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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2007 - 11:17pm PT
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Steve wrote: Anybody have a picture of the old Eldorado Canyon wire between the Wind Tower and The Bastille?
I think Pat Ament does.
Pat...where are you?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 28, 2007 - 11:27pm PT
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Thanks - these are all very cool!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Feb 28, 2007 - 11:40pm PT
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dipper - Thanks, whoever you are... :-)
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dipper
climber
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Yer welcome Ksolem.
I'm just a guy that used to climb many years ago.
These threads with images and stories from days gone by are true gems.
The found booty thread reminds me of a Galen slide show I went to long ago.
He showed us a trip up Cerro Torre I think it was(been thinking and believe it was Fitzroy). Mike Graber had his boots stolen on the hike in, then returned after much sleuthing and finessing. They got whacked by a big storm and spent the night(Galen, Mike and ?) up high, shivering and singing on a narrow ledge til dawn. The next day they came upon a large cave filled with gear from a much, much earlier attempt. Alas they made it down and back to the women at the refugio. Not sure if they summited, don't remember.
I may have it mixed up a bit, others certainly know more. Sorry not to post this in that thread. My fingers just felt like typin. Now.
That photo of Ferdinand brought back fond memories. I sometimes shout "Double Cream, Double Sugar" to the young rangers at Tioga, mostly blank stares, some have learned of him. Fernando was the best, always smiling.
Carry on carrying on.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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isn't Philippe Petit the walker in that great black&white photo with St. John the Divine as the terminus? (St. John the unfinished, a work-in-progress cathedral on the upper west side of Manhatten, in my old neighborhood) in 1982...
...the NYTimes has it...
thanks all, this is a very very cool thread!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dramatic shot there Ed.
Yes, the forum is a cool place.
'Lotta neat folks hangin' out.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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ksolem,
He's an interesting one alright. I met with him, Steve Wallenda and a few others back in day when I was into walking wire. In fact, back in the mid-80's when I quit Digital Equipment Corp. I went and interviewed with the L’Ecole Nationale de Cirque in Montreal for teaching tight wire and computer science as I also have a teaching degree. The school is wild and one of the main feeds to Cirque de Soleil and all the other circuses. But alas, I never could wrangle the requisite French so didn't manage to make it happen.
I also just missed Ivy Baldwin's wire in Eldo by a year or two as I understand it, but I do have a couple of strands of it as a keepsake. Would love to have seen that last walk when he was 82 - the guy was unbelievable. Did get a couple of stories about him out of old man Fowler back then though.
[url="http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebaldivy.htm" target="new"]William Ivy Baldwin, 1866-1953 - way, way old school...[/url]
[ Notice in the old keystone photo his wire is fully guyed, but in later years he just hung sand bags on it keep it calm - way burlier than having it fully guyed. It's reputed there were some walks when he had to wait out the wind for up to an hour at a time out on it. ]
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Gunkie
climber
East Coast US
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Summer 1983. Bouldering, Harriman State Park, NY.
January 1983 [?]. Disneyland, Gunks. Same Strawberry Mountain chalkbag, Wild Things swami [which I still have], pro-deal Friends from working at Eastern Mountain Sports, and Shoe-nards on the feet. Notice the good-old Bonatti 'D' biner on the fixed pin. I remember being so pumped, on other routes, where I could not open that super powerful gate. I still have a bunch of them.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Hey Chiloe, whudya mean "one last shot?" er whatever you said.
Don't go now...
If things go right I might be back in a week or two to start a thread on "New School Photos."
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Great wire walking posts! I love this stuff! I think it was Ivy Baldwin who used to rest during line walks by inverting onto his head and relaxing upside down. If you can call that relaxing!
A little closer to the ground, some of us would turn to other means to garner a thrill.
This was taken at a Syndicato Granitica banquet in Flagstaff back in the seventies. A word of caution though before you try this yourself. Tall bottles are the most challenging but spin out with gusto, so a strip of plywood nailed down into dirt or flat grass is the ticket to prevent bottle chipping on a harder surface. Having a bottle shatter with you on top is the horror that you are trying to avoid so footwear matters also. Start with short bottles in a staggered line and work toward tall and straight as you get more comfortable! Have fun with this one!
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Great stuff. Nominated for best of Supertopo for sure.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
LA, Ca
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Ed, My old neighborhood too. 99th and West End Ave... Actually about the time of the event you show above at the Cathedral I was moving to L.A.
Heaylje, amazing stuff.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Steve, I've seen that before in S.F. one time. It is really, really stout walking tall bottles and, like you say, a great way to break an ankle under the best of circumstances. Hell, walking wide-mouth Mickeys is hard.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Ksolem,
I lived at 100 St. and Riverside Dr. 1976-1978 then moved up to Tarrytown...
great place, and the 1977 NYC blackout was really wild.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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OK, these shots are amazing - really great. I'm gonna dig mine up and post - soon.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Marco Fedrizzi back in '86, about to turn turtle on the 'Wizard' at Crow Hill, MA. - Help me Mr. Wizard...
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2007 - 03:32pm PT
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KB on Open Cockpit...1977
11 Mile Canyon.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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A young Kalimon at the Cosumnes River in 1978 . . . EB's, stuff sack chalk bag, Chouinard pants and state of the art Forrest swami with separate leg loops.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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EB's, hexes, painters pants and bandanna stylee.
We ran out of water the evening prior to this photo.
Good times indeed.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Pinch Overhang, Ft. Collins, 1976
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