Who is the most famous climber you have ever met? What circumstances?
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Yeah, The Larry, You're one of them! It's been awhile. Still in Moab? |
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I've climbed with these guys. |
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Had the pleasure of meeting Alex Honnold while climbing Directissima at the Gunks yesterday, 4/9/11. I believe he was there with a film crew from 60 minutes. I was seconding the arete pitch of Directissima while Alex was soloing the first pitch of High Exposure. He, my climbing partner and I hung out at the party ledge for 10 minutes or so, shooting the breeze about his travels and the Gunks. He then went ahead and soloed the final pitch of High Exposure and then downclimbed it. On my suggestion, he downclimbed Directissima- with the final words of "if I peel off, I'm blaming you!" Obviously, he made it down just fine. |
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I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Tom Hornbein last night |
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The quickdraw thief at Smith, asshole HAHA |
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I met Waren Harding at the Mountain Room Bar in Yosemite in the early 70's and I had a drink with him. I also watch Ron Kauk climbing solo Walk on the Wild Side at Joshua Tree, CA. I use to watch Lynn Hill climb at Lake Parris in Southern California when she was young. |
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I think I saw Ron Kauk at mt Woodson once and Christian Griffith gave me a spot on three star arete at Heuco. One time at Tuolomne, while sitting at the belay after the open book pitch on Stately Pleasure Dome, these two guys soloed past us, literally walking up the dome. One was none other than TM Herbert, the Yosemite legend. |
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Jonny Copp took my profile pic. I had no idea it was him until he emailed me the photo months later. I'm wearing his bright red vest because he said it would make the photo pop more:) Very nice guy...proceeded to cruise Crack of Doom shortly after. |
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Derek Hersey climbed past me, free solo, way up on the Yellow Spur. I was crapping in my pants, he was completely calm and all smiles. We drank Sheaf Stout that night, lots of it. |
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I met Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Chicken at the Charlotte airport. He was wearing that crazy white suit and hanging out with his agent. I was like 5 and sitting there trying to work out this Rubix Cube when my mom said, "Go talk to that guy Jeff." So I walked right up to him and said, "Hey Mister help me out with this thing will yeah?" So we hung out for a while trying to figure that Rubix Cube out. |
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I was relaxing on a rock right next to the entrance to a wall at Rifle one day, about a month into a road trip, when an older woman and a younger girl walked up. I'm pretty sure I heard the woman comment that something smelled bad. I realized I had my arms above my head, unleashing my smelly pits upon the world. I quickly tucked them away and didn't say anything (I don't think they'd located the source yet...) |
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Ran onto Ed Viesturs on Everest as I was heading up the Western CWM and he was heading down. |
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Hi Allen Hill, I just caught that remark page 9. Okay. |
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Allen Hill wrote:Jean, what are you talking about? Your married to Doug! Talk about famous. Tell him the blue house in Gunnison is for sale! I think of him often.Hey Allen, is the blue house also the rainbow house? Because we live in a blue house in Gunnison but it gets called the rainbow house for some reason. |
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I've run into a few big names here and there...but after last weekend's AAC induction dinner, I've now had the opportunity to shake hands with Royal Robbins and Tom Hornbein. Dr. Tom, as I expected, gave a funny and enjoyable presentation; Royal, to my surprise, was also funny and even kinda modest. They are both very sharp characters despite their age. |
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I'm far more interested in meeting the man that revolutionized fried chicken and buscuits and turning it into a fast-food chain. Plus I'm sure he used to crush out at the Red River Gorge before it became so popular. |
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I met Harvey Carter once. I was rapping off of one of his climbs (Twin Cracks). I noticed this ole timer walking around the base looking up at me. When I got down he started talking to me and asking me questions. I knew he knew more than he let on. He then started telling me some stories about training the Army. I then asked him his name and he told me. |
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Living in CO you never know who you will run into. I always tell my kids to not spray how good they are (or think they are) because you never know who is climbing next to you. We have run into a lot of folks and every single one has been very nice and encouraging. We have run into Carlo Traversi, Alex Puccio and some guys who bolted a good bit of Clear Creek Canyon. All have been way cool. |
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When I first moved out to Ft. Collins and didn't know anybody, I signed up for a climbing class through CSU. Since nobody else signed up I got a day of private guiding by Craig Lueben for $25.00. I was more scared on the drive to Combat Rock than on the actual climb. |
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Tenzing Norgay. |