Carlos B is the man!

[JasonG]

A friend turned me on to his new site:

 

http://carlosbuhler.wordpress.com/

 

Making all us dads out there look mighty bad. Sheesh.

 

JG

[kukuzka1]

The guys in his 50s! theirs still hope.

[JasonG]

and to take as many pictures as he did on those routes, wow. Whenever I am stressed about my or my partner's lead, I sure am not taking many photos. Nerves of steel . . .

[Scoffster]

What brand of tools are they using? I remember a similar one with belay device in its head.

[Dane]

http://www.e-climb.com/

 

Carlos is part of the e-climb team. He'll also demo their tools for you in Canmore.

[JasonG]

Those are some wild looking tools. Dane, you tried them?

[summitchaserCJB]

Wouldn't be surprised if he had.

[Dane]

Carlos is a big fan. But then Carlos can climb most stuff with a club and a nail through it when he is in the mood. The e-climb stuff feels good with some innovative engineering.

 

But to be honest I was a bit put off by the cosmetics

so passed at the chance...and happy with my rather plain jane Nomics.

 

 

[DPS]

I work with a woman who was one of Carlos' professors at Huxley College. She was a climber herself and remembers Carlos as being very interested in climbing at the time and said he was a nice young man. There is a photo of Carlos on the summit of Mt Everest with a 'Huxley' flag hanging in the Huxley College main office.

Edited April 24, 2010 by danielpatricksmith

[JBo6]

I'm pretty sure its a picture from K2. Spacing out meeting with an adviser the other month was made a lot more interesting with that picture. According to Wikipedia he is one of only 66 WWU students to receive the "Distinguished Alumni Award"

[DPS]

You could be right, I saw it 15 years ago.

[Joe_Poulton]

I work with a woman who was one of Carlos' professors at Huxley College. She was a climber herself and remembers Carlos as being very interested in climbing at the time and said he was a nice young man. There is a photo of Carlos on the summit of Mt Everest with a 'Huxley' flag hanging in the Huxley College main office.

 

He also wrote a cool piece. "interpersonal and group dynamics as a function of Mountaineering stress" (or something titled like that) It's in the B-Ham college library....he climbed a variety of different Cascade Volcanoes with diffent groups and took notes on key functions that pertained to the self and the group....just do a database search for Carlos Buhler and you'll find it up there....at least it was there in 2001. It's a good read.

[sobo]

[shameless namedropping] I've known Carlos for over 15 years now, and have climbed with him on a few occasions. I have never met a more modest, personable, caring, and truly genuine human being in all my 50 years on this planet. The guy is simply top notch; no other way to describe it.

 

Years ago, he sent me postcards from his NR K2 trip right after we climbed together at Lightning Dome, while I was laid up in bed for a week because of an OTJ worker's comp back injury. It got me out of bed that much faster. He did a fundraiser for CWMR a couple of years ago in Yakima for practically nothing (I think all he wanted was his gas covered). He encouraged my climbing to no end. I can't say enough great things about the guy.

 

Oh yeah, he has mad climbing skilz, too. [/shameless namedropping]

 

From the fundraiser...