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Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jan 24, 2019 - 12:08pm PT

Great Marty!!!!

Roots

Mountain climber

Redmond, Oregon

Jan 24, 2019 - 12:32pm PT

Wow Marty!

....wondered why you haven't been around here much.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Jan 24, 2019 - 07:26pm PT

Beautiful memoriam, Marty.

I appreciate your thoughts on this complex man, the work it took to set up the presentation, and your posting all this for our benefit.

mfm

nutstory

Trad climber

Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Jan 25, 2019 - 01:47am PT

Thank you Marty for sharing the result of your awesome research on Dolt with us.
Bravo, bravissimo, and... hats off ;-)
Stéphane

CMI gearguy

Trad climber

Cincinnati, Ohio

Jan 26, 2019 - 08:25am PT

Great stuff Marty! Your incredible effort and time spent is really appreciated!

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Jan 30, 2019 - 11:03pm PT

HEAR HEAR HEAR
three cheers
for the telling and the history and the Lore

Only one as special as Marty K could give so much life\
to the remembrance of Bill Dolt; William "Dolt" Feuerer !

Jon Beck

Trad climber

Oceanside

Jan 30, 2019 - 11:35pm PT

That was amazing Marty. I hope that was captured for posterity. thanks for the great recap.

karabin museum

Trad climber

phoenix, az

Jan 31, 2019 - 10:22am PT

Thanks everybody for the positive responses to the Dolt Show review! I created the Dolt Show by lining up by date every piece of information I could find on Bills life, and taking a serious look at what he was possibly thinking as life changes, fair or unfair, were presented to Bill throughout his life. I know in the show at times there was harshness toward Yvon Chouinard and how Yvon fit within Bills history. I want to state that Yvon overall didn’t do anything wrong toward Bill. It was just how Bills morals internalized things within himself that Bill carried throughout till Christmas 1971. This whole world is created by the human population refining and bettering older products over and over. So basically nobody is recreating the wheel….necessarily….but bettering the overall wheel design. So if Yvon really did steal Bills bong piton design, then Bill stole the earlier bong idea from LONGware. Bills company logo was created from LONGwares small piton, so Bill was very aware of LONGware products from the early 1957 start.

I know in the history that Tom Frost occasionally visited Bill in Bills shop and they were still friends even though Tom was working with Chouinard. I know in the history that Chouinard after 1964 didn’t talk to Bill at all. I know in 1975 when Tom left the Chouinard company, Yvon and Tom did not speak to each other for over 40+ years. It is unfortunate that big egos appear to build indestructible walls between each other, and great friendships become diminished.

I was only a baby during the Yosemite golden era days but somehow God has placed me in this climbing gear museum world and I am presenting the history as it comes forward to me. I still feel that Bill from the other side of the veil is helping me gather his gear to preserve his name. I have no doubt of this! I totally love the history of Yvon Chouinard and have a big place in my heart for Yvon. And that Tom Frost guy, what can I say…..what a beautiful man!