Sam Page

Thanks, montypiton! I'm pretty sure I'm not one of the Bard brothers, but I do recall when Alan Bard was killed guiding the Owen-Spaulding route on the Grand Teton. I've done that route twice. The first (normally) roped pitch involves a long, exposed traverse. A fall there could entail a long pendulum. Perhaps that is what happened. Anyway, now I'm curious: can you recommend something Alan Bard wrote?

Well, maybe it's time for us all to accept what really happened to Mallory and Irvine.

I lived in Mammoth Lakes, CA years ago and bumped into John Bachar from time to time. I even jammed with him once (he didn't like my guitar playing). Anyway, people who knew him personally pronounced his name "backer", as in "I am a backer of CascadeClimbers.com". However, I never heard John Bachar pronounce his last name, so I cannot be sure.

Hello. I've seen numerous references to CascadeClimbers.com over the years, and finally got around to checking it out. It's a great website with a hyper-active forum. Perhaps the combination of weather and coffee in the PNW is conducive to hyper-active posting. I look forward to aggravating my wife by browsing this forum regularly. Anyway, after being relieved of employment and finding myself home with two small children, I started a blog called The Mountaineering Review to keep my brain from turning to mush. Have a look!