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Roger Breedlove
climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Aug 20, 2007 - 02:08pm PT
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Hey Kevin,
I had the wrong guy pictured as RD. I wish I could remember all the folks and details at the same level of clarity. More like patchy fog.
I am doing great, I think. M and the girls are great.
Yosemite is always on my mind. I cannot make it this fall--too much travel the other direction.
How are you doing? Sounds like you will be in the Valley at bit this Fall.
Best, Roger
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Tahoe Bill
Trad climber
ca
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Aug 20, 2007 - 02:39pm PT
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Hi Everybody,
The mystery 3A person, behind scotty burke is the late ERIC BRAND, RIP. I sure miss his big smile and kind heart.
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Oli
Trad climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Aug 21, 2007 - 01:02pm PT
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Roger,
You are telling me things about Chuck I already know, such as about his record collection, his mechanical genius, etc. etc. I won't try to compare with you or with anyone my love for him or how well I understood and appreciated him. Nor was I thinking of you at all when I made my comment. I was only thinking of the remark (I hadn't even remembered who said it) that "he was probably drunk..." or whatever it was. However we may view Chuck retrospectively, and however we may speculate as to what he might like or not like us to think or say about him, I personally don't want to place upon his memory the notion that he was a drunk (or if absent "probably drunk"). I realize in no way were you doing that, but some younger reader perhaps who didn't know Chuck could possibly gather as much. Yes Chuck would be the first to admit he drank too much, and it might have been what killed him, but he was much more than that image. And many younger people who didn't have the blessing of knowing him might get some or other impression that might not do justice to his memory. Frost told me directly, a year ago, when I saw Tom last at Royal's cabin at Pinecrest, that Chuck was suffering healthwise, that for most of that Yosemite gathering he wasn't feeling well (and not related to any drinking at the time). Chuck was not at that talk because he was plain and simply ill, not because he needed to be off drinking, or other speculations. He wasn't well for quite a time, actually prior to his passing, and who knows what the nature of that illness was, cirrhosis, cancer, heart problems (?), but it was a real show of strength that he made the occasion, for which in my mind I pay him further tribute. I won't however, liken him to anyone who was more interested in drinking than being with his cherished compatriates... not that you intended to say such a thing. I know you weren't saying that, but some readers here might draw conclusions from offhand comments that meant no harm. I certainly do not question your spirit of intent. Not in the least. I view you as one of many of us who were Chuck's friends and dutiful admirers.
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2007 - 01:02am PT
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So Raydog,,,, where is the last pic? The world wants to know.
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jstan
climber
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Aug 26, 2007 - 05:08pm PT
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So that is it? Remaining are:
1C/2H
2E
4A-Busy shirt
4B-7 o'clock from young Yager
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Aug 26, 2007 - 05:11pm PT
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RE:
" So Raydog,,,, where is the last pic? The world wants to know."
truth is I had to dismantle my workstation to get ready to move...so the PC with the relevant files and Illustrator is boxed up right now.
kinda sucks - sorry - had to do it.
John I wanted to get each pic dialed, then post all four in a row with the camp 4 historic plaque that Anders posted at the top - may be while...
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 27, 2007 - 08:00pm PT
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I'm wondering if the smiling guy (1C/2H) is Mike Sherrick (1st ascent of half dome NW face). He was still climbing around 1999. Used to run into him in Tuolumne with TM.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 27, 2007 - 10:21pm PT
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There are several climbing-related plaques scattered around the Valley. The new Camp 4 one, the Raffi Bedayan one below Columbia Boulder, Le Comte memorial, and maybe others. If it would be helpful, I could take pictures of all while at the FaceLift.
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jstan
climber
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Aug 29, 2007 - 10:48pm PT
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Looks very much like 1C/2H is Mike Sherrick. How many could have a smile like that?
So that is it? Remaining are:
2E
4A-Busy shirt
4B-7 o'clock from young Yager
Just three. That's pretty good.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Aug 29, 2007 - 11:35pm PT
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I think you guys are right. Sherrick was there.
Ken
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Aug 29, 2007 - 11:35pm PT
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I think you guys are right. Sherrick was there.
Ken
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2008 - 12:06am PT
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Bump for edit.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 28, 2008 - 01:46am PT
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4B-7 o'clock from young Yager
Miles Smart
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john hansen
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 20, 2010 - 11:51pm PT
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Had to give this one a bump...
I think quite a few of the people in the picture's have joined super T since this was last posted. Thought they might like to check it out.
Was everyone finally identified?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Oct 23, 2010 - 12:31am PT
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I searched for a thread dealing with this event before I posted mine, but my search came up empty. So I posted this one last night, and it contains a group portrait of the 50’s-60’s climbers, similar to photo #1 here.:
Camp 4 Reunion, Yosemite 9/25/99
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1297459&tn=0&dpid=PD0-ND45IiMl
If you check it out, you’ll see that I posted links to 5 videos that were made on that day, including one of the photo session in C4. In addition, I posted a BUNCH of close-up portraits of those climbers whom I knew best during my climbing days there.
I’ve read this entire thread, and it’s SO GREAT to see everyone collaborating on getting the names right on these photos!
Kevin, thanks so much for your kind words in remembering me.
Roger, I can’t believe the AAC kept you and Bridwell and others away! We don’t need no stinking applications!
I can only offer suggestions about photos 1 & 2. Not much else needs to be said except IMHO:
Dennis Hennek was mentioned several times up-thread; he did not attend the event. At the time, he was living about 3 miles from me on the Island of Hawaii. It was really great to have someone living so close to me that I’d also shared so many experiences with in the mountains. There wasn’t anyone else with in 2500 miles that KNEW what the climbing life was really all about. We had a nice talk just before I left the Island to come to the reunion and after I returned; he was sad not to be able to attend, but was glad to hear the stories.
Photo 1:
Back row, L to R: Jim Donini, Lloyd Price, Ed Cooper (black hat), Chris Jones (white hair), Glen Denny (beard & glasses), Steve Roper (forehead, black hair, mustache), Eric Beck, Ken Boche (not Kroger, Roger), Tom Frost, (Kim Schmitz?, barely visible).
Middle Row: Doug Robinson, Sybille Hechtel, TM Herbert, Chuck Pratt, Galen Rowell, Allen Steck.
Front Row: Harry Daley? (See below), Don Lauria, Joe McKeown, Warren Harding.
Photo #2
Back Row: Jim Donini, Jerry Anderson, Drone Stevens, Ken Boche, Glen Denny, Eric Beck, Steve Roper, Lloyd Price, Jerry Gallwas.
Middle Row: Royal Robbins, TM Herbert, Joe McKeown, Don Lauria, Chris Jones, Warren Harding (in front of Jones), Galen Rowell, Harry Daley? (not Sherrick who was taller than this guy; Harry Daley was short and built like this guy.) George Whitmore.
Front Row: Rick Sylvester, Chuck Pratt, Jeff Foott, Kim Schmitz (squatting behind), Tom Frost, Yvon Chouinard, Allen Steck, Doug Robinson.
RD Caughron: Pic 3, Back row, #7 from left, mostly hidden. Here he is from that day. I cried when I learned of his death on Makalu, only time (so far) my daughter has seen me cry. Kevin: At the time that RD died, he was probably the most experienced American actively climbing very high mountains in the Himalaya. He was NOT a yoga teacher.
Jstan: Does what I have summarized here jive with your accounting?
Allison Osius was AAC president at the time and was the emcee for the evening’s activities. There was speculation up-thread that she was in some of these pictures. I didn’t see her in any of those that are here... I think she was in the pic that was taken of the women climbers, but it’s not here, so I’m guessing that it was not published in the AAJ. Is that her, third from the right in the back row of the one of the women that I took? To see what she looked like on that day, check out the videos on the other thread.
Can we name all these women? :-)
Liz Robbins and Sibille Hechtel are #4 & #6 from left in the front row...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 23, 2010 - 02:01am PT
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All this, and no photo of the Camp 4 plaque. Well, that's easily fixed.
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