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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 14, 2007 - 03:58am PT
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We know the stonemasters, we've heard the stories of Poway Mtn Boys, the collective force of The McConachie Brothers, the Vulgarians, the Karl Babaians, the LOIS-13 mafia = DMT, but seriously what about your local crews, even if you don't know them personally.
Do they have a collective name that reflects something distinctive about that group? We're they limited in time frame? How geographically far did they climb? How did they start? Was their name self appointed, organically ascribed, or labelled by media?
I think there are many. A great example is the Southern Sierra crew, aka SSCA. There's a Ridgecrest crew and a SLO crew. I don't know this, but I think the So Sierra folks went by Stonemashers if the guidebook name is something of a reference?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2007 - 12:52pm PT
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bump
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Dec 14, 2007 - 01:03pm PT
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We had a crew in Ft. Collins in the 70's called the Horsetooth Hardcores. Mark Wilford, myself, Dave Bohn, Doug Hahn, Steve Mammen, Steve Bass, Bill Wylie, Randy Joseph and perhaps a few others. All I remember about it is the Wylie made up some t-shirts that had a guy wearing an Aunt Jemima, heel-hooking off of something that looked like the Torture Chamber with a giant chalkbag with toothbrush hanging on his ass. You got a star on the shirt if you had taken a 50-footer.
Mal
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 14, 2007 - 01:24pm PT
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One outfit that never got a lot of press outside its home turf was the Squamish Hardcorps (sometimes called Squamish Hardcore). It was the usual group of hardest fish in a small pond, but wound up being influential on the wider climbing world when they started doing early (and very fast) repeats of the El Cap classics, then putting up their own lines on the big stone, several of which are now much-revered classics in their own right. Magic Mushroom and Mescalito are the obvious ones, but the full list would also include other routes which are either less classic, or on which the Squamish crew dragged some Yankees along (Horse Chute, Excalibur, NJ Turnpike)
Anders can give you a more accurate blow-by-blow history, but although they largely dropped out of the climbing scene by the mid- to late 1970s, their climbs and their approach to climbing had a major impact. Fist on Squamish, then on Yosemite, and, via Yosemite, on the whole climbing world.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand.... man.....
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Dec 14, 2007 - 01:37pm PT
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a group unrivaled: the Sheep Buggers
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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Dec 14, 2007 - 01:50pm PT
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The Government Sponsored Green Bud Bolderers were a particularly degenerate lot, albeit prolific at rooting out FA's in the Ewash gneiss belt.
Chemical Parkinsons, Vmoderatelyhard, GSGBB
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