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Mar 3·edited Mar 3

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!)

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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.

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