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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2007 - 10:55pm PT
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I'm going back for a pic of mal's toe...
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2007 - 12:30am PT
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RE:
"though there hasn't been a picture of the dangerous Marwa ice screw yet"
I'll make a note (making note now) and look for it this week MH.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 23, 2007 - 12:36am PT
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Thanks - if I remember rightly, the eyelet on the Marwas had a red plastic coating, or perhaps paint. They were probably made out of very heavy gauge wire. I was at Neptune's in 2003, but can't remember if I saw one.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2007 - 12:38am PT
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OK, I'll ask Gary about it MH.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 23, 2007 - 01:00am PT
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It looks like an anorexic Charlet Moser!
Tonight's rarity features two Royal Robbins biners. Royal produced the Varappe (sp?)climbing shoe that had an endless run on the feet of hipsters and was a great design. In the hardware arena he had a few offerings. I am not precisely sure on dates but the bottom Salewa ultralight was pretty revolutionary in that it utilized hollow core stock to save weight rather than reducing overall size. The upper biner came later on if I am not mistaken.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 26, 2007 - 04:20pm PT
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Hey Ray- when you photograph that Dolt micropiton for show and tell please capture all of the blue Use Of Force statement tag and nearby text, if you would be so kind. Interesting to see where he sat in the impact debate.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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May 26, 2007 - 08:01pm PT
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Did some one mention crap gear from Salewa?
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rockermike
Mountain climber
Berkeley
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May 26, 2007 - 08:23pm PT
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Hey, anyone want to start their own museum? Here's a start:
For Sale: Forrest golden age ice tools. Just barely broken in.
oh yea, and here's another pre-golden age goody. This baby made it 1/4th of the way up Bridalveil Falls. (CO) ha ha
CHEAP!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 27, 2007 - 12:15pm PT
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That would be the Marwa mentioned earlier showing its proper use and a Hiebler ascender. As for the "dayglow metal monsters" (as YC used to say), Forrest tools were sturdy but, like many, lacked real performance.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:12pm PT
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I didn't forget my promise to post a close-up pic of this piton for Steve -
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:17pm PT
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mighty hiker asked about some old ice screws made from wire -
here's what I found on Gary's wall...
plus some interesting nuts from MOAC, I think
close up - thought those roundies were cool
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:21pm PT
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Steve - sorry just read your previous post, not a problem.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:22pm PT
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thought this plate rocked
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:23pm PT
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this one too
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:27pm PT
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here's a partial of a Forrest pin-bin shot w/ an extension pole - hey, what are they doing outside?
unloading beer?
and an uber cool set of metal-runged etrier
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:30pm PT
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Mighty hiker - here's some more of the old style ice screws
and these
as close as I could get w/ my equipment right now
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2007 - 10:34pm PT
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and some really old crampons
darn near stone-age
gotta love what Gary has put together - Steve I will not be so long in responding this time
cheers everyone
R. Dog
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Gonna need two screens for this one! Very cool hoard. The third frame features the Clog tiny brass hex (with red band) the first micronut, hanging amidst an assortment of Peck Crackers, the only other micro contender. The black slung nuggets to the right are Dolt goodies, I think, just like the Clog Truncated Cone Nut but no knurling. Zonk revisited! The big Moac sits in between.
The CMI case is awesome! All of the crack tacks and some angles and blades. Hammer too.
The pinbins are safe outside the case, trust me. Best way to lighten your rack is to thrash around wearing Pinbins in a corner. Yardsale!
The icescrews hanging in a line are, from the left; three Marwas, two drive-in ice pitons, two Salewa tubulars, one covering up a Charlet Moser corkscrew, first generation Salewa Warthog, unthreaded drive-in tube (stainless), pass??? and an old style vertical ice piton. And last but not least, hanging by its wristloop, a real live ice dagger for close in combat.
Man it has been so long away from the Neptune Museum that much has faded from memory. Thanks for the blast Ray.
Ask Gary if any of those crampons were Eckstein's original design.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 12:22am PT
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Steve I got a note on my desktop to ask Gary about those crampons -
man, there's some more stuff in there I wanna post - some stuff in this big glass case that looks like cave man gear, no sh*t! Like animal skins and everything...kid you knott
dude, I will get that label on the Dolt pin nailed on the next go along w/ the card above
anything else you need or I have forgotten lemme know
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 9, 2007 - 12:30am PT
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not sure what was going on, a Southern Sun fest? If you look close at the guy w/ his back mostly to the camera it's (the original) Crusher, Steve Bartlett.
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