Extremist's Guide scanned and available

A while back I had a few requests for The Extremist's Guide to Devils Lake New Climbs. Well I finally got around to scanning the book and will happily email it to anyone who asks. It's a big file (45 megs) so make sure your email will take it.

Please send your email address to leo.herm"at"gmail.com

Alternatively does anyone have an ftp site we can use to host this for a few weeks?

Leo,

You can send me the file at john(at)orionweb.net I can host it as long as need be on my server. Once I receive the file, I will post a link for it here.

Leo Hermacinski wrote:A while back I had a few requests for The Extremist's Guide to Devils Lake New Climbs. Well I finally got around to scanning the book and will happily email it to anyone who asks. It's a big file (45 megs) so make sure your email will take it. Please send your email address to leo.herm"at"gmail.com Alternatively does anyone have an ftp site we can use to host this for a few weeks?

Leo,

Thanks a lot for taking the time to scan it, can't wait to check it out. I also have some space we can use until the end of the year if need be; my email addy is jonqdoe_at_gmail.

And here's the link

I'm leaving Wisconsin at the end of the year and will lose my space on this site, but I'll leave it up until they close my account. If anybody sees this posting and the link is dead, contact me via PM or something and I'll figure out a way to get it to you.

This is wonderful. Thanks for taking the time to scan that.

Hey Great!! thanks Leo and Rob. we appreciate the time you guys took on this.

Thanx for doing the scan work on this Leo- It has been a long time since I have seen the ole E- guide. I am sure it will bring back some memories. I love anything that reminds me of the Lake. JJ

Jeremy Schlick wrote:Thanx for doing the scan work on this Leo- It has been a long time since I have seen the ole E- guide. I am sure it will bring back some memories. I love anything that reminds me of the Lake. JJ

It looks so tame after all this time. I wonder what all the fuss was about? Well actually I know- the fuss was because there were lots of folks who all spent way too much time at the Lake, who all really cared about the place in very different ways.

Leo,

Thanks for all the work of writing and scanning the guide! Over the past 15 years of climbing at the lake I've heard about his guide many times and its great to finally read through it. I sense a little tension between the DFLA and the CMC! lol

I feel bad to even point this out, as it is great to have a copy, but as I was reading through the book I printed out I noticed pages 12 and 13 are missing from the link. Are they missing from your guide book?

Thanks again,
Terry

Have just read the "Extremist Guide". Thanks Leo for making it available to the masses. Found it both informative and entertaining.

Would agree with Terry in detecting the tension (or was it disdain?)aimed at the CMC. See page 22 "Milk and Cookies 5.4 A CMC favorite."

A question Leo. What does the Latin Phrase mean on the Taped Squirrel Logo?

Thanks again for this treasured piece of Devil Lake climbing history.

Peter Arndt wrote:What does the Latin Phrase mean on the Taped Squirrel Logo? Thanks again for this treasured piece of Devil Lake climbing history.

"Wisdom, at proper times, is best forgot" Horace. Sometimes translated as "It is sometimes pleasant to play the fool." Both applicable to my little book.

I first saw the quotation in "Street Illegal" by Jim Perrin- an account of his solo of Coronation Street in the Cheddar Gorge, UK. It was one of those articles read early in my climbing career that made a huge and formative impression.

As for the couple of cheap shots at the CMC, it was, well, cheap. There was always this funny relation between the CMCers and the DLFA- never hostile, usually friendly- something like "separate but not quite equal". my first visit to the Lake was on a CMC "new climbers" weekend which started on a Saturday morning with a cowbell rung at the CMC campground and parties forming up on the official "climbing leaders". It was much like a boy scout expedition. Completely unlike any climbing weekend I'd ever seen- luckily I met the DLFAers pretty early on and then it was all downhill from there!

Terry Kieck wrote: I feel bad to even point this out, as it is great to have a copy, but as I was reading through the book I printed out I noticed pages 12 and 13 are missing from the link. Are they missing from your guide book? Thanks again, Terry

Missed those pages in the scanning, I'll rescan and repost.

Leo

Leo-

Thanks so much for making this great piece of Devil's Lake history available again.

Many thx for providing this for us Leo.

Again, I can host this file for the rest of time. I downloaded the file and will be uploading it soon. I will post a link ASAP. That way when Rob's link stops working, others will still be able to get the .pdf

Just watched the D.L.F.A. documentary, any chance I could get a copy or a link to the guide?!

Here you go!

Thanks!

"...as there is virtually no contact between the CMC and the Lake's better climbers..."

LOL burn. Although, I think Pete Cleveland could probably have a few choice words about that...

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