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hossjulia

Trad climber
Eastside
Topic Author's Original Post - May 19, 2009 - 08:16pm PT
Not Cedar, but Cedric, a contemporary and friend of Ansel Adams, who's forward thinking in the 50's got him noticed by McCarthy and his subsequent books banned.

Who has heard of this wonderful photographer, humanitarian and writer?

Here is a link to his book published by the Sierra Club, Words of the Earth.

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5403803

The forward by Ansel Adams is awesome.

I did not realize this was a pay site, you can't see the photos very well, but you can read some of the text.
I'll see if I can find another link.

Here, this one is better;
http://www.gpaulbishop.com/GPB%20History/GPB%20Archive/Section%20-%201/C.%20Wright/c__wright.htm

Here's an excerpt to wet your whistle;

A match, lit out of the wind in the cup of the hand,
survives most surely if tilted down
and slowly revolved when kindled.
The same thing happens to kindling twigs --- resinous twigs, picked
not off the ground, but from the slender tips of dead tree branches,
and broken to desired length by tapping over a boulder.
These should be held in the hand like a bouquet pointing downward until
they blaze, then laid on the ground, and twigs of increasing size
added at varying angles --- never parallel, lest you smother the flames.
Now set your can of water on flat earth or coals, and tuck small twigs
about it --- small twigs caress your billycan.
Fire should be concentrated to windward --- away from the side to be grabbed

and if your billycan has a handle of bailing wire, a lifting stick
made ready.
And, as soon as the precious hot water is poured into wash basin and cup,
a second batch is put on to heat.
For what? Why, to get places socially!
The arrival of free hot water is one of the most potent social entrees
in the camping world --- especially if you give your first batch away!
I find this gentle puttering, making an art of a billycan fire,
more fun than any game.
But the praise of billycan fires and humble generosity
has never been sufficiently sung.



scuffy b

climber
Bad Brothers' Bait and Switch Shop
May 19, 2009 - 08:42pm PT
That's really nice.
(the excerpt)

thanks
hossjulia

Trad climber
Eastside
Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2009 - 09:10pm PT
I am friends with his grandson, who has a sharp eye with a video camera, his homegrown bc ski movie should be out by end of summer.
Blue Tip Productions.


Walleye, thanks for posting that, do you have some of his work? I'm having a hard time finding his photos on-line. (Which is a good thing)
Some of the few I've seen, I really like.

I'll have to bug his grandson again to see what he has.
squatch

Boulder climber
santa cruz, CA
May 19, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
Cedar?

oh wait...
dipper

climber
May 19, 2009 - 10:31pm PT
From atop Mt. Cedric Wright...

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