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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 21, 2010 - 01:08am PT
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So there are tricounis, which are a kind of nail used on nailed boots until the 1950s anyway. And then there is Tricouni, who occasionally contributes cool stuff about climbing history to SuperTopo. And then there is the tricouni website, which is rather neat, although not fancy.
http://www.tricouni.com/black/fullpage.html
A real (French) company, which still makes and installs such nails, and clearly has some reverence for history.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dec 21, 2010 - 01:15am PT
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Then there's Tricouni Peak
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Dec 21, 2010 - 01:51am PT
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And then there's Tricouni Press, occasional publisher of books on subjects of interest to the owners. It took its name from Tricouni Peak, which gets its name from the boot nail.
Just south of Tricouni Peak is Cloudburst Mountain. There was a Cloudburst Press, which takes its name from the mountain; Tricouni's wife once worked for the owner of Cloudburst Press, so there's another allusion for you.
And across the way from Cloudburst and Tricouni is Serratus Mountain. There's a Serratus Press (named for the peak) that has published one title, "Mountaineering and the Humanities," with which Tricouni had a hand.
I'm really sorry that I got rid of my tricouni-soled boots, but they were totally worn out....
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 21, 2010 - 02:00am PT
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Then there is Tricouni Nail named after the Tricouni Nail done by Robbins in the Needles.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2010 - 02:22am PT
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Yeah, the one across from this one,
-digging through the files....
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2010 - 03:31am PT
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Photo below is stolen from the net, but somewhere I have an action shot of our own Roadkill Phil leading it...
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duncan
climber
London, UK
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:29am PT
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Some great Tricouni action in this old film of Gritstone climbing from 1946-49.
Grit being relatively soft, the amount of wear on footholds is very noticeable even from the few climbers about in those times.
I remember my dad still having a very old pair of nailed leather-soled boots in storage in my early youth (sadly they must have been thrown out at some point). They were for hiking, so just hobs and clinkers - no Tricounis, but still massively heavy compared to his vibram'ed replacements.
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Dec 21, 2010 - 09:33am PT
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Then there's muggers, clinkers and hobnails.
Kinda reminds me of the joy of new custom Viberg's back in the old logging days.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2010 - 12:10pm PT
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Another sort of Tricouni.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Dec 21, 2010 - 01:36pm PT
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Photo below is stolen from the net
Hey, that's my photo! (I certainly can't remember where I've posted it.)
The climber is Matt Hale. The photo itself is pretty old, I'm guessing from the early 70's.
The pinnacle was named the Tricouni Nail by the Conn's, after one of the features of pre-rubber sole climbing boots:
When Robbins made the first ascent, he invoked what he considered to be his prerogative and changed the name to Cerberus, after the three-headed canine guardian of the gates of Hades
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Dec 21, 2010 - 01:40pm PT
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The Yorkshire gritstone film ... yikes! The rock climbing techniques are the same ones they were teaching in the BCMC in 1959. Shoulder belays and all. But I've never seen a semi-hanging shoulder belay before. Tricouni nails were largely (not entirely) out by 1960.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 21, 2010 - 02:19pm PT
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Back in January, 1977 I didn't know there was already a rock called Cerberus.
Tricounis are pretty cool for some types of terrain.
Anybody do the Third Flatiron in winter conditions?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 21, 2010 - 03:54pm PT
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I would enjoy waching someone climb Tricouni in Tricounis there are some small knobs on that thing that would make the metal feel a little insecure I would imagine.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:23pm PT
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Slab Alley, anyone?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2010 - 04:40pm PT
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And a link to a book of mountain poetry published by the aforementioned Tricouni Press:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=833433
Slab Alley, or any slab route, would be an interesting proposition in nailed boots. It would also quickly get polished. When I climbed in North Wales in 1976, it was scary how polished and scratched many of the classic routes in Llanberis Pass were, from 50+ years of nailed boots.
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climber23
Ice climber
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Actually Tricouni is not a French company but rather a Swiss one as Tricouni is the name of a climber from Geneva. To see a video of the history of Tricouni, visit http://www.tricouni.com
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sometimes I feel I am a tricouni man in a sticky rubber age...
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jaybro: Re your quote
Sometimes I feel I am a tricouni man in a sticky rubber age...
That's great! I'm stealing it, since I have a climbing friend that fits that quote like an EB.
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