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drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
May 8, 2014 - 11:16pm PT
Glad I could get the hair topic started...
lets leave that, and the coked up photo of Philo, on the previous page!
(...sorry Philo)


edit: DOH! Thought this would be the first post on the next page!
Leggs

Sport climber
Made in California
May 15, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
~Peace!
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 15, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
May 15, 2014 - 01:56pm PT
Leggs

Sport climber
Made in California
May 15, 2014 - 01:57pm PT

~peace
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
May 15, 2014 - 06:29pm PT

Sears boulders, Prescott Az.
Chiloe

Trad climber
Lee, NH
May 15, 2014 - 06:44pm PT
Goldline, hiking boots and a rack of 4 pitons, a few biners and tied slings. Lower Cathedral Spire, 1968.

Leggs

Sport climber
Made in California
May 15, 2014 - 06:49pm PT
Chiloe.... that's awesome.
rbolton

Social climber
The home for...
May 15, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
Kojak explains how it all works.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
May 15, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
Not climbing.. But old

JOEY.F

Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
May 15, 2014 - 10:31pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 15, 2014 - 10:48pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
May 16, 2014 - 08:07am PT
Talk about screwing the 2nd... that looks Terrifying:)
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 16, 2014 - 10:28am PT
I was not on this climb with Jimmy. It might have been Tony Bird leading. I believe it is on The Traitor Horn Route (must have your sh#t together to lead this--it is the quintessence of exposure).
phylp

Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
May 16, 2014 - 11:26am PT
Tradmanclimbs, That photo makes Frogland look desperate! LOL! Good photo...
MisterE

climber
Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2014 - 03:25pm PT
Phylp, Nitro Petro?

Great shot! And thanks for all the great contributions!
TrundleBum

Trad climber
Las Vegas
May 16, 2014 - 05:08pm PT
I'd like to play?

I haven't been hanging out at the 'Taco Stand' much lately.
Just stumbled across this thread only now.
OK so it's Friday ~
But then... I usually am a 'day late and a dollar short".
For me 'vintage' is early/mid 70's.
So I'm apparently I am lot younger than a lot of these 'ole crones...
Yet my teens were already well behind me by the early 90's.

This first pic is Bradley Achorn, my first climbing partner.
We were hitch hiking to North Conway in in a warm, light rain.
It was late spring/early summer 76' (?)
I couldn't help but use up one of the valuable 24 frames available on my 110 'instamatic'
Standing at the beginning of the 'Pilgrims Highway',
Rt #16 after getting off the I-95N at the old Portsmouth traffic rotary.
This was my attempt at a 'satirical photographic composition'.

It was early spring and our journey north up 'The Pilgrims Highway'
we past the Venerable gate way to the 'Whites'.

We went straight to Cathedral Ledge and started right into almost killing ourselves,
on a successful seige of 'Fun House' (5.7) on Cathedral Ledge,
we went and spent a day or two on the North end slabs top roping.

It rained for a couple of days so we bivi'd under the Cathedral Roof.
By the end of the week it was time to hitch hike home again,
so we went and bagged our Trophy climb.
We thought it was pretty good day for a couple of self taught 15 year olds,
when we motor'd 'Sliding Board' on Whitehorse.

We did a lot of hitch hiking that summer.
One of our forays was a very long day to 'Crow Hill'.
I never returned but that is not the crag's fault.
The ill taste was more a product of the 8 hr hitch there...
and double that to get home including a forced urban bivy.

There was no such thing as the internet. But there was magazines like 'On Belay'.
Heck there was even mega stoke to be found surfacing in main stream media:

That first season in North Conway we had a small, white, paper back guide book.
But the next season the 'Dream Machine' expanded,
when we discovered I.M.E and the new Ross/Elms guide book

To be continued in the summer of 77'
See yah next Thursd.... I mean Friday...
phylp

Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
May 18, 2014 - 09:57pm PT
Good photos, Trundlebum.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
May 22, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
May 22, 2014 - 01:03pm PT
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