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nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 25, 2017 - 07:55pm PT

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2017 - 08:22pm PT

i feel i should explain what it is that this post, that i originally just called serial threads and that i'm now calling foundational series, is intended to delineate...

these topics are subjects, authors, thread series, and etc that, in my opinion, have driven major and compelling areas of climbing conversation on this board.

as such this is a completely subjective delineation.

and ultimately while i appreciate people suggesting areas, authors, etc that they think should be added to this section, this is the one place where i'm going to allow the inner small n [azi] to come out... ie. don't take it personally if i organize your suggestion for this particular index into another area.

that said, this is one of the most lacking areas...

to start with there is a Marlow's European Connection and Don Lauria's Lore [or similarly named categories...] that i have ready to add.

someday i also need to add sections for peter haan and ament's conversation generating contributions as well... and i still need to organize many of grossman's threads into their appropriate and main individual/areas + routes/climbing conversation locations...

and i'm sure there are many many other areas and individual conversation starters that i'm missing...

so please suggest as the spirit moves, and i will also compile... as the spirit moves. :)

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Oct 25, 2017 - 09:17pm PT

hey there, say... say, saw the AVERY posts... THANK YOU!

AND, of course, the many others as well...

Kalimon

Social climber

Ridgway, CO

Oct 26, 2017 - 09:23pm PT

did you retire recently nahOOO?

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2017 - 10:45pm PT

^^^^

hahaha... nope.

while it may look like tons of time has gone into this, it was just a bit of reorganization and some new "branding"...

ie. i've only put about 2 hrs of work into these threads in the last 4 months.

basically it's been a couple hours here and a half hour there over the course of the last three years [when i started the first version of this] that has resulted in the above and its sister threads...

and equally as important the first version was based off other people's threads [pate, mike m and Mick K's] and so was just a compiling and organization of those threads...

and since then i've mostly just been a data entry clerk for the likes of RyanD, Hardly Visible, and Tarbuster [along with a host of other less prolific but still appreciated miners]... :)

and so while this ain't no rome...

still rome didn't get built in a day...

it's just been a day sick in bed here and a too tight toque hour there... :)

and ultimately, all of it is only so that i can keep having "discussions" in the politard threads with a slightly less guilty conscience... hahahaha.

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2018 - 11:47pm PT

ok. this is some admittedly weird timing on this one... but you can't stop inspiration when one is a canuckistanian mickey into a japanese iteration of a scottish single malt...

so while i've started to work on compiling tarbuster's [et als] suggestions to the other threads [thank you kindly kind sir... (and et al "sirs")] and i still need to copy pasta the lists i have already compiled for marlow, Don Lauria and Peter Haan to this thread... still, sometimes there's a time for the asymmetric...

and speaking of the asymmetric: the subject at hand is the trip "reportage" of Steve "Roadie" Seats...

in all honesty, i don't really know where to put these... a bunch of them have already ended up in the single posts threads, in theory they are "trip reports" and there is at least one that breaks the "all climbing, all of the time" rule... but it seems to me if there is to be even one, then he's the kind of guy whose stories deserve a near singular loophole. so until/unless something else makes more sense, my intuition says these stories deserve compiling on this, what to my intent, amounts to the heart of supertopo gold mining country.

thank you mr. seats. long may you tell us your stories:

G. ROADIE'S TRIP "REPORTAGE"
Climbing The Hulk tr [Roadie: Aug 10, 2012]
Merriam Peak, North Buttress Free Solo tr [Roadie: Aug 18, 2012]
Alaska Highway, free solo, TR [Roadie: Dec 16, 2012]
Indian Creek- a short story [Roadie: Dec 16, 2012]
Lynn Hills Underwear [Roadie: Dec 23, 2012]
John Fisher MemorialRoute/ first winter ascent tr (with apor [Roadie: Mar 3, 2013]
Western Front tr [Roadie: Aug 26, 2013]
Seven Gables tr [Roadie: Aug 31, 2013]
Beggars Buttress tr [Roadie: Dec 6, 2014]
YOSEMITE JAIL TR [Roadie: Apr 30, 2018]
Another Jail Story [Roadie: May 9, 2018]
Don Reid is a Vampire [Roadie: May 19, 2018]
Canyoneering w/ Orin Hatch [Roadie: May 23, 2018]
Pacific Ocean Wall tr [Roadie: May 30, 2018]

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2018 - 04:30pm PT

alright. there's always a way to procrastinate: even when you're procrastinating... ie. i'll continue to compile the suggestions to the couple of threads that i so far haven't made it to... but in the mean time i'm going to post up the long promised peter haan, don lauria, and marlow sections of this, the subjective heart of supertopo as climbing substance, compilation.

thank you gentlemen, for sharing your stories, your wisdom and your conversation starters over the years...

B. PETER HAAN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, HALLUCINATIONS, AND REMINCISCENCES

A Brief Walk with Bridwell (1971-ish) [Peter Haan: Nov. 9, 2005]
Driving Miss Bridwell [Peter Haan: Nov. 9, 2005]
More: Higgins, FAs, our changing destiny [Peter Haan: Dec. 1, 2005]
Offwidth tips and The Twilight Zone [Peter Haan: Dec. 11, 2005]
Photos of The Hourglass Left [Peter Haan: May 26, 2006]
2nd Free Ascent of Basketcase: a story [Peter Haan: Jul. 29, 2006]
Berkeley Building Climbing Forty years Ago [Peter Haan: Aug. 11, 2006]
Historic Root Found on the Column [Peter Haan: Aug. 13, 2006]
The First Bad Weather El Cap Rescue: West Buttress 1970 [Peter Haan: Aug. 25, 2006]
First Solo Ascent of the Salathe Wall (AACJournal: 1972) [Peter Haan: Sep. 3, 2006]
THE FIRST EL CAP RESCUE: summer 1970 [Peter Haan: Sep. 3, 2006]
The Birth of Wheat Thin [Peter Haan: Sep. 24, 2006]
Fourth Ascent West Face of El Cap 1971 [Peter Haan: Oct. 8, 2006]
The NIght Climbers of Cambridge [Peter Haan: Aug. 27]
Being and Nothingness in the Gully (new) 2nd Ed. [Peter Haan: Feb. 16, 2009]
Pete Livesey and I Feel Rock [Peter Haan: Feb. 22, 2009]
The Hanging Valley: Mt Broderick and Liberty Cap [Peter Haan: Mar. 27, 2009]
LAID TO REST: on the back of Half Dome [Peter Haan: Apr. 17, 2009]
FURTHER IMAGE STUDIES: BACK OF HALF DOME [Peter Haan: Apr. 21, 2009]
STOLEN DAY IN HEAVEN [Peter Haan: Jun. 14, 2009]
A SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH BACHAR AND BRIDWELL [Peter Haan: Jul. 12, 2009]
IRONIC DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORY OF PASSIVE PRO [Peter Haan: Jul. 16, 2009]
DOUG ROBINSON NABBED WITH FALSE EVIDENCE [Peter Haan: Aug. 2, 2009]
Tarbaby, King of the Wild Frontier [Peter Haan: Aug. 3, 2009]
FISH PREPARES ZERO GRAVITY TAINT ABRADER [Peter Haan: Aug. 5, 2009]
PITON RON, KING OF THE POSTMASTERS [Peter Haan: Aug. 10, 2009]
ROYAL STOPS IN THE DESERT [Peter Haan: Sep. 6, 2009]
WARREN HARDING, LORD OF LIGHT [Peter Haan: Oct. 4, 2009]
WERNER: THE FOURTH MANIFESTATION [Peter Haan: Oct. 14, 2009]
THE WERNERS: LUGWRENCH CHRISTIANS PREPARE TO WALK ON WATER [Peter Haan: Oct. 14, 2009]
SOME AERIAL SHOTS OF HALF DOME [Peter Haan: Oct. 23, 2009]
DOUG ROBINSON WINS AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB LITERARY AWARD 09 [Peter Haan: Nov. 5, 2009]
TWO HISTORIC HARDING LETTERS FROM WALL EARLY MORNING LIGHT [Peter Haan: Nov. 9, 2009]
WARREN HARDING'S LETTER QUITTING THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB [Peter Haan: Nov. 9, 2009]
MOLLY HIGGINS [Peter Haan: Dec. 16, 2009]
STEVE WUNSCH: NOBLE PARTNER [Peter Haan: Dec. 21, 2009]
CLIMBING LEADS PEOPLE TO FORM CLOSE FRIENDSHIPS: DONNELLY [Peter Haan: Jan. 6, 2010]
BALTORO SURFER [Peter Haan: Jan. 9, 2010]
Honnold solos Rainbow Wall, Prince of Darkness Red Rocks [Peter Haan: May 12, 2010]
ED BEARTOUNI [Peter Haan: Jun. 5, 2010]
More Molly Higgins from BITD [Peter Haan: Jul. 28, 2010]
More Chris Vandiver from BITD [Peter Haan: Jul. 28, 2010]
Donini Bard Barton Long Meyers Bragg DR, Vandiver etc BITD [Peter Haan: Jul. 28, 2010]
1964: Rack from first try at Hourglass rt [Peter Haan: Jul. 28, 2010]
Climbing in San Francisco back in the day [Peter Haan: Oct. 29, 2010]
PARTY AT JEFE'S [Peter Haan: Dec. 8, 2010]
Mary Pridham and The Little Gem Company, 1956 [Peter Haan: Feb. 8, 2011]
Rowell Garage [Peter Haan: Mar. 15, 2011]
John Bragg [Peter Haan: Mar. 15, 2011]
Warren Harding's Card Near The End [Peter Haan: Sep. 27, 2013]
The Entrepreneur Who Wants to Save Paradise: Doug Tompkins [Peter Haan: Sep. 15, 2014]
Honnold's NYT Article (Clif Bar, Personal Risk, Adventure) [Peter Haan: Nov. 20, 2014]
Kim Schmitz Has Died [Peter Haan: Sep. 19, 2016]

H. DON LAURIA'S CLIMBING LORE

You Want Climbing Lore - I'll Give You Climbing Lore [Don Lauria: Nov. 3, 2008]
More Lauria LOre [Don Lauria: Nov. 3, 2008]
Lauria's Clyde Story [Don Lauria: Nov. 3, 2008]
Layton Kor - Act III My Life in Spire Repair [Don Lauria: Nov. 17, 2008]
Dolt Photos - First Ascent of the Totem Pole [Don Lauria: Nov. 20, 2008]
Dolt Stories [Don Lauria: Nov. 20, 2008]
Dennis Miller on Skiing Tenaya Lake [Don Lauria: Dec. 12, 2008]
Tahquitz Tales - Got Any? [Don Lauri: Apr. 27, 2009]
John Fischer Motorcycle Accident [Don Lauria: Jun. 5, 2010]
Photo History of Climbing Footwear circa 1974 [Don Lauria: Mar. 5, 2013]
Letters from Herbert [Don Lauria: Aug. 25, 2017]
Never Heard of Ed Speth (RIP)? [Don Lauria: Sep. 16, 2017]
Climber Photos Prior to 1976 [Don Lauria: Sep. 18, 2017]
Second Ascent of the North American Wall [Don Lauria: Sep. 19, 2017]

I. MARLOW'S EUROPEAN CONNECTION

Climbing in the Calanques - Marseille - France [Marlow: Jun. 3, 2012]
The history of free-climbing (Olivier Aubel) [Marlow: Jul. 31, 2012]
L'Equipement de l'Alpiniste 1900 [Marlow: Oct. 5, 2012]
Les Grandes Jorasses [Marlow: Oct. 13, 2012]
La Meije [Marlow: Dec. 1, 2012]
Zapffe [Marlow: Dec. 28, 2012]
Polish climbing thread [Marlow: Jan. 15, 2013]
The Vertical Century [Marlow: Feb. 27, 2013]
Skill Acquisition [Marlow: Jul. 28, 2013]
Welsh Rock [Marlow: Nov. 13, 2013]
Rock'n Wall Survivors [Marlow: Jan. 5, 2014]
Verdon, France - Climbing in the Grand Canyon [Marlow: Apr. 11, 2015]
Walter Parry Haskett Smith [Marlow: Jun. 23, 2015]
The Japanese climbing thread [Marlow: Jul. 17, 2015]

most certainly titans in the signal portion of the supertopo s/n ratio...

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Dec 29, 2018 - 09:48pm PT

hey there, say... was just reminded of this, tonight...

thought others might enjoy it again,...

and the links to all his other thread, that lead up to this one,
are here... too...

thank you for all this hard work...

:)

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2019 - 07:41pm PT

another couple of sweet threads that imo are in need of being sent to the Avery's All Known Ascents list:

Mt Alberta, North-West Ridge: with Barry Blanchard [Avery: Nov. 15, 2018]

Twin Towers, North Face - Revisited [Avery: Dec. 1, 2018]

thanks for continuing to dig up great content, Avery...

Avery

climber

New Zealand

Jan 7, 2019 - 08:59pm PT

Here's one more to add:

Mt Alberta West-Face: First Ascent with Raphael Slawinski

http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3146630&msg=3147951#msg3147951

Cheers

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - May 28, 2019 - 09:53pm PT

while i said i was done posting round these parts, i have to admit i didn't foresee the forum as a whole, closing up shop as soon as it is now intended to... and so new circumstances call for a tying up of a few outstanding loose ends.

and so while there are still a lot of things missing from these lists, the one that feels like it would be a small bit of sacrilege not to mention, are some long procrastinated additions of a few of pat ament's contributions to this board.

so with the final deadline closing in shortly, it seems fitting, that my likely last addition to these lists is a section i'm calling Oli's Tales:

obscure history [Oli: May 31, 2007]
man with black cape [Oli: Jun 3, 2007]
the Black Canyon with Kor, by Pat Ament [Patrick Oliver: Apr. 26, 2013]
Kor and Pratt, the tall and the short of it... by Pat Ament [Patrick Oliver: Apr. 30, 2013]
Those strange turns of youth... [Patrick Oliver: Jul. 8, 2013]

thanks for all of the tales folks... it was a great ride.

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

May 28, 2019 - 09:59pm PT

nah000

This tavern may be closing its doors forever, so no more online interaction, but if you ever find yourself in Powell River...

Gary

Social climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

May 29, 2019 - 08:36am PT

DonC's Big Rock history thread should be here.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/373143/Big-Rock-a-little-history

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

May 29, 2019 - 09:42am PT

" 🔥🔥🔥"
😉😂😵🧙‍♂️🎅🐭
🎷🎼🎸zB

My computer has crashed, I get a " No Bootable Device " screen when I hit the power button.
This has me separated from my book marked threads. There were 4 or 5 that may have been only 50 posts or less in length that are were remarkable.
I do remember that when James Lucas fell while soloing in JTree the responses were
a good example of the best of this no-place.
I still hope to

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2019 - 11:22pm PT

Ghost: i'd appreciate if you fired an email to nah000 at that hotmail dot com place, so i have your contact info... because ultimately i'd like to take you up on it, even if i don't know if/when i'll end up in those parts... and my offer for a tour of the ghost [or somewhere else in the bow valley for that matter] still stands as well.

Gary: that big rock thread is already on the 2.2 B. page under routes and areas... another good one for sure...

john hansen

climber

May 30, 2019 - 11:33pm PT

Thank's for all the work you put in Nahoo documenting these threads, got this saved on my favorites for when it goes dark.

Hope the links still work Saturday.

ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber

ne'er–do–well

May 30, 2019 - 11:50pm PT

^^ Isn't all this stuff going to vaporize in a few short hours?

nah000

climber

now/here

Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2019 - 12:10am PT

^^^^

we'll see... but my understanding of the party line, is that while still linkable, photos will disappear from threads, but that trip reports will continue on both with the same links and intact.

regardless, probably best to save anything to your own devices, that one thinks is worth saving, just in case.

JLP

Social climber

The internet

May 31, 2019 - 08:38am PT

I hope this all has been both PDF'd and I hope RJ has the presence and the sense to have stored away a .zip of the site with full photo content.

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