Incredibly sad to hear of Roger's death. I got a return to sender on my usual Christmas card this year and wondered. So thanks for making it possible for me to answer my own question.
I last saw Roger something like 2010 when I was back in Colorado and he hadn't changed one jot. But I have retired 2013 back to the UK so Xmas cards where our staying in touch (though he always had that update to his exploits in place of my boring card).
I met Roger when we were both undergrads at the U of Oregon and I think I kinda dragged him back into climbing - and even training, would you believe. Not that, unlike me, Roger needed it, such was the naturalness of his talent. The Ordinary route on the NW face of Half Dome, and some great route whose name escapes me on the Sentinel, plus a couple of ascents of a little known Oregon death pillar (Stein's Pillar) in eastern Oregon where just a couple of highlights. I moved with my then partner to Colorado after hanging out at his first place there some time around 1993 and we saw a lot of each other along with Jeannie, his first wife, for several years. (I was at their wedding in Indian Hills - I wonder if Jeannie is aware of his death?).
It was a mark of the effect he had on me that I would always insist on sharing a fag with him despite packing in decades earlier, and never doing anything as stupid whenever he was absent, or since - a shared ceremony that he indulged me in, of course.
And it was that quality that most stood out - that he always had time to share, and always delighted in doing so. What a wonderful guy to have had the privilege to know and to do some great routes with. It was his company that made such occasions what they were, long after the name of the route has gone lost in the mists of time. Well, not my memory of him ......