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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 26, 2006 - 11:43pm PT
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I think this is the oldest piton I have ever seen. Show me something older.
Ken
p.s. It was found in the Alps, guess by who?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Jun 26, 2006 - 11:51pm PT
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By Ken, as a boy?
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nutjob
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Jun 27, 2006 - 01:12am PT
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ok it's not as old, but it was only bolt/piton on the route
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Jun 27, 2006 - 10:07am PT
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Buncha old stuff from various routes around the world:
Below: A piton placed during the first ascent of the North Tower of Shiprock (Pre-Brower main tower ascent). Walt Shipley and I climbed the trio of Shiprock Towers and this one fell out of the Ormes Rib while Walt was leading the bold free ascent of the pitch with no hammer or pins:
This piton was placed on Shiprock in 1937 (shown in the hanging "Walt Memorial"--we found the Javelina skull during a FA in Sedona.)
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Jun 27, 2006 - 10:20am PT
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I bootied a rusty pin on South Seas (cleaned easily), and I stuck it with my rack because it's in good shape other then the rust.
Now all my other pins are rusty too! :~
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jun 27, 2006 - 10:36am PT
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Couple older pins:
Friend bootied these from the Sierra years ago. Claimed they were Eichorn's. Dunno. Look very home made. One's a hook, methinks!
Longware bong:
Old Coonyard. Can anyone date this one?
Cheers,
-Brian in SLC
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2006 - 10:36am PT
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Deuce,
Nice pics. I miss that guy.
Blitzo,
I did not find the piton. It was someone else that everybody has heard of.
Ken
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bleedr
climber
robber's roost
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Jun 27, 2006 - 12:35pm PT
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this close-up is the only photo i have hosted right now. i'll try and get a shot of the whole thing.
says it's made in austria on it. i found it in big cottonwood canyon about ten years ago while scrambling up storm mountain island trying to get a toprope on a short 5.9+ crack. it was just sticking out of a dirty crack and i pulled it out with my hands. i can't believe no one found it, it had to have been there for decades.
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bleedr
climber
robber's roost
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Jun 27, 2006 - 12:41pm PT
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full shot:
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jun 27, 2006 - 01:52pm PT
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how do you post a photo????
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landcruiserbob
Trad climber
the ville, colorado
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Jun 27, 2006 - 02:02pm PT
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Why are you guys cleaning them?? Clip'em & go.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Jun 27, 2006 - 02:04pm PT
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Bob, have you ever been pin-hunting at Camp Hale?
Some classic sh#t down there.
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landcruiserbob
Trad climber
the ville, colorado
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Jun 27, 2006 - 02:13pm PT
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Rob,I clipped one last week on the piton power wall; nice & rusty. There are a couple of good ones on the 10th mtn traverse on the big stone just east of independence pass. Toe is coming along.Hope the black wall was good.rg
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2006 - 06:43pm PT
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Does anyone want to venture a guess as to who found the piton?
Ken
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 12:41am PT
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Mike,
That really narrows down the field. You get an A for effort and having the guts to venture a guess. Alps was and is a clue. I know this piton was never used in Yosemite and I know it was used prior to a piton ever having been placed in Yosemite. Check out how pitted the piton is and how large and thin the ring is. The person that found it considered it to be one of their most prized booty scores of their lifetime.
Ken
P.S. Most all of you know who found it.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Salathe?
Robbins?
Batso?
Kor?
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roy
Social climber
New Zealand -> Santa Barbara
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wild guess: piton "recovered" near the Elbe, south of Dresden. Probably placed circa 1914 by a visiting American climber whose name escapes me. Probably recovered by Hot Henry Barber in a mid 1970s visit.
Just guessing. I was once one of 7 hanging off of a similar piton at a belay in this area.
Cheers, Roy
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Don't let go
Trad climber
Yorba Linda, CA
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All of those pins looked bomber. I mean, I'd do 'em... I mean use 'em. I mean... Cams are cool.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Here's an old toucan-like beak I found high on Sea Of Dreams in June 2006
I believe it may be an old prototype. It's pretty stout, more like the thickness of a Bugaboo than most beak like devices offered currently.
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