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Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 06:06pm PT

Tony, you're about 140 miles off.

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:15pm PT

Jeazzz Lauria, don't you have anything better to do on this beautiful Sat. afternoon, though it is alot stronger than a 1/4" button head...

Tony Puppo

climber

Bishop

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:15pm PT

How about something in the Pinnacles?

mark miller

Social climber

Reno

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:24pm PT

So now we are chasing geography? How about something from Pratt's crack?

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 06:37pm PT

Russ is on my ass for wasting a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I am guilt-ridden. My excuse is that Georg & Jill Bloksgaard are here and I'm bored.

Dennis Hennek

climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:42pm PT

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:59pm PT

Hey, Off Topic: I just got back from a short run, here in Bishop 4:00 p.m. ... There appears to be a fire and lots of smoke coming straight north from the Palisades, thick and dirty looking. Any one know whats going on? Big Pine folks, Independence, Lone Pine? Does not look good.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 07:03pm PT

Hennek nailed it as I knew he would if he got online. That bolt sat atop Boulder #1 at Stoney for decades. I don't know who or when it was screwed into the sandstone. Does anyone out there know?

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Aug 24, 2013 - 08:12pm PT

I'll take a guess.
Its likely quite old, possibly 50's. A rope anchor was not its original purpose. Someone drilled a hole in the top of the boulder, set the threaded end of the bolt into the hole and filled it up with cement. Voila! anchor.

The pipe anchor on top of Castle Rock appears to have been set into concrete in the top of the rock much the way I describe.

Dick Erb

climber

June Lake, CA

Aug 24, 2013 - 08:30pm PT

In 1958, when I was 14 years old, I put my rope over that bolt, wrapped the dulfersitz around my body, and stood up to rappel. Then a bunch of people started yelling at me, afraid that by standing up where i was the rope would pull right off the top of that thing. Fortunately it didn't. I'm glad I made it through those early days.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 09:37pm PT

Thanks Dick. So now we know it was there in '58.

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Aug 24, 2013 - 09:47pm PT

Hell Lauria it was worth it to get the General on ST. the General and McClinski all in one day, shiz miracles never cease to amaze me. "Those oldies but goodies remind me of.............."

Happy Birthday to Joyce.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 24, 2013 - 11:27pm PT

Thank you for all the posts on this subject!

Fascinating.

little Z

Trad climber

un cafetal en Naranjo

Aug 24, 2013 - 11:47pm PT

yep, never been to Stoney Point (but I have been to Stoney Middleton). Cool story, and cool memento. Thanks Don.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Aug 25, 2013 - 03:34am PT

I've seen bolts like this in various places from the old times,
a few I think around Boulder... I have seen similar devices
that were placed deep in a drilled holed, then epoxied or cemented,
but the top had a bent kind of ring, or maybe even a fairly nice
quality ring.... a few of these on the Third Flatiron from days of old.

Patrick Sawyer

climber

Originally California now Ireland

Aug 25, 2013 - 04:00am PT

Don, Dennis, Pat, Joe all chipping in, so to speak. All people I looked up to when I started to climb.

This is why the Taco Stand is the best.

And I put that bolt in 1958, when I was two years old. Okay, I lie, I have never been to Stoney. I think Fred and Barney put it there, Wilma and Betty may have helped.