CascadeClimber Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Godspeed and heavenly first ascents with Fred to Dee Molenaar, who has departed the Cascades at 101. Dee and Fred may have known more about the Cascades than everyone alive combined. I feel fortunate to have lived while they did, and was inspired by their adventures, writings, and antics. https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Dee-Molenaar-RIP-at-101-and-The-Brotherhood-of-14993166.php Edited January 22, 2020 by CascadeClimber 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genepires Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 damn that is a well lived and long life. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonG Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 10 hours ago, CascadeClimber said: I feel fortunate to have lived while they did, and was inspired by their adventures, writings, and antics. Amen. Thanks for letting us know. I talked with Fred a number of times, but never had the honor of meeting Dee.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
num1mc Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, CascadeClimber said: . Dee and Fred may have known more about the Cascades than everyone alive combined. How about Roland Tabor and the late Peter Misch? Â Joe Vance, Â Eric Cheney and Don Swanson? Edited January 22, 2020 by num1mc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdietsch Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) "the brotherhood of the rope" .. I always loved that phase Edited January 22, 2020 by wdietsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaredSilly Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I visited Dee a few times over the years. Great fun. When he found out we had done Curtis Ridge he asked us to sign his copy of Challenge of Rainier. I thought that was an honor. Some trivia, when Dee came home from K2 his wife decided that she did not want to be married to a climber. Dee's second wife was much more understanding. She was a peach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
num1mc Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 On 1/22/2020 at 6:35 PM, ScaredSilly said: I visited Dee a few times over the years. That explains the lack of fine silverware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugiyama_ss Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 My Friends Were Mountaineers: A film about Dee Molenaar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbQqnrf-n7I 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdietsch Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 great video ... thanks for posting the lnk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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