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Tarbuster
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Jul 23, 2015 - 07:40am PT
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What's that little mini-Brossman's name? Libby?
I remember Bruce used to bring up her little pink bike with handlebar streamers. Remember he did a lot of road riding in those days. She was too cute tooling around on her own wheels.
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Nita, Dunno who that gal in the Brown Celica is.
'Gotta love a man in uniform though ...
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10b4me
Social climber
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Jul 23, 2015 - 08:28am PT
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Sometime in the early nineties, a friend and I were coming back from Cathedral Peak. We stopped in the mountain shop for something. Doug Niveder was giving beta to someone about a climb. Doug, in describing the crux move said " if you pitch, you sail". Always thought that was funny.
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Tarbuster
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Jul 23, 2015 - 09:13am PT
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A lot of living happened behind that gas station!
Early/mid 1990s:
Ed Barry
Yerian, getting a haircut from Karine:
McDevitt feeding the people:
Sue Bonavitch and Ashworth:
Dan, Sue, Peter, Karine:
TM, Sue, Tarbuster, Stockwell:
(not) Walleye, Messick, Eddie, Sabine, Croft
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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Jul 23, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
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Tarbuster,
The little darling's name was Libby.
The "Little King" made life back there interesting. Stockwell had a mustache when I knew him.
I'm trying to remember all the guides in 1982:
Boss Brockman ran the circus.
Bill Frye assisted the ring master.
Barbara _ store clerk
Ed Barry
Al Bartlett
Bill Critchlow
Chris Falkenstein
Don Reid
Rick Stockwell (survival training)
Peter Mayfield maybe
Derk ___(?)
Mike White was a permanent fixture; but I can't remember if he was guiding.
Mastadon was the card dealer in the late night poker games.
I was just a drifter, seeking shelter from the wind.
Anyone know the year that the station opened up?
I meant to say Libby. Liz was a Freudian slip. I fixed it.
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jul 23, 2015 - 12:46pm PT
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Mr Tobia...
Tarbuster was correct..it is Libby..... and she just got married this year...Big three-oh's
How did the time fly by so quickly.......
edit:Hey Wally, Where will the Mountain School be located...in the Valley again?
ps..Andy and i will be in El Portal Sept.13th for Erin's Memorial.....Hope we cross paths..
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Tarbuster
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Jul 23, 2015 - 02:41pm PT
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I cannot imagine guiding in Yosemite without the sweet respite of summers in TM.
Bachar
Carter, Tommy Herbert, Clevenger:
Carter, Doug MacDonald:
pictures from the mid-1980s
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jul 23, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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I remember the day Mike White retired. Burnout could happen!
Whitey is such a classic character. 'Even announced his retirement with a bit of disgust and also a certain panache.
My first guided route in the Valley was an all free, no falls ascent of Astroman with Navy SEALs in tow, on jumars. 1982. (w/bivi). At the time, Brossman deemed me too young to guide for YMS (!), but he admitted none of his guides would do that route guided in that style (what about Barry fer crissakes? Mayfield probably not on the roster that year. Stein probably didn't care... anyway that's what Bruce said) ... So Alan Bartlett brokered the deal for me between YMS and California Mountaineering and up we went with Bruce's permission.
In 1986 I became an employee of MCA/YMS.
My first guided route "on the books" was Higher Cathedral Spire, in the middle of convalescence for patellar tendinitis. I had to use a cane and took 20 ibuprofen that day.
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Tarbuster
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Jul 23, 2015 - 03:17pm PT
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I liked Dirk. He showed me respect, before I earned it. He was there guiding in 1982 for sure.
Yes, Dirk ... what was his last name?
We have a supertopo poster named Dirka ... I don't think it's him and I never asked.
*Barbara _ store clerk
That would have been Barbara Barahona
A quote from this thread from 2010:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1333534&msg=1333534#msg1333534
Barbara Barahona (former name, now Tess McLeod), who owns Blue Heron Sports shop in the town of Mariposa
[EDIT]
ha ha. These memories are like old roadbed now.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Jul 31, 2015 - 03:00pm PT
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Great photos!
Roy-- Climbing Astroman with belayers who paid for the privilege: now that's a sweet guiding gig!
I can't remember if the gas station was around during my first summer up there, 1973, but I doubt it. I am pretty certain the mountaineering shop was not.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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YMS must have been where the visitor center is now for just a year or two. In 1968 Harding took refuge there after the rescue. While hanging out with him, my buddy and I got kicked out by an uptight ranger who said dogs were not allowed. Never-mind we had hiked from the valley with the dog.
In 1969, YMS operated out of the concrete-floored tent nearest the back dock (a rectangle floor, I believe) at TM Lodge. That's where my dad hired Tom Gerughty for $20 to guide us up Mt Lyell.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=922000&msg=922000
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Tarbuster
climber
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I know that in summer of 1978 YMS was at the visitor center. I went in to buy some chalk and saw they had a wood stave barrel filled to the brim with blocks of it. Kauk was in situ.
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CF
climber
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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Station is closed and on thursday they already had the pumps out. check out the window displays and photo of clint that many of you may have seen in the mens restroom
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:48pm PT
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Working at the Croft's this week, Karine showed me a banner that Walleye had recently salvaged from the shop from BITD.
It shows dramatic shots of them lead-climbing: Peter on one side and Karine on the other, with the print
END OF SUMMER SALE!
between them. Classic.
Edit: vvvv LOL! I was thinking the same thing as I scrolled.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:49pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Man, that Cummins dude look a lot better in his younger years!
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:52pm PT
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Rumor has it that the Tuolumne Meadows Gas Station will be replace by an indoor climbing gym run by a republican ....
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CF
climber
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:54pm PT
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Rumor has it that the Tuolumne Meadows Gas Station will be replace by an indoor climbing gym run by a republican ....
classic werner!
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Sep 18, 2015 - 04:56pm PT
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Eric, say hey to Peter n Karine. Best cup of coffe I had, Peter made for me behind the gas station. "If you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee, you might as well be drinkin tea". Peter Croft
Peace
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 18, 2015 - 05:08pm PT
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Nothing lasts forever.
Oh yes it does.
You just don't know where yet ......
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Is closing the Tuolumne Meadows summer home of Yosemite Mountaineering School part of the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River master plan? Is teaching rock climbing in Tuolumne somehow incompatible with the "wilderness" character of TM?
Been searching, but can't find any written reference to closing TM YMS on the web. It has to be in writing somewhere and therefore traceable back to a source.
Sure is going to be hot teaching basic rock climbing in the Valley in July.
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