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Presto
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Jul 23, 2016 - 08:14pm PT
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Chapeau, sir.
Thanks for sharing your experience and experiences with the rest of us.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Jul 23, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
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Cheers Jim!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 23, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
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Happy Birthday, and many more to follow.
feralfae
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Woody the Beaver
Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
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Jul 24, 2016 - 06:39am PT
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Happy Birthday, Jim! And best wishes for more! I remember you being generous and welcoming to me in Yosemite in 1975 or whenever it was, and then being generous and welcoming to my son in Indian Creek 40 years later. Pretty amazing! Whatever you got, I want some too!
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Scott McNamara
climber
Tucson, Arizona
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Jul 24, 2016 - 07:56am PT
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Happy Birthday, Jim!
You are an inspiration!
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 24, 2016 - 08:10am PT
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Definitely an inspiration! Happy birthday Jim, and thanks for all the hospitality you and Angela have shown Patty and me.
Edit: About 2 weeks ago, Patty and I spent Friday and Saturday climbing at Tahquitz. Sunday I need to take my GSP (dog) out for exercise and, well, I'm feeling kinda lazy. So I decide to go to this local dog park that I used to take Tica to for socialization when she was just a wild beast. So after humping a few dogs and playing a bit, then taking a short hike in the bush surrounding the park, we are heading out when I hear someone call my name. I turn around and I see Ron, this guy I haven't seen in maybe 6 years. Our kids were on the same swim team together so we had a lot of catching up to do.
He asks me if I still backpack a lot, and my response is not so much any more. Patty really hated it. So now we are rock climbing and Patty really enjoys it. His eye kind of glaze over thinking back to another time; "I took a rock climbing class of sorts once". He goes on, "Back in the mid to late 70's a buddy and me went to the Tetons and the Climbing Ranch to do some climbing". This old guy ran the ranch and had been up the "final exam" route to the top many many times. He had told Ron that he was very sorry he couldn't go with them this time, but he had too much to do. Instead, the best climber in the U.S. was to guide them up to the top. Apparently this guy climbed like a fly, just sticking to everything while soloing up the hard stuff, then bringing Ron and his buddy up the easy stuff on rope. Ron went on to say, "This guys portrait was hanging up at the ranch right next to Kennedy's. His name was Jim Donini." "Donini?!", I said. "We know him. He's in his 70's now and still climbs like that". Ron gives me this incredulous look (that we've met him).....
Ron never followed up on climbing.
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Yeti
Trad climber
Ketchum, Idaho
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Jul 24, 2016 - 09:55am PT
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Happy Birthday Jim! Keep on climbing, Supertopoing and smiling.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Jul 24, 2016 - 10:03am PT
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Feliz cumpleaņos, viejo!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jul 24, 2016 - 10:58am PT
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Happy birthday Jim. Fit as a fiddle. Passed me like a streak of lightning on Garnet Canyon trail a half hour ago...
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Jul 24, 2016 - 11:34am PT
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Wowsa!
This is great news!
Happy Birthday!
Susan and Michael
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Jul 24, 2016 - 11:36am PT
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Congrats, Lord Jim! Keep on sending.
BAd
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 24, 2016 - 04:26pm PT
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Thanks everyone! Luckily with the entirely different take we now have on aging I can safely say that.....73 is the new 71.
Did five miles uphill with 3,200 ft. of elevation gain today in 1 hr 30 minutes....my way of giving a robust middle finger to 73.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jul 24, 2016 - 05:06pm PT
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The one and only time I ran into El Donini he was barely thirty years of age and already an old man in my young perspective. Well the ensuing 42 years has destroyed that myth. Good celebration Donini.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Jul 24, 2016 - 07:48pm PT
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Happy birthday!!
Just came out of your backyard...
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jul 24, 2016 - 10:15pm PT
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Wasn't that Jim's VW van with Washington tags sitting at the gas station in New Paltz through several years in the 1970s?
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Degaine
climber
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Jul 24, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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Happy Birthday Jim!
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jul 24, 2016 - 10:48pm PT
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El Jaime Donini,... Happy Birthday!!
Hope you had a Lovely Birth-day..
Salud.
Nita..
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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Jul 25, 2016 - 05:06am PT
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Hi Jim, Happy Birthday. Hope all is well. Best, Roger
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jul 25, 2016 - 08:53am PT
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Happy Birthday to you....
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Jul 25, 2016 - 02:18pm PT
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Have a great bday and a great year, Thnaks for being such and inspiration - both as a great climber and a wonderful human being!
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