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Mimi
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 4, 2008 - 01:02am PT
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Mussy's Glory Boys/Girls thread brought this article to mind. Slice of the 80s. A decade of badass women's climbing.
Harv Arnold cover shot.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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"Trains on a diet of fruit, and by leading the Naked Edge twice a week."
Nobody ever got that buff on a diet of fruit. Oranges and bananas and apples are great, but that woman was sneaking some protein into her lunchbox when no one was looking.
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climblight
Mountain climber
Northern NV
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Yur coming up with some cool shit!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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thanks Mimi... I'll have to go look at my Mountain collection... but I think this is just before I started getting them...
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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BTW, the cover shot is of Joyce Rossiter [Bracht] leading Genesis, 5.12c in Eldorado Canyon.
Bruce
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Bump to keep this in the top 30. Dem wyms iz buffed.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Good timing for this thread-- Rosie Andrews just retired. SHe had been working at Mountain Hardwear.
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Good one Mimi.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Keep this one alive !
One day Alison Osius dragged me up 'five and dime'.
It seemed we enjoyed climbing together so a few days later we went down to the cookie.
We swung leads up to the bottom of Butterballs, which she was going to lead.
Unfortunately at that point the crag went into shade and there was still snow here and there in the valley and the rims were deep, so the temperature plummeted.
Standing on the belay, starting to shiver and deciding which direction to go, I looked at her and said "We both have the same exact amount of clothing, except I have a cotton flannel shirt, and I would offer it to you to wear... but... I am just not that macho"
She laughed and down we went.
She threw that line back at me a few times in the company of story telling.
I still defend, "if you climb two grades harder than I do... I aint giving the shirt of my back just because your the rope gun.... Male or female ;)
Great thread, bump for Alison, Barbara, Rosie and the rest.
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Anyone know where Rosie's hangin' these days? Last I saw her she was working for Patagonia in Ventura. I'll never forget climbing a route right next to Rosie and Annie Whitehouse in Black Velvet Canyon and watching Annie, with Rosie's encouragement, pee on a guy who was following too close.
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426
Sport climber
Buzzard Point, TN
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holy single digit bodyfat, batmim...most ript?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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I'll never forget climbing a route right next to Rosie and Annie Whitehouse in Black Velvet Canyon and watching Annie, with Rosie's encouragement, pee on a guy who was following too close.
Hmmmm. Didn't happen to have your camera with you, by any chance?
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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I didn't, but Charlie Fowler (RIP) was at a belay on Rock Warrior and was burning frames. I never did see any of those pics...Maybe Annie bought them all.
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Gimp
Trad climber
Grand Junction
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Climbed through the winter with Carol Blacks brother and he says she is back climbing at a high standard again and can ski his tail off.
Steve
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homemade salsa
Trad climber
west tetons
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Thanks for posting the scanned article. I had a copy of that from Mountain that I carried around with me for years, made photocopies of for my wanna-learn to climb friends. We were inspired by those gals and that article. It even sortof and remotely engendered the Women That Rock event that we did for a number of years here in the Tetons.
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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badass...bump for the crags
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Mimi
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2008 - 01:30am PT
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While hanging out in Eldo during the summers of 83-84, I would have breakfast at Mother's in Boulder and drive to the canyon to look for a partner. I soon met Joyce, who was looking for a belayer while she ticked off the classics. It was a fun experience climbing with her. She was really into it and certainly had the physique.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 12:42pm PT
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I had the pleasure of meeting Rosie and Barb Devine at the Gunks Reunion recently and love this article from BITD!
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Nov 30, 2008 - 01:52pm PT
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Rosie starting up Snooky's Return at the Gunks Reunion this year.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 01:55pm PT
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Still cut and gleaming like a gemstone!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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An interesting interview with Simone Badier from Mountain 32, Feb 1974.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Just amazing women.
Who doesn't envy Lynn Hill?
Not that the others don't deserve kudos either--but Lynn
freed the Nose in a day. OMG!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Biggest prize in the Valley! "It goes boys." She's one of my heroes for sure.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Thanks Mimi and Steve for these two pieces!! There just isn't much writing on women climbing at a modern technical level. Great images also.
best, ph
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Mimi, I learned to climb in Eldo in 82, climbed there and in Boulder Canyon for a few years before moving back to SD for a spell.
Sure wish I'dda run into you! Got stopped at 5.7 by my partners(now ex husband)lack of experience and drug addiction.
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Mimi
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2009 - 01:36pm PT
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hossjulia, it is too bad we didn't cross paths. We would've torn it up. Back then, women climbers were scarce but there sure were some good ones. After missing all of the 90s from a climbing standpoint, it is awesome to see so many solid women climbers out there today. It was only a matter of time.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I was looking through Storm and Sorrow in the High Pamirs and came across this summit shot of another badass gal! Molly definitely tore it up BITD!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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There was another woman doing some fairly hard climbing back in the time of the articles you scanned to start this post. I hate to bring up her name here, cuz she'll just get all full of herself again, and have to go out and get bigger hats, but...
...but Tami could pull down.
Mimi, if you've got a copy of an issue of Climbing from sometime in the mid-to-late 90s, there's a piece about her that could be scanned and put up here. I could probably dig up the text -- I wrote it -- but it'd take me about a year-and-a-half to find the magazine and scan the pics.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 01:24pm PT
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No luck on the Tami article....
Simone Badier's name came up again in Roger Frison-Roche and Sylvain Jouty's A History of Mountain Climbing, 1996. Along with a couple others.....
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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Total domination or ultimate foot massage fantasy?!? You be the judge! Who is the grining condemned man?
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 03:44pm PT
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Russ Raffa with Laura Smith,Holly Raffa and unidentified climber.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 11, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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Catherine Freer spent some time climbing hard in Tucson with Todd Bibler before any other woman had made a strong showing there. Her death knocked us all back but man could she pull down!
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quartziteflight
climber
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Jan 11, 2009 - 07:16pm PT
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I'm always super impressed everytime I see that picture of Joych Bracht. Riiiippppppppppeeed!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 11, 2009 - 09:41pm PT
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hey there all.. say, thanks for sharing some stuff on the gal climbers, here, too....
i know even less about them, then i know about all you guys...
always learning here on supertopo...
god bless...
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jan 11, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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Sorry but I feel a need to add a note about the pic about
Joyce. To me it looks like she has an active eating disorder.
That she has so little body fat and is a "professional
ballerina" ...which means the pic brings me no joy.
I dunno. Pretty muscular for someone with an eating disorder. More like a bodybuilder in the last days before a comp. Like someone who normally carries a sensible amount of body fat but has burned it off for the comp.
But it does kinda look like she could crack walnuts with her butt cheeks. If you needed walnuts cracked, or something.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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A superb profile of the understated Canadian giant from Climbing #100 Feb 1987. The first North American woman atop Everest with style, a bigtime Big Game Player!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 13, 2009 - 01:37pm PT
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Bump for the Great North Wood!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 28, 2009 - 11:53pm PT
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Please ma'am may I have another! Bump!
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Iron Mtn.
Trad climber
Corona, Ca.
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I have that issue, great article, but I find it funny how it kinda shows women as a fringe element in climbing.......
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Thanks Mimi!
Is there anyway to cross post this on the Chick History thread?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 22, 2010 - 11:32am PT
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I just posted a link on the Chick History thread.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 29, 2010 - 01:31pm PT
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Bump for Gritty and Glorious Gals!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 22, 2012 - 12:55pm PT
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Bump for the ladies...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 29, 2012 - 05:28pm PT
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Wow. Very cool stuff. Thanks for the bump.
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Mimi
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2012 - 06:40pm PT
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As requested by a certain Ghost up thread from the August/September 1995 issue of Climbing magazine, the hat-swelling truth.
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Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
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Apr 29, 2012 - 06:44pm PT
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Kitty Calhoun?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 15, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
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Bump for A Woman's Reach...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 30, 2014 - 03:55pm PT
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I am thrilled that Rosie is going to speak at the Oakdale Festiva as we take a diverse look at women's climbing history. No Spare Rib was one of the first magazine articles to examine the subject.
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thebravecowboy
climber
strugglin' to make time to climb
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Aug 30, 2014 - 04:28pm PT
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Damn, those abs!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Joyce is definitely cut like a diamond...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 11:00am PT
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Long overdue bump...
We need to replace the images in the OP to get rid of the jackass watermarks.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 05:17pm PT
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Great climbing content for a wet weekend...
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Nov 24, 2018 - 05:21pm PT
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beautiful
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 09:57pm PT
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I just bought a nice copy!
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