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Show Russell Jacobs 25 November 2009 RJ: Um, since, since my ... so, no, I wasn ' t able to climb during my two years in the military. It wasn't 'til I got out and took a class at the University of Utah. Um . .. MD: So, when did you get back from Germany? RJ: 1974. 1974. It was, uh, it was actually just before fall quarter. I believe I worked maybe one month before class started, and I always wanted an undergraduate degree, um, being from a big family, you know, it wasn't. . .it was very .. .it wouldn't have been possible, so I had to find my own means to do that, and the GI Bill just was great for that. And so I took advantage of that. And while I was here, I enrolled ... one of the first classes I enrolled, uh, in was Basic Rock Craft, uh, and the director was Harold Goodro. The infamous, 'er famous, I shouldn't say infamous, famous Harold Goodro. I took that class, and I was just, I mean I couldn't get enough, couldn't get enough of it. I mean that's just. . .I just. ... so that winter, one of his instructors took me on an ice climb on his own. If I thought long and hard enough, I could remember his name [Jim Dockery] . But in any case, he took me up the Great White !cycle in Little Cottonwood Canyon, located about 3 miles up from the mouth. And I just got to the top of that thing and just hollered to the ... as loud as I could. I was just so excited about it. Then, in that spring, I took the advanced class, also, uh , under the direction of Harold Goodro. Of course, he had a lot of assistants that actually took individual classes out. MD: Um-hum. RJ: He would oversee them all, and, you know, and he would be out there. MD: Could you, uh, tell me a little bit about, like, even the first class that you took, um . .. what did you guys do in class? 21 |
