Pete Sinclair has died
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Dusty Wood

Trad climber
Port Townsend WA
Dec 15, 2015 - 10:14pm PT
I just found this site, and what sad news! I took my first climbing class with Jackson Hole Mountain Guides in 1970 and Pete was one of the teachers. We pioneered a nasty little route on Teepee Pillar, worth forgetting, but it was a grand time. I can't remember who the other guide was on that climb, but I think it was Ted Wilson, later to become Governor of Utah, and there was "Wild" Bill Thompson and another guy named Jake, a big gentle bear of a man. My friends and I were skinny scared runts but eager to learn and to hear the stories. Pete had quite a few of them! I'm sorry to hear of his passing, especially now that I know he was at Evergreen, just two hours south of me. I could have thanked him again for his guidance, leadership and friendship. "Bon courage et bonne course" Pete!
hamie

Social climber
Thekoots
Dec 15, 2015 - 10:55pm PT
What a quaint [and innocent?] time that was. You had to provide Pete with a list of your previous experience, so he could decide if you were capable of the climb or not. Then you had to sign in and out. At least they did not test your equipment like they did at Rainier!

Pete was a good man, with good advice, even if you did not take it.
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Dec 17, 2015 - 04:27pm PT
Pete was the best.
rgold

Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dec 17, 2015 - 05:29pm PT
Well not memorably the best apparently.

Rock and Ice just published its list of "climbers we lost" (online at http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/climbers-we-lost-in-2015?utm_source=Email_marketing&utm_campaign=RI_Climbers_We_Lost_121715&campaigner=1&utm_medium=HTMLEmail); and Pete did not make the cut. (Doug Tompkins is there, so it isn't a question the timing of the publication.)

It is ironic that Pete, a keeper of memories, should be forgotten by mainstream climbing media. I imagine it would have given him a good chuckle.
rgold

Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dec 18, 2015 - 06:28pm PT
A picture of Professor Pete from his memorial page at Evergreen College http://blogs.evergreen.edu/photo/in-memoriam-leon-pete-sinclair/. Note the ever-so-professorial knee patches...


The trailer for the Grand Rescue movie

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AAC blog about the first ascent of the West Rib of Denali: http://aaclibrary.wordpress.com/tag/pete-sinclair/

This method of approaching McKinley directly from the south is so continually steep and difficult, and so exposed to the full force of the southwesterly storms that none but the most uniformly experienced and powerful team of climbers should even think of attempting it. But I mention it here in conclusion because to omit it would be to sidestep the greatest remaining pioneer ascent in North America. – Bradford Washburn from Mountain World, 1956/57, page 81.

Link to Ralph Tingey's Supertopo post about a visit with Pete in 2011: http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Visiting-Pete-Connie-Sinclair/t11252n.html
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