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Bob Kamps We Obtained Coverage from This One Com- Vices—Our Basic Reason for Existence The Backside of Beyond Bardini The Bardini Foundation Newsletter Summer 2005 Issue Bardini Survives—But Not Without Help Allan Bard Receives And Not Without More Help! Dagfinn Ragg Award The cost of liability insurance almost put over three months, we sent the FS our cov- The Dagfinn Ragg Award is the the nor- the Bardini Foundation out of existence erage confirmation only to be notified that dic world's equivalent of the Oscar. Ac- last month. The liability insurance “thing” the level of coverage was below FS re- cording to award founder Bob Woodward, has become a major problem for us— quirements. the award is presented "to that person much more of a problem than originally whose past and continuing contributions anticipated. It is a major expense that we Being pressed by the FS, we applied for have had a positive effect on nordic ski did not foresee and it could force us out of additional coverage to meet the require- sports and on cross country skiers." Dag- the guiding operation—the number one ments. The additional coverage premium finn Ragg was the international sales item in our statement of purpose. was $8900. The final insurance bill for this manager for Rottefella and his passion for year amounted to $16,300. The FS permit all forms of nordic skiing was legendary. As explained in our newsletters, we have fee, and finance charges added another been involved for the past seven years in $670 to bring the total operational outlay to The award was presented posthumously seeking a special use commercial permit about $16,970 to Allan Bard in a ceremony last January for guiding in the Inyo National Forest. at the Outdoor Retailer Trade Show in Salt After two appeals to Forest Service (FS) The Dale and Edna Walsh (DEW) Foun- Lake City, and was accepted by Allan’s decisions, we have finally been granted a dation had already donated $5000 in a brothers—Gary, who works for Ortovox, one-year permit with some assurance that grant last January, but being in a real bind, and Dale, of climbing gear maker Petzl. we will eventually obtain a regular 5-year we asked for more funding and the DEW permit. Foundation came through again with an Known for his many exploits, including additional $5000 grant. laying out and skiing the first Sierra Red In anticipation of a permit for the 2004 Line Traverse, the "Great Bardini" is now season, we obtained liability insurance We were still $6970 short of the required on the short list of a handful of telemark coverage at a premium of $2500. This funds when Gary Bard informed me that pioneers to which the development of policy expired in October of 2004. The FS Barbara Schantin was getting married in modern tele skiing owes so much. failed to issue the anticipated new permits mid-May and she and her husband-to-be, for the 2004 season and we did not need Jerry Oliver, had asked that all wedding The presentation to Bard was the tenth the coverage we had paid for. gifts be sent as cash donations to the annual award that has been bestowed Bardini Foundation (see the story on upon an industry figure. Past award win- After we won our second appeal and ob- Page-2). These gifts amounted to $1455, ners have included Paul Parker, Clair tained a permit for the 2005 season, our leaving us $5500 short. Yost, Steve Barnett, Dickie Hall, Chip previous insurance provider notified us Chase, Steve Hardesty and John that they could no longer provide liability Left with no alternative, we borrowed the Schweitzer. ♦ insurance for guiding. After months seek- $5500 and if we can pay it back by Novem- ing a new insurance company, we realized ber 2005, it will only have cost us $65 in how few companies in the U.S. provide finance charges. this type of coverage and that only one This issue of Backside of Beyond was was willing to cover a guide service with Without the DEW grant money and Barbara no prior history. and Jerry’s thoughtfulness we would not sponsored anonymously in memory of have been able to continue our guide ser- Bob Kamps We obtained coverage from this one com- vices—our basic reason for existence. pany effective March 28, 2005. The pre- & mium amounted to $7400. After putting Now we need your help. We need to Ken McNutt $3100 down and financing the balance raise $5500 before November! Help! In this Issue 2005 Contributions - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Remembering Bob Kamps - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Letters to the Editor , Jerry & Barbara - - - - - - - - - - - 2 Ski Season Activities - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Breathing Lessons by Don Lauria - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Summer Activities - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6 2 The Backside of Beyond Summer 2005 Issue 2005 Thank You Letters to the Editor To: Contributions Jerry & Barbara The Great Bardini Foundation. Keep up the good work! God bless, say hello to my old The Bardini Foundation is not a club and thus buddy, Tim Villanueva. does not require dues, however, an annual Oliver Bill Donohue subscription to the newsletter at $5.00 a year Wilton, CT could be thought of as dues or as membership You may remember Barbara Schantin from in a commendable cause. our newsletter back in Spring 2000 issue. She was one of the bakers at the annual Good luck for the coming year! I’ll be in Any donation over $5 will, of course, include Bake Sale. We received the following letter Bishop in early August—maybe I can stop "membership" and if $25 or more will earn spe- and photo from her and her husband, dated by and say “hi”. cial mention. May 31, 2005: Brian Parks Madison, WI INDIVIDUALS Hi [Bardini Foundation], I was researching Cathedral Peak in Patron $200+ [Secor’s guide] and he listed your Brian Parks It is with great pleasure that we send you [Shooting Star Guides]* as a good refer- David Huntsman the enclosed “gifts” for the Bardini Founda- Lyman Johnson tion, Inc. in honor of our wedding cele- ence. Then—off to Internet to [buy a brated this past May 14, 2005 in the guide]—[I found an ad] in one of your old Partner $100+ newsletters … you should get off your Gary & Christine Bard rump and set up an online store, that way Efren Barragan even when potential customers are Robert & Mary Eberhardt searching for guides, they can find your Kathleen & Michael Farrell website … Glenn Hirayawa Wallace & Mary Mayer Omar Abukurah Francene & Stewart Tabak Culver City, CA Peter Tourtellotte David Weston *Shooting Star Guides are a unique set Contributor $50+ Joan & Louis Albertini of five climbing guidebooks ... perhaps Basia Belza better described as route cards... printed Bruce & Susan Berman on waterproof, tear-resistant ASCOT pa- Annette Breznock per. Allan wrote these guides in 1991 and Alvara & Ana De La Cerda because of his intimate knowledge of the Bill Donohue area, these guides give you the inside Shirley & Larry Holwegner scoop on all the information needed to Edward & Jo Anne Smith approach, scale, and descend these fine Carolyn & Donald Russell Leanne Spees peaks: Paul & Debra Strickland Kevin Tibbetts amount of $1455. Mt. Whitney, East Face We have enclosed a list of the donors and Mt. Whitney, East Buttress Sustainer $25+ would appreciate a letter to each donor Mt. Sill, The Swiss Arete Patrice & Gregory Bava specifying the tax donation made to the Mike Cereda Cathedral Peak, SE Buttress Bardini Foundation. It would also be great if Matterhorn Peak, North Buttress Bob Kamps you could place each donor on your mailing Thomas Rossi Nancy Tuitama list so they can receive the “Backside of Beyond”. Thank you again. The ASCOT paper is bombproof allowing Diane Verna you to fold and stuff the guides into your Member $5+ Keeping the spirit of Allan alive is a focus I pocket making them accessible while Jerry Tinling truly love! Jerry is and has been an avid climbing. Each route card contains quality backpacker and a lover of the wilderness, photos of the peak, clearly mapping the ORGANIZATIONS so we each send our very best to you, the climbing route and descent. In addition, other Directors and the Advisory Board for each guide contains a brief history of the Patron $5000+ the effort in forwarding the message of the area and a sketch of a Sierra wildflower. The DEW Foundation The Dale & Edna Walsh Foundation outdoors! The Bardini Foundation continues to dis- The DEW Foundation deserves special re- With kind regard, tribute these on a wholesale basis to cognition. It has contributed $10,000 in climbing shops and book stores through- 2005. Thank you, Shai Edberg! William Gerald Oliver out the western states and offers them to Barbara June Oliver the public directly by mail. Partner $1000+ Contributor $500+ formerly Barbara Schantin Summer 2005 Issue The Backside of Beyond 3 in my element now. The immensity of the rock ceed and can forget the difficulties, we might and the chore of climbing it should no longer be come back in a few years and break some kind Breathing Lessons overwhelming. But something makes me ask, of record for geriatric wall climbing. This day has by Don Lauria why am I here? The something is the exhaus- been an eye-opening, memory-jogging, revela- tion. tion. Wall climbing was hard back then and it’s The sound is familiar and startling like a diving even harder now. I am sixty years old. Allan is swallow, but louder, maybe a falling rock. I This is exhausting. I am exhausted. Back in the forty. I haven’t been on El Cap since Royal R. have heard the sound many times, the sound of sixties this was easy.
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