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Ezra
Social climber
WA, NC, Idaho Falls
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[img]http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/files/2008/08/mike-myers.jpg[img]
isn't this guy canadian?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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isn't this guy canadian?
Well, he would be if his picture actually showed up.
But this guy is not only Canadian, he's one of the most prolific mountaineers in history.
Yeah, I know, I posted this in some other thread, but this is about as Canadian as it gets.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Just to be persnickety, John was Irish - I don't think he ever became a Canadian citizen. Though he lived here almost his whole life.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, be persnickety. Who gives a flying f*#k what it said on his passport, he was Canadian to his core. Ain't nobody ever had Canada's mountains more in his heart than John did. So take your persnickety and put it back in the basement where it belongs.
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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You're lucky, Mighty H, Tami would make you go wait in the car........
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apogee
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2009 - 01:17am PT
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I never had the honor of meeting John, but I remember first reading about him and his explorations of the wildest areas of Western Canada. Whenever his name comes up, I hold the iconic image of him in his trademark white dress shirt, picking the plums of the Coast Range for weeks and months at a time, solo. In my mind, Clarke has the mountaineering purity of spirit that has only existed in a handful of climbers.
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MH2
climber
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As so well illustrated by Ghost's picture, John did not require a whole lot of fancy-shmnancy gear during the months he spent outdoors. Among his many failures to concede to excess, or even what many of us would consider adequacy, his food on his long trips was famously spartan. Maybe not quite parched corn, but perhaps just a bag of rice.
A movie was made of John. It included a scene of him in his tent or under his tarp, or just huddled under a tree trunk, eating his gruel, a huge smile on his face.
That movie was shown to a class of High School students. Afterwards, they were asked to describe their impressions. One student said, "What impressed me the most was how much he seemed to enjoy his life, even though he didn't really have one."
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Aug 27, 2009 - 06:47pm PT
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Sharing some scenic shots of BC ....
Chehalis Range
Fernie Backcountry skiing
Hamish helping building the Kieth Flavelle memorial hut @ Joffre
Sunshine coast BC
Thormanby Island BC
Mt Cayley - (now a snowmobilers hotspot - I am guilty as charged)
Down Harrison Lake
More Harrison Lake
Virgin rock in the Powell river area
Rain Forest in Sechelt Inlet
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apogee
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2009 - 07:02pm PT
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Very nice, cd. More, please?
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
b.c.c
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Aug 27, 2009 - 07:10pm PT
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virgin rock? Is that the north face of slide mt. from Jim Brown divide?
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Short4Bob
Trad climber
Morgantown, WV
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Aug 27, 2009 - 07:10pm PT
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I lived there for a while. I miss it.
Hi, Canada...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 27, 2009 - 07:15pm PT
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Hi Bruce
Did you do much climbing on those Eldred River monsters? We only got up there once, and had just half a day of actual climbing, but I sure would like to get back.
David
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Aug 27, 2009 - 07:31pm PT
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as requested - a few more from the summer and an oldie from the Chehalis ..
Boom Bay on Jeddiah Island in Georgia Straight
Jeddidiah homestead
Homestead on Texada island
Mt Baker as viewed from Sidney harbour, BC
Bedwell Harbour on South Pender island
Mighty Hikers brother Peder and Tim MCallister in the Chehalis Range
August Sunset in Georgia Straight looking towards Lasqueti and Texada islands from the Flat tops at Silva bay
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Aug 27, 2009 - 07:35pm PT
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My Eldred adventure ranks as a scratch. That Powell River pic is actually taken in Powell Lake of the mountains on the island in the middle of Powell Lake last summer.
Photographing in the Eldred would be difficult due to the massive foreshortening because everything is of an El Cap scale and too close to the road.
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
b.c.c
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Aug 27, 2009 - 08:19pm PT
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cd-Too bad it was a scratch, Many good adventures await in the Eldred.
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Keeper of Australia Mt
Trad climber
Whitehorse, Yukon , Canada
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Aug 30, 2009 - 05:08am PT
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A few reasons to hang out "Up Over" rather than "Down Under":
1) H20 and lots of it.
2) Squamish and " The Brewpub"
3) Mt Aasgard, Thor, et al - Big Granite in a Big Land
4) The Vampire Spires (NWT)
5) Good Health Care - climbers included
6) The Montreal Canadians (24 Stanley Cups and counting)
7) The Cirque of the Unclimbables (now in an expanded Canadian
National Park)
8) Skaha (amid vinyards, beaches, good brewpub, nice gneiss and
at least one vegemite-free displaced Aussie)
9) MEC - financial launch pad for up and going climbers - Tami,
The Mighty Hiker etc.)
10)An enticing exchange rate - more beer.
11)Blue Rodeo
12)Michael Buble for the Yosemite "Flower Power" generation.
13)Unlimited First Ascent (and descent) potential just about anywhere other than Saskatchewan
14)Good buildering, even in Saskatchewan eg. grain elevators
15)Ice climbin' in -30C (leave your beer coolers at home)
16)Home of Canadarm Robotic Arm (combined with the Dolt Cart it
could revolutionize aid climbing and big wall bivies)
17)Atlin, B.C. - a hidden Canadian gem - refuge of Wayne Merry
18)Stompin Tom
19)The Yam (otherwise known as Yamnuska - where Canuck climbing
dynoed out of the cradle)
20)Climb On (Squamish) - Czech out George for the beta on the
rock - he likes to run up Deidre for after dinner exercise -
sans rope.
21)Golden Canyon (way up there - a wee bit of granite in a trad
crag for something to do en route to the Alaska Range and a
a hike up the Infinite Spur)
22)Canmore - quiet little mountain town with hordes of deeply
embedded insurgent Kiwi mountaineers for local color - lots
of honed and Brad Pitt-like ACMG guides for lonely climbing
babes from Alabama and Kansas
23)No low flying Marine jets to rattle your gear placements as
at JTree ( our military mostly flys rusty Sea King
helicopters - those which haven't crashed yet - and Aurora
patrol craft - props - we would rather sink our cash in new
rinks and pay off our Expo 67 building debt than contribute
more jet stream pollution.
24)Access to banned (by Homeland Insecurity) and unexpurgated
literature on Canadian climbing eg. Vicious Lies and Heinous
Slander - From a Supremely Demented Little Corner of the
Coast Range. Dangerous to any youth under the age of 19.
25)Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - at the core of l940
and 1950s social climbing in backwoods Canada eg. ottawa.
26)Sneezy Waters
27) Paul Anka
28) Steve Nash (NBA MVp X2 - albeit there is little water in the
Phoenix area - the lad is keeping the Suns afloat). Single
handedly demolished the Aussie team at the Sydney olympics.
Oh, Canada.
29) Trailer Park Boys - stay tuned for their upcoming episode
where Bubbles takes up bouldering (and camoflagged grow-op
down in Land of Confusion, south of Halifax.
30) Crazy Canucks - rad skiers gone wild on the World Cup
circuit awhile back
31) The Victoria 8 rowing team - they take no prisoners on top
of or under the influence of any competition
32) Shania Twang - big in Lubbock, Boise and East LA
33) Zambon'ehs outnumber Hummers
34) Twin Otters (by De Haviland) - made for climbers and Mugs
Stump funded epics in wild and heinous locales
35) Banff Mountain Festival - beer, cool dudes, ripped babes,
tall tales and a lot of procreation recreation in a little
quiet, unassuming Canadian mountain town
36) Donald Sutherland
37) Tim Horton's - not for the squeamish but they prefer the
Starbucks at Sqaumish
38) Dependable climbing bros -"Whenever I'm facing long odds in
a hostile land, I like to have a Canadian on my team. Lots
of people aren't afraid to die, but Canadians, in
particular, aren't afraid to live!" the late and great Todd
Skinner
38) J. D. Fortune (lead singer for INXS - a little Aussie rock
band)
39) Curling - If the only ice you find ain't climbable - throw
some rocks on it and then retire to demolish very old single
Malt Canadian liqour
40) Photogenic Red Serged Mounties who accomodate all photo op
requests from swooning climbing babes from the Gunks.
41) The Royal Tyrrel Museum, Drumheller, Alberta - likely
retirement estate for Steven Harper and other saurian
entities in Ottawa
42) Thunder Bay - ice climbers gone wild
43) Mt. Logan - a little chunk of ice and snow with attitude
44) Australia Mt - gnarly, iconic and sacred Aussie test piece
- even without vegemite overdose
45) The Blue Jays - fishing bait for the Phoenix Coyotes - if we
could only get Bettman to bite!
46) Former Canadian Iran Embassy - Hotel America a few years
back - a bit of a belay from those Crazy and sometimes
sly blokes du nord
47) Handy translators for unexpected interesections with roving
Aussie climbers - we have their language figured out
48) A land with no carrot bolts.
49) Home of Arcteryx
50) We tried to burn Washington in 1812 which at least gets us A
for effort in Louisianna, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina etc. In compensation we sent Celine Dion, Alanis
Morrisette, and Rich Little.
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sac
Trad climber
spuzzum
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Aug 30, 2009 - 09:51am PT
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Micheal Buble?
Donald Sotherland?
How about Niel Young and Cap'n Kirk?
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