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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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What happened when "The Manx" forgot to belay.
Did he drop Russell to his death!?
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Tarbuster
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You know how slick that traverse is ... He came off.
"What the hell is going on down there?"
Russ, ever vigilant ... stopped waiting to be caught... grabbed the rope to save himself!
And then all was well again.
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Tarbuster
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Mike and Mari.
Two of the strongest, most under-publicized climbers of our generation.
Why? Perhaps because they actually had and have a life.
Unlike those of us with the needs of men and the means of boys who threw it all in for the fame and fortune of the crags!
Mike Lechlinski a.k.a. Mo:
Shaking out!
Slaying dragons on So High:
El Camino Real:
Hamming it up on Dream of Wild Turkeys:
And where there's one M, there is likely another ...
Mari, Turtle Rock bouldering:
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Never heard of them
They must have been down a couple rungs on the flow chart
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Yep, 2 of the best climbers of our generation.
Sorry if I already posted but a better edit.
Swept Away
......of course Mo led the second pitch.
Mike and Mari , and Sibylle and I all had our self sewn fleece jackets that we made back in THAT day.
This is Mike's.
Here, once again, is mine.
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Tarbuster
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That checkered pile jacket got a lot of mileage!
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Tarbuster
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The Moon Fuzz, cruising The Flakes, Tahquitz, 1983:
Munoz, heading into Green Arch, with Mo and Roy Balls, 1983:
T Buster, Le Toit, 1983:
*Roy Balls: my nickname when I was a Joe Boy
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Tarbuster
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This thread needs more Bob Gaines!
Dick Cilley, getting kicked out of Mammoth Jane's van.
With Mike Paul, savoring the spoils:
(Russ, in the van, Annex lot, Yosemite)
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Tarbuster
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Dave Katz,
Showing us what a good sport he is ... serving up endless margaritas at the 2008 reunion:
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Tarbuster... Keep going ! You're on fire... I remember Jane's van in old mammoth , post Cilley...There was a curious disturbance in the Jane force...Was that a 69 Econoline...? rj
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Tarbuster
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Not sure of the pedigree of Jane's van, RJ.
At one point, it had a serious radiator leak.
Everywhere she went, Jane had to carry gallons upon gallons of water.
And that van happily drank them all down!
Then, it summarily pissed that water right back out onto the highway.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Manx had a habit of the rope jumping his back while belaying. Happened to me twice with him.
Once on Sundance as Roy said.... bolt were whipping by and finally I grabbed the rope and stopped myself. Roy was feeding the Manx pipeloads when I whipped. The other time was on the Sham at Taquitz. I'm one move above the bolt, I pop.. go a long way, off a small roof and through a bush/tree... giant whipper. Rope jumped his back. Ropeburns on the Manx from the arrest. I think we bailed.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Tar...Rodger that on the leaking van ...I can see in that photo of Cilley that he's carrying Niagra Falls in a card board box...If only he knew about Bars Stop Leak...
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Tarbuster
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Roy was feeding the Manx pipeloads when I whipped
It's well-known, I can't be trusted with flammables.
Remember when we were camped back at the scene of the crime, of the Gargoyle/VW bus cliffhanger incident by the El Portal sewage treatment plant, and I tried to blow up that propane cylinder while making coffee???
... And then you, Russ, backed away and fell off the edge of the road into the rocks and bushes?
Good times. Good times.
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Manx is living in Australia (Perth) working on a second wife. Here a photo of when Manx and I did the Salathe. BITHD when it was an aid climb and no one else was on the route.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Geeze louise! After reading this I fear for the gene pool!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Nice Doug, you and The Manx on the Salathe.
AWESOME.
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Tarbuster
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Hey Doug,
Thanks for that photo of Kent a.k.a. the Manx!
Why, just look at the young man. Chest open, a model of the perennial yoga asana.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Russ claimed Manx ballooned up to 400 lbs., turned tail and went back to Kentucky and wrote everybody post cards saying "I hate all of you!"
Not sure about that... but he is in Australia doing tech support or computer repair or something. I get reports from the Rubber Maiden from time to time. Last time I saw him he did dwarf me though, and I'm no lightweight.
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Geeze louise! After reading this I fear for the gene pool!
Be afraid
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