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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 12:21pm PT
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Piton Ron,
All good guesses. I mentioned of their lifetime and that was a clue. This person is no longer with us.
Levy, I was looking through things the other day and found a similar beak. I will take a picture of it when I see it again so we can compare the two.
Ken
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Yvon is still alive.
My guess is Chuck Pratt.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 12:42pm PT
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Elcapfool,
Good guess. This person spent a lot more time in the Alps than anyone mentioned so far. They did spend some time in Yosemite as well.
Ken
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Time in the Alps, and dead?
I'm thinking Gary Hemmings, but I don't think many of us knew him.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 12:58pm PT
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Not Gary. More well known even with the younger generations.
Ken
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Gene
climber
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Sacherer?
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Was it Toto? (XB)
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 01:07pm PT
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elcapfool,
You are the closest so far.
Ken
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elcapfool
Big Wall climber
hiding in plain sight
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Well, if it isn't Wolfgang Gullich, you're going to have to drop another clue.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Ghastly Rabbitfat?
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Gene
climber
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Cassin?
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 07:07pm PT
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Elcapfool,
Wolfgang Gullich is correct. His widow Annette gave it to me several years ago and said that it was his most prized posession of all the gear that he had found in his career. Unfortunately she was not sure where in the Alps that he found it. Perhaps one of his partners may know.
Ken
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jaybro,
wasn't that a great calender?
It even had the months in alphabetical order for convenience.
My favorite was Herman Ghoul, famous alpine daredevil.
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macko
Big Wall climber
poland
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Aug 15, 2006 - 04:55am PT
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hi boys
in 2002 I climbed SofD with my friends from Poland. This piton is one of the best polish poitons - " jedynka" so called "Polish figure-of-one-piton", first used in High
Tatras
in 1955 by Polish and Slovak climbers, introduced in the French Alps in
1960
by Jan Dlugosz and Czeslaw Momatiuk on Grand Capucin (and showed in
ENSA).
Later in 1971 during FWA of Grand Pilier d'Angel made by 4-men Polish
team
including Janusz Kurczab, Andrzej Mroz, Andrzej Dworak and Tadeusz
Piotrowski."
we say in Poland if You climb A4 and you have a problem you have to use "jedynka"
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taco bill
Trad climber
boulder, co
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Aug 15, 2006 - 03:18pm PT
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Found this one in the talus below the Maiden in the flatirons a couple of years ago.
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