bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Dec 14, 2006 - 07:20pm PT
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Hopefully Charlie will show up in a few days.
Climbed with him in the early 80's in the Boulder area. Wishing my best for him to pull this one out.
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JohnHemlock
Mountain climber
CO
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Dec 14, 2006 - 08:37pm PT
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Being 2 weeks overdue in Western China is like being 20 minutes overdue for dinner. Here's hoping they just decided to enjoy an extended vacation!
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Fry Guy
Trad climber
Bondale, CO
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Dec 14, 2006 - 09:14pm PT
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If there is one climber I've always looked up to and wanted to some day sit down and shoot the sh#t with it's Charlie. Just seems like a kind soul with a heart of gold and a damn good climber on all sides of the board. The kind of person we should all strive to be. Hope we hear from them soon.
Maybe the midget will bring them back, eh Gregory:-)
-Ryan Jennings
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ladd
Trad climber
off coarsegold
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Dec 14, 2006 - 09:25pm PT
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ohhh no.. come back charlie..
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hashbro
Trad climber
Not in Southern California
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Dec 14, 2006 - 09:36pm PT
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Hoping for your safe return Charlie and Christine.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Dec 14, 2006 - 10:49pm PT
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Charlie is a tough guy. He is also a free spirit. He might well have had a mood to take a strange turn up some valley or onto a ridge. Of the several hundred climbs I've done with him, I've always found him to be an utterly cool head and precise... not likely to make some kind of fundamental blunder. Let's let time play it out and keep them in our thoughts and prayers.
Pat Ament
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Anguish
Mountain climber
Jackson Hole Wyo.
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Dec 15, 2006 - 10:53am PT
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Mountain friends,
All these posts are in good spirit, but I think we need action. There have been troubling things happening along the Tibetan border, underscored this fall's video showing would-be refugees gunned down by Chinese troops near Cho Oyu. Our community must bring this missing persons report to the attention of the State Department so Charlie's and Christine's name are on an official agenda. I am urging Phil Powers and the AAJ to become immediately involved, and have sent an e-mail to Al Read (Exum), currently out of the country, for any contact information he might have. Any other ideas for action, please get in touch with me: angus@jhnewsandguide.com. I'm not certain we should be at the point of mourning as much as investigating. Please write with ideas
Angus Thuermer
Jackson Hole
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Anguish
Mountain climber
Jackson Hole Wyo.
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Dec 15, 2006 - 11:45am PT
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More info on Rock and Ice. Apparently international contact/efforts are underway.
AT
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Jimmy Dunn
Trad climber
Colorado Springs, CO
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Dec 16, 2006 - 08:08am PT
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Charlie~
You and Christine come home safe, and Charlie, then you can tell me about Tibet. We've always had tons of good fun and good climbs. I miss you. Your friend, Jimmy
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Tridemtnr
climber
Telluride, CO
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Dec 16, 2006 - 08:45am PT
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Ron O, if you read this, call me. Been trying to get you for days... Terry @ Telluride Mountaineer 970.728.6736. Important!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 16, 2006 - 09:34am PT
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Got it.
Please people,
if you want to help out DO NOT mail contributions to the search fund.
IT TAKES TOO LONG.
Funds must be wire transfered.
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Dec 16, 2006 - 02:48pm PT
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bump. Better keep this one up high.
It's starting to sound serious.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Dec 16, 2006 - 03:43pm PT
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Yikes! That sounds dire. What an incredibly remote region. I met Charlie once when he went zooming past me down the East Ledges of El Cap, showing me the Better Way down.
Hopes and prayers from Pete
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 16, 2006 - 06:26pm PT
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This time of year people are pretty strapped, but I'll be waiting at the bank door to wire three grand to the search effort (detailed info available in this thread).
The time to help is NOW or not at all.
Damon Johnston is co-ordinating the effort. Before I give contact info please note that he is NOT the person to contact for updates etc.
This is for people with useful info, help and so on.
970 728 8009
damon@paragontelluride.com
Our best hope now is that they are in jail.
The effort is sending teams to track and distribute flyers.
Please consider helping.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 16, 2006 - 09:48pm PT
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Damn, I'm with Bob, hopefully Charlie and Christine will turn up any day now. He's definitely got a spur-of-the-moment history so no telling what they may have decided to do. I shared a rope a few pitches with him back in the mid-'70s and my main partner Jim Tangen-Foster did the Diamond with him about the same time - no getting around him adding a lot of character to climbing.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 17, 2006 - 05:32pm PT
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The Fowler-Boskoff Search Fund
Well's Fargo acct. # 1736253632
Please consider wiring some $ tomorrow.
Thanks
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 18, 2006 - 08:41am PT
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Hopefully later today aircraft will be searching.
Please consider donating by wire transfer (no money, no aircraft. They don't do humanitarian work there.)
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fattrad
Mountain climber
GOP Convention
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Dec 18, 2006 - 08:54am PT
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Piton Ron,
Get me the tax id # if they are a 501(c)3
Jody's evil twin.
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JLP
Social climber
Fargo, MN
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Dec 18, 2006 - 09:25am PT
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Seems a couple calls to people with more money laying around may yield positive results. AAC member, insurance? He is so well known, maybe a few very large manf's could chip in - Black Diamond, Patagonia? I would gladly place the call myself, but I am so out of the loop. Just suggestions.
JLP
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