RIP Scott Cosgrove

Many condolences to friends and family. Another stellar member of our community gone to the clouds.

Southern Belle

Thanks for posting Tia.

Crazy... guy does bold & daring shit all of his life, then passes while out hiking/rehabbing from his bad work fall.
RIP Scott!

Scott... RIP

I have a story to share:

One day in the mid 1990's we went to climb at the Sweet Pain Wall in Red Rock Canyon (an area of popular sport routes.) When we arrived I noticed a lone climber sitting above the belay area listening to some quiet music on a boom box, watching other's taking turns climbing. After a while he came down from his perch and started to free solo a few of the moderate routes. When he finished a route he would down-climb the same route, solo another route, etc.

No one in our group would ever free solo anything there (yikes !) yet we watched quietly in awe, not saying anything. It was a mellow scene on a beautiful day in the Desert. I realized later that the climber was Dan Osman (Dano !) After a while a couple of guys marched into the area, talked with Dan, than the three of them moved on to another area somewhere. Since this was before cell phones worked they apparently had previously agreed to meet at the Sweet Pain Wall at a certain time.

Scott Cosgrove was one of those guys and was talking about climbing with clients so he was probably guiding that day. I remember these characters oozing with a quiet confidence, a little brash, definitely charismatic. Then they walked off and were gone.

I was relatively new to climbing and having read the Magazines (this was way before "social media" and the internet BTW) I was somehow able to figure out who they were without asking, talking with my friends. etc.

There is no real point to this story... Only a snapshot of a typical spring day out at the crags at some time in the past. Now these guys have both left the physical world. Somehow in all that's happened since and the latest news I realized that these guys where just doing as they did. Living the climbing life. It left a real impression on me at the time. That's all.