graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2009 - 09:39am PT
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Terry,
Great to here from you and see you surface here. I might have missed it if you hadn’t sent the email.
Here is a shot of you leading. I have never seen a more impressive set of calves on anyone since.
Great stories and memories you have of those days. I had totally forgotten Tobin’s upside down stuff. He really clowned around when we all took bouldering too seriously. Too funny!
The greatest thing to come out of using those old shoes were the lessons in footwork they gave. It’s the ace up the sleeve today and allows us old-timers to pull off the improbable. Funny though the really hard stuff still today at Suicide needs a good edge.
You flushed out a lot of stuff there thanks. I was always wondering where you went off to next.
Stick around we would like to hear more.
Cheers,
Mike Graham
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 29, 2009 - 07:00pm PT
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Me too!
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Tami
Social climber
Vancouver, Canada
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great thread bump
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guyman
Trad climber
Moorpark, CA.
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I was there yesterday, it was big fun.
Suicide is really becoming a backwater-climbing place.
The weather was perfect for hard slabbin, about 60 degrees, and the stone was clean with no traces of chalk.
The friction was there, the rock was holding your hands.
I counted about eight people climbing; one old dad was wearing a swami belt!
I bet they were lined up, fighting to get on climbs at Josh.
I just love Suicide, the forest, the views, the friends and all the memories I have of the place makes me feel like I am at home.
But it’s all fun and games in till somebody pokes out an eye.
Serpentine claimed another one yesterday. Russell from Hemet, slid down a ways and hurt his ankle, I hope it’s not broken. It was the size of a cantaloupe and I could see the pain on his face as he crawled up the stairs to get to his car.
And Mike, congratulation on Emily’s engagement, does the new “son” climb?
gk
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 10, 2010 - 08:33am PT
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Love this thread, Bump!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Lets just go ahead and get this to the top of the page.
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Johnny K.
climber
Southern,California
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Awesome write up and pics!
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wingsue
climber
PNW
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Wow. That's a good story. It makes me miss California, though. They slog through moss up hear, it seems.
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T Hocking
Trad climber
Redding, Ca
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Oct 15, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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Bump
Great story Mike,
Very cool repeating those classics with your son!!!
Great thread as well, The memories of those people and climbs from BITD
all come rushing back to me. I was one of the B-list climbers during the early to mid 70's that spent time in the shadows of the Stonemasters.
Jim Wilson was a friend and climbing mentor that I played belay slave/
second for up many of those routes.
Never did get up Valhalla damn it!
Tad
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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How hard is Valhalla these days?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Still 11a last time I checked. 3 pitches: 11a, 11a, 10b.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 10, 2013 - 12:18pm PT
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Crimp for Gold...
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