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I don't know if you people have heard of him, but he was the man!

http://www.climbing.com/news/layton-kor-is-dead/

RIP

Cheers to THE Legend!

He was "the great one" for sure. I'll never forget how cool it was to discover his initials faintly tapped into the rock high on Outer Space on the Bastille. Tracing those initials with my fingertip was something I won't forget.

wow, I must have missed that when I did outer space, glad that particular habit never caught on.

As far as I'm concerned, Kor gets a pass for the initials. In fact, I'm glad he did it, an historic relic if you will. Funny how easy it is to miss them though, especially since they're right there in the wall at a standing belay. They were obviously done with a drill and hammer, just shallow pits forming his initials. Yeah, it would suck if people did it today, though it wouldn't even be close to as F'd up as putting bolts in right next to a crack. Now that really sucks. Somewhere in the RRG some jerk with the same name as me carved his whole name into the rock. Somebody, I can't remember who, posted a picture, assuming that I did it.

Is LK Day actually your initials or an homage to Layton Kor?

I would be proud to have been named after Layton, but since he was only twelve when I was born, my parents would have to have been prescient indeed. Something weird though, he died on my birthday, April 21st.

LK Day wrote: Somewhere in the RRG some jerk with the same name as me carved his whole name into the rock. Somebody, I can't remember who, posted a picture, assuming that I did it.

I might have seen this rock.. Across the valley from Indian Staircase by what is called the Ohm dome. Cool little rock with a nice backrest to sit and chill.. On the backrest is carved Larry Day 81 I could be wrong about the date

That's the one. An online white pages says there are 18 people named Larry Day living in Kentucky. I'm not one of them and I wasn't one of them in '81. I wish somebody would remove it. I hate to think of how many climbers think I'd do something as stupid as carve my name in the rock because of what some dumb ass did.

According to "Great 'Un" though, it may still have been cool back in 1981...