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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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The Harding Slot is a well-heeled myth,
Fervently perpetuated by the seasoned adept and the bright-eyed acolyte.
Nobody's ever been through it: not even in Photoshop.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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BA
Before Astroman
A young Pratt on the first ascent, 1959.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Some Tom Frost photos from the second ascent.
Scratch one bolt!
Tom preparing to chop a bolt.
Royal on the changing corners up high.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
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Mar 10, 2009 - 01:37am PT
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bump for bolt-clippin' aid climbers! (and not!) LOL!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Mar 10, 2009 - 07:41am PT
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Great thread.
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martygarrison
Trad climber
The Great North these days......
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Mar 10, 2009 - 10:13am PT
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Isn't Pratt at the base of the boulder pitch?
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Mar 11, 2009 - 01:14pm PT
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bump
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Step Beyond!
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I'll see your bump and raise you one.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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What's with the goggles on Pratt? Don't get me wrong goggles are cool and all, but are we welding up there?
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Spoken like a man who's never been stuck up on a cliff with metal shards and rock slivers in his eyeball....
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WBraun
climber
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Tom
Charlie Porter wore goggles on the second ascent of the gobi wall to protect his eyes.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 8, 2009 - 05:12pm PT
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Spoken like a man who's never been stuck up on a cliff with metal shards and rock slivers in his eyeball....
That happened to you too? In the middle of our second day on the Mescalito I was cleaning a pin and knocked some metal and rock into my eye. We tried to get it out but for the rest of the route my eye would tear up anytime it felt like it and I'd barely be able to see.
I went to the infirmary afterwards and then took something out of my eye. I walked around camp for the next few days with a patch over my eye.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Kinda like this fella? Sort out for the second ascent of the Nose.
Tom Frost photo.
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Rankin
climber
Bishop, CA
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I've gotten metal in my eye before working with steel, not climbing. Boy, it sucks. Certainly wouldn't want to be climbing feeling like that. Those guys were so bad ass. I love the last picture, and the one of Robbins on Changing Corners.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Bump
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Apr 26, 2009 - 04:49pm PT
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Changing corners pitch
October 1989
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 26, 2009 - 06:40pm PT
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Talk about a LINE! The cracks are so good on that route with lots of hand jamming that it is not surprising it had to wait until stoveleg sized pitons came along. Very hard to imagine looking up and thinking "oh no, bad size" when faced with a killer handcrack!
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Apr 27, 2009 - 06:58pm PT
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Blue skies, Harding Slot above, Hamish Fraser as viewed from belay at the top of the Endurance pitch
October 1989
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Guess I'd better bump this one, too - one of John's seminal climbs, with his stories hidden like nuggets within the thread.
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