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Mar 25, 2010
08:25pm PST |
RIDING GIANTS
Just found this movie at the local supermarket for $4.00. Watched it today.....Incredible!! Anyone else see a similarity between the growth of the surfing and climbing clutures. The characters depi... |
Cracko |
Mar 11, 2010
07:01am PST |
2nd ascent of the prow-solo
Largo, Thanks-that is quite a compliment from one of the early Stonemasters.
I will always treasure my times there; as will all climbers who really got into it. I'm curious about one thing when you s... |
steveA |
Mar 3, 2010
09:03pm PST |
Largo's Writing
Climbing is often about achievement , and often those are only known to
others by word , often stories. Most climbing literature is somewhat dry\boring even if the events themselves were epic. Over m... |
ground_up |
Feb 6, 2010
06:55pm PST |
LEB: The Sarah Palin Interview
yeah largo,
you can build the animations here: http://www.xtranormal.com
it's a snap. stonemasters: the movie!... |
bvb |
Feb 6, 2010
12:43pm PST |
Welcome to Ken Boche
I broke in at Yosemite by climbing a lot of those Ken Boche runout slab routes over on the Apron. All of us So Cal guys came from Tahquitz, Suicide and Roubidoux so Glacier Pt. felt rater cozy, though... |
Largo |
Dec 11, 2009
10:52pm PST |
LARGO
you probaly dont remember me introducing myself to you at bachars memorial. you were polite enough.i thanked you for writing it all down. for erecting a framework for myself and others to marvel at fo... |
powderdan |
Nov 12, 2009
09:05am PST |
The Disciples of Gill
Certainly Largo and all the stonemasters were disciples of Gill,
in one sense or another, and as I said we all are if only that
we have been touched and influenced by Gill. The full list would be
a... |
Patrick Oliver |
Oct 27, 2009
01:51am PST |
Old School Climbers vs. New School Climbers
Largo, Ron, and Werner called it.
The pioneers of Old were the Young arrogant hotshots of their time. That's the way it rolls when you're that good.
The generation gap is less than it ever was a... |
Karl Baba |
Oct 20, 2009
12:38pm PST |
Tobin stories in Stonemasters
"...Largo and Dean comment to the effect that Tobin wasn't that good of a climber...just bold."
Never said that. Tobin was questionably the best all around climber in the world in the last 1970s.
... |
Largo |
Oct 20, 2009
03:51am PST |
Tobin stories in Stonemasters
It is 1977 or 1978, and once again I am down at 'Reeds P. Area' thrashing away on something...occasionally glancing over my left shoulder at another climber, down canyon, taking these whippers off a n... |
TripL7 |
Oct 19, 2009
01:53am PST |
Tobin stories in Stonemasters
I knew Tobin, he was a 'Stonemaster'!!And if you were able to distinguish that a 'biner' was a colloquialism for carabiner and not a slur, then you new who all the Stonemasters were. And I was fortuna... |
TripL7 |
Oct 16, 2009
06:46pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
The next volume on the docket (The Valley Climbers: Yosemite's Vertical Revolution) will bring us right up to the present, with a stack of outstanding stories about modern day speed ascents, f... |
Largo |
Oct 12, 2009
03:52pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
Largo/ Bullwinkle,
Thanks for putting your book together, it's great! But John did you take the juice?
Cheers, Gobee... |
Gobee |
Oct 11, 2009
12:15am PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
The book ROCKS! Hats off to Largo, Dean, Mike, Rick and all who contributed. Very classy.
... |
Double D |
Oct 6, 2009
01:22pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
This is a great book, got mine at the Facelift / Stonemasters show. Signed by Mike Graham, Largo, Ron Kauk, Mark Chapman Did not get bullwinkle. maybe in the future. Well worth it all involved did an ... |
Slakkey |
Oct 6, 2009
12:08pm PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
NOTE: While there are a lot of threads about the Stonemasters book, it seemed like there needed to be one that really highlighted the book and how to get it in the first post. So here it goes
The S... |
Chris McNamara |
Sep 28, 2009
11:54am PST |
Stonemasters show a hit
dean and largo...
glad the show went well! you guys should bring it to the SE....
let me know how i can help you book some shows...
ks... |
the kid |
Sep 24, 2009
06:07pm PST |
Stonemasters Book.
All the anticipation is over. The mailman just delivered my copy and I'm sitting at my desk, ignoring work, perusing the photos and stories.
If I were to envision a book like this, it wouldn't hav... |
looking sketchy there... |
Sep 23, 2009
12:39am PST |
On my coffee table: The Stonemasters Book
Great job Dean and Largo, and all who contributed to it! Man, that really takes me back. All those photos and stories in one place--fantastic. Took me right back to the simple days of swamis, hexes... |
mooser |
Sep 19, 2009
04:44pm PST |
Largo and Bullwinkle: Stonemasters
donini- if you have to ask, then you'll never know...... |
seamus mcshane |
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