By Andy Laakmann
Site Landlord
From Jackson Hole, WY
Mar 16, 2009
| Cross-posted from Supertopo.....
Woody wrote in November 2007:
"It's been a long career in climbing for me. One by one father time has taken us down: Jim foote with a stroke years ago, Dick Webster Killed in Moab a short time ago, Bill Briggs suffers from Multiple Myleoma and is putting up the good fight, and yours truly still pecks away about once a week.
As time went on, we moved more into mountaineering and climbed from Alaska to Peru, all great fun with many adventures and lots of astonishing good luck. As a group, we were somewhat unusual: we had all been together since highschool in Riverside, and some of us since elementary; therefore we formed a cohesive group that worked well, particularly in mountaineering where it's essential.
Bill and his wife Karen split their time between two homes, one in JT and the other Santa Fe. Bill still does a little climbing when feeling up to it and is a member of the JT SAR team. Sometime this week, the Briggs and I will be depositing some of Dick's ashes in the park. Considering that Dick and his Dad first climbed in JT starting in the fifties, it seems a most appropriate place and what he wanted.
I turned sixty six on the twenty-third of this month and will continue beating the little drum as long as Mother Nature and Father Time are patient, compassionate, sympathetic and empathetic.
All in all, it's been a good tour through time for most of us. We were all, with the exception of Jim Foote, in our sixties before things began to go awry. Hell, it can't last forever. I get up each morning, crawl to the coffee pot and am damn grateful I'm still around to drink it." | 
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