*Why "D4"?  I usually get asked,  and will get jumbled with A5 (which happens to be a climbing grade), and D5 (which stood for "Deuce5"), two makes I have already been involved with before.  My nickname in Yosemite was "Deucey", coined by Grant Hiskes  who mangled my Friesland ancestral title "Middendorf" to "Dusseldorf",  and Deuce4 is my pre… Read More