small stained glass piece years ago, along with a few of his guidebooks.
What a history!
|
|
o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 09:50am PT
|
RESPECT !
|
|
adrian korosec
climber
Tucson
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 09:56am PT
|
I'll never forget my first trip to the CO Plateau in the early 90's with your book in hand staring up at those great towers realizing a new world was opening up to me.
Thanks Eric!
|
|
J-Dub
Trad climber
Durango, CO
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 10:11am PT
|
I met Eric on my first desert trip in 1984, and will never forget our first "climb" together - driving out the River Road drinking beers, back to Moab for more beer, then down to the White Rim all the way to where we could glimpse Moses, then out the Potash Road - all in a day - by day's end I was sloshing with beer and overflowing with desert climbing history.
In 1985, we drove out to Merrimac Butte to attempt the first ascent - we climbed the first pitch of what would later become the Hyper-Crack on the Anchor Chain (later finished by Jimmy Dunn, John Bouchard, Eric, and Lin Ottinger). We never climbed together again, but it didn't matter, as the many visits we had, poring over route beta, storytelling, and sharing meals and wine, were just as rich.
When Eric asked me to write a biography of him for the updated Desert Rock series (along with a low-impact desert climbing piece), I knew there were other climbers far more qualified, but I humbly accepted, and in the process was amazed at the diverse life he had led.
Eric was a kind and generous man, and we visited often through those years. He was in love with climbing and the desert, and I know he'll always be out there among the wind and towers . . . Fare thee well my friend, and thank you -
Jeff Widen
|
|
dugillian
Trad climber
Vancouver
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 10:40am PT
|
Condolences to friends and family.
Desert Rock is uber classic.
|
|
neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
|
|
|
Dec 18, 2014 - 12:09pm PT
|
hey there say, all... i did not yet learn about him...
thank you for sharing, and sharing about how special he was...
my condolences to his family and loved ones, at this sad hard, time,
of his passing, and of missing him... :(
prayers for you to stay strong, as you move ahead, without him...
god bless...
|
|
Rob Roy Ramey
Trad climber
Colorado
|
|
|
Dec 19, 2014 - 07:18am PT
|
There was a massive, all-age die off of bighorn sheep from respiratory pneumonia between 1984-86 that affected North San Juan, Maze, Lockhart, and Needles. That is where the bighorn skulls that Eric knew about had come from, and why he was so keen to help.
Native bighorn were not extirpated from Canyonlands. There was a remnant subpopulation in Potash/Island in the Sky that subsequently grew and became a source for numerous translocations, including a reintroduction to Arches, with at least 25 of the 35 reintroduced there between 1985-1991 from Potash/Island in the Sky (which is not all that far away). The Arches subpopulation was extirpated or dwindled to the point of being effectively extirpated, hence needing a reintroduction. (The Arches NPS website is error for not mentioning that, and it and also in error by stating that the die offs were from anthrax, and claiming that unspecified human activity is currently threatening the bighorn sheep. The last one is a commonly held but pseudoscientific belief.) The psoroptic scabies mites in the ears of some of the bighorn Eric and I handled during that capture were so badly infested that their entire ear was occluded - making them easy prey for mtn. lions or subject to falls (if the inner ear was affected). As pointed out earlier, those are introduced parasites.
The native bighorn that inhabited the Needles area and east side of the river were of interest because of potential genetic connections with Rocky Mtn. bighorn to the east, and we were interested in sorting out the genetic affinities of the native (pre-die-off, pre-reintroduction) bighorn, before that information was obscured by subsequent reintroductions and augmentations. The data places them squarely with desert bighorn.
Much of this history of bighorn sheep in the area can be found in scientific publications, NPS and state reports, to lengthy to detail here. However, it is a sound suggestion of wbw to put it in one place, where it is well documented and accessible.
P.S. Hanging in my living room windows, Eric's glass ornaments still catch the morning light.
|
|
crunch
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 19, 2014 - 09:35am PT
|
Hey, j-Dub, that was a great biography of Eric that you wrote back in 1995 for his Vol. 2 of the Desert Rock series. I remember reading that and being astonished at the wide variety of jobs and adventures Eric had embraced.
|
|
guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
|
|
|
Dec 19, 2014 - 10:52am PT
|
To a full life well lived.
People like him will live forever through the climbs they pioneered.
My condolences to his Family and many, good friends.
RIP
|
|
SGropp
Mountain climber
Eastsound, Wa
|
|
|
Dec 19, 2014 - 10:24pm PT
|
I met Eric Bjornttad in Moab in the spring of 74. On a trip to the desert with Jimmy Dunn, Earl Wiggins , Steve Hong, Muff Cheney and Chris Woods , we stopped on our way down from Colorado Springs along the river outside of Moab to check out a route that Jimmy had been working on with Eric. The route went up an overhanging smooth wall with a black water streak. I think at that point only the first pitch had been done. The technique was to hammer in various sized pins and then drive them out again a couple of times until there was a placement deep enough to hold body weight. Jimmy was trying to get in good graces with Eric to find out where the secret hidden climbing gems were in that vast desert.
We went to Erics house in Moab. Moab at that time was a windblown , dusty, fading mining town in the middle of nowhere. Jimmy cautioned us to be ''cool''. Eric was a big powerfully built man with a long gray ponytail. How he managed to look the part as a stunt double for Clint Eastwood in the ''Eiger Sanction'' was a bit of a stretch.
He was busy working on some jewelry from fine copper wire and gem stones , a bit of a contrast to his gruff manner and bearlike personality.
Later we took a long dusty drive up an old mining track to visit the '' Desert Bride'' hidden way back in a canyon along the rim.
The next day we hiked up a canyon in Arches to look at a route on Argon Tower that Muff had done. At sunset, we climbed up on a high bench of sandstone below the rim. It had snowed a few days previously and the slab was covered with a layer of fine loose sand, Getting down in one piece was one of the scariest things I've ever done .
The next day Steve and I did an early repeat of the Kor-Ingalls on Castelton Tower. There were still remnants of the Chevy ad that had been shot on the top of the Tower a few years before.
That same day Jimmy and Earl did the FA of Nigga Belle Flake.
On the way back to the Springs we let Earl off on the highway going west. We gave him $20 to see him on his way to the Valley. He made it , hitchhiking in record time. Later we had heard that he had free soloed ''Outer Limits''. I think he was still a teenager in high school at that time.
|
|
Climberdude
Trad climber
Clovis, CA
|
|
|
Dec 20, 2014 - 06:57am PT
|
I am very sorry to hear this. I never met Eric, but would have loved to meet him to hear some stories. His guidebooks led me to many crazy adventure climbs around Moab and southeastern Utah.
|
|
J-Dub
Trad climber
Durango, CO
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2014 - 11:48am PT
|
Thanks Crunch - I was equally surprised at the diversity in Eric's work, not to mention his climbing! It was an honor to be asked to write that piece.
Cheers, J-dub
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
|
WOW!!! Definitely full value with the Puccini soundtrack! Who knew?
And how 'bout the Mac? Holy cow!
|
|
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
|
Reilley, mate.
I've submitted two 3,000-word essays on Eric to Mountain Gazette (it's a bit raunchy and describes life in the trailer) and the AAC (a more formal piece; an obit of sorts).
Dougald thinks the AAC piece will be up next week. Not sure about the Gazette piece.
I just like the fact that Eric thought he looked a bit like Shirley Temple as a kid----with those blonde curls and all.
Ha! Funny old duffer. I miss him.
Cam
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2014 - 02:23pm PT
|
Seriously, that might be the best two minute video of capturing the spirit
of a man I've seen. I know it sounds trite, and surely no disrespect is
meant, but that was really good!
|
|
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 23, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
|
Reilly, mate.
Yeah, it was okay. I guess there's this invention called a "tripod." It's supposed to smooth out the wobbles in a video like that. I bought one but there is no USB plug on it.
I guess I'm just stuck with the wobbles.
Cammo
|
|
pk_davidson
Trad climber
Albuquerque, NM
|
|
|
Dec 24, 2014 - 07:12am PT
|
The desert rat moves on.
Very sad.
|
|
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2014 - 02:47pm PT
|
Eric got all the neighborhood kids to sign my copy of Desert Rock. Let's see: Bob Culpepper, Harvey Cotter, Larry Donkey, unknown, Lester Kershaw, Fred Bonky, Hunter English, Gary Poacher.
|
|
coolrockclimberguy69
climber
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2014 - 02:56pm PT
|
thanks for those photos, cam. please post more if you have the time.
didn't ever get to meet eric, despite living a couple of trailers down from him on powerhouse when i first moved to moab ten years ago. but he did almost run me over on my bike in front of dave's corner market lol (he took out a couple of orange traffic cones instead). i am relieved to hear that he is finally without suffering. from the intermittent updates i would recieve from the pres, it sounded like he wasn't doing too good. what's left of the theist in me likes to believe he's out there drinking wine and talking sh#t with kyle over a small crackling fire, wondering when fred is gonna show up.
lots of folks diss his guidebooks for having inaccurate/shitty beta and i've been guilty of that in the past but i bet no one here who dreamed about climbing towers and splitters in the desert didn't have at least one of his Desert Rock series. the blue out of print original i still consider the bible of desert climbing. or at least the book of mormon of desert climbing.
much respect for his accomplishments on and off the rock. dude doubled for clint eastwood when clint in his prime, for f*#ks sake.
RIP/merry christmas eric
|
|
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
|
Thanks for those comments. Someplace I have a ton of videos of Eric (besides what I've posted already). I'll try and dig them out.
|
|
Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2014 - 03:19pm PT
|
We will look forward to that!
|
|
Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
|
|
|
Dec 25, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
|
I spent a few days with Eric in the Arches back in the 1980s. The guy could go without water like a camel. Soft spoken. Sure know the desert. And himself. Adios, amigo.
JL
|
|
melski
Trad climber
bytheriver
|
|
Eric will live on as great pionners should,,more reasons to getback on the rock,,RIP,,,
|
|
crunch
Social climber
CO
|
|
Nice article Cam! Never was quite desperate enough to stay at the Powerhouse Lane trailer. Floor (that nasty yellow shag, uh!) was generally pretty awash with trash, glass fragments, feral dust bunnies, wood splinters, random dead rodents. Once, faced with a surge-strip malfunction, my wife Fran volunteered to spend some quality time wrestling with said dust bunnies under and behind his desk (and the precarious piles of papers and books all around it), installing a new surge strip with everything plugged in as needed. The horror... Eric was really appreciative. So was I...
The more recent trailer in center of town was an improvement. Rilke was well-behaved and mellow but the two new dogs Queequeg and Harvard were anything but; their arrival coincided with a rapid loss of mobility for Eric (both with his hips and his latest barely-functioning 300-dollar vehicle) so they were eternally hyper and under-exercised.
Ah well, his was a life well lived. He went his own way from the day he was old enough to leave home without being returned by the police.
It would have been great to have known Eric when he was younger and stronger. He must have been a formidable and memorable partner and friend back in the 60s and 70s.
|
|
Camster (Rhymes with Hamster)
Social climber
CO
|
|
Thanks, Steve. I wrote that piece for MG and another 4,000-word piece for the AAC on Eric the day after he died. Boy, it takes awhile for them to show up on a web page, though. Then again, holiday break and all, who can fault anyone taking some time off?
|
|
crunch
Social climber
CO
|
|
|
Jan 11, 2015 - 09:22am PT
|
That AAC obituary is a really nicely written piece, Cam. Thanks!
|
|
the albatross
Gym climber
Flagstaff
|
|
|
Jan 11, 2015 - 10:25am PT
|
Thanks Cameron and Steve for the thoughtful writing and photos.
I never met Eric but we did exchange a number of emails some years back. Seemed like a kind, gentle soul who lived a full life.
R.I.P.
|
|
Johnny K.
climber
|
|
|
Jan 11, 2015 - 11:16am PT
|
An incredible and gentle soul. Surrounded by so many incredible people. Mr. Burns, thank you for sharing those precious videos.
|
|
| Messages 1 - 69 of total 69 in this topic |
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!