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Robb
Social climber
It's like FoCo in NoCo Daddy-O!
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You're all "in the field" right now. It's just that most of you don't know it.
Fall rightly.
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BooYah
Social climber
Ruby Range
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Be a good reminder to folks still out there, eh?
Some actions aren't necessarily respectful. or worthy of respect.
Have a nice day.
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apogee
climber
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Scott McAndrews
Who knew better than all of us
That to be at the top of your game
Meant to love and serve those around you
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Greg Barnes
climber
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Pat Savageau, 2000, at the Needles
only 20 years old, and had already bagged the FA of Air Sweden (5.13 R) at Indian Creek
just moved from the sun to the shade, cold & windy, rushing to get the wind jacket on, didn't finish the knot, which was hidden under the wind jacket...
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quietpartner
Trad climber
Moantannah
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Good posts, Peter Haan and corniss.
Dying while defending our freedom ranks far higher, in my mind, than climbing.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Though I would argue that the folks listed above and many others also died defending our freedom. At the very least the freedom of individuals to choose. Certainly they were not sent forth into battle by orders of a command structure. They choose of their own free will to enter the fray. Certainly they were not sent to destroy an enemy. They went to expand the human potential. There is a poignant grace and greatness to that.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Greg B, thanks tons for remembering Pat Savageau. He and I climbed together back March, 1999 for awhile, starting at Pacific Edge Gym and then the Valley. I think he was gone within six months, though, September 4, 2000. What a shock and agony. His poor parents too. Mike and Ann Savageau. They came out from Ann Arbor after the accident; his mother---an artist---created a site-specific event in his memory at his college at UCSC. Many were devastated.
He had tremendous drive and an excellent body type for upper level climbing---- shorter, very high strength-to-weight ratio, really powerful back and toes. And a really decent, bright guy. His dad was chairman of the Dept of Microbiology at U of Mich/Ann Arbor. Pat died on "On Thin Ice" in the Needles above Lake Isabella, CA. lowering off from the anchors and fell screaming.
He certainly would have continued on to climb at the very highest level; in fact he was already approaching that state at the age of 20 as you note. He would have used his life "to spend it for something that would outlast it" as I quote William James upthread here. My post was not so much about war but in a more general sense, one's life is best lead by being part of things larger than it--- great work of all or any kind.
Here he is 17 months before his death on Peter Pan, Yosemite.
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tinker b
climber
the commonwealth
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joe crowe-christmas 2002- zodiac
a flame that burns twice as bright can not always burn for so long.
susanna lantz- 2008 - canadian rockies
scotty mcandrews- 2006- mamoth ski patrol
matt baxter 1996 - zenyata mendata
although i wish they were still around, i am a better person when i try to adopt their strengths to keep their spirits alive.
peace, jo-lynne
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Evel
Trad climber
the cliffs of insanity
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Christopher Purnell
Many Others............
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Brian Hall, Jerry Cooke, and Kelly James. They had done a winter ascent of the North face couloir on Mt Hood and were caught by a storm on the summit 2 1/2 years ago. Hall and Cooke's bodies have never been found. Kelly was found frozen in a snow cave near the top. I was on the mountain regularly during that storm, and it was the horrendous gusts that would come in and try to rip you off the moutain that was out of the normal. My feeling is the missing boys were plucked from the summit by those gusts, and they are encased in the glaciers far below.
During the storm after about 4 days there was a window in the storm that opened up for a few minutes at night. The clouds went away, the wind stopped, and the stars came out. It was very very quiet and still and eerie, and for some reason it was then I knew they were gone. Before I had always held out hope. An hour later the storm was back and raged on for days.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Bruce Andrews.......just going to work guiding someone who wanted to climb Foraker.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jun 13, 2009 - 04:09pm PT
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A few more ...
Gary Lee
Albert Dow
Bob Hritz
Andy Cox
Diana Hunter
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
for each and every climber, there was a blood line that birthed them...
somehow the love of the great outdoors was birthed into each new generation...
me and mark (chappy) and our kin, we had an auntie...
she wasn't a climber, but she was turning 80 and she died and fell treking through the greatoutdoors (across her own pond)... she fell through the ice and drowned, doing what she had done all her life...
and for 80-such years...
may the true love of the great outdoors and the love for climbing or treking or whatever way you show it, be yours----and hopefully are a full long time longer than you'd ever expect it...
wishing you all long golden years, before you reach trail's end... best wishes to each and every one of you...
and respected and honor to those that have fallen in the great outdoors...
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couchmaster
climber
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Please add perhaps the greatest US climber no one ever heard of outside of Montana: Dwight Bishop.
Dwight fell on his SECOND free solo of the Grand Traverse (enchainment of all the major Teton mountains) warming up in preparation for the first ever, never attempted, winter Free-solo attempt.
Local climbers donated his gear to SAR and finished the 3rd edition Butte guidebook he had started. http://firstascentpress.com/butte-guide.html
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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'Tis a sad list.
My condolences to all that have lost loved ones, doesn't matter
how or why. Their losses are unfathomable.
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