Award to Fred Beckey and great video

I am sure there are many here who know him and many more who know of him and can appreciate his contribution to NW mountaineering. Here is a great video (I found it posted on Cascadeclimbers.com).

www.outsidetelevision.com/video/adidas-l...-climber-fred-beckey

Thanks for posting, Gary.  He is totally THE MAN.  I have bumped into him several times at crags all over the US. The first time was 1978 in the Yosemite Lodge cafeteria, and after 3 minutes of talking he asked us to partner him on "a big unclimbed spire in the desert"....
Now I wish I'd taken him up on it!
Beckey also did some skiing back in the day, such as the 1st descent of Ruth Mountain. 
I hope Ad-Didas gave him road-trip cash or something.

Yeah, here's a toast to Fred:



All the movies in the Adidas tribute video are from the Mountaineers Film Collection , now at the University of Washington.

The still photo above (Fred and Les MacDonald near Garibaldi in 1958) is from the Bob and Ira Spring Photographs , also now at UW.

For what it's worth, Fred didn't make the first ski descent of Ruth Mountain. That was done a few years earlier by Dwight Watson, Fred's earliest mentor. Several of the movies in the Adidas video were filmed by Watson.

For what it's worth, Fred didn't make the first ski descent of Ruth Mountain.

Oops, I was just going off a passage from Challenge of the North Cascades. Anyway, he skied back when it was tough.
I saw him in Colorado Springs, the Gunks, the Valley, and Granite Mountain in the late 70s/80s. Twice he was escorting a much younger lady....different one each time....

thanks for sharing Gary !