FROM TERRY TRUMAN
This photo is August 21, 1966, on a concrete platform 40 feet out over the canyon leading to the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.
My U of Washington friend, Larry Gray, said, “Terry, a perfect place for a handstand.” I shook the fence to be
sure it was relatively solid, stepped over in the void, put my tippy-toes on the raggedy, broken concrete at the bottom of the fence, and pressed up. One woman screamed the entire time. When I turned out of the handstand onto the platform, an elderly man walked up to me, grabbed my arm and shook it, and said, “G**damn it, we thought you were going to jump.”
This photo made the short list for the Patagonia clothing “adventure” catalog circa 1987-1988, but lost out to real adventure-seekers, such as one guy in Australia free-climbing very high up, hanging on with five fingernails and ten toenails and drinking a bottle of Cooper’s Ale with his other five fingers.
FROM JACK RYAN
I have my own “superman” photo and I can’t be outdone by Pat (see article below). These are kinda like “before and after” but without the “way after” (see Key West photo when our wives escorted us to Southern South Florida for some snorkeling). Seeing the photos reminds me that we (my side horse buds in high school and college) were involved in a change in the sport. Every year we would go down to Tucson for Christmas break and see what others were doing new and different and show them “a thing or two”. Back then the cutting edge was to “go behind your back” where the trick was blind. Now a days everything is behind the back but back then everything was out in front of you. I still believe that I won my senior year because I had two or three tricks that were cutting edge (it helped that
I didn’t fall off which I was prone to do once in a while). So when you compare my superman picture with my before pic, its not the change in the body as much as the change in position on the horse. Looking forward to catching up with all of you.
Cracker Jack
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