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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 19, 2009 - 05:02pm PT
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Please excuse the size but I thought some might want to actually be able to read this. There is more if anyone wants to see it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2009 - 09:55am PT
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I had a pair of Walker wool gloves and they were sweet! Reasonable for free climbing performance and warm as toast.
I wonder how many people ever used the cheater wire hole on the Crack' N'Ups?!?
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2009 - 01:41pm PT
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Dane- those scans are TOO BIG! It is better to expand the text onscreen if you need magnification. My scanner has a 50% setting that I use. 100% and downloads are slow as molasses at every turn!
The people with dial up........yikes.
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 03:51pm PT
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Yep, dial up would really suck on this thread. I don't have anything inbetween, so smaller it is.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day
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Jan 20, 2009 - 03:59pm PT
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Do I see a wool balaclava up thread?
Ka-ching!
I remember seeing Yvon in that envelope hat he was wearing and thinking that was the schiznit. I finally found one at an XC ski shop where they were selling them to people who wanted to look like Bill Koch in the 76 Olympics.
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 04:30pm PT
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Oh ya, that is a wool balaclava, along with the Egge jacket and hood from the catalog update, with a bamboo piolet in the back ground as the sun comes up on an Alaska bivi.
Here is another with a foam back from the same trip.
photo by Ray Brooks
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scuffy b
climber
On the dock in the dark
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Jan 20, 2009 - 04:34pm PT
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Seeing that nobody seems to use those wool balaclavas
any more...
and that they're my favorite...
and that I lost my last one...
can anybody set me up?
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scuffy b
climber
On the dock in the dark
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Jan 20, 2009 - 06:41pm PT
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Thanks, Dane.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:23pm PT
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Dane: You blog Diva!!-----thanks for crediting me for the last three Alaska photos you posted.
I swear: I will send you the CD of Deborah pics soon.
Fritz
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:49pm PT
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Fitz...sorry man! Certainly not an intended slight. Happy to go back and credit you with the photos, past, present and/or any thing in the future :)
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 20, 2009 - 11:53pm PT
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I've made that mistake as well ... what with the frenzied fun and all.
It's important to recognize that that darned edit button goes away after a bit of time, so changes are near impossible after that point...
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 22, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
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I was looking at my hickory handled piolet this morning. Noticed it has a dbl set of teeth in the pick and 3 rivets in the handle and the single CHOUINARD script, which makes it a later production axe. Axe was purchased in late '76 or '77. Anyone know when they stopped building ash and hickory shafts?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2009 - 12:20am PT
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I recall that those shaft options were replaced by the laminated bamboo but the date must be earlier than '76. Have to ask Tom about the switch.
Here is the house quiver of bamboo axes.
Left-Original Piolet from the early 70's with four teeth that I added by the shaft. Two crosspins.
Mimi's upside-down Zero and my Zero Northwall hammer.Three crosspins. The darker tools have been pine tarred.
Reverse stamp on the older Piolet.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jan 23, 2009 - 01:10am PT
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What was sold in Europe may be different than what was made specifically for the american market and sold by Chouinard. I think that 1978-79 was the shift from bamboo to the blue fiberglass shafts. Ash was rarely seen in North America and hickory seem to have disappeared by 1974 and replaced with bamboo about then. Rexilon was available while the bugs were worked out of the bamboo. Oh those nasty cracks next to the tangs. It took skill not to break gear.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 23, 2009 - 11:21am PT
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Grossman!
Front and center: clean your weapons soldier.
Maybe start with some cotton wadding with the polishing compound. (Never Dull)
Maybe amend the polish in the wadding with a plastic Scotch Brite to knock off the rust; or some extremely fine steel wool.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2009 - 12:04pm PT
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Well change my name to Rusty! LOL
Definitely Scotchbrite time, when I can carve it out.
I don't recall a RR ice axe either. Just ropes, carabiners and shoes from him.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 23, 2009 - 12:34pm PT
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I vaguely remember Robbins importing those orange axes...
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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Jan 23, 2009 - 01:12pm PT
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Todd may remember better than I. But iirc, the axe Robbin's Mtn Shop (Mountain Paraphernalia) sold was made by "La Parade" and was the Rene Desmaison model. Hell for stout with a metal shaft/ plastic grip and a funky bump on the top of the head. All in day glow orange with a blue handle. I took a couple of them with me to SE Alaska on a surveying job in '77.
This is the hickory piolet I was thinking about. 3 rivet shaft, dbl teeth and 55cm. It was bought in England. Thanks for the observations.
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