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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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We should have focused on taking more photos since we missed so many of the people who attended. Still, it was great fun, and we did manage to get a few...
George B, Rick A, John J, Gerry A and Pam Roberts!
Eeyonkee, George B, Jan, Anders/Mighty Hiker, Brokedown climber, and assorted others
Anders and Pente
Nature, Steve W and BrassNuts
Mr and Mrs Eeyonkee
Anders, Elizabeth, Nature, Crimpergirl, and Eeyonkee
Eeyonkee styling it the Boulder-man way
A thinking man by the name of Nature
Pente running away from the Manbun guy; Someone with a manbun going in for a kiss!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 23, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
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But there aren't any pics of you all dressed to the 9's at the AF
dinner!!!!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 07:38pm PT
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I'm not sure there is a photo of that. Will have to ask around. Got a nice one of BN:
*You can see Mighty Hiker at the table next to us over BN's shoulder (on the left).
And some 'hold the camera up and shoot the crowd' as we were being seated for dinner. Maybe you can find all the STers out there. :)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
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Ah, here is the only one I know of. We missed a lot of good photo opps last night and the night before. Very fun visiting without that though.
Hola RV - super fun hanging out with you!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 08:11pm PT
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Love the photos! Thanks!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 23, 2016 - 08:32pm PT
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hey there say... wow, very nice pics, everyone!!!
so nice to see everyone!
thanks for sharing... :)
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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Oct 24, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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Sorry to miss the get together at Crimpy and BN's, but it was fun hanging out with them at the AF cocktail and dinner.
More than a few of us were amazed to see a room of 400 reasonably well dressed climbers celebrating 25 years of the AF. Connecting with new and old friends and acquaintances was great.
The Black Diamond metal beer glasses we are clutching was a highly prized item. Rumor was it doubles as an emergency tube chock.
Along with Anders, I attended a few of the seminars/workshops earlier in the day. There were so many dedicated climbers from all over the US (and, yes Canada) whp are doing incredible projects. Very inspiring to say the least.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 24, 2016 - 03:41pm PT
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Well, Mr. BN. Not only looking svelte, but like, a perfesser or something.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 24, 2016 - 04:10pm PT
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Send me one of them cups, I'll drill it out and whip on it to see if works as a tube chock!! ;)
AF event looks, well, different than Camp 4. lol
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
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We sadly forgot our two cups. Tragedy. :(
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Oct 24, 2016 - 09:17pm PT
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:31pm PT
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Thanks to everyone for a pleasant trip, and for all the hospitality!!
Gerry and Rick A, for providing a cozy billet, and great company! (Bonus: Meeting John J.)
The Crimpster, Brass Nuts and Pente, for hosting a wonderful get together on Friday night. Jan S, Rodger R, Pam R, George B, Elizabeth & Greg (aka Eeyonkee), Steve W, Gerry & Rick, Aya, Nature, and others were there too. Although Rodger had an almost four hour drive - one way!
Eeyonkee, for climbing with me in Eldorado on Friday - the "get fit again" process evidently will take a bit more time and effort. Plus we talked about his solo free ascent of Pipeline in 1979, looked at Glenn's photo from the FA in 1966, and speculated as to who might have tried it in the interim (as hinted at in the 1975 guide), and where the pipes ended up.
Brass Nuts, for our conkwest of the Third Flatiron on Monday, and our foray into Whole Paycheque. Many snowy mountains to the west, if not the continental divide, were visible from it. (The descent from the flatiron seemed disproportionately challenging, in comparison to the climb.) Probably the last sunny outdoor climb I'll have for a while.
It was also interesting to visit two historical climbing areas, where considerable effort has been put into protecting their heritage.
The Access Fund's 25th anniversary dinner on Saturday was great fun. I was very active in access and related matters, and the Climbers' Access Society of BC, from the early 1990s until about 2008, and since then have had a limited role. Other responsibilities, time to move on... But when I got a note from Armando in July, mentioning the dinner, and closing with (roughly) "You'll be there. Won't you?", I decided to attend. The AF was always supportive of what we did in BC, and something of an inspiration. (Indeed, the Access Society - CASBC - helped stimulate formation of LCOs in Penticton and Squamish, and access groups in Alberta and Ontario. Plus did some useful stuff.) So it seemed a good excuse for a wild weekend. By my standards, anyway.
Tons of friends, old and new, at the dinner, and a very busy night, where they gave us drinks, then having anaesthesized us, separated us from our money. (ABF - Always Be Fundraising.) Timmy O'Neill was the MC, Armando and John J talked about how the AF got started, a young woman from New York talked about the importance of organizations such as the AF being inclusive, and Tommy Caldwell gave an amusing talk about where climbing has been, and where it might be going. There was even an auction.
I've been to five or six AF summits, the first IIRC in Seattle in 1998. At that time, most of those attending were male, white and middle-aged or older. There was a significantly higher percentage of women and younger people at the summit on Saturday, and some persons of colour. (The new AF president, Kenji Haroutunian - maybe related to Ed H? - is of Armenian and Japanese ancestry. Although he's admittedly male and middle aged.) So that's progress - something which in multicultural BC we can learn from. As climbers, we need to remember and learn from the past, but always be looking to the future.
Overall, a great weekend, now back to the land of rain and work.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2016 - 09:22pm PT
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I can see the flatirons from my office in Denver. Yesterday I looked at the third, knowing your two were there, and was jealous!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 25, 2016 - 09:41pm PT
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Anders & all! It sounds like great fun. Thanks for sharing the story & photos.
I flew down to Denver & spent a long weekend in Boulder with my old friend Bruce Franks & his wife Meg, somewhere around 1974. He was sales manager for Longmont-based Camp 7 at the time.
Of course, we had to climb something, & the 3rd Flatiron, was ready, willing, & supine for our fun. I do remember the top of the descent was short, but steep & a little complicated.
My last time climbing in Colorado.
Sigh.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Oct 26, 2016 - 09:39pm PT
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So at the AF dinner on Saturday, there was quite a silent auction. (I bid on a few things, unsuccessfully.) All sorts of goodies. One of them was a "crag dog" package, with a nice blankie for doggie to lie on, a (short) leash, and stuff. So Callie, Dave and I naughtily added "Dog not included" to the auction sheet. Perhaps Pente if not Donini would have approved, but I understand that dogs are a major problem at crags there.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Oct 26, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
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I would argue that dogs are really never the problem... the owners who bring them along and then let them run rampant are nearly always the real problem. :-)
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
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Oct 28, 2016 - 07:42pm PT
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The man, the myth, the legend :-)
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