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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 24, 2007 - 01:40am PT
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I came across this article featuring our own elcap-pics Tom Evans back in the day in Summit May 1973. You look marvellous dude, all gussied up for adventure!!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 24, 2007 - 01:50am PT
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Thanks, Steve - very nice!
All that and a Dolt ad, too.
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mingus
Trad climber
Grand Junction, Colorado
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Oct 24, 2007 - 02:23am PT
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Righteous photo!! I believe I see a 'Swiss' seat in there and blue jeans no less. This is certainly one for the ST archives.
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elcap-pics
climber
Crestline CA
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:54am PT
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Yo.. boy you really have to dig deep to find that stuff!!! Actually the climb was done in 1970 and is a treasured memory... Oh the days!!
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TwistedCrank
climber
Caution: Filling may be hot.
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:56am PT
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Bloo Swade Shoos
Yah
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Oct 24, 2007 - 11:18am PT
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Thanks for the post, Steve. I especially like the state-of-the-art haul bag and the Robbins boots.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2007 - 11:37am PT
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Those old articles really stir up the cauldron of memories and remind me of wilder and more adventurous times. Really cool slices of life that wouldn't be there without the effort required to write and publish them. Just a little payback on my end for all of Tom's continuing efforts to keep people psyched up on the big wall front with reports, killer photos and support for the climbing organizations like the YCA and AAC. Once a Wall Man, always a Wall Man!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2007 - 12:57pm PT
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Tom- I'm sure that you have a box full of slides like the rest of us. Any more wall shots from those good old days?
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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Oct 26, 2007 - 01:18pm PT
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Wow...this one brings back some memories! I had been climbing about 2 years when this issue came out. I must have read this article 100 times. I read every word of it again and was transported back in time...was once again a skinny 14 year old with acne, reading climbing mags on a rainy day and dreaming of my next day on the rock...and the future beyond....
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John Moosie
climber
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Oct 26, 2007 - 05:08pm PT
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Good story. Thanks !!!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Oct 26, 2007 - 05:46pm PT
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wait 'till Tarbuster sees those Robbins boots!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 27, 2007 - 01:15am PT
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Electric Royal Blue on this thread and a fine Powder Blue fifteen years later on the 3D thread elsewhere. Still the ticket for standing around in slings a lot and especially toetip and T-stacking with that 3/4 steel shank. The comfy shoes! Ahhhhh!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2010 - 10:04pm PT
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Another Tom Evans Bump!
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:17pm PT
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Nice pithy prose.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:21pm PT
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Yes real hard men in classic pose.
How come Tom don't look like that no more?
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:27pm PT
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Propers.
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Mimi
climber
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Jul 23, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Thanks Tom, for all the hard work. Stalwart contributor to raising climbing awareness. You do such a good job of delivering accurate and succinct information to the masses. No BS or hoopla.
Or chinchucks for cheatersticks.
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F10
Trad climber
e350 / Bishop
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Jul 23, 2010 - 11:19pm PT
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I remember that cover shot on Summit, way cool stuff
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 24, 2010 - 01:42pm PT
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Great Article! Thanks for posting and bumping, Steve.
Does Tom or anyone know if the Frank Hoover who is credited for that aerial HD photo is the same guy who was a UCLA Bruin Mountaineer, who worked in the UCLA Nuclear Medicine Bldg. for many years, and who organize some early non-commercial river trips on rivers in the West, including the Middle Fork of Salmon trip where Don Wilson drowned? Many will remember that Don Wilson made an early attempt on the FA on the HD NW Face.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2010 - 01:48pm PT
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Nice shot of Don!
I can't help you with Frank Hoover info.
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