Ed Webster

Not Leominster, I don't think. As far as I know he grew up in Lexington. His high school climbing friends included Jeff Pheasant and Andy 'Stoney' Middleton, both of whom also made significant contributions to N.H. climbing. They started climbing in an unused road-cut they called "The Canyon' off of Route 128. It is now gone, but likely had some pretty challenging problems.

Robert Hall, you are right that 3rd classing to the top of the cliff is more accurate. I got the information from an article Ed wrote in a climbing magazine. A very good writer he was. He somehow expressed his feelings of having his girlfriend die while they were climbing together. She was a rapidly improving climber but Ed had some trepidation about unroping near the top of the climb because she was somewhat inexperienced. He says in the article that he respected her judgment and wanted to bolster her confidence. I hope I have clarified this. 

Lexington is, I believe, correct.  If he’d have lived in Leominster he’d probably have started at Crow Hill.

His climb “ Bright Star” on the Diamond, Long’s Peak, is named in honor of Lauren, who was Ed’s bright star. 

https://gazette.com/life/ed-webster-pioneer-climber-out-of-colorado-springs-dies-at-66/article_a1bda8a6-7286-11ed-93fa-df34b80e1a73.html

rgoldwrote:

https://gazette.com/life/ed-webster-pioneer-climber-out-of-colorado-springs-dies-at-66/article_a1bda8a6-7286-11ed-93fa-df34b80e1a73.html

a very nice tribute. 

i have a todo list a mile long because of Ed but first became aware of him because of this shot by sue patenaude of his FA on the great corner of wheeler in Vermont. something about it just captivated me, an off kilter nonchalance into the unknown. i would have liked to meet him someday, what a terrible loss for the community of someone who has given so much. 

time passes, inexorably

it was a wonderful world with Ed in it, we have his legacy through the spirit he brought to climbing

https://www.climbing.com/people/remembering-ed-webster-66/

There's a gofundme run by Henry Barber to support the education of Ed's daughter and the preservation of his archives: https://gofund.me/b8d04d22

This may already have been mentioned here in MP. I'm bumping it because it's not yet fully funded.

Alan Rubinwrote:

Not Leominster, I don't think. As far as I know he grew up in Lexington. His high school climbing friends included Jeff Pheasant and Andy 'Stoney' Middleton, both of whom also made significant contributions to N.H. climbing. They started climbing in an unused road-cut they called "The Canyon' off of Route 128. It is now gone, but likely had some pretty challenging problems.

At least per my conversation with him… he told me of a time when he was attending Leominster High School and spied a cliff that was visible from the school… it was quarried into oblivion in the 80’s or 90’s but a small ice venue remains on that hillside. He mentioned that they called it Leominster Overlook and that in high school he put up a very nice 5.10 there. A shame it is gone. 

dragonswrote:

There's a gofundme run by Henry Barber to support the education of Ed's daughter and the preservation of his archives: https://gofund.me/b8d04d22

This may already have been mentioned here in MP. I'm bumping it because it's not yet fully funded.

Bumping again.

The GoFundMe has been updated - https://www.gofundme.com/f/ed-webster-climbing-archives-and-daughter

Please consider even a small donation. If enough people donate, it may get fully funded.