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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Aug 31, 2009 - 01:08pm PT
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The parking area before the hike in Saturday:
Great to meet some new people, put some faces to familiar names, and meet up with old friends:
Pat and Dingus:
Karl, Chief, Guyman and Bob:
Mike and Moria:
The cycle continues, with new life:
The tribe gathers:
Thanks to everyone for the wonderful weekend. The camping, the shows, the amazing memorial, food, drink, tears and laughter.
We know you are with us Bruce.
The view from our campsite:
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Aug 31, 2009 - 01:56pm PT
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Thanks to everyone for coming to share your memories and thanks to Brutus for providing us all with so many good ones.
I'm sorry that I couldn't make it to the Stone House and that I didn't have more time to visit with everyone.
Let's keep sending our best thoughts to Em as she continues to work through the reconstruction of her day-to-day. We all loved Bruce, and we love you dearly too, Em.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 31, 2009 - 03:39pm PT
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The view to the west from the campground
Directions to Stonehouse
Camp
Tall Wall (with Lisa and Elmar)
Hittin' the trail, with Pat and Chris
Misc awesomeness,
Somebody remind me the name of this;
The Chief, Mooch, Pat Brennan
Pat providing support for Dingus
(with skip in foreground)
The Cheif shares
Pat's turn
The trail back down
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 31, 2009 - 04:12pm PT
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I can imagine Brutus behind the wheel, kinda...
SPH ex-pat Chris, Em, Darla
Getin' fuzzy
Thx Rob, sorry to blur you!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 04:24pm PT
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the "SPH ex pat" is Chris
wish I got to do an official greet to those folks I really only know virtually.
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Aug 31, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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I HATE this damn NMCI network here at China Lake. Totally filtering anything that comes in......including all the great photos I CAN'T see!!! AAAARRRRRGGGG!!!
Will load up photos from the amazing weekend tonight. Dingus, where you at?? Post up bro! So great o be with you all as the spirit of Brutus swirled around us at Stonehouse!! Bob Harrington singing and strummin' 'the Bristle Cone Pine' tugged at my heart.
Got on the folowimng Brutus roots at A-Hills:
Booty Pageant (.10a)
Little Miss Sunshine (.7)
Tuxedo Junction (.9)
Stem Cell Research (.10a)
Lives Of The Cowboys (.10a)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 31, 2009 - 04:32pm PT
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Dawn, Sunday morning
Coffee thirty;
Karl B brain flossing
What a striking couple
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 04:58pm PT
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I never had the privelage of meeting Brutus. I can tell he was a good man though.
Surrounded himself with quality people too!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 06:47pm PT
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thx Jerry for putting that together.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:17pm PT
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Beutiful, Jerry.
We went to go see the Bristlecone Pines on Sunday, so your choice of background music was especially meaningful to me.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:17pm PT
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Brilliant, and poignant, Jerry that expresses that day and much beyond better than I would have thought it could be conveyed.
A slightly different take on Bristlecone, but I think if anyone wasn't there they certainly get the idea.
When are you going back to those constellation climbs?
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:20pm PT
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Perhaps we can get Bob to record the song for us. He did such a beautiful job.
Jaybro- great hanging with you. Might go back up this week.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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We'll be hanging up 'there' Jerry Friday night and Saturday morning for awhile.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol, CA
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:28pm PT
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Michael Johnson I think. (found on i-tunes)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:28pm PT
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Mel, could you tell which one sprouted first?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:30pm PT
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That's just beautiful, Jerry.
Well done.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Boise....
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:36pm PT
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That was really beautiful, Jerry.
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rcknsno
climber
California
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Aug 31, 2009 - 07:40pm PT
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Thanks Jerry, I'm not sure if the pictures or the music moved me more.
Such a memorable weekend, remembering a great friend in a gorgeous location, meeting existing friends and making new ones.
Karin
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Bob Harrington
climber
Bishop, California
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Aug 31, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
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Wow Jerry, I'm choked up all over again... Beautiful work. The quickly sequenced shots are very effective. I learned that song off a Charlie Sizemore disc, where it gets a much more bluegrassy treatment, high and lonesome, gives me chills. The one you found on itunes is very nice too.
Kathy, that's Will's Guild D-25 that I'm playing. I guess it shoulda been the Bristlecone, but I don't think I would have gotten authorization to toss it in a haul bag and carry it up there.
For me, it was a fine and fitting tribute to Bruce to make a bunch of great new friends. The generosity that was such a signature of Bruce continues on.
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