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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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great evocations, Tarbuster...
a fine draft.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Lisa and I have been married 16 years.
May 6, … It's our anniversary!
Pretty sure I won the life partner sweepstakes.
One of my favorite pictures of THE BUNNY (she's a hopper), on the left, during a 36 mile run up Haleakala.
She WON the race!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Great stuff Roy.
That run looks core. I bet the humidity was brutal.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Thanks fellas.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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congratulations! long may you (both continue to) rule
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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And write like it matters!
Thanks, Jeff & Hoob.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Lisa, on Safari:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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One of my all-time favorite portraits of E!
Atlantis, Needles of Cali, 1983:
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Spencer, Evans, lovely redhead, Rob Stahl, 2006 Reunion:
Yeah that's the ticket ... this thread needs more Spencer Lennard, and more BVB!
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Pasadena, CA
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Roy, congratulations to you and your cute honey "bunny" on your 16th!
The humidity is horrendous at times, do you ever get to Maui? 17 minute flight to Kona.
Hope the two of you have a great day. Thanks for the pic of E, cutie ; )
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Spencer, Craig and DEE, boulder session prep
Somethings never change.
Roy congratulations on 16 years.... time fly's when your having fun.
Any Photos of Dan Leichtfuss? IIRC he was one of those SD people.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Roy! Thanks for all the writing. You too Dave and Craig. You guys have brought a lot of good memories back up. We really did live thru some golden years.
One of my fondest memories of you guys is when you asked Hauser if you could borrow his van to get out of the wind. We look in a couple minutes later and you had the mirror off the wall and are doing lines. He was so straight I thought he might die of shock. I did finally get him to drink tequila some nights around the campfire.
Jan
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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What happened to Little Laura?
I forgot.
For L.A.
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Nice write up Roy, keep them coming. (RIP Roger)
It was during one of the door-jam pull ups, bong-loads, sht talking and listening to music way too loud sessions at the Boxer’s house in 1979, when Roy shows up and regales us with stories about climbing with this guy Erik, who he informed us was, “The best face climber in North America”.
Shortly after this Roy invited me to go ice climbing in Lee Vining with him, Erik and their friend Lou. I was a little more than intimidated to meet Erik given his reputation. I think the only reason Roy invited me was so I could fill a pipe as I had just procured a bag. We all rented cross country skis from the now defunct Alta sport and headed up to Lee Vining for the weekend. Lou had a couple of Lowe Big Bird axes (state of the art at the time), Roy had some Forrest tool we ended up nicknaming the plate maker because every time he set the tool a large plate of ice would come raining down. One giant block of ice hit me in the shoulder basically giving me a neurapraxic lesion, paralyzing my arm for about 4 days, because I couldn’t use my arm E ended up belaying both Roy and Lou at the same time while I crawled away from the bombardment to lick my wounds and watch from the sidelines. I ended up meeting Erik again at Pasadena City College.
Erik at one time or another ended up mentoring all of us; Roy, Russ (The Fish), Greg (the Driver), Karl (the Boxer), Kent (Manx), myself (Moonie) and I am sure many others, giving us all a leg up in our climbing.
Here are a couple of shots from that weekend (winter of 1979-1980) back when ice climbers wore wool and needed two hands to set a screw.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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In the pit toilet??
Wow, a lot of wasted hours were spent looking everywhere except the most logical place.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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Roy, That piece lightened up my otherwise tedious day. Great stuff. And, Congratulations on your and Lisa's anniversary. Been up Haleakala and running that is impressive.
To add a tid-bit about the DE picture on the FA of Swept Away. Dave has traversed off the hanging belay, and is trying to get situated on some rather poor footholds to pull out his hammer and drill a bolt. It seems like it would make a good picture. So, I pull out my Nikon, focus and shoot (this is really a two hand maneuver), while trying to maintain some semblance of hip belay. I don't think Dave was pleased...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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IIRC that bolt on Swept Away is a sketchy spot to hang out as it is, nevermind actually having to drill!
Doug: the plate maker was a Snowdon Curver. Orange shaft. A hand-me-down from E.
Thanks for the pictures!
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2016 - 03:38pm PT
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So sad about Laura Bradbury^^^^
Hey Roy,
Before finishing your story I was already googling and listening to Sonny Rollins, St Thomas, then got to the bottom of the read to see you had already posted all those great jazz pieces, ha ha. Guess I jumped the gun but the story about you and your dad really got me to remembering my brief period of interest in jazz, the Bird, Coltrane and other greats.
Solid writing dude, bring it.
-bushman
PS
Happy Anniversary and many more to you and your true beloved!
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L.A. Woman
Social climber
Pasadena, CA
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Doug (Moonie),
Thanks so much for the history and the photos.
I am really enjoying all of this...the stories, laughs,
and most of all, the reconnecting.
Have a great weekend everyone! Aloha Friday, V
Roy, you're still the best in my book :)
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