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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jun 13, 2007 - 08:32pm PT

Or you can do what many people here do Hankster.

Just make stuff up.

scuffy b

climber

Bates Creek

Jun 13, 2007 - 08:37pm PT

Hankster, you can use the one about the time I saw Wilford
soloing barefoot on the Diamond with Ron tied to his back,
upside down. You don't have to give me credit at all.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jun 13, 2007 - 08:39pm PT

You can tell scuffy's full of it though.
If I was on his back how could Mark be soloing?

scuffy b

climber

Bates Creek

Jun 14, 2007 - 11:06am PT

Well, third-classing anyway. Maybe it wasn't really Ron. Maybe
a big sack full of Egg Salad Sandwiches.
Maybe it wasn't the Diamond.
You better act fast, Hank, get some mileage out of this one
before its credibility starts to deteriorate.

scuffy b

climber

Bates Creek

Jun 14, 2007 - 01:15pm PT

You must be hella Old School to have tales like that, Hank.
How do you stay so young-looking?

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jun 14, 2007 - 09:17pm PT

I just don't think that Patrick and Mark would ever get into a fight.
C'mon. Really?
Patrick is french. The momemt Mark raised his voice Patrick would surrender.

nick d

Trad climber

Jun 14, 2007 - 09:29pm PT

Come on! Mark wouldn't raise his voice, he would have cracked his skull with the liquor bottle he was drinking from while free soloing, cowboy style!

MS

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jun 14, 2007 - 09:39pm PT

Or pulled out that .380 that he used to improve his car's ventilation with.

scuffy b

climber

Bates Creek

Jun 15, 2007 - 11:52am PT

Naughty, naughty boys, doubting the veracity of a genuine
Old School tale.
Wut Hankster sez, Goes.
He's the one what was there, y'know?

Maysho

climber

Truckee, CA

Jun 15, 2007 - 12:22pm PT

Late 70's Yosemite, Mark was solidly in the gang of, "just a bit younger than the actual stonemasters" whenever he showed up. Spent some good times with he, and Auggie Klein, Bill Price, Dave Diegleman, Kathy Besio, Kurt Reider, et. al.

Mark was infamous for owning a pair of amazing knobby and knarled feet. A noteworthy ascent he made was of the Steck Salathe, car to car, without shoes!!

He is the real deal, solid on any type of steep terrain.

Peter

Tarbuster

climber

right here, right now

Jun 15, 2007 - 09:10pm PT

Ah,
Now we are getting sumwhere,
So Wilford did in fact climb Steck Salathe without any shoes, but not necesarrily solo, yet definitely probably maybe for certain after imbibing a ham sandwhich and toking some of Edlinger's hashish...