词条 | Jan and Herb Conn |
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| name = Jan and Herb Conn | image = Herb & Jan Conn - Unclimbed-1 - 1959 July - 1.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = being pioneer rock climbers and cavers }}{{Infobox person | name = Jan Conn | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = circa 1924 | birth_place = Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = }}{{Infobox person | name = Herb Conn | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Herbert William Conn | birth_date = April 16, 1920 | birth_place = upstate New York[1] | death_date = {{d-da|February 1, 2012|April 16, 1920}} | death_place = Custer, South Dakota | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | known_for = }} Jan Conn (born c. 1924[3] ) and Herb Conn (April 16, 1920 – February 1, 2012[4]) were climbing and caving pioneers. They are credited with establishing many classic climbs in areas like Carderock in Maryland, Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, Cannon Cliff in New Hampshire and Black Hills of South Dakota. They are also well known as cave explorers who in 1960s and 70s discovered and mapped over 60 miles of Jewel Cave, making it the world’s third longest cave system. Early life and educationBoth Herb and Jan were born and raised on the East Coast.[6] Jan grew up in Maryland, just outside Washington, DC in a household with two older sisters.[7] Jan loved music and played flute, classical guitar and several other instruments.[7] Herb, whose full name was Herbert William Conn, grew up in upstate New York,[1] possibly in Geneva, New York,[4] and graduated from the University of Colorado.[11] They married in 1944.[5] During World War II, Herb served as an electrical engineer for the Navy Department in Washington, DC.[6] Jan and Herb spent their spare time exploring the rocks surrounding Washington DC, most notably Carderock where they began climbing in 1942. They climbed and named lots of the routes at Carderock, including Herbie’s Horror, Jan's Face, Spider Walk and Ronnie’s Leap, which was named after their dog.[14] Herbie’s Horror, first climbed by Herb, was one of the first 5.9 routes in the eastern United States.[6] They also made the first documented ascents of the routes Conn's East and Conn's West at Seneca Rocks,[7] following the pitons left by the mountain troops who trained there. In a letter to the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club Mountaineering Section the Conns describe a visit to Seneca with Don Hubbard: "Don and the two of us climbed the south peak on a gorgeous moonlit evening, carrying sleeping bags, and spent the night on the narrow summit ridge. Don woke up in the night to see the lower half of Jan’s bag flapping over the edge. But Jan was safely curled up in the top half, still anchored to a piton in the rock."[7] In 1944 they started publishing "Up Rope" magazine, which became the official newsletter of the Mountaineering Section of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC).[1][8][9] Traveling climbersIn 1946, Herb was discharged from the US Army and the Conns began a five-year period of traveling and climbing around the US with short forays into Canada and Mexico. They became pioneers of what is now praisingly referred to as dirtbag climbing, which they described in the We work in our spare time article:[21] "it is a simple matter of mathematics - two people working six months a year are just as good as one person working twelve months to support two people". They lived in a self-equipped camper converted from a ten-year-old "panel delivery truck".[10][11] For several years they worked odd jobs and climbed at many locations from Yosemite in California to Mount Katahdin in Maine, making scattered first ascents along the way in places like Cannon Cliff in New Hampshire, Santa Catalina Mountains and Monument Valley in Arizona, Zion National Park in Utah, and Big Bend National Park in Texas. Herb and Jan usually sought the easiest and most direct routes to the top of the most striking rock formations. Before the development of specialized climbing shoes, harnesses, and protection - like nuts and cams, they climbed in cheap smooth-soled tennis shoes with 80-foot laid nylon rope tied around their waists and used US Army pitons scavenged at Seneca Rocks after World War II.[12][25] They used body belays and down-climbed their routes instead of rappelling if it was not possible to walk-off. In spite of this they established many routes that would be challenging or even terrifying to today's climbers.[13] In 1947 on a trip to climb Devils Tower,[7][14] the Conns passed through the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was then that they discovered the Needles, with a seemingly unlimited quantity of excellent climbing. They settled in the Black Hills where they made around 220 first ascents in the Needles and published a climbing guidebook to the area. With no other climbers in the area they felt, as Herb put it, "like a couple of cats in an untended fish market."[15][16][17] In 1949 they bought 20 acres in the Custer area and adjacent to the Needles.[5][10][14] A couple years after that they built a small, rustic stone home they called Conncave where they lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, for the next 60 years.[35][18] To help finance their climbing and later caving adventures they created customized leather[19] and wood products. In addition, each fall for 13 years Herb spent a week[1] doing maintenance work filling in cracks on the four faces of Mount Rushmore,[5][20][7][12] and Jan taught guitar and flute. Caving yearsIn 1959, geologist, mountaineer and caver Dwight Deal had done some exploration in a small cave called Jewel Cave, a little known monument in the National Park System. He needed some companions who might help him continue his exploration trips there and turned to his friends, Herb and Jan. He asked if they would be interested in grubbing around underground and, after thinking it over, they replied they would try it "once". That one trip turned into a passion of exploring Jewel Cave that lasted for over 22 years, and took over 6,000 volunteer hours on 700 trips.[23] From 1959 to 1979, Herb and Jan mapped 62.36 miles of the interior of Jewel Cave.[24][14] The Conns discovered what is now the Scenic Cave Tour route in 1961. The National Park Service was intrigued by their reports of high, narrow passageways, huge rooms and unusual speleothems (cave decorations) and opened a new tour route. In addition to assisting with the construction of this trail, Herb also designed the lighting system and dramatic placement of lights still in use today. The cave winds that enticed the explorers further into the cave fascinated Herb, and in 1966 he produced an important scientific paper explaining reasons for these barometric winds. The Conn's book, "The Jewel Cave Adventure," serves not only as a record of their years of cave exploration here, but as an exciting tale of adventure even for non-cavers. In years 1963-1965, when exploration trips into Jewel Cave were restricted, the Conns joined David Schnute exploring Wind Cave. In 1963 the trio found new passages breaking away from the known portion of the cave and allowing them to discover, name, and survey 15,740 feet of virgin passage.[25][26] They largely retired from caving by the early 1980s. LegacyJan's musical play, Run to Catch a Pine Cone, has been performed throughout the country.[5] She is also an accomplished rubber stamp artist.[28][29] In a 2008 interview for Climbing Magazine they stated "I know sometimes people think we had this high dream of living like this, in a place like this … it wasn’t that way. We just kept backing away from the things we didn’t like. This is where we landed."[3] In a 2008 talk, Jan said that they no longer climb rocks, but still enjoy the outdoors. She said, "Fortunately, the slower we move the more we see.[30] In summer of 1985, Herb and Jan Conn were awarded the Conservation Service Award by the Secretary of the Interior, Don Hodel.[31] On September 17, 2011, Herb and Jan were inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in recognition of their pioneering exploration.[7][12][32] Soon afterward Herb's health failed and on February 1, 2012, he died in sleep in his home near Custer, at the age of 91.[12][23] First ascents and significant climbsFirst ascents are marked by FA.
Publications
References1. ^1 2 Jan Conn reviewed and sent corrections to this article to Dwight Deal in August 2014. 2. ^{{cite web|last=Stisser|first=Daryl|title=Great post about the first climbing bums, the Conns.|url=http://www.sylvanrocks.com/_blog/SR_Climbing_School_Blog/post/Great_post_about_Jan_and_Herb_Conns_lives/|work=12 February 2012|accessdate=21 January 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|last=Brendan |title=Sometimes It Ain’t Rocket Science |url=http://semi-rad.com/2014/01/sometimes-it-aint-rocket-science/ |work=23 January 2014 |publisher=semi-rad.com |accessdate=4 February 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125182139/http://semi-rad.com/2014/01/sometimes-it-aint-rocket-science/ |archivedate=November 25, 2015 }} 4. ^1 [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84378953 www.findagrave.com]. Retrieved 10 July 2014. 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|last=Higbee|first=Paul|title=Explorers of an Unseen World|url=http://southdakotamagazine.com/explorers-of-an-unseen-world|accessdate=18 January 2014|newspaper=South Dakota Magazine}} 6. ^{{cite web|last=Green|first=Stewart|title=Carderock Rock Climbing: Climbing Near Washington DC|url=http://climbing.about.com/od/wheretoclimb/fr/Carderock-Rock-Climbing-Climbing-Near-Washington-Dc.htm|publisher=About.com|accessdate=16 January 2014}} 7. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Herb and Jan Conn Inducted Into South Dakota Hall of Fame|url=http://www.senecarocksmuseum.org/2011/11/22/herb-and-jan-conn-inducted-into-south-dakota-hall-of-fame/|accessdate=17 January 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=List of Officers|url=http://www.potomacmountainclub.org/club_officers|publisher=Potomac Appalachian Trail Club|accessdate=27 January 2014}} (despite the page title Conns never belonged to PATC.) 9. ^{{cite web|last=Deal|first=Dwight|title=Jan Conn to talk in DC, October 10, 2012|url=http://www.forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14530|work=6 October 2012|accessdate=27 January 2014}} 10. ^1 2 Conn, Jan and Herb (November 1957). We work in our spare time - Summit (PDF) 11. ^{{harvnb|Stephens|2008|p=5}} 12. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Blackwell|first=David|title=Herb Conn Dies at 91|url=http://www.climbing.com/climber/herb-conn-dies-at-91/|accessdate=17 January 2014|newspaper=Climbing|date=9 February 2012}} 13. ^{{harvnb|Stephens|2008|p=9}} 14. ^1 Andy Busse and Andy Burr, The Needles of Rushmore - A climbing guide to Mt. Rushmore National Monument, with a special tribute to Herb and Jan Conn in the section The Birth of Climbing in the Black Hills {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202094252/http://www.fixedpin.com/The_Needles_of_Rushmore_files/South%20Dakota%20FP%20lowrez.pdf |date=2014-02-02 }}, Pages 104 and 105 15. ^1 {{cite web|last=Green|first=Stewart|title=The Needles Rock Climbing: Climbing in South Dakota|url=http://climbing.about.com/od/wheretoclimb/fr/The-Needles-Rock-Climbing-Climbing-In-South-Dakota.htm|publisher=About.com|accessdate=26 January 2014}} 16. ^Conn, Herb (June 1953). The Needles in Review. Appalachia XXIX: 356-365. 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(2000). "Asplenium X alternifolium in the Black Hills of South Dakota". American Fern Journal 90: 109. 28. ^{{cite web|last=Marriott|first=Hollis J.|title=Plants & Rocks: ferns and granite ... and climbers|url=http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2012/02/plants-rocks-ferns-and-granite-and.html|work=6 February 2012|accessdate=18 January 2014}} 29. ^http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SwVweK1FzIU/T0VSamljzVI/AAAAAAAABJo/xbj1cNkrQvo/s1600/connifer.jpg 30. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=Elders' Wisdom, Children's Song: South Dakota, Jan Conn|url=http://ewcssouthdakota.weebly.com/jan-conn.html|accessdate=17 January 2014}} 31. ^1 2 {{cite journal|title=U.S. Government honors Section members|journal=Up Rope|date=November 1985|volume=39|issue=11|page=2|url=http://files.patcms.org/upropes/1985/1985-08.pdf|accessdate=29 August 2016}} 32. ^{{cite news|last=Holland|first=Deb|title=Fourteen South Dakotans added to state hall of 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