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10b4me
Ice climber
Rustys Bar and Grille, Bishop
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 27, 2009 - 10:04pm PT
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I was aware of Johnnys' exploits, i.e. his catch of Bean Bowers, before his role in the Sharp End video. The dude is hard core, and a comedian to boot.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Feb 27, 2009 - 10:10pm PT
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a super cool badazz. . .great photographer too.
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More Air
Big Wall climber
S.L.C.
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Feb 27, 2009 - 11:11pm PT
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Back in 2000 Jonathan, with Mike Pennings climbed 2 new grade VI walls, both over 3,500' high. Then they made the second ascent of Inshallah a 4,300' grade VII on Shipton spire in only 3 days. This trip, IMO was and is, perhaps the most successful climbing trip ever made to the Himalya/Karakoram.
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adam d
climber
CA
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Feb 27, 2009 - 11:44pm PT
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Splitter is unbelievable. One of the best climbing films out there. I've had serious trouble getting it back from people who've borrowed it when they put it on heavy rotation and did anything they could to not return it. Learned my lesson...now it doesn't get loaned out. That reminds me...haven't watched it in quite a while!
time for a video fix of the H.A.G.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Feb 27, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Hi, 10b4me. Can you fill me in on this persona? How about some background information like age, climbing era along with info about ordering the dvd. Hope to see you in JTree at the super tarbuster/shusifest. Peace and Joy, Lynne
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perswig
climber
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Feb 28, 2009 - 11:04am PT
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I'd seen his tag on photos, but I'm embarrassed to say I never realized who he was until The Sharp End.
Watching him and Micah charge, and make light of nastiness ("I've worn yarmukas bigger...") as they suffer, made me laugh out loud and think, THAT's how to do it.
Kinda reminds me of interviews with Alex Lowe - if you're enjoying it, it's good.
Dale
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Phantom Fugitive
Trad climber
Misery
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Mr Copp is one of the Bad-i-est ass-i-est Alpine rock-iest munchers in American History...
The reason some of you might not know him, is instead of fluffing up the scene with his gorgeous Alpine-Goatee-Mullet- He is ALWAYS on the rock or in the mountains. Those rare times he is not, he is celebrating OTHER fantastic adventurers and visionaries by running the Adventure Film Festival, which is now extending it's imaginative and progressive thumbprint worldwide.
Jonny is equally comfortable on run-out granite-sandstone-choss, to ice-snow-grovel, to film/photo-dreaming-expressing, to joking-playing-suffering in the biggest, baddest mountains of the universe.
I have watched him many times talk to a total newbie with the same respect, and geniune-ness, as he would any modern rock & ice superstar. He is always eager to share beta, encourage others, and default any praise that comes his way to his star studded cast of partners.
Patagonia has recently named him one of their alpine ambassadors, and I feel this kind of support and notoriety is long overdue.
He is a class act, unique as a four-eared cat, and just as clever. I am lucky to call him friend.
He will laugh at all this attention... He is one who is "just doing his thing." Thanks for inspiring the rest of us to do the same, brah.
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Burt
Trad climber
Las Vegas, Nv
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I have followed Johnny's exploits since I first heard about their rapid ascent of Hainabrakk Tower and then from there onto Cat Ears, then Shipton, such a dream trip, but they where just "doing their thing" . I don't know Johnny personally, but his dedication to the sprit of climbing ties us all together. A truly great Ambassador to the sport we all love.
Kurt "Burt" Arend
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Bump for good hopeful energy to China.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Come on Johnny, we are pulling for you mon, wherever you be.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Rest in Peace friend, You will always be remembered.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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rest in peace, jonny....
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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The big smile, Standing Rock.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
I remember seeing him in Boulder with that big smile.
It's often said the best climber in the world is the one having the most fun--maybe JC was the best by that definition as well as (one of the best) by the normal definition.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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I never met him, but there was a blog post of mine where I was making a link list of as many climbing/adventure photographers as I could. I'd seen a photo of his hear and there in the climbing magazines, but when I found his website, read a little bit about him and went through his galleries - pictures one after another capturing the essence and spirits of his subjects, I was amazed. He was so talented.
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wbw
climber
'cross the great divide
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Jonny's death is heartbreaking. I feel a similar way as when Mugs died many years ago. The sense of loss far outweighs how well I knew him.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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This one hurts too bad. I knew Jonny for many years. No where near as closely or intensely as several of my other close friends and many more around the world, several here on SuperTopo. Still I would count him as a friend. That is probably and mostly due to the way he made me feel like I was important and worthy. I was not special. Jonny made everyone feel that way His humility always trumped my hero worship. Though I knew he rolled the dice with aplomb and abandon I envied him his life, his reality. He, like so many other shinning stars doused by the random vagaries of existence, is now gone. I am still here aging with my envy and confusion. Another vibrant smile lost forever.
Cheers to a life well lived! Rest in Peace.
My deepest condolences to family and friends.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Ugh! I was introduced to Jonny by Philo last year during Jonny's slideshow at Neptunes, what a humble engaging person. Those guys were the archetype of the new strong, fast talented climbers that took speed and ability to a level that I couldn't even quite understand.
Many years ago Philo and I lost a close friend, that was a budding world class climber, to an avalanche in Alberta. Those things play no favorites, even the best can be taken when it seems that they are taking all the right precautions. My heart and soul go out to the grieving families.
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Phantom Fugitive
Trad climber
Misery
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Top of the Arrowhead in RMNP... psyched as usual
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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BUMP
dude lived the life.
...and Bean, if you're out there, Jefe(Preskitt) here. Keep on keepin on.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jonny and Micah were great climbers and even better human beings. Humble, energetic, funny and caring, they left behind many friends and loved ones who will keep their memory fresh.
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skywalker
climber
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Jun 10, 2009 - 03:37am PT
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my regards...i don't know what else to say...
very sad...
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C. Trimble
climber
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Jun 10, 2009 - 08:48pm PT
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F*#k. This one really hurts.
He passed through my life like a cackling madman in the streets of a crowded city who stares into your eyes for one endless minute that haunts you for the rest of your days. He was like a long-lost brother I met for a minute on a subway, and then lost forever. He snuck up on me like he was sent from another world to give me a message.
Sparkling eyes, surrounded by wrinkles. He had gotten harder, leaner, features more chiseled, sharper in the last few years. Hardened by pain, by suffering, by pushing his endurance. Also softened by new-found love, by deep peace, by success.
This guy was so strong, so powerful, it was unbelievable. He had a reckless, pagan wild-man streak. He cultivated fearlessness and mindfulness. He brought magic to our hyper-rational world. He didn't give a f*ck-all if things looked bad to everyone else, and wasn't scared of jack-sh*t when we were all trembling in terror. He was attentive to the weaker ones, generous, aware.
he was kind and gentle as they come, and tough as nails.
he was a true wildman, a viking, a barbarian comfortable in an english garden. he was a muscle-bound flutist, a poet, a savage.
1000 years ago he would have spent his time wading through battles with a giant sword. We used to talk about past lives, about mysterious memories we both had of huge battles, of monsters, of bloodshed, of being pursued by dark armies.
He used to ask me again and again about a recurring dream I would have of flying across a dark continent, chasing the last sunbeams of dusk like a narrowing crack of light under a closing door.
we used to babble wine-drunk about places in the forest with wild magic energy, about spirits, about goblins, about hindu mystics he had met and couldn't seem to forget.
we used to talk about the woodland nymphs, about fairies and mischief and great black birds watching our every step and bringing news of faraway events.
He loved mud, dirt, cold water and hot sun. He loved magic words, and music of all kinds. He was wise beyond his years, and child-like in his open heart.
We used to go climbing and he would stop in an alpine cirque to play his flute and listen to the sound bounce off the giant granite walls. I would close my eyes and listen to the notes, wondering what I was doing with my life and what it was all for.
He lived for the beauty in all things, for self-knowledge through adversity.
He loved his family, and his beautiful love Sarah, and his friends, and all the worldly comforts and pleasures of this human world.
He loved lonely places, dark, cold places, neglected animals, brave little plants on high, cold ridges, and obscure, forgettable spots under boulders in endless moraines.
He loved storms, and lightning, and nature's violence. His heart beat fast like a drummer in trance, and his blood pumped like a raging river gouging a groove through ancient granite.
He was strangely drawn to the center of every storm cloud, to the source of every mighty river, to the wind-swept apex of lonely, nameless peaks.
He was part-animal, part-sprite, a shape-shifter magician helping and healing in between visits to the dark towers.
He knew about deep suffering, and endless sadness, about roaring laughter and deep love.
He packed in so many lifetimes into 35 years, but he left too soon. He will live on in my memories, in the winds that come screaming over the ridge, in the mighty storm clouds that bring rain, in the morning sun that brings warmth after long cold nights.
I miss you so much man, and can't really believe you're gone.
I know I'll see you again.
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Jun 10, 2009 - 10:12pm PT
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C. Trimble, what you wrote is truly wonderful!!!!!
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Jun 10, 2009 - 10:13pm PT
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Cot - that is exactly what i was thinking.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Jun 10, 2009 - 10:32pm PT
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Me three, wow.
beautiful memories keep our friend's spirits strong.
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spectreman
Trad climber
CO
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Jun 10, 2009 - 11:05pm PT
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Bump. Everyone needs to read what C Trimble wrote. Really beautiful.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jun 11, 2009 - 04:19pm PT
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Bump.
Because this still needs to be front page.
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perswig
climber
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Jun 11, 2009 - 04:44pm PT
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by C. Trimble:
He was part-animal, part-sprite, a shape-shifter magician helping and healing in between visits to the dark towers.
He knew about deep suffering, and endless sadness, about roaring laughter and deep love.
How is it you could tell this just by seeing him on film, I wonder? Because that's exactly the impressions I got seeing clips of him here and there; the epitome of an 'open' expression, and so much life to see.
People who knew these three were truly blessed.
Dale
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jun 11, 2009 - 05:42pm PT
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That's one helluva solid euology.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jun 11, 2009 - 06:17pm PT
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hey there, say all... i just stopped in to see how this was going, and it really must be said, as, how true it is:
the majority of the world is being taught to get, get, get, as what you accumilate, makes you rich and important...
it just goes to prove, that after life is done, and one has passed on, that the greatest treasure is WHO you were inside and WHAT you freely gave to your friends and loved ones...
what wonderful "treasures" have been left to others, here...
god bless to all that are hurting, and prayers for you all to get through the sorrows, in a strong and special way...
condolences to all...
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BrentA
Gym climber
Roca Rojo
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Jun 12, 2009 - 11:50am PT
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That f*#ker adorned my wheelchair with hubcaps, gave me a good strong PUSH toward teh front door of the Chamonix hospital and RAN at about 3am once.
The Frenchies never understood the hubcaps.
Where the heck did he hide that flute?
Chief Trimble nailed it
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jun 12, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Ha ha ha hubcaps. Beautiful! Where did you hang the dice?
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colin henderson
climber
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Jun 14, 2009 - 07:14pm PT
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Bump.
To those in the know, would there be any chance of bringing up the pictures on Jonny's site at coppworks.com? I for one would like to see them again.
RIP Jonny, I was looking forward to Splitterer.
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Phantom Fugitive
Trad climber
Misery
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Jun 14, 2009 - 11:58pm PT
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Splitterer- HA! Excellent
C Trimble- thank you. That is so perfect. So Jonny. He brought out the wild in many of us.
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taylor
Social climber
the local crag
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Jun 20, 2009 - 08:24am PT
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jonny was definetely an inspiration. i wish i had known more about him before this tragedy. Only now have i discovered what a truly amazing climber he was. His ascents were all of the highest style, one that i will always aspire to but probably never achieve. he will certainly continue to inspire me and many others i am sure. may he rest in peace in climber's heaven
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PaulC
Social climber
Traffic Jam Ledge
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Jul 10, 2009 - 11:48am PT
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bump
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