My name is Luke and I work for Alpnist Magazine. Forgive me
for using, or rather abusing, the forum, but I'm having a very difficult time tracking down some people.
I'm curious if anyone has contact info
for some Cochise Stronghold first ascentionists (What's My Line? (II
5.6 A0 or 5.10c, Baker-Depagter-Seligman, 1971) and The Wasteland
(III 5.8 or 5.9+, Pey-Rickson, ???)) or knows someone I could contact
for information leading to those people.

Additionally, I was told that looking for a man named Bill Forrest would be helpful also, as he was the first ascentionist of a route called "The Razor's Edge" in the Supes.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

Bill is in Salida CO. last I heard. He's a super guy.

are you guys doing a crag profile on Cochise in a future issue?

Bill Forrest would be an excellent source of first ascent info any number of locations from the Black Canyon to points much further afield. I'm sure others on Alpinist's staff are quite familiar with him. I've e-mailed his phone number to you rather than post it online.

Try Getting in touch with Dave Baker or Steve Grossman. DB owns Summit Hut in Tucson and could probably be reached through the store. Grossman is fairly active on SuperTopo.

Both of them have done many of the FA's & probably know a lot of the info you seek.

Jim Waugh knows a bunch of old stories of central AZ, but he is in Thailand I think now. Being the first guidebook author in central az he picked up a bunch of lies.

Greg O might know some details..

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Baker lives in Tucson and sometimes is at the Speedway store- he can find Depagter pretty easy.

I've met Larry Seligman once -we bungee jumped together at 1st and Limberlost circa 1992/3- out of a balloon. He was just past his 40th b-day then.

Karl Rickson died of cancer a few years back. The backcountry guide Bob Kerry wrote was based on much of Karl's ascents. Karl could remember every detail of a hike, or route, or even what he ate the day he did a route.

Kinda of a sad day isn't it when an Alpinist mag writer doesn't
recognize the name Bill Forest...

Even better thing that he answers to either.
Ah, the beaty of spel shcekers