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Ballo
Trad climber
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Jan 20, 2018 - 07:38pm PT
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Elementary school playground before lawyers and helicopter moms. Got to the 2nd story of a structure and got gripped; had to be talked down by the teachers
(by 6th grade all the fun stuff was gone)
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Jan 20, 2018 - 08:39pm PT
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The Third Flatiron above Boulder with Joe O'Laughlin.
Second climb was Redgarden in Eldorado with Layton Kor and Larry Dalke.
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Jan 20, 2018 - 08:57pm PT
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1973 I climbed out of my crib and jumped/fell through a window.
1979 Climbed up some 4th class buttress behind Ward Lake in the Sierra NF with my older brother.
1984 First roped climb J-Tree toproping on a Boy Scout camping trip. I wasn't too jazzed with the toproping at the time and preferred the freedom of scrambling and exploring the rock piles.
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clarkolator
climber
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Jan 20, 2018 - 09:07pm PT
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Chimney Column, Skinner's Butte columns, Eugene OR 1977.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2018 - 10:41pm PT
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Reading Annapurna when I was 6 or 7. I was there!
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perswig
climber
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Jan 21, 2018 - 03:13am PT
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SLR, what a classic NE shot.
Thanks!
Dale
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 21, 2018 - 05:05am PT
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"Okay, now it's your turn to lead." It seemed fair enough. EEEEK!
Young and invincible
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jan 21, 2018 - 09:23am PT
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well, I'm in good company with Jim D. and John G. doing my first climb in the south. "The Prow" in Linville Gorge, 1974. That same trip we stopped at Yonah Mt in northern Georgia where the Army Rangers trained. The routes had ID numbers spray painted at the base of the climbs. I bet Jim D. climbed there too.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Jan 21, 2018 - 12:14pm PT
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Nice photo, Ballo. One of my pet peeves is the decline of challenge in playgrounds over the years.
1818 Hassenheide outdoor gymnasium and playground.
Over forty feet tall.
From the mid 20th century.
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Ledge Rat
Trad climber
Michigan
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Jan 21, 2018 - 12:25pm PT
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First top-roped climbs at Grand Ledge, MI 1982.
First leads at Seneca Rocks 1982 or 1983.
Jeff
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Jan 21, 2018 - 05:27pm PT
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took a bouldering fall at 5yrs old that required 5 stitches. lots of scrambeling and caveing as a kid much of it at Deer Leap in killington VT which would be the site of my first roped rock climb many years later. lots of scrambeling on shist ledges on the hillside above the horse pasture. even tried rapelling there once when I was about 11 or so? I had a boys outdoor survival book with pencil drawings on how to do cool stuff like build lean toos, sling shots, bows and arrows etc. they had a page on rapelling that showed how to wrap the rope under your butt and over your shoulder. I got some old hemp rope out of the hay barn and gave it a try. the rope broke and I went ass over tea kettle landing in a generous pile of oak leafs. My first real climb was East face of Teeweinot in 1981 that following winter I learned how to ice climb back east, getting up chapple pond slab and Pinnacle gully that first season. Summer came and it was rock climbing full tilt.
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Bruce Morris
Trad climber
Soulsbyville, California
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Jan 21, 2018 - 05:36pm PT
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One of the easy 5th class routes to the summit of Mt Starr King with the Carlmont Alpine Club in October 1961.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 21, 2018 - 05:39pm PT
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Joshua Tree, Lizard's Hangout, Lizard Taylor 5.5 on top rope.
Before that, who knows, some third class moves deep in some cave in midwest karst country.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2018 - 09:42pm PT
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good stuff all
cool cross thread tie in reference to Armando.
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pyrosis
Boulder climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 21, 2018 - 10:09pm PT
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Tree Route, Dome Rock, summer of 1994, with Greg Smith and Patrick Paul
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Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Jan 22, 2018 - 01:57am PT
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Enjoyable thread....it was late April of ‘86...Dave Holmes led me and my girlfriend up Snake Dike..the exposure was amazing and I remember thinking that climbing felt much different than anything else I hsd ever done...
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jan 22, 2018 - 07:26am PT
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This thread totally rocks! First actual climb, not including all of the trees I had been climbing since I was but a wee lad, was summer (May or June) 1966 in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs. There was some slab climb on South Kissing Camels Rock we did (probably 5.6), then went and did "the finger" (probably 5.7) on North Kissing Camels Rock. Goldline ropes, steel biners, white 1" tubular webbing for a rappel harness. We tied into the end of the rope with a bowline on a bight. None of us were old enough to drive so we chad to bribe someone's older brother nito hauling our sorry selves out to "the Garden". The local rock was pretty soft and untrustworthy and the local ethic was "the leader does not fall". I have sort of been drawn to chossy climbs ever since.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jan 22, 2018 - 07:58am PT
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"Betty" 5.3 in the Gunks circa 1978. Didn't have climbing shoes or slings or a guidebook (didn't know they existed). Climbed on a 120' chunk of 7/16 Goldline tied around the waist with a bowline and had like 7 army surplus steel biners. Got to the Gunks and walked the carriage road in awe. Looked up and saw the broken, low angle off-width and wondered if we were the first to climb it. Started grappling up the crack with my belayer only holding the rope in his hands until some kind soul took pity and showed him the right way to belay (not tied in, of course). After working my way up the first 20 feet I found and old ring piton and yelled down, "someone else has been here before us."
Did the first pitch of "Betty" and wandered over onto the 2nd pitch of "Raubenheimer's Special" because it looked like the way a mountaineer would go. I ran it out to the top with a much better belay (but still, no tie in on the ledge 60 feet off the ground).
Set up a rappel on the double 120' rope and made to within 10 feet of the Betty ledge. As any good mountaineer would, I'm sure Gaston Rebuffat would do the same, I jumped down the final 10 feet and stuck the landing.
I should be dead right now.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 22, 2018 - 08:10am PT
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Golf Ball Route, Tuolumne 5.7.... 1989ish We did Cathedral Peak the next day and I was hooked on climbing.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Jan 22, 2018 - 08:33am PT
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Northwest Chimney (5.2), Old Woman, Joshua Tree, Oct. 1969. Slugging in pitons and climbing in Lowa Alspitz hiking boots. Jack Schnurr guided me up. Thanks, Jack.
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