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bob d'antonio

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Aug 3, 2008 - 05:21pm PT

Bones (AKA as Jersey Jeff) on Lotus Flower...1982?

Mike Freeman on...

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Aug 3, 2008 - 05:31pm PT

What does the word Foops mean, and/or how was it derived? Is it just a play on "Oops!"?

Rickster

Trad climber

Pine Bush,NY

Aug 3, 2008 - 08:32pm PT

Geno, I haven't a clue who the first fellow is . I'm pretty sure that is Manny with Sawicky. RC

divad

Trad climber

wmass

Aug 3, 2008 - 09:38pm PT

From Swain:
Legend has it that John Salathe was rappeling in Yosemite and found his rope too short to reach a ledge. The disgruntled Salathe was heard to exclaim in a heavy Swiss accent "Foops (whoops), no more rope!" He then cut off the ends of his rope and prussiked back up to the anchor.

bob d'antonio

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Aug 4, 2008 - 09:03pm PT

Our dear Kevin on Supercrack.

rgold

Trad climber

Poughkeepsie, NY

Aug 4, 2008 - 10:12pm PT

Divad, if Swain repeated that story about Foops, he ought to have used it with attribution, because it comes from Art Gran's original 1964 guide to the Gunks.

Kligfield

Mountain climber

Boulder, CO

Aug 5, 2008 - 09:56pm PT

And the "Foops" story is initially discussed in the 1959 (?) cover article on the Gunks in Sports Illustrated--the one in which Jim McCarthy is shown aiding across the Foops roof on the second ascent.

Curt

Boulder climber

Gilbert, AZ

Aug 6, 2008 - 12:35am PT

Yes, "Up Against the Wall" is the route Mike is on.

Curt

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2008 - 01:40am PT

Well, it just wouldn't a proper Gunks thread without a Vulgarian gross-out! Got my Jones back and had to post this shot of Dick Williams on Shockley's Cieling. Art Gran photo courtesy of Ed Cooper in Climbing in North America, 1976.

david r

climber

WA now NY then

Aug 8, 2008 - 02:22pm PT

Hello All,
Hi Steve! Hi Bob D, Hello Rick, stay seated Idle Rich...
This will be my first post..
I thought that some of you might find this interesting...
The cover of Vulgarian Digest (Spring 1972):

david r

climber

WA now NY then

Aug 8, 2008 - 02:36pm PT

and another...
Kevin And Barbara in a classic pose from a memorable trip to Boulder in the summer of '77
Many Gunks climbers were there including Romano, The Idle Rich, and many others...
Many of us slept in the (vacated for summer) rooms of a very animal house-like
CU fraternity where jumping off the roof and out of windows into the swimming pool
was a frequent occurance...

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2008 - 08:12pm PT

Welcome maestro Rosenfeld!

Now I actually have a way to contact you! Where is the other pair for the Milton Boulder chicken fight?!?

LCS

Trad climber

Reston, VA

Aug 11, 2008 - 07:13am PT

David R, Remember our hike out to Lost City and our trip "out west" in 1975??

From left to right are Russ Raffa, Rich Ross, Mike Robbins, David Feinberg and David Rosenfeld

Here's a young David R and Feinberg

Rich Ross

Harvey Arnold, David R and Matt Munchnik in Eldorado 1975

david r

climber

Seattle now NY then

Aug 11, 2008 - 11:32am PT

L,

Great to see those photos... Though it is sometimes a bit difficult to separate
out which trip was which!
Still feeling a huge impact from last fall and looking forward to Gunks II

an attempt at Crack of Bizarre Delights, late 70s... in the end Kevin led and others followed:

note: original image which was backward has been flipped

rgold

Trad climber

Poughkeepsie, NY

Aug 11, 2008 - 11:47am PT

Not shots of climbers back in the day but rather shots of back-in-the-day climbers climbing (still). This post just ain't gettin' any love---almost off page 2 without even a heckle, so I thought I'd give it a chance at life here.

Septuagenarians on Parade