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At the risk of being labeled a ghoul, I'd like to let everyone know that a picture of Jim appears in the 2008 calendar produced by the mountain community web site. The annual mountain community calendar is put together from pictures sent in by members, and my submission this year included a picture taken in April 2007 of Jim on the Rad Wall at Cochise Stronghold. I never gave the submission a thought at the time, and when we lost Jim it didn't occur to me to reconsider it. In any case, perhaps some of you will find it inappropriate, but perhaps some of you will be happy to see Jim doing what he loved one more time. A link to the order page for the calendar is here, and Jim's pic appears at the lower right of the December page: calendar My understanding is that the calendar is sold at cost plus $2, with the $2 applied to defraying the costs of operating the mountain community web site. (For anyone not familiar, the site is here: mountain community). I hope this isn't offensive to anyone, and my thoughts in posting are particularly with Jim's family. If you find this inappropriate, please let me know.

I'm not a regular here, but joined in order to duplicate a post that I made in a tribute thread to Jim on Supertopo, since many of Jim's family and friends seem to be here. This is the supertopo thread URL: tribute Here is what I wrote: ************** My thoughts are with his family and those close to him. My chances to spend time with him were few, but even in that short span I could see that he squeezed every drop from the days that he had. What a loss. Readying a rap at Redrocks, 2003: Leading Risky Business at Redrocks, 2003: Following on Warpaint at Cochise, 2007: Leading on the Rad Wall at Cochise, 2007: At ease at Mt. Lemmon, 2007: Taking advantage of an empty campground at Mt. Lemmon, 2007: Topped out at sunset, Mt. Lemmon, 2007: Cheers, mate.