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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 24, 2008 - 09:35am PT
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day
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Nov 24, 2008 - 09:45am PT
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How come nobody any more wears those bitchin' hats like Kor wore?
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Nov 24, 2008 - 12:00pm PT
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This is one of the best threads in a long while. Thanks Ed. And thanks Chiloe for posting up the original NatGeo artical. I remember that article from my impressionable youthdumb. A towering accomplishment.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 24, 2008 - 12:10pm PT
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Philo, glad ya liked it. This article impressed me way before I knew how to climb.
Still got a few pages to go. Classic summit shots of the team:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 24, 2008 - 12:11pm PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 24, 2008 - 12:15pm PT
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Note, in the caption on page 720, that famous tower is called Castle Rock, not
"Castleton" as climbers have misnamed it. Castleton was the name of a town, which
was named after Castle Rock.
(Department of Lost Causes)
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/climb_01.htm
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Where are YOU from?
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Nov 30, 2008 - 04:27pm PT
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The Titan!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any Rock with a skull is the Groovinest, in my book.
Gracias, Chiloe!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 04:52pm PT
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One of the most hilarious stories from the recent Kor slideshow had to due with waiting around for Barry to show up for the summit flyby photos. After waiting around for a long while on the summit, Kor and company decided to descend assuming that something had gone wrong with Barry's arrangements. Not long after pulling the first rappel, the drone of an aircraft began to be heard. Soon, a rather animated camera man hung out of the airplane door and began pointing upwards repeatedly. It was Barry, of course, trying to get the FA party to repeat the last pitch so that he could get the shot. An exchange via a variety of novel hand gestures ensued but failed to move the team any higher so down they went!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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It's cool when forgotten threads like this come around again and I can read them a second or third time.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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The hats were a special"touch," added just for National Geographic. They were Layton's idea. They were supposedly "Tirolean mountaneers hats." In the late 1960s, everyone was emulating Herman Buhl. Yeah, I was too. The Austrian and Italian rock climbing heroes were the real "rock stars." Hurley didn't wear one--only Layton and Huntley did.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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In the late 1960s, everyone was emulating Herman Buhl. Yeah, I was too.
I never knew that explained the hats! By the time my friends & I hit the Titan in '71, we had wool balaclavas more like Dougal Haston.
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reddirt
climber
PNW
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Jul 31, 2011 - 01:07pm PT
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bump again
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Jul 31, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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Hoipoloi, those hats were all the rage after that Nat Geo article. They were called "Crusher" hats because you could crush them and stuff them in a pocket. They were felted wool and pretty cool.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Feb 14, 2014 - 04:05pm PT
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They were called "Crusher" hats
Really? Hahahaha!
Layton and Huntley told me they actually worked real well on the Titan, kept the dust out of their eyes.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 14, 2014 - 04:23pm PT
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Whoah, cool to see this old thread on the front page again briefly. Brings back the old sense of ST as an archive for stories, some never written before.
Are there new ST threads still making archives, or is it like Tarbuster suggested a while back -- folks used up all their old slides and stories?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Feb 14, 2014 - 04:24pm PT
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depends on what you mean by "old" ;)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 16, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
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This climb marked the first use of Jumars on a climb of record in North America. Corbet had a pair which Layton and Huntley promptly put into service while a skeptical Hurley stuck to his prusik slings.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2014 - 06:22pm PT
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One of my prize possessions is the issue of NG of the Titan with an inscription from Huntley to me. Layton signed it too and, though I have corresponded with George, I neglected to bring it to Boulder when I saw him last June.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Feb 16, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
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Yeah! Great thread.
Hey Chiloe, maybe you could share some stories from your ascent.
After one failed attempt long ago, I've yet to go back. Maybe this year.
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