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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jun 12, 2007 - 11:51pm PT
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that barefoot sh*t is burly, and scary -
it's too horrendous to even think about it
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jun 12, 2007 - 11:57pm PT
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pretty sure SG got the first ascent of south ridge arete in idyllwild as well, scooping all us SoCal flyweights......
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Jun 12, 2007 - 11:59pm PT
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I remember doing Rock Warrior with Skip, who didn't bother with shoes. On one of those early pitches he was out about fifty feet, having skipped a bolt or two. Spooky stuff.
Skip had freakish natural strength. Wonder what he's up to now??
JL
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:00am PT
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Maybe that arete to the left of Short Circuit too.... if I recall....
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:01am PT
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freakish natural strength and rubber-like flexibility
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:02am PT
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The Duncan photo of Skip in bare feet.
WOW!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:15am PT
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nah, the arete left of SC was moffat. not that skip couldn't a hiked it if he'd tied in first.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:18am PT
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...and Skip did Blue Suede shoes barefoot, yikes.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:21am PT
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I'm trotting this thread out next time one of you cheatin' shoe-wearers tells me my hand tape is aid. ;-)
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:23am PT
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Merry just told me Skip wore some home made leather protectors on his feet at times.
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:24am PT
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I thought his name was Skip McGrew
Sharma went barefoot for a little while and sent some gnarly boulder problems sans footwear- a true hardman way to do it. Wish I was that tough.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 13, 2007 - 12:30am PT
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Werner,
Those were like ankle coverings only.
I hope I got my facts right; I know Skip was working Blue Suede Shoes barefoot and I'm pretty sure he got it...
(I also have Wilford doing Steck Salathe, maybe, solo and barefoot in another thread - would be nice to verify both)
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2007 - 01:44pm PT
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Bump.
Mike Paul climbs Stem Gem barefoot, inspired me to try a bunch of JT bolder problems sans shoes, hardest I could do is some easy 5.11 seam in the back of a campsite in the inner loop, between Stem Gem and the Old Woman.
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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Jun 13, 2007 - 03:36pm PT
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Walleye, Kurt did the 3rd ascent of the Lightning if I am not mistaken. Maybe Eddy or Skip did it before him but I am pretty sure he did 3rd or at least 4th ascent.
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pn
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Jun 14, 2007 - 10:04am PT
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/Users/peternoebels/Desktop/images/txclimb_16-3rs.jpg
I met Skip in the early 90's in Hueco Tanks. While photgraphing him on several hard problems I easily saw how talented he was and his dog at the time was pretty good as well, seen here on a slab route with Skip spotting and giving encouragement
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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Jun 14, 2007 - 12:38pm PT
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Peter, you need to host that photo online at someplace like www.photobucket.com in order to show it here. You can't link it from your hard drive.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Jun 15, 2007 - 12:07am PT
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How did I miss this thread??
Skip is one of my favorite people in the world. He was one of the first people I met when I started climbing. Back when his dog was still alive and he had the yellow van. I think I've posted pics of us doing Elvis' Hammer in Moab here before. I'll try to find those.
In the meantime, one of the many things I love about Skip is that he's always up for some last minute fun. A year ago March he called me up and asked what I was up to that weekend. Told him Red Rocks Rendezvous and that he should fly on out for it. 5 hours later he calls me back from a travel agency in Boulder and asks if 9am Saturday is a good time for me to pick him up at McCarren. He came out and we spent the weekend climbing and hanging out. A lot of people were pretty stunned to see him. That Sunday night we were at the pro/vendor dinner (scamming yes) and Peter Croft came over to him and was gushing about how when he was younger in the Valley he looked up to Skip and Mark and their barefoot ways. He asked Skip what the trick was for getting your feet that toughened up to do such hard climbs barefoot. Skip just looked and said "just walk around barefoot a lot." Classic.
I have no idea how the pic turned out like this, but it's classic Skip (and yes, that's Morrow in the background):
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Fluoride
Trad climber
Hollywood, CA
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Jun 15, 2007 - 12:10am PT
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Here's Skip in Red Rocks. He'd had a busy winter and said this was his first climb of '06. I didn't believe him. He floated everything we did that day.
Tha man:
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Jun 15, 2007 - 12:34am PT
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awesome
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Jun 15, 2007 - 01:14am PT
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The real deal, Flouride, the real deal. Thanks for your posts. Amazing to me that I never got to know Skip. Wish I had. But nice to see he's still Able!
-JelloCheers
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