How Did Dan Osman Inspire You?

Dan Osman's final jump in Yosemite gets repeated 23 years later!

Dan Osman is a legend in the climbing community.  He passed away doing the most epic rope jump in Yosemite National Park 23 years ago and we wanted to honor him by repeating it.  We climbed an A4 route called Roulette on Leaning tower, hiked up Fifi 3x to tag a line across by hand (no drones) and to rig an all natural anchor for a highline that Alonso Rodriguez sent, naming it "Flossing the Sky" just as Dano called the noise ropes made during rope jumps.  After 15 years of dreaming about doing this line, I got to jump over 500 feet (170m) down the face of leaning tower and so did 4 of my friends.  Dano - your inspiration lives on!

Super cool video, Ryan!

The craziest DanO story I know is at the link below, from John Middendorf:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.climbing/browse_thread/thread/5c019e6624da679e

Nice tribute!  If you solo Eagle Falls I'll join your Patreon or whatever.

You turned that edit out fast! Cant wait to see what else you are working on 

Nice job Ryan and company. Great tribute to Dan and thanks for bringing him to the attention of the younger generation.

Brought tears to my eyes you guys. Just fucking amazing, what a great video. Miss that guy! Stoke is still alive! Thank you!!!

Kurt 

JaredG wrote:

Nice tribute!  If you solo Eagle Falls I'll join your Patreon or whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx31MBmNr4E&t=1240

Osman’s circus stunts never inspired anything other than indigestion in me. Sorry. 

Very Awesome and Motivating Video!!

Love the video and the tribute. Loved Dano a whole lot and mostly the spirit he embodied. He was living with us the day he died. We were the first ones to pick up Miles after Dano fell. The rest of the night was filled with balling, drinking, tears, and wailing.

Dano did most of his calculations for big things way stoned and flying on Redbull, total killer style, but not necessarily a recipe for flawless physics calculations which is what rope jumping requires. He was more Mr. Redbull than probably any of their athletes ever since. Meaning he was a true fucking lunatic, but maybe his judgement wasn’t the best.

I remember one day when he set up the Rostrum jump. His first go at it was real Heavy, like a full on is this gonna fly or am I gonna die vibe.He lived. A week later there were 20 people lining up ready to jump, a total party atmosphere, folks asking how a carabiner worked before committing to jumping 100+ feet. Probably 15 people jumped that day and luckily no one got hurt. If they had, I’m certain Dano would have felt responsible and bummed, and perhaps never forgiven himself.

Dano was the man, and he was crazy, but not sure we need to encourage everyone to try gnarly shit as crazy as Dano. It’s all cool until it’s not, and death is kinda for ever. Long live King Dano!

Soloing Gun Club 5.12C sketchily at the NRG in WV.

Jumping the foresthill bridge was pretty sick.  And I second the eagle falls idea.  Ryan for next wet solo ascent.