Dave Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Erik Solberg, 18 June 2007

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Title Dave Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Erik Solberg, 18 June 2007
Alternative Title No.462 Dave Smith
Creator Smith, Dave, 1951 Jan. 12-
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center; Solberg, Erik
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 2007-06-18
Collection Number and Name ACCN 0814 Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv48007
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Date Digital 2014-06-11
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Smith, Dave, 1951 Jan. 12- --Interviews; Mountaineers--Utah--Biography; Rock climbing--Utah--Biography
Description Transcript (59 pages) of interview by Erik Solberg with Dave Smith on June 18, 2007
Abstract David Smith (b.1951) developed an interest in the outdoors by hunting with his father and backpacking with the Boy Scouts. He worked at East Fork of the Bear River Boy Scout Camp, and was head of the winter program at Camp Steiner for a couple of years. After reading about climbing, and hearing about climbing in a junior-high school assembly, he hooked up with the Wasatch Mountain Club and attended their Thursday night climbing courses, although he was only fifteen at the time. He describes his first session at Storm Mountain, climbing in the Tetons and Wind Rivers, and tells a story about being the subject of a rescue effort by Deputy Sheriff Pete Kotolus and a rescue party of Ted Wilson, Court Richards, Dave Allen, George Lowe, and Dave George. Other topics include climbing equipment and clothing, the Ute Alpine Club, various climbs in the Tetons, the Wind Rivers, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, guidebooks, environmental issues, aid climbing, rating systems, and working in outdoor recreation businesses. Climbing partners have included Kim Miller, Mark Ward, Dave Lowe, John Glidden, Dick Grow, Kent Christiansen, Bruce Roghaar, Don Black, Tom Stevenson, George Lowe, John Reed, and Bob Irvine. Outdoor Recreation Project. Interviewer: Erik Solberg
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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ARK ark:/87278/s6xp8p94
Topic Mountaineers; Rock climbing
Setname uum_elc
ID 788487
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xp8p94
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