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WBraun
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After they brought Walt's body down to the funeral home from Dinkey creek to Fresno, me and Merry went to see Walt's body before the cremation.
No one was there. We put flowers on him and chanted vedic prayers.
Then the guy who was going to burn him in the fire to ashes came in and said: "Hey, that's Walt Shipley!".
He then said; "Cool, ... I'll burn him good!"
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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were his ashes spread ?
where?
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WBraun
climber
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I don't think so, the last time I heard they're on his moms fireplace mantel .....
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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"a man so true to his own soul can reveal himself in a lucid way in a very short time."
Now we're talking!
If anything, Walt Was a Lucid soul!
Marty,do you remember the slightly 'before' conversation we had on the "no surprise" topic, I believe you contributed the Sabbath.
Werner, that's a twist I hadn't heard, about that account ( the part about the fire guy)...
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Tilting the Olde. Now how proud is that?
Yo still da man, WS.
JL
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quasitrad
Trad climber
Corvallis, OR
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RIP WS. Lest we forget.
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Man i'll never forget that grin!
RIP Walt
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hooblie
climber
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glad that struck a chord jaybro, probably all i should have said,
except that his wildass sincerity could pin the needle on either peg
and in the process carve his very own niche in your heart
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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Yeah, what a guy!
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shipoopoi
Big Wall climber
oakland
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wow, 10 years already. i get a constant reminder of walt driving up the merced. there is a rapid just below swinging bridge that swilliam and i call walt's hole. the idea is to miss the thing left or right. but walt would venture straight in just to see what would happen while bill and i watched from the safety of the eddy.
he was a larger than life guy, ridiculously entertaining in a real borderline kind of way. you were a true champion walt. shipoopooi
duece, is that me playing chess in that photo?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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"May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,"
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I didn't know Walt, but here is a poem that seems appropriate for him, and perhaps others we've lost.
First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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That's a Shipley poem.......You know what I mean.
Knott by him, but OF him.
Bastard BAILED on us! Now WE get to HAUL the load.
Sneaky.
Yeah, I'd tell 'im that, too, if I could have the pleasure of railin' at him again. I kinda miss that, too.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Vulva, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2009 - 10:24pm PT
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Walleye:
I think it is me and CC3 playing chess in our matching hairdos and shirts. There are some pics form different angles of that same moment in time.
Walleye edit: that patch might be plastidip..... the wonder sauce
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Mimi
climber
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Yeah, that's Mussy and Colon for sure. Those were some fun-filled days. So many times our ribs ached from laughing.
Damn, it hurts to lose friends. Walt was such a special guy. A force to be reckoned with. Wherever he is now is experiencing at least as wild a time as what we had with him. NO doubt! Except he might be complaining that it's not real enough for him. LOL!
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Walt was bigger than life, and somebody (LARGO???) should force-feed a movie script though the System to document him. I mean, if they've made several movies of the life of Neal Cassady, they should make a movie of the life of Walt Shipley.
Or, at the very least, somebody who was close to him should write the definitive biography (RUSS???).
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dude, none of those bastards will believe it.
Too real to be true.
Too true to be marketable.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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I never saw a photo of Walt and Neal Cassidy together, just sayin'..........
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jaybro,
Walt and Neal (most likely) never met. My dementhesis is that both were larger than life, in their respective spheres of influence. And both deserve to be written into posterity, for the sake of a valuable historical record.
BTW: the Wikipedia entry for Neal Cassady completely ignores the 1980 film starring Nick Nolte as Neal.
http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/cassady.html
Cassady's wife Carolyn, wrote about their relationship in "Heart Beat", published in 1976 and later made into a movie starring Nick Nolte as Neal, Sissy Spacek as Carolyn, and John Heard as Jack Kerouac. William Plummer's definitive book on Cassady, "The Holy Goof" was published in 1981.
Carolyn's book, "Off The Road", is a fascinating counter-read to "On The Road".
This sort of veneration of Neal begs a similar effort to record Walt's legacy. Walt was, "On The Wall", and, he was off-the-wall.
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