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jung
Big Wall climber
Subaru wagon
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Jul 30, 2005 - 08:25pm PT
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This one time i went climbing with erica in tolumne erica brought along her video camera and dressed me up in a crazy out fit. She then insisted that we make a movie while soloing cathedral peak. We handed off the camera as we passed each other and made up the script as we went. Two other parties got casted into the film as well, they were quite happy about us including them. I was just wondering if anyone knew where that video was, id love to see it again or post it on the net for all of her wayward friends and family.
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Sedonagal
climber
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Jul 31, 2005 - 01:57am PT
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this may be the last of my postings... i was a "tourist" in your rock-climbing community... i climbed in just to hear stories about a very special young woman and to marvel in her parents' love and support of their daughter's very unique lifestyle... i truly believe the kutchers have faced this adversity with tremendous courage and dignity...i have great respect for this family and forever will... i thank you all for keeping erica's spirt alive and helping her family to balance their grief with these wonderful tributes and warm thoughts... i did learn that erica's father assisted in sending the funds required for pierre to leave pakistan...pierre had been given a three-month grace period...i believe the issue is being resolved as you read this... again, my respect to the kutchers for what they have had to go through despite tremendous grief...it is wonderful to hear from pierre and i will look forward to his personal accounts... again, i am sending my thanks to you all... peace to all
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RICK Puddy
climber
CA
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EVERYONE IS RIGHT Erica had that special SPARK!! Something special that you only see in a few people you meet along the way. I met Erica in Paiju 2 weeks prior to her death while in route to K-2. In the 30min during our conversation she displayed a vibrant zest for life and an attitude of pure joy just to be there. I wish too send my deepest sympathy to her family and friends along with my prayers. God bless
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Michael Moron
Social climber
Davison, MI
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How come jerks never die? It is always the nice people it seems.:(
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Burns
Trad climber
Arlington, VA
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I'd like to start by sending my condolences to Erica's family and very wide circle of friends. I never had the good fortune to meet Erica, although I did hear her, screaming and thrashing her way up a dripping wet Harding Slot, a pitch my partner and I hadn't even considered doing. As we were preparing to rappel from the top of the 5th pitch of Astroman, Erica and her parter gave us a happy shout from the descent trail, a friendly hello to two climbers she didn't know. My partner had met her before and told me his Erica story while we hiked out.
That short memory, and the amazing response on this forum drew my attention to something that I guess I always felt but never put a finger on before: the real and palpable sense of community that we climbers share. If you sit down and talk with someone with a little silver in their hair, they'll probably be able to tell you stories about how in their younger days, people would say hello to one another, you'd look out for your neighbor and all it required was a common location. They'll also likely lament that this sense of community is gone, or at least dying.
But it isn't gone. Its just living off the grid, like so many of the itinerant dirtbags that have put their time in Camp 4 and had the chance to interact with Erica and all of the other people who are willing to risk it all just to Live.
Largo wrote: "I hope when I die folks will write a tenth of the inspiring things written about Erica". We should all be so lucky. But in this little international community of ours, we all have the chance to touch people and make memories in ways that other people may never know or understand. We all to some degree risk dying. Erica has provided a great example of how we can live life so infectiously that when our day comes to meet our Maker, our spirit will live on through the people we have touched and the stories they share.
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Mountain Man
Trad climber
Outer space
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It's so clear that a rare and beautiful person has been lost. Too much death in the community lately and I sorrow with her family and friends over the hole in their lives left by her passing.
Let's remember, despite any petty differences, to love and care for each other, as if each moment may be our last.
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Gab
climber
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Aug 11, 2005 - 09:41pm PT
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I, too, have been a tourist in this community since the tragedy. To all of those who are thinking of throwing a party in her honor, I think it's somthing that would be right up her alley. I, unfortunatley living on the east coast can't join in immediately, but let's not forget next year. I think instead of having such a sad memorial next year, I think I'm going to come out to yosemite myself. Just a part of my sister that I need to connect with. Please keep in touch with me so that we can plan an all out. If you want to laugh, I got my picture taken of my aura today and right on my right hand shoulder was a white light..the woman said it was my guardian angel....I went with a few friends, none of them had white anywhere on their pics..I know that she has now passed to bigger and better things and wants us all to heal. so let's throw this party. Just remember, I"m not a thin little athlete that erica was..I'm the complete polar opposite, but just to watch one of you do it will help complete my healing...so what do you say to this party??
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AKutzer
Trad climber
From Texas to Tahoe
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Aug 11, 2005 - 09:57pm PT
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Gab -
I, for one, would be honored to "tie one on" with you in Yosemite, and I didn't even know your sister.
And I'm not laughing at the aura pic anecdote, either.
I think, from these stories, at least, that you have the right idea - it sounds as though a party would do her more justice.
my .02
Aaron
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up2top
Big Wall climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Aug 12, 2005 - 12:54pm PT
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Absolutely count me in. I'll plan my Yosemite trip to coincide with it next year -- just set a date. Early/mid June is usually peak time for climbers to visit. This could turn into one HELLUVA party! ;-)
Ed
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RICK Puddy
climber
CA
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Gab-
Count me in as well, however I may be in Pakistan durring this time, and possibly at or near Shipton spire. If you have any requests..... or of something to leave there let me know.
God Bless
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Feb 25, 2008 - 08:20pm PT
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Bump.
Seemed to go along with the susie thread.
*sigh*
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