My father was born in Piedmont, CA in 1935 and started climbing in 1947 with the Berkeley RCS. He talked about knowing Dick Leonard and, I believe, climbed with him (I should go through his scrapbooks and journals!). In 1954 my mother and father met at Pamona College where my father was leading a belay practice and needed volunteers to jump off a balcony -- and my mother stepped forward. This got his attention, so the story goes.
That belay practice was a direct legacy of Dick Leonard's work in the 1930s. (Wow. Thanks, Dick!)
My father was born in Piedmont, CA in 1935 and started climbing in 1947 with the Berkeley RCS. He talked about knowing Dick Leonard and, I believe, climbed with him (I should go through his scrapbooks and journals!). In 1954 my mother and father met at Pamona College where my father was leading a belay practice and needed volunteers to jump off a balcony -- and my mother stepped forward. This got his attention, so the story goes.
That belay practice was a direct legacy of Dick Leonard's work in the 1930s. (Wow. Thanks, Dick!)
Lone Eagle Cirque is awesome in the winter. A lot of ice climbs. Don’t think many get in there in the winter. I only went once in 2004.