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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2010 - 10:17pm PT
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Tom- If you were standing on the tip of your mountain boot and directly over the shaft then the adze of the inverted retieval axe would act as a spacer and stabilize the whole show. Hopefully the stack is tied together somehow.
A nice portable foothold at counter height could come in handy!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2010 - 12:14am PT
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Some classic hardware shots from Gaston's On Ice Snow and Rock, 1971. Some Charlet items ten years forward.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2010 - 12:51pm PT
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Classic hardware Bump!
The Universal design is pure Charlet-Moser! The first new piton design in quite a while and still a beauty!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2010 - 08:12pm PT
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Universal Bump!
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Oct 30, 2010 - 08:49pm PT
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There is a great stylistic elegance to those pins.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2011 - 09:58pm PT
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A winter's bump!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2011 - 03:25pm PT
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Charlet Bump...
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Great craftsmanship in hardware. I look forward to a point in the future when that comes around again.
Thanks for keeping this thread up. It's a gudun.
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Thanks Steve.You always post great stuff. Do you have any articles on the Simond brothers?
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local
Social climber
eldorado springs
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2011 - 12:50pm PT
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The Super D has to be the prettiest of the older style axes. Matching North Wall hammer? Nice quiver local!
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local
Social climber
eldorado springs
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The axe has a 'blood groove'. The hammer doesn't, but I always thought of them as a pair. By the time I acquired them, it seemed silly to climb with anything other than curved picks, so they've languished in the locker for 30+ years.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 03:49pm PT
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An interesting variation with duplex teeth.
Screams Piolet-Ancre at you.
Any idea what the deep notch near the adze is supposed to accomplish other than giving the wrist loop a place to hide while wrapped?
I assume that the hole in the adze is to allow the axe to be retrieved from above using the pick rather than the curved adze cut out. Seems like a great way to drop an axe.
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bachelarno
Social climber
Chamonix France
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Hello from Chamonix, France.
Do you know if this is possible to get this magazine somewhere ?
This is all my childhood, as Gérard Moser was my great uncle and Germain Charlet is my great cousin. The factory is no more in Chamonix, and that magazine is a good way to have nice memories of that.
Thanks for all your informations.
Arnaud Bachelard
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Charlet Moser used to make a step cutting axe as recently as the 90s. It was basically destined for Swiss aspirant guides who had to use a step cutter as part of their assessment, and was sold in Switzerland by Mammut. I bought one just over 20 years ago. It's a good workhorse at the end of the season when the glaciers are very dry and icy.
Now, not Charlet, but there are a couple of old firms in Switzerland that make hand-made axes à l'ancienne. There's Willitsch in Täsch, just down from Zermatt and there's Bhend in Grindelwald. Bhend now makes a very limited number every year. Mine came from the first batch to be produced after a quite long lay-off after 'old man Bhend' died. It's so beautiful that I can't bear to use it - despite knowing that Bhend can return it to its former glory very easily!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 16, 2018 - 11:27am PT
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Long Overdue Bump!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 16, 2018 - 11:42am PT
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Quels beaux piolets!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 16, 2018 - 11:59am PT
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Cool Charlet Moser article.
Joseph Willisch, in Täsch close to Zermatt, was the first ice axe smith in the Willisch family. He made some beautiful axes in the early 1900s.
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nutstory
Trad climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Dec 16, 2018 - 12:04pm PT
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