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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2008 - 07:54am PT
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with a tad bit of story line ;)
Now that was just great, especially the story line.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Yes that was a good run!
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Supercrack, 1983...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2008 - 12:52pm PT
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With a triple rack of rigid-stem Friends, or were you still mixing in cammed hex nuts back then?
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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TrundleBum: You are the Man for posting up that great picture show. Bravo!
Funny how in every climbers life time they run into climbers that others may have known. Climbers are wanderers. My good friend Rob Robinson used to tell me what a hard man Bob Rotert was. And there was Rotert in TB's show. I bet you enjoyed climbing with him. I was always impressed by the spirit and zest for climbing my buddies from down South have.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Bob Rotert lives out here in the Boulder/Denver area.
I ran into him in Eldorado not long ago and he is looking good.
He is one strong climber!
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Bobby is one tough guy...took a bullet to the heart area and lived to talk about it.
Him, Mark Sonnenfeld and I were at Turkey Rocks around 1982 and got caught in a bad thunder/lighting storm...hid under a small overhang close ro the ground and heard a bang above us...next thing we knew we were a few feet out from the rock and running towards the car.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2008 - 06:15pm PT
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Found and scanned another stack of ancient slides today.
Andy Embick on White Maiden's Walkaway, winter 1969.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nov 22, 2008 - 08:24pm PT
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Bobby R was indeed a good and bold climber. When we started climbing in North Carolina in the 70's he was this legendary hard-as-nails-guy putting up bold, steep, scary routes. For a while, it was like they were part of another Universe, but eventually we started getting on some of the easier ones--old-school 5.9s and 10s. Climbing a Rotert route was a sign you were becoming a real climber.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Bobby R is STILL a good and bold climber!
As a matter of fact, we were just getting liquored up with him tonight hatching climbing plans for the next couple of weeks!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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OK Crimper - say "hi" for me! Highlight of my early climbing life was leading a Mr R. route called "Hang 'em High" on Table Rock. 5.9 (at the time).
Figured I was ready for the next one on the Mr R. ticklist -- "Open Book" in the Linville Gorge Ampitheatre. Major butt kicking ensued and it was not the climb that got kicked. Would have been my first 5.10. I noticed years later that the grade had been changed to 11b.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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BobbyR = Rotert? Good guy, good climber.
Hehe.
Sold him a pair of tights. One of our most radical designs, the only pair we'd had enough material to make in that pattern. Computer aggro blox on a black background.. Ultra-delicate fabric with a remarkably loose weave.
At that point in time, it was close to an illegal transaction.
Corner of HVCG, all shadowy, and careful like. You know it's marginal if it's a marginal transaction in a marginal community of a marginal "sport" in a marginal area of rural SoCal.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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On Teflon Direct (V5), Mt. Roubidoux, 1971
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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great pic!
slightly overexposed, but really cool for the age and the local sun intensity.
weirdly true to the way that place felt.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Nutcracker, Bridwell start 1978
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2009 - 08:57am PT
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If we'd known these photos would be historical one day, we'd all have taken more.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Bomber thread...thanks for sharing, what a way to start my work day!
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Great stuff!
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Mike - I'll email Bob. I was trying to convince him to get on the taco last night. He's playing coy!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2009 - 02:30pm PT
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I notice that Largo's excellent "old climb" photos feature honed Stonemasters climbing hard.
My old photos tend to have a much different character, for some reason.
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