healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 16, 2008 - 06:17pm PT
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Hmmm, I have to say I'm a bit surprised this thread didn't spawn more comment, but as I said, I didn't know the man - you folks did.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2008 - 07:08pm PT
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I didn't know him, but made the seventh ascent of the Shield on my first pilgrimage to the ditch for that very purpose.
A decade later befriended Bocarde in the AMGA.
Was gonna bump this one anyway.
cheers Joe,
Ron
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:20pm PT
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Oh we don't need to glorify every damn person.
Those who knew Charlie, knew he didn't care for any glorification.
He was a real down to earth guy, and one of the baddest ass modern pioneers. Real low, low profile.
That's why you don't ever hear much about him. One of the toughest hard core guy you'll ever run into, and while you're around him you'd never ever know.
He's a real legend ....
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:30pm PT
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Werner,
read your first and last lines.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:34pm PT
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Yeah I know Ron
I'm not very smart like most of the people on this site.
But Charlie wanted me to do the 1st ascent of the Shield with him.
He laid down 40 rurps on the tarp and I just sh'it a brick when I saw that and slithered away.
Me an Dale did the 5th ascent FYI though .....
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2008 - 08:37pm PT
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Lotta good it did us, huh?
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:02pm PT
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Yeah...Quite the guy for sure!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 16, 2008 - 09:22pm PT
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Werner, I'm really not into the whole fanboy or hero thing in any way. I was just thinking some of you who were around might have some insight into this guy as he seems more enigmatic to me than legendary.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 17, 2008 - 06:25pm PT
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At the time the Shield was done - 1972 - I wonder if anyone else had seriously considered it as a line? Were climbers in the Valley even talking about it as a possible route? There were some very solid climbers around then.
Sutton & Burton had done Magic Mushroom that spring, which shared the last few pitches (from Chickenhead Ledge) to the top. I wonder if they looked down when they were there?
Had Porter done any routes on El Cap before the Shield?
(also posted to Shield Headwall thread)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 17, 2008 - 07:08pm PT
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You can't see chit from Chickenhead due to the bulge.
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Rokjox
Trad climber
boys, I dunno.
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Feb 17, 2008 - 07:15pm PT
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We all change too much in our lives. Its not fair. We should have been allowed to keep our faces all our lives, so everybody would always be able to spot us and remember us.
Like an old dog, we should have been allowed to keep our faces. Do dogs lose their hair? Do dogs noses keep growing until old dogs look like Pinoccio? So why me?
Hear me GOD? Another screw up, like the Avocado pit. Whats wrong with keeping my same old face? We were pretty.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 17, 2008 - 08:06pm PT
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Jox,
do you like Oscar Wilde?
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Rokjox
Trad climber
boys, I dunno.
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Feb 17, 2008 - 08:42pm PT
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I never met the man, if man he were, having been long dead.
I likewise never read any of his longer works, despite what some seem to feel of his importance to English literature. I know of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" due to its many remakes and influence as a horror story.
I also never felt like I had anything at all in common with him, given what I have read of his life and habits. Rather an odd gentleman at that.
So I guess the answer must be no. Perhaps, hell no, according to what is your point?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 17, 2008 - 09:19pm PT
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You already got it, "keep our faces".
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marky
climber
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Aug 29, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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I've been on terrain CP soloed in the Valley and in Alaska. He was a pioneer with an unusually keen eye for aesthetics and a visionary sense of style. Had I done what he had (when he did), I would have sprayed about it 24/7. Totally dig this guy's style. I would like to know more about this guy and what he climbed in his heyday. So consider this a bump.
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Anastasia
climber
Not there
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Aug 29, 2008 - 11:40pm PT
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I had no idea about his accomplishments. He really appears to be one of those guys you wish could rub something onto you. I wish he was more well known so others could model themselves to be more like him.
Then again, to become a greater person is to seek those obscure paths that only a few have walked before.
His path is an original which makes him incredible.
Taking my hat off,
AF
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 30, 2008 - 07:33am PT
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Charlie now lives on Chiloe, a large island off the west coast of Chilean Patagonia.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Aug 30, 2008 - 09:56am PT
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I climbed with him once, otherwise I really didn't know him all that well, but I can say that he was/is definitely a character.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 30, 2008 - 12:27pm PT
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I would love to hear more stories about, or even by, Charlie Porter.
Does SuperTopo's Chiloe have some connection with the island in Chile with that name?
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!