Diamond Reunion- Kamps, Rearick and Ament 1976

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LongAgo

Trad climber

Aug 12, 2008 - 11:36am PT

Steve,

No or little bouldering that I recall, though I think Pat pointed out a bouldering area - where, i can't recall. I will defer to his memory on that score.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2008 - 06:17pm PT

Did you train for climbing beyond the activity itself?

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2009 - 08:49am PT

Bump for fun and friends!

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 15, 2009 - 11:39am PT

I recently had the pleasure of touring the Granite Frontiers exhibit in LA with Bonnie Kamps and Mary and Mark Powell. Very cool to see her in the Diamond parade photo upthread. DR was also present and Bob's name came up frequently in conversation.

The Diamond FA is huge on the adventure scale and just one on a long list of classics for both climbers. Bob and Dave's first excellent adventure!

Anastasia

climber

hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.

Aug 15, 2009 - 07:04pm PT

Bump for one of the greatest influences in my life... Miss you always Kamps and... Bonnie is one heck of a woman. Her pinkie finger has more class than my whole body.
Hugs,
Anastasia Frangos

Decko

Trad climber

Colorado

Aug 15, 2009 - 09:30pm PT

Bump........

HISTORY.....

PLEASE KEEP IT COMING......

ALL this generation has is what's in the guido books....

SHIAT

BBA

Social climber

West Linn OR

Aug 16, 2009 - 10:28am PT

Besides seeing him at Tahquitz in 1959-1960, I remember Dave Rearick from the Riverside County Campground in Idyllwild where he would do such things as walk on his hands for long distances and recite Lewis Carroll poems, "You're getting old father William said the youth to the man..." I actually more or less memorized the poem from listening to Dave but have never been able to walk on my hands. He was at Cal Tech then, I believe. He and Bob Kamps were really a fit together.

My thoughts of the Diamond climb back in 1960: Before Kamps and Rearick went off to Colorado for that venture, they climbed the ugly cliff above Camp 4, the Camp 4 Terror. I wondered at the time why they would spend time on such an ugly climb for a first ascent when so many other things were around. When I heard about the Diamond, it became apparent that the Terror was a rehersal for the Diamond. Even the shape of the cliff on which the Terror ascended was a diamond shape.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Aug 16, 2009 - 08:14pm PT

Yes my dear friend Higgins and I climbed many routes
around Boulder and Eldorado. We climbed Athlete's Feat
and Vertigo, for example, and Supremacy Crack, and really
another dozen or more good climbs, with the fun highlight
being Soarks, in blistering heat, on the back of the Third
Flatiron... where like cave men we hammered on a bolt with
a stone, having forgotten the hammer...

I cherish the memory of every climb Tom and I did together,
and not once did we fail to have fun, in Tuolumne, or Yosemite,
or Colorado...

We have that special link of Rearick and Kamps, our respective mentors and friends.

Pat