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Mimi
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Feb 22, 2008 - 01:42am PT
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Thanks for the stories. Yes, Yabo lives.
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Feb 22, 2008 - 02:20am PT
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Hey,
Did you come by Doug Robinson's old house in Bishop with a big artificial big horn sheep's head circa 1986?
I remember talking it up with this guy about the peregrines in the valley.
The Bighorn disguise was pretty cool. I wanted to wear it in Rusty's.
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Double D
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Feb 22, 2008 - 11:13am PT
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Triple R! Wow...GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU AND WELCOME TO SUPERTACO!
Thanks for the story, update and all the work you've done. How's life treating you? Where are you hanging these days?
BITD Zodiac Summit after a "hand-smashing" experience...
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 22, 2008 - 11:21am PT
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Hey Rob Ramey!! Good to see you here! Its been many years...What are you up to?
Great to read about Yabo's involvement with the Condor reintroduction.
I was just looking up the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group to give the link to this thread, http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/
and sadly noticed the recent passing of Brian Walton, who I think you worked with BITD. When Project Bandaloop performed "Peregrine Dreams" on the Shield in 1998, Galen Rowell set up meeting with Brian so the performers could be briefed on the issue. I will direct email you a link to our little film, with some footage that the SCPBRG provided.
Peter
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scuffy b
climber
post-gristle dreamland
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Feb 22, 2008 - 12:23pm PT
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Welcome RRR3.
Last time I saw you you tried to recruit me for some of the El
Cap stuff. Too bad I had no Big Wall Skills.
Steve
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Rob Roy Ramey
Trad climber
Colorado
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Feb 22, 2008 - 06:54pm PT
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I am so glad to hear you guys are still alive. It has been a wild ride so here is a condensed version. After Yosemite, Santa Cruz, peregrines and condors, I went east to grad school at Yale and Cornell; married Laura; climbed ice; studied bighorn sheep in the Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert (hence the infamous bighorn head); Zimbabwe to study elephants; Costa Rica to study birds and climb into the rainforest canopy (Laura's Ph.D. project); moved to Colorado for research; taught genetics; built house in the mountains (we also have two great kids); became a volunteer firefighter; then a visiting scientist at the San Diego Zoo; then landed a boring dead-end job as curator in a museum so tried to make the best of it but was always in trouble for being in the field too much; went to Asia and organized a cavalry of Mongol horsemen to capture argali sheep in nets; to Baja to count bighorn sheep; to Rockies to study bighorn during winter; then studied an obscure "endangered" rodent and all hell broke loose after testifying in Washington D.C. based on 25 years experience with the Endangered Species Act; now consulting full time on endangered species science issues; conducting wildlife research and conservation projects (N.A., Africa, and Asia), backcountry skiing, climbing, and whitewater rafting - all with our family; and help occasionally on access issues. Life is good. After you climb El Cap, the rest is easy…
Dave, thanks for picture from the top of the Zodiac!
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Double D
climber
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Feb 22, 2008 - 07:11pm PT
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You're welcome Rob...I'll email you some more as I come across them...but don't let your kids near your email (hee...hee..hee)
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Rob Roy Ramey
Trad climber
Colorado
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Feb 26, 2008 - 10:43pm PT
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Okay, now I know how to kill a good thread with too much detail. I will attempt to redeem myself…
Hern, if you are who I think you are, I offer congratulations on living so long…you deserve to wear the bighorn costume to Rusty's.
Peter, what was Project Bandiloop? I would like to see the film.
Dave, I have pictures too…
Steve, sorry for that missed opportunity, however, I have another project for you, please write.
Bachar, when are you going to write up your Yabo stories? You have some of the best.
Werner, likewise…plus, at Hetchy you also had the Ranger's boat - with the Ranger stuck on shore. A few stories there no doubt.
Ken, John, Duece, and Dave thanks for reminding me about your help on peregrines after I headed east.
Survival, you are so right. That was lame assessment.
Tim, drop me a line about climbing to eagle nests, it is useful information in light of closures.
Ron, didn’t you trap mice on Mammoth Terraces?
Does anyone know the whereabouts of "crazy" Kurt Stoltzenberg? Last time I saw him he was living next to the only Sequoia tree in Bishop.
TrundleBum, please tell Nick Badyrka that I am truly sorry for packing the entire pin rack in his new pile jacket before pitching the haul bag off Elephant Rock - he has not talked with me since. I repent.
Jaybro - I hope that you got an A+ on the paper.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2008 - 11:13pm PT
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Thanks for the info all!
R-3, I always get an A+, I'm the one who does the grading!
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Helen Snyder
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Portal, AZ
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Jul 28, 2010 - 02:13pm PT
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Found this thread via a link from a friend from the Ca. Condor days. Yabo was indeed legendary, and although we didn't see much of him he was critical to the sequoia chick pickup, which happened just as Rob described it.
I was on the ground throughout and not part of the vertical action, but I had one of those Yabo moments after the caravan of vehicles had returned home to Ojai and climbers were unpacking mounds of gear at our house. I was inside the living room putting something down when I looked out and saw Yabo standing with a huge armload of coiled ropes, gear slings etc. He was in front of a little gate in the white picket fence that surrounded our rented house.
The gate oepend outward and had a powerful spring on it so it took a free hand to open it. For me fence and gate were exactly crotch high: I'm 5'7" and could step over it gingerly with shoes on, but not barefoot. Yabo stood there contemplating this array of long wicked points, and then with no perceptable tensing of muscles he jumped vertically like a ballet dancer, cleared the gate and landed on the path to the porch. He was alone and this had no show-off value. To me it was unreal. Ballet dancer, hah - it was a move more like an insect's.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
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Jul 28, 2010 - 03:09pm PT
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Nice vignette Helen - Thanks .
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Dick Danger
Trad climber
Lakewood, Colorado
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Jul 28, 2010 - 03:14pm PT
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Yes, it is my understanding that Yabo was involved in the Condor Recovery Program. He was apparently instrumental in swapping out eggs and/or condor chicks in some of the high-angle situated nest caves around the Sespe Wilderness and Sierra Madre Ridge area between Ojai and Cuyama.
I think Noel Snyder has some mention of Yabo in his condor book. Fresh out of college, I was a wildlife biologist with the USFWS Condor program, based in Ventura, for a couple years or so beginning in 1998.
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Hello Rob from Tom Carter!
I think Kurt lives in Independence, California - works for the city? County?
Miss all of ya.
TC
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