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Apr 21, 2016 - 02:43pm PT
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Hacky sack hall of famers, where are they now?
Battey, Stahl, Evans (and progeny) still at it. Morro bay last summer.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:09pm PT
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Wow, some great stuff coming out here.
You can tell Dave Evans still has good hips: look at all that internal rotation he's getting on his femur.
I know about some of these things!
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:10pm PT
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Mid 80s, 2 car per campground rule strictly enforced.
Was when "The Voice" was my best friend.
I would leave OC at about 5pm on Friday
Drive to Josh and pull in to Al's always open camp site and he would be there waiting for me. I would bring him some food or whatever, and we would hang and chat for a couple hours.
Never had to worry about getting a site.
He went downhill after he moved into to Gordo Ranch in the 90s, the ever present climber trash talk turned him bitter.
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:27pm PT
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Al, prepped and ready for battle at Blue Gamma, 1983:
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:28pm PT
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Walter Rosenthal on El Cap:
Photo by Tom Carter
Rosenthal and the Drywall Dogs, fall, 1980 ...
Re-Upping the mushroom buzz on top of Paiute Pass:
It's no coincidence that all of our faces are melted off!
Bob Finn, Marcus, Chuck Cochran, Tarbuster, Walter Rosenthal
Photo by Tom Carter
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:37pm PT
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Tarbuster, on Safari with Guy Keesee and Nick Badyrka,
Fall of 1979, either before or after a new route attempt on Peak 11,440', The Great Western Divide:
photo, Nick Badyrka
Nick was calling me ViceRoy during this period ...
Check it out, so dirt poor I had only one pair of shoelaces, doing double duty between my EBs and Adidas Cross-Country.
EB laces lasted about 10 minutes.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:44pm PT
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Maybe that crew thought they were on top of Paiute Pass but that
photo indicates otherwise. ;-)
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 03:47pm PT
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True, true. IIRC the pass was on top of US!
We were just high.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Apr 21, 2016 - 04:16pm PT
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One of my favorite shots of E. Kickin' it on the POW when we did it in the late '80's(?).
Tripper Jack lent me the sub cot for the journey.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Apr 21, 2016 - 04:25pm PT
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Overwatch, I was trolling you to see if you would come out of the woodwork
I do remember getting rained out
Rain was common back then, we would hike around all day and have just as much fun
or at least hike to the IDC (iron door cave)
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guyman
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Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 21, 2016 - 05:58pm PT
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ViceRoy..... you earned your spot on the Expedition, we knew if things got bad we could push you out on to the sharp end.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 06:06pm PT
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ACCIDENTAL HISTORY: The Masters of Joshua Tree
photos by Dean Fidelman
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Apr 21, 2016 - 06:07pm PT
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Grandma Roberts ended up being a pirate on the Las Vegas strip. He would cross some swords and then swing on a rope over the bullwarks and drop into the sham briney. Three times a night for $400 a night at the Treasure Island. Married a set of talented 52 EE's and has three mulato babies.
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rottingjohnny
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Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Apr 21, 2016 - 07:47pm PT
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Walter Rosenthal hated construction and most of the losers that lived for it...I remember a story about some dumb ass red neck calling Walter a candy ass...Little did he know...
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:00pm PT
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We worked loading drywall at this massive project called Aspen Creek, right at the end of 1980.
A lot of the carpenters swaggered about, their nail bags on their hips like six shooters from a Hollywood western.
I was walking behind one of those guys with my hands on my hips, thumbs and forefingers like pistols.
Cochran tapped me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear: "Young one, you don't even want to be doing that ..."
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:09pm PT
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Tarbusser...LOL...Guys and their carpentry bags...Acid Creek condos..! Talk about a black hole of construction law suits...Tried to get work at Aspen Creek with Matthew Kerwin in 81 ...Matthew is now running the Black Diamond maintenance crew in Verdi...
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:15pm PT
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From the above article:
Bachar on Crank City (V4), just to the right of the classic So High. "Everybody said, ' Bachar, you're nuts – let's get out of here. This thing will never go,' " says Bachar. "I thought they were probably right but suddenly on my fifth or six try I did the dyno move about 10 feet off the ground and everybody stopped to look. Then nobody wanted to leave."
I was there that day. This happened during the last breaths of the 1970s. We were all on acid. When Bachar topped out, he disappeared for a moment behind the summit and then just his head and shoulders reappeared and he was wearing this great big grin.
10 or 20 minutes later, Mari actually got the second ascent of the Crank City proper, but she didn't continue up the So High, as Bachar had.
Nevertheless, she was so stoked and so were the rest of us.
She was jumping up and down like a little girl having just beat all the other boys at their own game. And she had done just that!
Mari is really good at crimping and crossovers, which is just how you accomplish Crank City.
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:23pm PT
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Matthew Kerwin, now there's a special person.
He asked me to ski, what's it called, Elderberry on Mt. Tom with him, come spring. He had no idea what a fiasco that would've been bringing me along!
I didn't last the winter. That construction scene was depressing. So it was back to Josh for Roy Boy.
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... And that bit Russ just laid on us about Alan Roberts. I have it on good authority that is 100% gospel!!!
hahhahahahaha
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Tarbuster
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:35pm PT
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Also from the above article:
Yabo on the notorious, almost-didn't-make-it solo of Leave It to Beaver (5.12a) Maybe Randy Vogel will chime in on this one.
At least one person who was watching literally had to turn away from the near-grisly spectacle as Yabo got crossed up above the crux and had to power through.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Apr 21, 2016 - 08:54pm PT
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The depressing construction scene in Mammoth...Alan Roberts was working for this psychotic painting contractor by the name of Hank who had sniffed too much laquer...He came right out and asked Alan what was the least amount of money he would work for...They were painting a 3 story tall condo that needed some sketchy rope work and the contractor was pimping Alan for ideas on how to rig the building..I think he wanted to pay Alan 6 bucks an hour...Poor Al couldn't believe what the guy wanted to pay him..LOL..
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