Todd Skinner

Post by **Don McGlone** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:37 am

Todd Skinner was killed yesterday working to free the Leaning Tower in Yosemite.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/threa ... 33&f=0&b=0

Post by **bazoqop** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:45 am

........

Post by **SCIN** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:00 am

Wow, that is sad. Skinner was a legend.

Post by **rhunt** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:03 am

is there an actual news story? At this point its just rumors on a message board.

Post by **charlie** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:06 am

Bummerz. He is truly a legend.

Post by **Wes** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:09 am

Sadness, confirmed by a Yosemite ranger.

Saw a slide show He and Paul P. did in Lander a couple years ago. Very, very cool. Those two did all kinds of climbing, and even if they were pretty controversial with some of the things they did (bolting in Hueco, and power drills in the valley), they left a huge mark on the climbing world.

Post by **StephyG** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:11 pm

http://www.toddskinner.com/

Post by **rhunt** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:30 pm

http://www.rockandice.com/pages.php?pno ... newsId=100

http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/toddskinner/

Post by **Jeff** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:50 pm

We saw him at the Aronoff Center a few years ago...
Damn....

Post by **Day** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:06 pm

I first met Todd at Vedauwoo about 1980 or so. We were up from Fort Collins for the day. The fall weather was glorious, and we'd had a wonderful day of climbing when Todd walked up to greet us. He had this huge grin on his face, looked like he couldn't have been over 19 or so, and was going out of his way to make the out-of-towners feel welcome. That's the way I'll always remember him.