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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 19, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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According to Glen Dawson in Mugelnoos #3 the falls are not intentional.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 19, 2008 - 11:34pm PT
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Holy sh'it, what a movie.
That was great, and then in the end the guy does a B.A.S.E. way ahead of it's time.
Those people were knarly doing that body rap at that speed.
Wow ......
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2008 - 12:09am PT
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RCS members Art Johnson, Jim Smith, Bill Rice, LaVere Daniels, Bob Brinton, and Howard Koster worked several weekends on that, and supposedly got stiffed on being payed.
Hey Werner, what do you think, was the base jump for real? That's crazy.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 20, 2008 - 12:29am PT
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Probably a fake Gary. But I don't know.
And about those guys getting stiffed by the production company, that happened to me and Dale Bard once too.
The azzholes took off but me and Dale chased em down and made em pay, otherwise all four of their tires would have been slashed.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2008 - 12:37am PT
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LOL, Werner. I wonder if the RCS crew did the same?
Nice shot of Traitor Horn in there, too, the FA of which was the same year, 1938. A. Johnson is listed on the FA team. Smith, Brinton and Johnson were the FA party on Fingertip two years earlier. Smith and Rice were also the FA party on Angels Fright. Brinton and Johnson were FA on Piton Pooper. Imagine climbing that route with that gear! Jumping Jehosophat!
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michaellane
climber
Spokane, WA
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Mar 20, 2008 - 03:07am PT
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That was completely cool. Thanks for cluing us in.
Whoever did that rappel really took one for the crew. Hadda hurt.
--ML
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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Mar 20, 2008 - 03:37am PT
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That made my day! Thanks Gary. The narration is priceless.
Fletch
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Mar 20, 2008 - 10:08am PT
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I've wondered for years if a copy of that film still existed.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Mar 20, 2008 - 10:47am PT
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This is such a classic ... got to love the base jump at the end.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Mar 20, 2008 - 11:34am PT
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Thanks Gary. That was great. I'm glad they had figured out the swami belt by the time I started climbing!
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Mar 20, 2008 - 11:37am PT
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That was awesome.
Who wants my Cadillac? I just realized that harnesses are a totally unnecessary piece of equipment.
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asioux
Trad climber
Rancho Cucamonga
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Mar 20, 2008 - 12:29pm PT
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Very very cool film. That woman sure can scream. I see Mt. Baldy everyday on my way home from work. Just outside my front door the views of Ontario and Cucamonga peak. Climbing Mt.Baldy seems like it would be an adventure... Armando
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Mar 20, 2008 - 01:00pm PT
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That beauty has scenes shot at Stony Point, the bottom of San Antonio Falls (Baldy) and Tahquitz, around the Horn area - all my old stomping grounds.
70 years ago . . . Incredible!
JL
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Denver, Colorado
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Mar 20, 2008 - 02:34pm PT
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If you take into account the year that it was, you notice that the "fool" in the film is named Hans. Maybe some subtle anti German thing already beginning, with the 3rd Reich's shennanigans starting up in Europe.
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabon movin on
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Mar 20, 2008 - 02:59pm PT
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Very cool Gary! Thanks for postin up
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Mar 20, 2008 - 03:50pm PT
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Largo:
I have to agree. That film of the rocks bring back the sights/sounds/smells of those wonderful climbs.
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Mar 20, 2008 - 03:57pm PT
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That was great! - Now I know where all the modern day climbing hotties get their cue from..hubba hubba..
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Mar 20, 2008 - 06:45pm PT
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Like others, I've wondered for years if a copy of this film survived. What a pleasure to see it and these So Cal and Tahquitz pioneers. Amazing. The traversing fall is on Switchbacks, another early route.
That these clibers were able to establish 5.8 routes at Tahquitz with this very rudimentary equipment is still very impressive.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 20, 2008 - 07:03pm PT
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I bet Mike Corbet has this video.
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