roger_johnson Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Last night in Tacoma at Backpackers Supply "The Bird" gave a "private" slide show. "Private" because it was very poorly attended; one of the greatest Amerian climbers of all time and he only had about 25 people attend!! He recounted his 1981 epic on the East face of Mooses Tooth with Mugs Stump. Then he showed slides of his 2001 climb on the same face. The routes joined up at about the 2/3 height. 1981 was in March, lots of snow and ice. The 2001 was in summer with lots of snow. The rock has been weathered to beyond useful or reliable but they climbed anyway... Bridwell is truely a hard man, knows the risks and stays in control and finishes climbs; very seldom bails. A great climber. Quote
rr666 Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Any body know if he is going to make it up here to Seattle? I would really enjoy seeing him talk. Quote
b-rock Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Fun slide show. Caught it here in Portland at the Mazamas clubroom (ack) sponsored by Climb Max (word). Truely a burley guy. A little tough to follow, but the pics were sweet. Bring him a laser pointer, it was dumb luck that someone in the audience had one. Recomended if he's continuing his tour... Quote
pindude Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 Did a google search. He'll be at Marmot tonight: http://www.marmotmountain.com/events.htm For us dry-siders, he'll be in Spokane tomorrow nite, Thurs, 7 pm at Mountain Goat. I'll post info on the eastern WA discussion board. Pindude Quote
Dru Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 If da Bird was Rodchester's buddy we would have heard about it last week! Quote
rayborbon Posted March 20, 2002 Posted March 20, 2002 That's right down the road. Maybe I'll go. Quote
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