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Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Oct 16, 2007 - 06:12pm PT

He was just kind enough to send me a video that shows how you can survive eating moths.

Fascinating stuff. Thanks Anders.

paganmonkeyboy

Trad climber

the blighted lands of hatu

Oct 16, 2007 - 06:36pm PT

Anders carries himself with a quiet dignity, always has intelligent things to say, and in the brief times I've spoken with him he is genuinely nice.

Hat's off to you Anders ! One of these days I'll get to BC and we shall have to get a beverage...
-T

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 16, 2007 - 11:37pm PT

Thank you for your kind thoughts. I'm more than a little embarrassed. As a modest climber, with much to be modest about - to paraphrase Oscar Wilde. (Perhaps I should say woot! woot! anyway.)

It is always nice to visit SuperTopia, see how the denizens are doing, and chat with them. Often enough it's interesting, educational and/or entertaining, and a chance to 'meet' and talk with climbers of all sorts. A few I already knew when I appeared (it's my only recreational on-line forum), and it's been nice to get to know more. I try to contribute where I can.

It was good to meet many you at sushifest in Snow Canyon in April, and at the FaceLift in September, and also renew some acquaintances. Both occasions were a lot of fun. Perhaps some SuperTopians will visit here next year. We might have to settle for home-made sushi, but that shouldn't be too traumatic.

Marmelade: I make it every February, in large quantity. It's bitter sweet, like life. I have one small jar from each year lined up, about a dozen altogether - there's a fascinating variation of amber hues when they're on the windowsill in the sun, even though they're all from the same ingredients.

Mighty Hiker: One of the few nicknames I've ever had. The scouts thought it funny, because I wasn't at all mighty, at hiking or much else. I revived it when it became apparent that a nom de plume was a handy thing to have. And it is amusing to be a hiker on a climbing forum...

Ron: I only sent him a DVD where moth eating is discussed. I DIDN'T suggest HE eat them. Ron gave me a box of videos in April, for my VCR. In return, I sent him a copy of "In The Shadow of The Chief", a DVD about the first ascent of the Grand Wall at Squamish, in 1961. It includes CBC interviews with Jim Baldwin and Ed Cooper. As Ron has a keen sense of history, I thought he'd like it. I don't even know if moths are kosher, but Jim and Ed claim at some point to have eaten them.

Lavender fleece: That would be my Norwegian guide's sweater - and it's purple!

A Trip to Yosemite: In April 1979 I drove to Yosemite with Peter and Tami. We went in my 1966 Volkswagen beetle. 6 volt system, standard transmission, shoulder belts, roofrack. 55 mph speed limit, and gas rationing, after events in Iran. It was cozy - the roofrack was filled by a tarp, in which T & P had wrapped much of their food for a month. Cans and boxes acquired from the back of certain people's mothers cupboards, perhaps. They had NO money - getting $20 each for gas was like pulling teeth. I had to produce receipts. Almost.

I drove to Seattle, and we stopped at REI - MEC didn't have quite everything then. After shopping and a bite to eat, we went back to the car, and I asked who would drive the next bit - we'd planned the usual all night slog. P said "I don't have my licence." T said "I can't drive a standard." Which was a bit of a shock. I ended up driving the whole way. We got to the Valley about midday. P & T, well-rested, wanted to detour to the Ahwahnee to look at Pigs in Space, a route that P had put up the previous autumn. I said "Nothing doing.", or words to that effect, and was snoozing in Camp 4 an hour later.

Thank you again for your kindness. I try to contribute as I can, out of some sense that our community really does need to work at being a community, and that maybe it's larger than we sometimes think. Feedback always welcome, though.

Crimpergirl

Social climber

St. Looney

Oct 16, 2007 - 11:41pm PT

Ron gave you a box of videos? Uh oh. Probably can't discuss those in mixed company. Hardy har har!

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 16, 2007 - 11:49pm PT

It is fair to say that the videos Ron gave me tend towards an action/adventure theme. Of the 15, few are R rated. Several have a historical theme, and many you would have heard of.

Possibly these are the ones that Ron DIDN'T like, which is why he gave them away. He may have a weakness for chick flicks or such.

It's the Swedes who are ghey - they not only wear lilac, but do bad art. Ask Jeff. "Ten thousand Swedes, crept through the weeds, pursued by one Norwegian."

Slakkey

Trad climber

From a Quiet Place by the Lake

Oct 16, 2007 - 11:50pm PT

Anders,

You really are what this place needs now and then. an honest opinion, good humor, and good content in what you write.

Cheers

TradIsGood

Half fast climber

the Gunks end of the country

Oct 16, 2007 - 11:54pm PT

He was just kind enough to send me a video that shows how you can survive eating moths.

What the heck is an "eating moth"? Sounds dangerous, but never heard about this.

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 17, 2007 - 12:00am PT

No Red Tent - I think that one's a keeper.

As for surviving eating moths? Only on the Grand Wall. In Yosemite, you have attack rats. In the Bugaboos, snafflehounds. We settle for moths - and believe me, they don't coddle anyone.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Oct 17, 2007 - 12:08am PT

I gave my copy of The Red Tent to Kyle and haven't seen it since.
But giving Anders the videos was no big deal, just some of the ones I replaced with DVDs.

Moth eating clarification:
In the video Ed Cooper notes the media's poor accuracy by relating how, after telling them that due to heat and lack of water they sucked MOSS, the reports later told of how they had "sucked moths"!

(I'm surprised the SPCA didn't look into it,..)

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 17, 2007 - 12:29am PT

Thanks, Ron - I must have had moths in my ears during that part. But it's been a while since I saw the film.

I should admit that to a very few friends I have sometimes been known as the blue troll. Blue, because it's my favourite colour. (Note Canadian spelling - with my surname, you'd spell everything our.., if you could.) And trolls, because of Norwegian heritage, and a taste for naughty humour and bad puns.

Somehow it didn't seem quite the right pseudonym for SuperTopo - people might have gotten the wrong idea.

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Oct 17, 2007 - 01:12am PT

oh Mighty Blue Troll Hiker...

...my deepest respect and appreciation to you, a cohesive force in this centripetal world, centered while we all are spinning about.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Oct 17, 2007 - 03:16am PT

Jeez. You guys are all way too warm and fuzzy. To bring some balance to this, I think I'd better tell you that I knocked out Anders' front tooth.

Well, okay, I didn't really knock it out -- just split it in half so that the back half (the part you can't see) fell out.

And, to be honest, it wasn't really me that knocked it out. But I did shout "ROOOCCCKKKK" loud enough to make him look up and take a little pebble right in the mouth. If I hadn't said anything, the pebble would have bounced off his helmet. Of course, what I thought was going to fall was a rock the size of a basketball, so yelling was the right thing to do. Not my fault the the big rock stayed put, and some pebble from godknowswhere way up above us took out his tooth.

Okay, I've redressed the warmfuzzy balance, and you all can go back to your mutual backpatting now.

D

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Oct 17, 2007 - 03:34am PT

hey Ghost, we're just getting the warm and fuzzy stuff out of the way before we roll out the interesting stories... certainly not everyone is taken by Anders' tendency to organize climbers...

...he was getting on Brittany's nerves at the Timmy O'Neil event at the Facelift, making sure there was enough room for both the AAC T-shirts and the YCA Tee's.... she thought he needed a spanking, and pantomimed such to Crimpie and me. She thought he was a little rigid, but maybe it was just Brittany.

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Oct 17, 2007 - 11:52am PT

Yes, whether or not I have sergeant-like tendencies, I should by now know better than to try to herd kittens.

Chicken Skinner

Trad climber

Yosemite

Oct 17, 2007 - 11:59am PT

Hooray for Anders! And Jstan!

Ken

Ottawa Doug

Social climber

Ottawa, Canada

Oct 17, 2007 - 12:29pm PT

Hey Anders,

I have a copy of your guide book to the Squamish Chief. Not a lot of stuff has travelled through the years with me, but the important stuff is always kept carefully. Glad to see you are active in the valley. Your brother Peder, along with Jon Whitmayer and Don Serl were my instructors for a weekend of ice climbing at Sioux Bluffs just past Whistler in February '78. That's what got me launched into climbing, something that has paid me back huge dividends over the years, in terms of sanity. Travel well Anders!

Cheers,

Doug

dirtineye

Trad climber

the south

Oct 17, 2007 - 02:36pm PT

I like anders, but he brings too much civility to ST.

At least he does it with a great sense of humor though.

ANd he has a funny cat.

Mighty Hiker is a mildly sarcastic form of self deprecaition, not pretense, BTW.

Ed Hartouni

Trad climber

Livermore, CA

Oct 17, 2007 - 02:44pm PT

nope, you should be herding, 'cause you do it well... (and maybe getting spanked by Brittany is not such a bad thing?!).

I think you were assigned a rank of Sergeant Major