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Ed Peters was really cool. He shared a house with Bob Lund. Bob Swanson was around then. AJ was nice, but also a little odd. Ken Small was also active in the club then, as was Steve Costie. Steve was a basic and later intermediate student with me, and he later became the long time Executive Director of the club, retiring recently.

Alright, maybe I'm a bit hazy. I remember them being horrible ropes. I was in the Basic in '75, and graduated from the Intermediate in '77. The other young climbers I remember were Alan and Ann Tarver, Roy Hackbarth, Paul Kremer, the late Bob (later Back-off Bob, and later still- Big wall Bob) Williams, Mike Balise, Sue McQueen, Betsy Visco (now there is a story!), Jon Carpenter and Russ Erickson. My own MSR came pre-dyed!

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/437837_avalanche28.html This is a very sad accident. Riley's father is a climber, and his aunt and uncle are particularly well known Seattle area climbers

I also remember going out on the lower Niqually Glacier for crevasse rescue practice as a student in 1975 and as a first year Intermediate instructor in 1976, and we were using club supplied manilla ropes of about 1" diameter. In 1977, Larry Penberthy either had or lost a contract to supply the US Army with shitty climbing ropes, and somehow the Mountaineers procured about a mile of crappy olive green MSR climbing rope, which was actually reprocessed yacht rope.

I took the Mountaineers courses in the seventies. Even back then there were attempts to reform the club, most of which failed. In 1979, Bill Sumner was recruited and agreed to join the Climbing Committee. This was in an early attempt to alter the monolithic nature of the courses, and to bring many of the climbing techniques up to a more modern nature. His membership was vetoed by Howard Stainsbury because Bill was not a member of the club. Individuals of the Committee then offered to pay for Bill's membership. At this point Howard dug in his heals and stated that because Bill was not a graduate or student of any Mountaineers course, that his membership in the Climbing Committee was strictly verboten. It was never clarified whether this stance by the Director was as per Club bylaws and statue, or merely the old guard acting like an intransigent ostrich with its head in the ground, and Bill tired of the BS.

In addition to Tom Miller, George Sainsbury has also passed away http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=george-ross-sainsbury&pid=149440908

Your maps don't show the NF boudary? My USGS and TOPO maps show the boundary as about 3/8 of a mile SE of the turnoff for the South Suiattle RD

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1348291/Willis-Wall-Winter-Wonderland-Pics http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1099882/Where-are-They-Now-Old-Leavenworth-Wa-Climbers

Talk about a happy ending

I don't know for certain, but I would imagine that there are Congressional and Departmental limits and guidelines on how concession funds are spent. Remember that while the money generated in MRNP and NCNP (for instance) is rather paltry, the funds generated by Yellowstone and Yosemite are huge.

Seems likely that financing is a problem He's looking for friends

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/114461379.html From the people who brought you red light cameras

Good luck and good hunting. It looks like fun, and Brix looks like a good buddy

A nice car for the Kallikak family

Link Word is leaking out that Major Winters has passed away. He was featured prominately in "Band of Brothers" and was exceptionally well respected for his leadership capabilities. He parachuted in Normandy in the darkness of D-Day morning, and fought to Germany. The 506th fought in the battle of France, Bastogne, Belguim, Market Garden and Germany

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/866494/1 Many posters, many ideas. It seems as though with the poor efficiency of climbing pulleys, you really aren't going to put out that much force unless you have a huge group pulling

Nothing says "I'm cool" more than tossing around the phrase"dead bird" on the inter net

The scramble to the top of Short Circuit?

In three days and three posts you people turned Zach from a reasonable hippie lover to a venomous hater of the first magnitude. Either that, or the Prozac ran out

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Hard to believe that those that need to wrap themselves with the flag to hawk their crappy energy drink are above self-aggrandizement. Many would say that the mere presence of a web site such as yours is evidence of self-aggrandizement

The remains of John Rosholt have been found in Black Velvet Canyon: Link Many questions are still unanswered.

Given your response, it seems like either your reading comprehension or your sense of irony is sub-par. Your choice of handles is truly odd. "Team Stars and Stripes" for a bunch of mope skiers, "Patriot" and "momoney". The last may actually be what you are about, with the addition of some poorly considered and very poorly executed self-aggrandizement

Don't fool yourself I know dogs that could beat you in checkers The only person you make look stupid would be yourself Delusion land

You are right. Sorry Josh And you helmet cam 'ed yourself dry humping a rock in the snow. And then put it on the Internet And at some point after your illustrious career at SPU and Jack in the Box, your head got seriously chilled, and your brain went into suspended animation You love the Internet and the attention it brings on you. But when it goes against you, the tears come out. You are CC's own Internet Diva