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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Hbday! From STONEY POINT
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Watermann2
Mountain climber
Saluzzo Italia
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Best wishes to a great climber, one of the best ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notable Ascents:
1957 Northwest Face of Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA. First grade VI climb in America. With Mike Sherrick and Jerry Gallwas.
1961 Salathé Wall, El Capitan, Yosemite, CA, USA. Hardest big wall grade VI climb in world at time of first ascent. With Tom Frost and Chuck Pratt.
1962 American Direct, Aiguille du Dru, Mont Blanc Range, France. With Gary Hemming.
1963 Direct NW Face of Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA. With Dick McCracken.
1963 Robbins Route, Mount Proboscis, Logan Mountains, NWT, Canada. With Jim McCarthy, Layton Kor and Dick McCracken.
1964 North America Wall, El Capitan, Yosemite, CA, USA. With Tom Frost, Chuck Pratt and Yvon Chouinard.
1964 North Face, Mount Hooker, Wind River Range, Wyoming, USA. With Dick McCracken and Charlie Raymond.
1964 Danse Macabre, Devils Tower, Wyoming, USA.
1964 Final Exam, Castle Rock, Boulder, CO, USA. With Pat Ament.
1964 Athlete's Feat, Castle Rock, Boulder, CO, USA.
1965 American Direttissima, Aiguille du Dru, Mont Blanc Range, France. With John Harlin.
1967 Nutcracker, Yosemite, CA, USA. An early all-nut protected route, now a Yosemite classic.
1967 West Face, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley - First ascent with TM Herbert.
1967 North Face, VI 5.9 A3, Mount Geikie, Canadian Rockies, first ascent with John Hudson.
1967 North Face, Mount Edith Cavell, Canadian Rockies - First solo ascent.
1969 Mount Jeffers, Cathedral Spires, Kichatna Mountains, Alaska, USA. First ascent of peak with Fitschen and Raymond.
1969 The Prow, Washington Column, Yosemite, CA, USA. With Glen Denny.
1969 Tis-sa-ack, Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA. With Don Peterson.
1970 Arcturus, Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, USA. With Dick Dorworth.
Many Greetings.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Happy Birthday.
You continue to be a great source of inspiration.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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We all have you to thank for taking a high road and not looking back, in your footsteps most of us have grown into better people, and while you only went there before, you showed the
way to do it in a way that still feels right.
The thin volumes of the rock craft series,
that little cave man graphic ...
how to tie in, or what was what, and how & when to use it. . .
Thank you forever,
you changed so many lives for the better and gave climbing more soul,
happy birthday, from one of the lucky ones to have started early & followed your leads.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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"You can do what you like, but don't step on my blue suede shoes!"
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Best wishes to you and Liz on the big 81st.
cheers
Joe
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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"Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we climb first in our minds"
-RR
Happy b-day, you are a true badass.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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On Feb. 2 we did a route Robbins and Powell established in 1965 on the Blob formation in JT they called "Buissonier" . (What were they thinking with that name?LOL.The most awkward route of the day.)
The pin to protect the crux is still there minus the eye. It's held firm all these years much as the man who probably and presumably hammered it.
Happy Birthday.
An honor, sir
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Happy belated birthday to my hero
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Blessings to you, Royal!
Thanks for all that you've given to us "hopeful adventurers" through your writing, teaching, and inspirational example.
And, thanks, too, for letting me work at the shop - best mountain shop ever! - in the late 70s even though I was going through my slacker phase (sorry about that...got better....eventually).
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