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Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 17, 2007 - 08:54pm PT
..That's Right.

Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Feb 17, 2007 - 09:48pm PT

Awwwwright!
Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Feb 17, 2007 - 09:57pm PT

eeebeestylee
Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Feb 17, 2007 - 09:58pm PT

Unmatchable form!
Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Feb 17, 2007 - 10:00pm PT

A gregarious fellow, always quick with a hearty "berg heil!" when you join him on the ledge.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 12:11am PT
...and after we imbibed the proscribed Scottish elixir,
We settled in to a reverent abidence of all that is tweaked,
As The Oracle BVB Spoke to us in Werd:

"Yeah, now shall ye go forth, commune with the stones & become: SWOULE my brothers & sisters!1!"

Watusi

Social climber
Joshua Tree, CA
Feb 18, 2007 - 12:39am PT
Another "Berg Heil" for my bro!!!!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 09:47am PT

'An the Sun Riseth Another Suh-Weeet Day,
Behold, The Righteous Must Yank Down !1!
(no doubt, following a few blashemed spoonfools of wheat-tays):






Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 18, 2007 - 02:55pm PT
Long ago, I ran into Bob and John Wasson at the roadside below El Cap. I went to say hello and asked about their plans. “West face,” offered a nervous Bob. “Today, it’s the Big Stone.” It was clearly the first live fire exercise in awhile for Bob. John was a seasoned veteran and calmly went about his preparations.

A jittery Bob is a hilarious Bob, and the slap schtick was not long in coming. Every time Sharon or Josilyn would try to be helpful with something like “Do you guys have enough food with you?” The response from Bob would be “Woman! When you are on the Big Stone, you ain’t got time for no snack food!”

“You done this thing, know anything about it?” asked Private Bob.

“Folks used to carry a hammer and a couple of short arrows for the first crux section,” I volunteered slyly with a wink to an already grinning John. The color and humor in Bob’s face left momentarily as his future suddenly became cloudy. "But that stuff has got to be fixed heads or something by now, you guys will be fine." Barbed wire, but only a short stretch and avoidable. The color and commentary returned.

“You guys set for rainwear?”

“Woman, when you are up on the Big Stone, you ain’t got time for any foul weather!”

Though he currently spends his days proudly and passionately throwing himself at the wee pebbles, when I think of BVB, I think Big Stone.......................... Bob Big Stone.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 04:41pm PT
Dat's Right!
Fer Cripe's Sake, Bob Big Stone.

'N Rock is Rock,
So lits git' back to it, K?



Plus the man's 'n Artist Wit a Set 'O Felt Pens,
And he cuts an astute drag on the uber culture with which we keenly dabble:

artsy doodlin' by BVB, but hey ...U NU DAT.


'N Lats but not in the Least,
He Know's his Drams 'N Jugs:

Mimi

climber
Feb 18, 2007 - 04:51pm PT
Honey Rads! Those ingredients are choice! LOL!!!!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 05:28pm PT
No Doubt Meems,
All the key drugs 'n viteemens.
So, Speakun' of Lat's N Jugs:


Yup, behind ev'ry great guy, there's an even greater,
'N definitely stronger WOMAN, prolly smarter too..
This 'd Be Jos:



Now keep in mind, most of these pics are BVB's.
Yup, I stole 'M; cuz we can't quite expect him to host his own Tribute, Eh?
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 05:35pm PT
'N Jos has like minded Pals,
Here's Jos & Eve, or Eve Tree as she's been known:
(They're quite a pair)

bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Feb 18, 2007 - 08:29pm PT
"Though he currently spends his days proudly and passionately throwing himself at the wee pebbles, when I think of BVB, I think Big Stone.......................... Bob Big Stone.

damn straight, babe. fired that rig in a day....and i wound up with the second pitch, the 11c pitch, the 11b pitch, the 10b "runout" pitch....hiked 'em all, babe. too swole for wordz, i'm tellin' ya.

our provisions for that day were powerbars, water, and a single pack of camels. we smoked the last one on the summit before heading down the east ledges in the dusk...'87 was a very, very good year....

i coulda been a contender!11!

and then there was this one time, at band camp.....
Russ Walling

Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
Feb 18, 2007 - 08:36pm PT
If BVB were alive today he would really appreciate this outpouring of the community. Long Live BVB!
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 18, 2007 - 08:49pm PT
Sorry, but no elven longships just yet....... He lives, and a hardier recruit never hit the beach. I knew you wouldn't get killed or benighted Big Stone.......unlike that time on Dragontail!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 08:57pm PT
It don't git much better than this 'n here.
3 Prime suspects, itinerant scumbags, to dah bone.
Watusi, BVB, Off White:



bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Feb 18, 2007 - 09:00pm PT
omfg, dragontail...i was just out of a five-month stint in the hospital, still had a friggin' CHEST TUBE draining PUS out of my right CHEST CAVITY, and the sole sum of my alpine experience was getting dragged up the cooper spur by off white.....if i didn't know better, i'd say that motherf*#ker off white and his cohort twilly had a life insurance policy out on me...!
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Feb 18, 2007 - 10:21pm PT
mmm,
I Dunno, Beeb, I don't think they were that sophisticated,
Prolly they just wanted to step over yer carcass, rumage through yer stuff,
Maybe nab some a that fine footwear you been sportin'

Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 18, 2007 - 11:18pm PT
I'd kill a sucka for his Chucks, no problem. Especially if they are the Plastidipped, double seam taped and insulated Alpine version!
But BVB is no sucka and hence immune to such piracy.
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