Comments on: Chuck Pratt Tribute Video http://stephenkoch.com/2010/06/chuck-pratt-tribute-video/ Professional Speaker, Mountain Guide, Snowboard Instructor, Alpinist and Family Man Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:39:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Suzanne Duarte http://stephenkoch.com/2010/06/chuck-pratt-tribute-video/comment-page-1/#comment-24328 Suzanne Duarte Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:57:48 +0000 http://stephenkoch.com/?p=1254#comment-24328 I want to thank Amy and Forrest for putting together the Ode to Chuck Pratt. Jeff Foott sent me the YouTube link for it last summer, from which I learned a lot about Chuck that I didn't know. Since Chuck was a heart friend of mine in the 1960's in Yosemite and Berkeley, the video brought back a lot of memories of my own profound moments with him. I wasn't a Camp 4 groupie. I worked in the Tuolumne Meadows coffee shop as a waitress during the summers, and studied English and German Romantic poets at college. I don't know how I met Chuck - maybe through Jeff Foott, who I knew at San Jose State and later in Yosemite. In any case, I loved Chuck for his mystical side and his humor. We clicked on the philosophical level. One of my memorable experiences of him was laying on top of Puppy Dome in Tuolumne watching shooting stars and hearing Chuck talk about the cosmos and physics, which he was studying. He introduced me to cosmology! We spent the night watching stars. He was so ordinary and humble, I had no idea that he was such a star in the climbing world, or that he was so loved and admired by so many people. It was heartwarming to see that he was so loved and admired on the video. But the important point that the video brought home to me was Chuck's integrity. Besides his humor, which I shared, it was his integrity that influenced me most deeply. That's why I loved him, and I didn't even realize it until I saw the Ode video. I want to thank Amy and Forrest for putting together the Ode to Chuck Pratt. Jeff Foott sent me the YouTube link for it last summer, from which I learned a lot about Chuck that I didn’t know. Since Chuck was a heart friend of mine in the 1960′s in Yosemite and Berkeley, the video brought back a lot of memories of my own profound moments with him. I wasn’t a Camp 4 groupie. I worked in the Tuolumne Meadows coffee shop as a waitress during the summers, and studied English and German Romantic poets at college.

I don’t know how I met Chuck – maybe through Jeff Foott, who I knew at San Jose State and later in Yosemite. In any case, I loved Chuck for his mystical side and his humor. We clicked on the philosophical level. One of my memorable experiences of him was laying on top of Puppy Dome in Tuolumne watching shooting stars and hearing Chuck talk about the cosmos and physics, which he was studying. He introduced me to cosmology! We spent the night watching stars.

He was so ordinary and humble, I had no idea that he was such a star in the climbing world, or that he was so loved and admired by so many people. It was heartwarming to see that he was so loved and admired on the video. But the important point that the video brought home to me was Chuck’s integrity. Besides his humor, which I shared, it was his integrity that influenced me most deeply. That’s why I loved him, and I didn’t even realize it until I saw the Ode video.

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