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Show Russell Jacobs 2 December 2009 so it was subsidizing their school somewhat, um, so I don't recall ... only maybe one, one or two out of the whole bunch that really got proficient enough to do something big, and then it was very short-lived. It was never, you know, it wasn't something that they wanted to incorporate in their life as a passion or of a sport that they would do a lot. So, it was just. .. you know, in order for me ... or how I actually advanced was just finding people that wanted to go out and climb. Not any ... most of them were not even associated with the classroom under Harold Goodro at all. They were students at the university, most of them, some of them. And, uh, word of mouth got around, well soand-so likes to climb, you know, or we were introduced. And there was just a small group of us. Very small. I'd say in the mid-70s, there was probably twelve that actually had the passion to just push the envelope. Uh and so, you know, during that time, all the way up to the early 80s when someone went out and did a big wall or like myself went to Peru and did all those, you know, some big climbs down there, we'd come back and have a slideshow. And everyone that was in the climbing community came to a house and would have a slideshow. Some of the guys got pretty good with their slide shows and choreographed it with music and, you know, it was quite entertaining. Or they would take that slideshow and bring it to, uh, there were climbing clubs here. Uh, the Wasatch Mountain Club. But that was really broken down to just about every facet of mountaineering. I mean, most of them were hikers. Uh, the climbers we all knew and so when that. .. so we would have a slideshow for them. Sometimes I think we'd have a slideshow with a small group. I think the university had a climbing club as well at the time. 16 |
