bearflag wrote:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574345003001544422.html

sweet find. Good on them.

Nice

What a man!

Nice Article on a real Sierra legend. I believe the author is SP's own MichaelJ. If so congratulations Michael.

"Clyde climbed 36 mountains in 36 days"

looks like the Sierra Challenge is 26 days too short

1000Pks wrote:The article states he fired a shot "into" a car of young people. By my faint and sometimes bad recollection, the shot was fired into the air. I think if he had fired the shot into the car, he'd have been arrested and most all of his subsequent mountain career would have never happened.

The accounts vary because peoples' memory tends to fog after years go by. But the story presented at the museum says the kids drove to the police station where they showed the bullet hole to the police chief. And it was this version that Michael was referencing for the article, so the journalism was accurate, even if the details of the actual events are unknowable.

It's also possible the kids were in fact MLC SC members and fabricated the bullet hole and story to discredit Clyde. I've heard they done far worse things, so I wouldn't put it past them.

Great article.

Have been meaning to buy biography that was recently published.

1000Pks wrote:Just now put up a couple photos of Clyde's Mt Williamson sign-ins. More of what the MLC SC hates--summit registers, and all.

PTP>Peaks Archives>Various Past Peaks Archives>Mt. Williamson Sept 1979>entries

http://www.petesthousandpeaks.com/Capti ... sreg2.html

Very cool.

Awesome Pete! got any more?

How could the article omit a mention of the MLC SC??!!

1000Pks wrote:

The accounts vary because peoples' memory tends to fog after years go by. But the story presented at the museum says the kids drove to the police station where they showed the bullet hole to the police chief. And it was this version that Michael was referencing for the article, so the journalism was accurate, even if the details of the actual events are unknowable.

Yes, this sounds like MLC SC. One source journalism. I wouldn't call it accurate if somewhat a complete fabrication to keep the thugs out of jail. Clyde used a different term, but I guess that is conveniently ignored. He put it on some woman to remove him from his position at that school.

Pete, there is no question that the event took place. Even Clyde admits it happened, but he maintained in later years that he merely fired into the air. Other sources say the bullet went through the car (Pavlik, "Norman Clyde") or left fragments of lead on the car (Benti, "Close Ups of the High Sierra"). There is no question either that he was dismissed from his job as principal a few days later as a result of the incident. A complete fabrication? Your comment about "some woman" is a new one on me. Do you have a source for that one?

MoapaPk wrote:

1000Pks wrote:Just now put up a couple photos of Clyde's Mt Williamson sign-ins. More of what the MLC SC hates--summit registers, and all.

PTP>Peaks Archives>Various Past Peaks Archives>Mt. Williamson Sept 1979>entries

http://www.petesthousandpeaks.com/Capti ... sreg2.html

Very cool.

Damn cool.

Recently unclassified documents, stored at China Lake, shed light on the Clyde shooting.

As a patriot, Clyde early volunteered to receive an electrode implant. This government program was a very early precursor to the microchip implant successfully tested in the eastside Sierra last year.

Back then, there were no microchips, so only the electrodes were implanted in Clyde’s neck. His huge backpack was used to hide an array of vacuum tubes and lead-acid batteries to power the electronics. The implant was only tested when he was wearing the backpack, and stimulation of brain centers is what produced his seemingly boundless endurance. He was not actually bald; his head was shaved, painted with aluminum, and then covered with more light-flesh-colored paint, so his pate could act as an antenna. The technology behind the flesh color-match was so successful, it was eventually adopted by Crayola.

It is speculated that the wires protruding from his neck would occasionally short-circuit, when beads of sweat collected. This short-circuit explains his erratic behavior, and is probably why he shot at the car that night.

The shooting had a profound influence on history. On the eastside, gangs began to form to protect themselves from armed schoolteachers. In Austria, the Schwarzenegger family realized that someday, there would be a market for films in which heroes shoot cars.

The original name for the program was Medullar Limbic Control, Sub-Cranial, and all vestiges were lost to history, until the recent declassification.

Fascinating, Moapa! I had no idea...