sentences:  He began climbing in the early 1960s with partners Bud (later Ivan) Couch and Russ McLean on the sandstone boulders and short cliffs of Stony Point near Los Angeles.He soon teamed up with lifelong climbing partner Bob Kamps.Together they did the 1963 first free ascent of "Blanketty Blank" at Tahquitz Rock (5.10c) in Southern California.