Eric Bjornstad RIP

[num1mc]

Well known former Seattle climber Eric Bjornstad has passed away in Utah.

 

http://www.climbing.com/news/desert-pioneer-eric-bjornstad-has-died/

 

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP10/faces-bjornstad

 

http://enormocast.com/episode-55-eric-bjornstad-od-original-dirtbag/

[Off_White]

And that's a damned shame. I never met him, but being one degree of separation away I've heard a lot of friends talk about what a great guy he was, and what a loss of a real deal climber.

[num1mc]

I heard a good story about him and a friend of mine doing a night of drunk dialing to a bunch of notables.

[ivan]

is he dead, or just climbing rocks in another dimension?

[olyclimber]

I don't know why I just came across this, but I have a copy of the climbing guide that he and Fred Beckey did for Leavenworth.  Its more just like a booklet or pamphlet.  Definitely a PNW legend.

Pretty sure I have at least one of of his SW climbing guides too.

[Otto]

I never met the man but I bought this book in 1989, which was published the year before. As a Cascades climber, I had some desert dreams but was too scared of sandstone to do the adventure trips following the book would require. Too foreign, too strange. I admired his courage and persistence. May he rest in peace.