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Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 2, 2016 - 01:19pm PT
So why was he so 'inflatable'? Was it a prodigious toking capacity?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 01:22pm PT
DEEE,
That's a great story about Dave Katz!

No doubt, that's the day Katz became one of us!

.....................................................................

Speaking of Dave Katz,
Check out this TV short he had me and Dave Vaughan get onto YouTube, for YOUR viewing pleasure!!!

Tube socks, swami belts, EB's ... all the adorable period trappings.

Largo, Lynn, Dave Katz, TV short: Early 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOlFRW0hZI


Towards the end there is a wacky contextual blooper here, while watching free solo footage, we get the following overlay:

Commentator:
"Thirty feet up, Lynn is perched on a ledge the size of a dime; how does she handle her fear of falling?"

Lynn:
"It's only scary before you fall, after you fall it's kind of a relief, because you realize that it wasn't that bad and I've fallen 40 feet and just hopped back up on the climb and completed it."


Commentator:
"What drives these people to risk their lives for a climb?"

Largo:
"It's just fun ... probably the same ... as sinking a 35 foot jump shot or a sinking a long putt.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 01:27pm PT
Reilly,
Inflatable Man i.e. inflatable ego!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 01:35pm PT
I keep in touch with Slim Jim Angione.
He's doing well.

L.A. Woman

Social climber
Pasadena, CA
May 2, 2016 - 01:47pm PT
Roy,
Thanks for thinking about me and posting the links to the reunions! Great photos and memories...having a slamming day at school and it helps when I can take a moment to have a good hearty laugh. The story about Katz is hilarious! Carry on....beautiful day in HI. Can see every valley and tree on Mauna Kea, nice trade winds. Keeps the vog (volcanic haze) at bay ; ) V
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
May 2, 2016 - 03:06pm PT

Me, Manx, and Mike Paul. Generator Crack tyrol

Lower Leaf Larry

Mims

Jessica and Shockley


Chopping with Moe, Bachar, and Ed Erenfeld on the crew
dee ee

Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
May 2, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
Reilly,

If I remember correctly, the "inflatable" label came from his extremely ripped physique.

When he first appeared he wasn't that big but, after a year or so he was a effing roman statue.

There were climbers using steroids in those days, not that Dave was.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
May 2, 2016 - 03:26pm PT
Well, that could explain his 'touchiness', eh?

Did Nurse Ratched miss Mims at bed count?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
I just got off the phone with Gargoyle.

Hey Russ,
You got time to tell us a story?

Guardino was recalling the night the park rangers told you guys to get out of the Valley and where to go ...

Cliff notes:
 Many Long Island iced teas in the MR bar.
 Short chat with park rangers/directions dispensed.
 VW bus high centered, dangling over the edge of the river, somewhere near the El Portal sewage treatment plant.
 Headlights pointing to the stars at the angle of a telescope.
 9 mm cord tied from guard rail to bumper.
 Gargoyle walks off into the night for help ...
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
May 2, 2016 - 03:34pm PT
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
May 2, 2016 - 03:44pm PT
Only got a minute... remodel in full swing.

Yeah... Cops told us where to go... we go there down by the sewage plant in El Portal. Way late. We go too far and have to hang a u-ee or Y turn thing on the skinny dirt-ish road that has a pretty sheer drop into the merced river on the business side.

I do the turn and hit a boulder on the first leg of the Y... it was hidden in some long brush. No big deal. I back up and promptly go off the road with the ass end of the bus. Rear wheels are not even touching!!! Long drop into the Merced. Everybody out!!! But, when I hit the rock it rotated the front wraparound bumper up enough to make it so neither front door would open!! Trapped like rats. The Garg is headed into the back of the teetering bus, to save his brand new Fires!!! The thing was like a teeter-totter. We eventually bail out the side door and lash the bus off to a fence post with a 9mm.

It is way late now and we go for help. Some river dudes are up the way and have a truck. But, the puss says it is his dads truck and he can't pull us out. WTF over?? But there is like 6 of them and they are way drunk so we recruit them to pull us off the brink by hand.

I stomp on the bumper to get in the front door and fire the rig up.... them boys are pulling for all they are worth as I go through all the gears... finally the real wheels hit tarmac and the bus launches into the crowd!!! At least one dude goes down and partially under the bus. Good times!!

Fires were saved, no real injuries, and the proper tool free bivy was eventually found.
Craig Fry

Trad climber
So Cal.
May 2, 2016 - 03:46pm PT
Me and my right hand man
I call him Number 2

Russ's official Sheep Buggerer Flow Chart
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 04:06pm PT
Ha ha ha ha.
Most excellent story.

Gargoyle added a few nice touches:

 From his MANY Long Island iced teas, Guardino was passed out in the back of the Van.
 He awoke to a THUD, looked past your shoulders through the windshield and saw STARS.

 "Whoa. What's happenin' Mr. Fish?!"
 "Goyle, I think we are FOKKED"
 "Should I get the rope?"
 "Yeah, Goyle, you do that ..."
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
Shawn Curtis. My MAN!
Posthumously, making us ... famous.

German Mike, The Fish, Swiss Jodi, Roy Boy, living the high life!
Dead Man Summit, 1982:


photo by Shawn Curtis, used to great comic effect in VALLEY UPRISING.
looking sketchy there...

Social climber
Lassitude 33
May 2, 2016 - 05:34pm PT
I could have sworn you guys were all in the Mountain Room Bar in that picture...

Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
May 2, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
Say Tardy... are you sure that is German Mike?? I think not. Maybe it will come to me. German Mike was thinner and liked doing one arms and acid in Camp4. Sorta introverted in a serial killer kind of way. Super strong gymnast type guy.

How about all them super Swiss/German guys? DePaolo and Big Sunny... Michi of course... Jody... German Mike and Mattias.... And the bent one.... Martin Scheel. And we all went to that steak house in the Castro District and the local fellas were foaming at the crotch checking out our meat store.

Remember the convertible that, what was his name?????? Fladdi/Vladdi!! Thats it. We kept calling him Vladdivostok or something and had... a Buick Electra with the girlfriend with the pony tail and they always dressed up like 50's teeny boppers. He was all fussy on the Priest Grade after a run to the Haight since my bus was so slow and he was overheating being behind me...!!

And the Swiss Misses... Dani and Melena?

And Punk Roy our chauffeur in the Swiss Mobile, along with the Writher girl from Ohio(?) and lots of Tangerine Dream and Talking Heads on the EastSide and Tahoe.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 06:28pm PT
Well gee, I climbed the Salathe with him, so we might think I would know what he looks like ...
But that doesn't mean that I do! Ha ha.

Look at that sacked out lawn chair he is sitting in.
Whoever he is ...
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 07:15pm PT
Here you are, Russ,
With another one of them foreigners ... Matias, Lurking Fear:

Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
Russ and the Manx, Sundance …
Everything went perfectly that day … until the Manx forgot how to belay:



Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
May 2, 2016 - 07:19pm PT
I see that I didn't put the right link up for our 2008 reunion, try this one:
(I've since fixed it, but here it is again)

70' s Joshua Tree Crew Redux: 2008
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/574993/70-s-Joshua-Tree-Crew-Redux-2008
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