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ctclimbz
Mar 4, 2004, 8:38 PM
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To be fair to Mr. Florine, while he does come across a bit... self-occupied... he is one of the nicer guys out there. He freely devotes his time and energy at the local gyms, not to mention his newly designed approach shoes! He is often seen round these parts chatting it up with the kids, and will be quite supportive of the young'uns.
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greenspace
Mar 4, 2004, 9:35 PM
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spent a month in the East Alaska Range with Mike C! (Mike Clelland), he is a cartoonist that has like 15 books ranging from how to tie knots to mountianeering to rock/ice climbing and camping. He also does the little cartoons in climbing magezine. The dude is very cool and one hell of a ballsy mountaineer and I do believe he likes big wall routes too.
probably not famous enough to be mentioned, but he did do an interview on NPR in 2002......... :wink:
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iamthewallress
Mar 4, 2004, 10:43 PM
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In reply to: He freely devotes his time and energy at the local gyms.
I like Hans plenty, but to claim that he does his JOB for Touchstone Inc. for free is nuts.
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iamthewallress
Mar 4, 2004, 11:18 PM
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In reply to: spent a month in the East Alaska Range with Mike C! (Mike Clelland), he is a cartoonist that has like 15 books...
I was renting a room in a house in Yosemite a couple of years ago. Sometimes it would turn into a climber flop house because there were so many climber legitimiately paying rent there who would invite there friends who would in turn invite their friends...
Anyway, one night this guy shows up at the invite of a friend of his. We didn't know the guy or the friend. The friend must have been a friend of a friend of the landlord who was away at the time. He kept to himself in the far reaches of the living room and didn't say much to us all evening. He was just waiting for his friend, apparently. His friend never showed up, and by morning the random guest had blended into our breakfast crowd. Turned out it was Mike Clelland.
My partner and I were a taking rest day, so we spent the morning hearing about his life as a cartoonist. He was a really interesting guy, and the morning stands out as one of the more memorable conversations that I had with all of the new people that I met that summer.
There was a guest book on the table that all of the transient guests would sign. The books entries already offered an interesting bit of Yosemite history, but Mike's entry ended up being my favorite. The proprietor missed his stay and had no idea who the no-show connection that had brought him to his home was, but was tickled to see the brilliant characature of him that he left in thanks for the warm corner where he crashed for a night.
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brianinslc
Mar 4, 2004, 11:36 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: I met John Long and Tommy Caldwell at outdoor retailer in Salt Lake. John Long was abrupt, brusque and cursorily thanked me without looking at me when I attempted to compliment him on his writing. Yo, I'm crying foul on that one. I was on location in LA from Monday to Wednesday, filming, then off to New York for Thursday and Friday, then back to my crib in LA Friday night, getting there at 1 in the morning, then off for the day to Salt Lake City at 6 the next morning. Straighaway I was sitting at a table signing books. My publisher brought 600 copies of How to Rock Climb and I signed them all, though I doubt anyone could read my writing since I was so beat. If you're ever in Santa Monica, stop by my pad and we'll grab a bite. I'm not so good around 600 people, but one on one I do okay.
You did just fine. Hope you didn't get writer's cramp (from my books alone...)...hung in there for two days of that stuff.
Thanks.
Brian in SLC
torch singers and bluegrass...(!)
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dynamicpanda
Mar 5, 2004, 2:06 AM
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I once touched a picture frame that contained a picture signed by Chris Sharma. The picture frame came off a little rough. What an asshole!
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mistymountainhop
Mar 5, 2004, 2:28 AM
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Ever since i onsighted that 5.7 ive been a celebrity around these parts...........
The other day a gaggle of highschool girls came up to me screaming and they couldnt even contain themselves. i calmed then down and then signed all of their chalkbags............ jeez it aint easy being this famous.
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moabbeth
Mar 5, 2004, 2:49 AM
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Just in case anyone here who lives in SoCal wants a chance to say "I met Hans Florine, and I think he's a ---- (fill in the blank with your opinion)", he will be doing a slideshow at my friend's climbing shop next Wednesday - Outland Mountain Shop in Pasadena. After the slide show, Hans will give a short presentation on the speed climbing techniques he utilizes and sign copies of his book Efficient Climbing Skills.
The Outland Mountain Shop | Wednesday, March 10th 7:00pm
tel. (626) 568-8828
And the next day he'll be at their store in Ventura doing the same thing:
Real Cheap Sports | Thursday, March 11th 7:00pm
tel. (805) 648-3803
Hans stories are always entertaining....love the comment about the mirror :lol: !
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maculated
Mar 5, 2004, 3:18 AM
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In reply to: I once touched a picture frame that contained a picture signed by Chris Sharma. The picture frame came off a little rough. What an asshole!
Good username, good sense of humor. You rock.
Nobody is an ass, you just catch people at the wrong time. Glad John Long came to task on that one. I hate these threads. These people exist in the real world, you know.
And Beth, I personally found Hans Florine to be a nice guy.
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timstich
Mar 5, 2004, 3:26 AM
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Well, not everyone on this planet is a non-a-hole, but we should all at least have more than five minutes to prove it one way or the other. And the only guy I ever heard pulling the old "Do you know who I am?" bit was Bruce Smith. Don't know him? Well, that should explain a lot. Ha ha ha!
Climb on.
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maculated
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Actually, I do have one particular encounter I think worth recounting:
I worked up in Tuolumne one summer, and after work I'd sprint up whatever trail I had on my ticklist, get to the destination as the sun was setting, and hike back in the dark.
I'd just done Cathedral Peak that week and was interested by the rock formations off to the left of it, the way there's grooves in the slab and all that, so I decided that I'd take the trail up to Budd Lake and check it out.
http://www.maculated.com/images/budd.jpg
That's me at the lake later on. Note it's sunset. And I'm by myself and I have a lot of photos like this so I started getting weird, which explains most of the photos in my profile.
ANNNNYWAYYYY -
So I am hikin' up the climber trail and this big hulk of a blonde guy comes up on me. I still don't know who he was, but if he wasn't famous, I'd seen him around the meadows and not properly met him. But along behind him came this old dude in a hat carrying his rope in a mountaineer's coil.
I knew he was somebody and I had my sneaking suspicions as to who it was, but what really made this encounter exciting for me, was that he took off his hat and literally tipped it to me. NOBODY'S EVER DONE THAT FOR ME BEFORE!
Man, I "Tee hee'd" like a prepubescent Catholic school girl at a hot priest. It was shockingly embarrassing. If I ever run into this particular climbing pioneer again, I hope he doesn't remember me. That made the hike right there.
Now that I think about it, this particular hike was memorable for a lot of reasons. Ahhh, memories.
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timstich
Mar 5, 2004, 3:42 AM
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First you say them famous people is just likes us all, now you says you got all giggley 'cause you thought you were meeting someone famous??!!!!
Duh-oh!!!
[Slaps self on forehead.]
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couloir
Mar 5, 2004, 3:58 AM
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"He freely devotes his time and energy at the local gyms, not to mention his newly designed approach shoes!"
Of course, since he owns those gyms.
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greenspace
Mar 5, 2004, 1:07 PM
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iamthewallress, mike is a really cool cat. and you even got to see his pre-coffee morning personality......can be scarey ;)
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timstich
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All I can say is that Vaclav Havel is now glad he can go down to the corner pub in Old town Prague and order a pint witout having to call a press conference. The simple things in life.
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Mar 5, 2004, 4:21 PM
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Briefly shared a belay ledge with Tim O'Neil a few years ago on Bastille Crack in Eldo. He was free-soloing and asked to pass. I asked if he wouldn't mind letting my partner, who was leading, get off belay first. He was cool with that.
Exchanged hello's with Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden in the Twin Owls parking lot at Lumpy last year then we went our separate ways, they perhaps relieved we didn't make a fuss over them. I mentioned to my partner their names. He said, "who?"
Tom
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magnesio
Mar 5, 2004, 4:36 PM
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I met a climber from Ohio
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yanqui
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I think it was 1988 and my friend Joe Cupps (yes: THE Joe Cupps) and I were climbing in Little Cottonwood Canyon, when all of a sudden these two French superstar climbers (Didier Raboutou and Isabelle Patissier), who were visiting for the Snowbird competition, showed up on the balcony below the Green A. Actually they seemed like nice enough people, although they mostly spoke French, and I have to admit Joe and I were particularly impressed with Isabelle, to say the least. Anyways the funny part is Isabelle points to my beat up old Pacific Iron Works gear sling (which I'm proud to say I still use, when I'm not bouldering or sport climbing) and looking at my stoppers and cams and stuff, asks in her sexy French accent: vat es dis sheet? And apparently she was serious, since Didier had already soloed about half way up the Green A, which, although only 5.9-, is still a pretty ballsy onsight solo, due to the greasy and insecure footholds. So then Didier gets to the top and lets out this well-deserved Tarzan yell and drops down a rope to Isabelle, who tries the route with her tennis shoes on. Unfortunately she keeps slipping off the first the couple of moves, which I have to admit are kind of slippery. But then the good part is she takes off shoes and climbs the thing bare foot. You don't think Joe and I were impressed with that?
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maculated
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In reply to: First you say them famous people is just likes us all, now you says you got all giggley 'cause you thought you were meeting someone famous??!!!! Duh-oh!!! [Slaps self on forehead.]
Read again. I got all giggly because he tipped his hat.
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yanqui
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Banal encounters with famous climbers:
(1) My mom, who's 83 and a stationary rowing fiend, works out in the same gym as John Roskelly, in Spokane. She keeps telling him that her son, who lives in Argentina, has all his books and that they're about the only thing to read in her son's house which are not written in Spanish. Then he's always nice to her and tells her how much he likes Argentina.
(2) Rolando Garibotti once sent us a free copy of his guide to the Frey, but it got lost or stollen in the mail (Argentine mail is notorious). But then he was nice enough to send us another free copy, which we still have to this day.
(3) In 1993 to 1994 I was roommates with Jose Pereyra. His mother bought us a washer and a dryer for the apartment. Even though they were used, they still worked pretty good.
On the not so banal level: it was Jose who convinced me to come to Argentina, instead of accepting an offer for a teaching job at a college in El Paso, que me deja una deuda, que ahora, nunca puedo pagar. Un millon de gracias, querido amigo and may you always be sending that great big wall in the sky.
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timstich
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In reply to: In reply to: First you say them famous people is just likes us all, now you says you got all giggley 'cause you thought you were meeting someone famous??!!!! Duh-oh!!! [Slaps self on forehead.] Read again. I got all giggly because he tipped his hat.
Chivalry is not dead. Someone must have removed the wooden stake.
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charzyd
Mar 9, 2004, 1:54 AM
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WOW! I believe I have that same poster. Mine says "Corporate Ladders are for the Weak," and he is climbing with his long shaggy hair up the Zig Zag at Yosemite. .. We are so alike! My poster is hung up above my desk in my dorm. We should get together, and share our encounters Dynoguy. :D
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billcoe_
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I met Bobby Kennedy once. For the younger folks, he was a former Pres.'s brother.
Also, I knew a guy who sniffed a chair that Lynn Hill had sat on. He said she was a real warm person.
Don't know about that myself. Thats as close to greatness as I've gotten although I just learned yesterday that my Father was a friend of the guy who created Bugs bunny as they were in WW2 together. The guy drew him a thank you poster with "thanks to willie - Jonesie (my fathers nickname- his was Bill Coe too).
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I played Ms. Pacman with John Goodman.
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I have met a couple of famous climbers. But to tell you the truth, they are just people like you and I. We could probably do the same things they do- well mayby not. But hey, we shouldnt go around treating them as gods. I am sure some of them dont really want to be treated that way anywho. If that person was a real jerk to you would you still like them because of what they have accomplished,? or would you be like, the heck with that dood..
just what i think, dunno..
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