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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 27, 2007 - 07:56pm PT
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Speaking of Wunsch's Diehedral and Black Beauties,
These were real black beauties, one of the last stiff shoes,
The black lorica La Sportiva TAO:
Yeah those black Tao's fit and edged better than anything I've had since. Wish they still made them, but with Stealth.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Feb 27, 2007 - 08:38pm PT
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This is a lousy photo, but it's worth a look. Gunks parking lot at the hairpin ca 1978.
I'm the one with my head in he trunk, but the guy standing there is Phillipe Petit, who earned world fame when he did this:
(that's a high wire strung between the World Trade Center Towers, no tie in either.)
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Feb 27, 2007 - 09:06pm PT
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Some more shots from the mid-sixties...
The (then) aid (now 5.12) crack on the South Buttress of Moran
Runnin' it out somewhere on the Jackson-Johnson Route on Hallet's
The Master of Rock Himself plying his trade on the Jenny Lake Boulders
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 27, 2007 - 10:52pm PT
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Croft bouldering at the Cookie...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 28, 2007 - 02:11am PT
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Nice shots Rgold!
JB, ringside again for the jungle strong Mr. Croft this time. That is a snapshot in time if ever there was one! Way cool perspective.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 28, 2007 - 02:14pm PT
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Jim Dunn in Canyonlands, 1974.
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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Feb 28, 2007 - 02:47pm PT
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i dont know who chiloe is, but you sure have been around a blcok or two....
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 28, 2007 - 07:42pm PT
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Around a block or two, yes.
And here's one last shot of a climber just being there.
I've had some fun with this thread.
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maui_mark
Big Wall climber
under a coconut tree
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Feb 28, 2007 - 08:26pm PT
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none of warren harding???
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 28, 2007 - 08:38pm PT
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Ksolem - How did you end up hooking up with Phillipe? I spent a little time with him here in PDX years ago when he was in town.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Feb 28, 2007 - 08:48pm PT
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Healyje - At the time I was in New york, and Phillipe was a member of The Big Apple Circus (kind of a predecessor to the whole Cirque Du Soleil thing, performance as art...) I was married to a "mover and shaker" in the art world who also loved climbing, and she talked Phillipe into climbing with us. At first we did some 5.4's and stuff, and as I recall he was rather making fun of me for using ropes and such nonsense, so I took him on a real Gunks 5.9. Changed his tune then. We ended up doing a number of hard climbs together and I learned some real respect for the circus arts as well, seeing him perform was amazing..
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Feb 28, 2007 - 08:51pm PT
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"two towers, i walk...." best book EVAR.
got fined $1 per floor of the wtc, and was ordered to put on a free performance for the children in central park. amazing human being, and maybe the most amazing guerilla performance art actions of all time.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Feb 28, 2007 - 08:58pm PT
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They also gave him a free pass to the observation deck for life. He used it from time to time.
After the towers fell he did an interview on NPR which I heard. It was poignant and interesting. I will search their website later and see if it is still there ..
I saw that guy ride a unicycle on a highwire. Granted it was a special "cupped" tire. But still ...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 28, 2007 - 10:24pm PT
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Anybody have a picture of the old Eldorado Canyon wire between the Wind Tower and The Bastille?
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Feb 28, 2007 - 10:25pm PT
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There was supposed to be a book from Glen Denny coming out sometime in here. Did it ever get published?
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BadInfluence
Mountain climber
Dak side
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Feb 28, 2007 - 10:28pm PT
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Not sure when, but I want a copy.
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Feb 28, 2007 - 10:38pm PT
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Bad - yeah those Denny shots are amazing. Wish I could just jump into one of them and be transported!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 28, 2007 - 10:56pm PT
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Yah those Denny images are the real deal don't you know it.
Kauk & I bumped into each other (oh ya, he drops my name whenever he can) at Patagucci headquarters last winter and Jane Sievert was flippin' through a whole bunch of that Denny stuff for us; man I got's to have that book too. It's all so candid, crisp, and mythic.
Hey Chiloe, whudya mean "one last shot?" er whatever you said.
Don't go now...
Steve Grossman:
I'm pretty sure Sandy East has a whole archive of the Ivy Baldwin stuff. Back when he owned the Eldo Mtn School he was in posession. I think he's in Telluride now; maybe Jello or somebody knows more...
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