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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2010 - 11:24am PT
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Hardman Bump!
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jul 25, 2010 - 04:48pm PT
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A big thanks to Steve (and Mimi) for generously sharing part of Steve's Mark Powell interview for my desert history book. Powell, Gallwas and Wilson (and supporting role by the Dolt) plucked the best towers in the desert, with boldness and style, before most of us were born.
Priceless!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2010 - 07:27pm PT
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Coming from Mark's mouth just like it happened yesterday! I hope that my memory remains that clear.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2010 - 04:42pm PT
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The Don Wilson account of the FA of Spider Rock from the June 1957 Sierra Club Bulletin. Thanks again to Bill Amborn.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paralysis
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Sep 12, 2010 - 06:53pm PT
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I posted these pix of Don Wilson elsewhere, but folks here have asked about him.
It was the following year, 1970, that he drown on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2010 - 05:58pm PT
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Great shots of Don!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 14, 2010 - 10:47pm PT
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Here is an absolute classic shot of Don and Frank Hoover from Summit August 1956!
Anyone know who Niles Werner was?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2010 - 11:14pm PT
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Frank Hoover's Ballpeen Hammer Bump!
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Oct 16, 2010 - 01:18am PT
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Okay Steve, I put your book in the mail a couple days ago, you might see it within a week or two; mailing times seem pretty random--with the receassion and all, must be hard doing the maintenance on the stagecoaches
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Oct 16, 2010 - 01:24am PT
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BUMP! Excellent stuff.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2010 - 12:06pm PT
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A thousand thanks for a thousand summits!!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2010 - 01:33pm PT
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Desert Giants Bump!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:22pm PT
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Bumpage with some photoshopage. Great Scanning too Stevie. It is true you are a Wonder.
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vector
climber
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Nov 11, 2011 - 08:57pm PT
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Hi Steve,
Has the interview material ever been published in a climbing mag? I can't believe stuff this interesting hasn't been available in print.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Nov 11, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
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So for those of us that don't know, the doctors finally took off Mark Powell's leg--- it was just a terrific never-ending struggle. It had never really healed after his accident.
Lauria's fine photo of the fine man, retouched some:
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Nov 11, 2011 - 11:39pm PT
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Hey Peter, do you have any contact for Mark? Thanks,
JL
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Nov 12, 2011 - 10:38am PT
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Bumping history.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Nov 12, 2011 - 11:57pm PT
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Mark is handsome as a hollywood star (he was an extra in a James Stewart western), and a great guy!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Mar 28, 2012 - 02:59pm PT
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My goodness, how misinformed was I about Mark Powell. I heard from the fount of all BS, my lamented mentor Millis, that MP
1. Came from Fresburg,
2. Quit climbing due to knee problems.
Thank you gents for removing the doubts I had about Dennis' BS. It's not the first time I stepped in a pile dropped by him.
Mark Powell routes are swell places to be. Thanks old man. And I apologize for believing such a genius could have Fresno roots.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Mar 28, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
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I think Powell recently lost a leg due to diabetes - the same one he badly broke on the accident on Arerowhed Arete. I need to check with Bonnie Kamps about this. Mark has to be around 75 now and I need to get over to his house and talk to him about the early years kin the Valley and Tahquitz.
His early ascent of the Powell Reed route on Middle (1957), with very little aid, was a landmark of sorts. Along with many other ascents.
JL
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