[pct-l] Fw: Reunion - Half Dome 1st ascent

[Edward Anderson]

Ed,

Glen Dawson was about one-quarter century before our time. It would certainly 
have been great if he could have been there. His first ascent of Whitney's east 
face was led by Norman Clyde in 1931. We had invited several others who were 
active during our era but were not able to join us. One was Gerry Gallwas, who 
was also on the Half Dome first ascent with Mike Sherrick and Royal Robbins.

MendoRider 


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From: ed faubert <edfaubert at yahoo.com>
To: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 1:49:22 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Reunion - Half Dome 1st ascent

Ed
One feller who may have been missing from this group is Glen Dawson...He was a 
UCLA grad and did one of the first accents of the face of Whitney.... Do you 
know who he is? Switchback and i recently had lunch with this guy in his 
retirement center....

Meadow Ed
--- On Sun, 1/9/11, Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Reunion - Half Dome 1st ascent
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 10:13 AM
> Hi All,
> 
> Yesterday afternoon and evening my wife and I hosted a
> Reunion Meeting of 
> the Bruin Mountaineers (UCLA). There were 20 of us
> "old timers" in attendance. 
> All had been active in backpacking and climbing with the
> club during the late 
> 1950's and early 1960's. 
> 
> 
> One honored, and interesting guest was Mike Sherrick. He
> was one of a three-man 
> team who succeeded in making the first ascent of the
> 1800' northwest face of 
> Half Dome in Yosemite. This was in June of 1957. It took
> them five days on the 
> vertical granite face to reach the summit. This is a
> Grade 6 climb. 
> 
> 
> We enjoyed many slides, brought by others, of backpacking
> trips and of several 
> other ascents of peaks in Mexico, California, Oregon and
> Washington. 
> 
> MendoRider  
> 
> 
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