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Happy Birthday to you Kurt (Sierra Mountaineering Int.), a truly amazing person! You are a good friend and contributor to our WPSMB community and an extraordinary guide to the mountaineering community.
Thanks for all of your advice over the years. I am sure I can speak for everyone that you have certainly helped us with our decisions, always leading us safely into the backcountry.
Too bad Kurt won't be around to celebrate his birthday as he is currently guiding a client in the Palisades!
Kurt checking out the ice conditions @ Lee Vining Canyon (Nov 06)
Kurt @ The Notch heading up to MT Sill
Kurt in action!
Ice climbing @ Ouray, CO earlier this year ~ wow!
If anyone has any great photos of Kurt, feel free to post them! I'm sure he'd get a kick out of seeing them!
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Here's another one I took when I ran into Kurt on MT McKinley this past June. The funny thing about that was he got on the very plane I rode to fly onto the glacier! Here I was in the sky soaking in the views when the pilot received a radio call saying "This is your last trip after picking up Wedberg and his crew!" I forgot for a moment whether I was in Alaska or in the Eastern Sierra!
Yeah, he's happy...heading back to Talkeetna for a bath and great food (yum-yum Halibut burritos)!
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Kurt and a few of us WPSMB crew up on Mt. Baldy last year (when there was actually some snow on the mountain). I snowboarded and Kurt skied and we made it all the way down to the Manker Flats parking lot.  
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Hey Scott -- I think this is the two of you coming down onto the fire road just above Manker on 3/22/06.  Everest or Baldy? Happy Birthday Kurt! 
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURT!!!Here are a few pix I thought were very inspiring:  The summit of Mt. McKinley  IL-76 in the background on the Antarctic ice  Summit ridge on Mt. Vinson MC 
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Kurt and his father (John) at the Baldy Hut last October. It was really enjoyable hiking with a Legend and Legend Jr.   Chris
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Kurt giving us a lesson in fine back country dinning. 
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Thanks for posting this. I didn't know it was his birthday. I agree with your kind words regarding Kurt.
Happy Birthday Kurt.
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I just hope that the folks who have his cell number don't flood him with msgs...he'll then kill me for sure!  Sierra Snail, that has got to be one of the most classic shots of Kurt - I LOVE it!
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Happy Birthday, Kurt! Thanks for all the continued advice. I always admire those who can take their passion and turn it into what they do for a living! -L 
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To the tune of Happy Birthday.... 
Happy Birthday to you.
A climber; it's true.
Your heart's in the Sierras
And with helping folks, too.
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Happy Birthday Kurt!!!
You are one of the reasons I read this board.
Thanks for your advice, input and perspective.
- Erika
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A very Happy Birthday to you Kurt, and TYVM for everything.
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Hey Scott -- I think this is the two of you coming down onto the fire road just above Manker on 3/22/06. Hey Alan, Yeah the only dry 20 feet of trail was that little section where the trail splits off from the fire road. Kinda annoying to have to step out of the bindings for that brief part. If I remember correctly you were a machine that day and left me in the dust 
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Scott -- I was close enough to you that day to catch the piecure of the one non-skiable spot.  Kurt was pretty excited that day to be able to ski all the way to Manker. Even he felt it was a rare day. Of course, he's only done Baldy a few hunderd times! 
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Hey Birthday Boy! You are a great blessing to this board (and others). Your advice and feedback are always spot on and timely. Have a great Birthday!
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Wow, what a wonderful thread to come home to after a trip! Thanks to everyone for your kind words, birthday wishes, and pictures. I had not seen some of these. Scott, where are yours? It doesn't look like they got successfully uploaded. The WPSMB is such a great community of friends both virtual and real. All of you who contribute make this forum the special gem that it is. I look forward to sharing more trips with you all in the future. I had a wonderful birthday spent guiding a climb on Mt. Sill (14,162'). It is known for having one of the finest views in the entire Sierra; a range full of great views. The weather was warm, the air was clear allowing for great visibility now that the fires have calmed down, and the wind was calm. All in all it was a great day. Here's a summit photo with my client Eric Larson. He's a neat guy and one of only two people in the world to travel to the North Pole during the summer. Quite an impressive feat! That's North Palisade Peak (14,242') behind me to the left. 
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Happy Birthday, Kurt! I was on your first SFS Whitney climb back in April. Still hoping to join you and Greg on Cotopaxi in November. Be well! -Dan Garrison
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Would the senior Mr. Wedberg be the same person that hosts the Jazz show on the Sierra Wave on Saturday nights? I love that show!
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