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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 20, 2016 - 10:11am PT
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There will be a birthday celebration for Paul Sibley on Saturday evening August 6th at his property in Marshall, Colorado.(just East of Eldorado Springs) If you are around on this date it will be an opportunity to wish Paul a happy B-Day, talk story reconnect with friends. I will post more info as plans firm-up.
Paul's Address:
5675 Marshall Dr
Boulder,
80303
Cheers!
Kevin Donald
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Jun 20, 2016 - 11:05am PT
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Kevin, if I'm in town, I definitely will be there!!! :-)
Pam Roberts
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 20, 2016 - 11:06am PT
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hey there say, turok... oh my, since i am not a climber, i do not know paul, but sure wish him a wonderful birthday and great new year...
sending a cake, here...
while you wait for so many others to chip in here...
and get ready for them to show up...
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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2016 - 12:18pm PT
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NeeBee and Pam, thanks for your cake and RSVP!
Kevin
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jun 20, 2016 - 02:04pm PT
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70? No way is he 70. Paul's a decade younger, at least.
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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
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You would think he is turning 60 to see him. He is in good health and spirits with two grown boys(Clayton and Gabe) and a wonderful wife (Deborah). He still skis and climbs as well as road bikes.
K.
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Jun 20, 2016 - 06:17pm PT
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Any birthday with a zero is a big one and this sounds like a fun event. Perhaps even historic or at least iconic. Can't miss.
Keith
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 20, 2016 - 08:10pm PT
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It's going to be a who's who of Colorado climbers from BITD.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 03:40pm PT
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Kevin- Thanks for the notice on this party which I am going to try and attend.
I look forward to meeting you and toasting the Ageless Wonderboy!
Cheers!
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jun 22, 2016 - 04:48pm PT
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Whoa Paul is how old? Just last week he took me and my son for a spin in his Fiat convertible. It was a blast and very nice of Paul to do for my son. Should be a great party. Not sure I will make it as I'm Squamish bound but Paul would approve. Thanks Kevin for posting this up see ya in Eldo maybe this summer.
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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2016 - 11:29am PT
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Paul's B-Day party update: I spoke to Mike Weis a couple of days ago while he was driving back from his digs in Baja. Mike has offered to prepare a roasted pig in the style he learned from the Maori people in New Zealand for the party. As an opportunivor I must say this sounds delicious.
Cheers!
Kevin
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 25, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
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Paul is a great guy and also seems to have found the fountain of youth.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Jun 26, 2016 - 11:04am PT
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Sorry to have to miss this one: Alaska calls. HBD Paul.
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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 01:18pm PT
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Greetings,
We are attempting to come-up with a number of attendees to the Old Eldorado Climbers Rendezvous and Paul Sibley Birthday Party on Saturday August 6th. Beginning at 6:pm at Paul’s place at 5675 Marshall Drive,Boulder, 80303
We need a number to work with in order to provide enough food and drink for everyone. We are hearing rumors of up to 200 people. Great! but we need to know for sure. Note: Children are certainly welcome.
The Rendezvous group will provide: -
2(two) 80 lb roasted pigs
- Corn on the cob
- Watermelon
- Beer
-Soft drinks and water
· We are asking those of you that plan to attend to provide:
An email to KevinDonald@charter.net or a text to Kevin at 541-490-8182 and let us know you will attend. We will compile a list and go from there. This is important for the success of the rendezvous.
· Bring a side dish, (salads, deserts , etc.) to complement the roast pigs, and other barbecue items. This is also important for the success of the rendezvous.
· When you arrive you will see a piggy bank of some sort. Donate whatever you can. The core group of us that are organizing the rendezvous are footing the bill for this shindig and will greatly appreciate any help we can get.
Cheers!
Kevin Donald
541-490-8182
4331 Riordan Hill Dr.
Hood River, Or. 97031
kevindonald@charter.net
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 24, 2016 - 01:39pm PT
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My wife Mimi and I will be there.
Email sent to confirm as instructed.
Cheers!
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Jul 24, 2016 - 01:56pm PT
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Kevin, I will be there for sure. I will probably see you in Eldo before the event. Up the road from you. Wait till you see Christian,s quarry!! Let me know how I can help! Steve Sangdahl
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Turok
Trad climber
Eldorado Springs, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2016 - 03:39pm PT
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Prod
Trad climber
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Jul 24, 2016 - 06:35pm PT
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I'm supporting my wife in a running race from Aspen to Snowmass that weekend, and am sad to miss the event.
Send me a paypal link and I'll kick in some keg money to represent the Chicken Coop-ers. I was there in 90-91ish.
Cheers,
Prod.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jul 25, 2016 - 12:15am PT
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Fran and I will be there! Looking forward to this! I'll send an email, too.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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I don't know the man, but I live in Boulder and know a bunch of stories. Seems like the kind of birthday worth celebrating.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Well Paul is actually (slightly) older than me. I like Colorado and the crowd over there seems pretty cool, but alas, I'm a no show.
Happy Birthday to Paul
Sibley a fabulous event to ya.
Not neebee
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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This is an open gathering honoring community and friendship that also coincides with Paul's birthday so please feel free to attend and join in the fun.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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One more candle on the cake… ;-)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Roy- Please post the treatise on friendship that you prepared for this fantastic event if you would be so kind.
Cheers
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Paul Sibley gathered us to celebrate friendship. Everyone here tonight who values friendship, raise a hand!
Everybody gotta have a dream.
In the pursuit of that dream, there is striving (which is to endeavor or contend) and sometimes, but not always, there is thriving (which is to flourish or prosper).
In the end, thriving is never guaranteed, so it seems to me that it is the striving that matters most.
Indeed, one of the great rewards of life is to share the process and the effort of striving, especially with friends.
So what is friendship?
Many of the literary giants have sought to answer this question.
I've collected a string of aphorisms about friendship.
After I read each quote, I'll tell you who wrote it, and if listed, when.
To begin:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin, (March 1937).
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis (1960).
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach (1977).
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard, (1927).
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard, The Motto Book (1907).
Love is only chatter,
Friends are all that matter.
Gelett Burgess, (1901)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841)
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
James Rachels, (1999)
But remember! When it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!
Eiichiro Oda
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus, (100 BC)
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs, XXVII. verse 17.
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
Mikhail Lermontov
Choose your friends, then treat them as friends; do not regard them like slaves or servants, but associate with them frankly and simply and generously; not saying one thing of them and thinking something else.
The Emperor Julian
Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton, (1820).
Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child's clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
Sir Arthur Helps, (1847).
Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Jean Hérault, as quoted in 1788, also attributed to Voltaire.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde, (1891)
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack;
For he knew, when he pleas'd, he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith, (1774).
The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Henry Home, Lord Kames, (1761). This quote is often misattributed to Homer.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
John Newton, Ph.D.,
A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.
Mellin de Saint-Gelais
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith, (1855)
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Péguy, "The Search for Truth", Basic Verities (1943),
To hear him speak, and sweetly smile
You were in Paradise the while.
Sir Philip Sidney. Attributed also to Spenser and Roydon.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden, (1689).
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith, (1771)
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841)
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar (2009)
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
Erwin T. Randall
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Longfellow's translation of Simon Dach
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
Ah, how good it feels!
The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And in closing:
(point to the crowd)
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870)
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:25pm PT
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For a beer cooler of course
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:27pm PT
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Lots of climbing experience right there.
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steve s
Trad climber
eldo
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Feb 10, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
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Former IAS guides at Sibleyville
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