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Tamara Robbins

climber

not a climber, just related...

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2015 - 11:14pm PT

this just in

climber

Justin Ross from North Fork

Dec 14, 2015 - 07:37am PT

Tamara, do you remember going to an area with a big quartz field, (thousands of quartz chunks) on Shuteye Ridge? I found this pin below in a crack in that area. I figured it was from Rockcraft.

Peter Green

Mountain climber

Davis, CA

Dec 14, 2015 - 08:26am PT

Sure looks like a Lembert Water Crack in the last picture, and similar area granite in several pics. Wonderful post, wherever it is -- such great times,
and still are when folks bring their kids out to camp and crag!

john bald

climber

Dec 14, 2015 - 11:35am PT

Tamara, will be nice to associate names to these faces.

My contribution is Sam Suguine on the far right in the black sweater.
We climbed new routes in the California Needles not long after this was taken. 1972

Dick Erb

climber

June Lake, CA

Dec 14, 2015 - 05:46pm PT

Photo Above:
Front row, Steve Roper (yep the legendary one), Neil Korbaron (Modesto Internist), Dick Erb, I wish I knew, Max Gammon (British Heart Surgeon)
Back Row, Barney Nielson (dentist and fun Guy), Fred S. (Reno Lawyer), Sam Saguini (One of the stronger climbing students).
All spellings are guessed.

hobo_dan

Social climber

Minnesota

Dec 14, 2015 - 06:29pm PT

spirit of the age

k-man

Gym climber

SCruz

Dec 14, 2015 - 06:38pm PT

Spirit of the age?

Heck, I thought it was the stone age.

F10

Trad climber

Bishop

Dec 14, 2015 - 07:08pm PT

Keeping SuperTopo real, don't stop. This is what it should be.... climbing related !!

Yafer

Trad climber

Chatsworth, California

Dec 14, 2015 - 08:46pm PT

Awesome.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Dec 14, 2015 - 09:00pm PT

Tamara! It's great to have you share those Rockcraft photos. Keep trying, since sometimes it takes a few days for the senior posters on ST to check in.

Tamara Robbins

climber

not a climber, just related...

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2015 - 09:01pm PT

found some definitive Telluride Rockcraft slides today, will upload them here tomorrow ;)

rockanice

climber

new york

Dec 15, 2015 - 06:50am PT

E. L. Wolfinger (of course Sheridan )

Thanks for posting !

Roger Breedlove

climber

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Dec 15, 2015 - 01:49pm PT

Nice memory Dick. I did a double take on seeing Roper.

Here is a group photo I have shown before.

It shows Liz, Royal and Tamara (center left); Dick and Dawn, Judy standing at right end; me and Chuck Pratt on either side of the lady in the red jacket in the back: junior guides.

Chris Vandiver is showing how to attach aid slings to a bolt placed on a big boulder in front of a large tree with a rock slope in the background. Dick is standing nearby, looking on--don't read too much into his hands-in-his-pockets nonchalance; he was paying attention. I am sitting on the ground, looking away, ignoring whatever Chris is saying. I recognize a few of the clients, but don't remember their names.

Climbing photos:

Queen's Throne.

This route had a wide smooth groove that had to be crossed. There was a faint dyke with one hard move. It was bolt protected. The crossing point is near the bottom of the picture. Nice day. Great, game clients.

this just in

climber

Justin Ross from North Fork

Dec 15, 2015 - 03:27pm PT

So cool to see these photos, thanks.

Paul Martzen

Trad climber

Fresno

Dec 15, 2015 - 03:38pm PT

Thanks for posting these, Tamara. I worked at the Fresno store in the 80's so these photos are a bit before my time. But if Doug Weins and Gary Pollard are in these photos, then I know some of the characters, even if I don't recognize them! Gary Pollard was around the store a lot and then mentored me on my first kayak trips on rivers. Thanks, Gary!

I never got to climb or boat with Doug Weins, yet his mentoring and encouragement were very, very important for me. I was constantly taking up his time, asking questions and getting suggestions from him. Doug is still my hero and my standard of how to treat people.

A tall dark haired fellow with a mustache and an orange or yellow shirt in some of the photos, shirtless in another, looks like it might be Gary Pheister.

Paul

BooDawg

Social climber

Butterfly Town

Dec 15, 2015 - 05:14pm PT

In the first two pictures that were posted on 12/13 at 10:04 pm, the guy on the right looks like me (Ken Boche); I think I hand-painted those shorts. Since I grew my beard in 1969, this would have been sometime between '65 and '69. Camp 4.

kenny morrell

Trad climber

danville,ca

Dec 15, 2015 - 05:43pm PT

In the picture from john bald, the man sitting in front of the tree with his left arm on left knee is kim grandfield. He is the owner of sunrise mountain sports in livermore calif.

Dick Erb

climber

June Lake, CA

Dec 15, 2015 - 05:54pm PT

I worked at Rockcraft for seven summers, an experience I am grateful for to this day. I was an instructor and guide and enjoyed that, but I was also like a graduate student or TA working with one of the great climbers of the world trying to soak up every bit of why Royal was such a good climber. At the heart of it was his deep love for climbing and his desire to plunge whole heartedly into his life's desire, but in a survivable way. Every session was different but the emphasis in addition to all the techniques seemed to be to show each person their own ability which was always greater than they knew. Most of the students left with more confidence and enthusiasm than when they arrived. Sometimes so much it was scary.

I didn't take many photos those days, but here are a few that I or Judy took.
I have my hammer for setting up the top ropes, as the years went by we used fewer and fewer pins. Royal was an early prponent of clean climbing in the US.
These two are Royal top rope freeing one of our practice aid lines on the East side of lower Dear John Buttress at the Leap. WE thought maybe it was an eleven but in those days no one had yet claimed to have established a climb of that grade.