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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jul 10, 2008 - 12:39am PT
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navblk4: That's rather punctilious, in terms of adding up your PCT hiking record. Also, you may well have hiked more than 50% of the trail - if measured in terms not of distance, but % of total vertical, or perhaps % of median time.
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Danielle Winters
Trad climber
Alaska
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Jul 10, 2008 - 07:46am PT
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Scott
I remember the Barnett solo Knot system, I gave it try a few times. But your right it did not work well with Goldline rope .I had completlly forgot about that system till I read your post thanks for jogging my memory .
Danielle
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Alois
Social climber
Idyllwild, California
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Jul 10, 2008 - 08:50pm PT
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Goldline, 120', Kronhoffers (and a swami), 1969, REI Mail Order Catalog. Climbed the Fools Rush on Tahquitz the summer of 1970 tied into (tied off) bowline knot and (to my horror) discovered that I almost lost the rope. The knot completely untied and the rope almost fell off of me. Other then being pretty stiff, The Goldline was a great rope. I propably climbed on it till at least the late 70s. The Kronhoffers were actually pretty good edging shoes, does anyone remember them?
PHILG- What a coincidence with your brother's experience. I changed to fig 8 right after my close call too and have been using it ever since.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Jul 10, 2008 - 09:18pm PT
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Yep, I learned on it.
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Ivan
Boulder climber
There
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Jul 12, 2008 - 02:30pm PT
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First leader fall. 10 feet, and another 10 feet of stretch. With a mechanical belay: figure 8 or sticht plate, I don't remember. We thought hip belays were only for TR's. On goldline with a swiss seat. After that we used the perlon for leading and the goldline for toproping.
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mjb
Trad climber
Point Pleasant, NJ
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Dec 18, 2008 - 01:03pm PT
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Yep, sure did, couldn't afford those newfangled ropes as a college student
Climbed all over the Durango CO area with it. Think we did actually did Lizard Head with it, too
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 18, 2008 - 01:07pm PT
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Just thinking, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask who hadn't
climbed on goldline?
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Dec 18, 2008 - 01:11pm PT
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I learned to climb on Goldline. When I got into it enough to warrant spending what little money I had on a rope I bought a Blueline. Does anyone remember those baby blue ropes? It was American made by Blue Water I believe. They were supposed to be a big improvement over Goldline ropes. I used the life out of that cord and it never failed me.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 18, 2008 - 01:20pm PT
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SteveW:
Just thinking, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask who hadn't climbed on goldline?
Buncha geezers here, ya think?
Clog hexes, a CMI hammer, Whillans rucksack, tied etriers, old Chouinard pitons ...
the whole 9 yards in this photo from 1968.
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mjb
Trad climber
Point Pleasant, NJ
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Dec 18, 2008 - 01:43pm PT
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Heck, I bet I could go in the attic and still find my home sewn rack with the hexes and stoppers and take that same picture, minus the hammer, of course.
Never did use pitons on a climb, crack-n-ups couple of times, most famously one of my partners wanted to test the staying power of the crack n ups out so he was jumping up and down on one just a foot or so off the ground when it popped out and just like a fish hook, ended up stabbed in right on the end of his nose. One of the funniest things I ever saw.
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MH2
climber
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Dec 18, 2008 - 03:44pm PT
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Just thinking, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask who hadn't climbed on goldline?
agreed
"Post here if you ever climbed on Goldline" could be the banner flying at the top of every SuperTopo forum page.
Nice to see the pictures, though.
Chiloe answered one question I had, which was where they got those nuts mentioned in the 1968 Cathedral Spire climb. I don't think nuts appeared at the Gunks until a little later than that.
Goldline we certainly had. I couldn't understand why everyone here was commenting on its terrible kinking, but it may have to do with us always walking back to the Uberfall downclimb instead of rappelling for all my years at the Gunks. We were taught to drag the rope along the trail after the climb before coiling it. And when we coiled it we gave a twist to each loop.
There is a smell of sun on Goldline, autumn leaves, and adrenalin and endorphins oozing from one's pores that could probably make me 18 if I ever come across it again.
I got a Fantasia rope in '72 and cut it up to make a stretcher on its first outing, to Wallface.
I went through an MSR phase: rope(tugboat braid!), ice-axes, parka, stove. The stove has modern descendants.
The other question for Chiloe: did you mention a Bill Thompson and could he be the same Bill Thompson who introduced me to climbing? His father was a judge in Cali and he himself studied physics but lapsed into computer science.
Goldline in the Tetons
Goldline in Maine
Bill Thompson on the Quinn Conehead Pre-Memorial route, Darrington
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Dudeman
Trad climber
California/Idaho
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Dec 18, 2008 - 04:10pm PT
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Goldline was kick ass! I always felt safe being able to inspect the entire rope inside and out.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2008 - 04:28pm PT
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"Just thinking, wouldn't it be more appropriate to ask who hadn't climbed on goldline?"
F*#K NO
...post #153...
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Dec 18, 2008 - 04:48pm PT
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Yet another thread I just tuned into months after the original posting. I'm yet another goldline geezer, tie directly in to the rope, etc. Body rappels on goldline---I probably still hace the scars!!!!! As far as nuts in 1968, I remember ordering my first nuts--no comments here--from Joe Brown's shop in Wales in about 1967---I remember I was still in Wisconsin and used them at Devil's Lake before I graduated in the spring of '67. So I'm sure that others elsewhere also started using them by then. During the '64/'65 school year Jim Swallow, from the UK, was living in Minnesota and climbed at Devil's Lake with machine nuts threaded with rope, and some of us adopted similar equipment until commercial nuts became available (though we quickly opted for pitons in all but the most ideal circumstances!!!!). I know that John Reppy and Sam Striebert were using similar gear in Connecticut (and presumably elsewhere) during this period.
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john bald
climber
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Dec 18, 2008 - 04:59pm PT
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Does anyone remember how that rope would wear grooves into the "new" aluminum biners? Always carried a steel oval for the cross used in the biner break rappel. The alluminum "break-bars" would not hold up to the abuse.
Shout-out to Jay Woods!
Nice pic of the young Ed H!
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 18, 2008 - 05:18pm PT
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Yep still have it somewhere- and it was old in the late 70's
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Dec 18, 2008 - 05:25pm PT
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Great photo's of Goldline in use. Now, who has climbed with "Skyline?" (blue in color)
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Danielle Winters
Trad climber
Alaska
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Dec 18, 2008 - 05:33pm PT
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Never heard of Skyline . But I learned to climb on Gold line. And that smell that MH2 was talking about was indeed very distinctive
Also what was the name of that Climb in the Maine photo? I am spending time in Maine and am always looking for good routes to due .
Danielle
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Dec 18, 2008 - 06:25pm PT
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Yep. Friend I started with had goldline. Did a few routes at Tahquitz, Josh and Rubidoux with it. One of those "old technologies" for which I have no fond memories.
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Brutus of Wyde
climber
Old Climbers' Home, Oakland CA
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Dec 18, 2008 - 06:31pm PT
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you mean you-all climb on something other than goldline now?
Safest rope there is. You can inspect every strand of the rope for damage.
Brutus
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