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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2009 - 03:28pm PT
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What? Not even a toque?
Nice picture anyway, klk.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 14, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
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A little advertising by the sea!!LOL
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2009 - 12:50pm PT
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A little advertising by the sea!
As that image came down over dial-up, I knew that Gratton would follow Super as night follows day. Once when living in Chicago I mail-ordered EBs from Britain for less, all charges included, than they cost in the local climbing shop (Erewhon).
But why the Hell did they include that kelp or seaweed that give the wrong friction message?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 15, 2009 - 02:24am PT
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Super Gratton -- I'd forgotten that was the full name of the shoe. And for a bit more trivia, what was the full name for which EB is the initials?
But back to the seaside. Or, almost to the sea. The water in this picture has only a few hundred meters left in its journey from the peaks to the sea.
Bouldering above the kelp.
Our ship coming in.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 15, 2009 - 11:07am PT
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One of my favorite places over the years.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 12:02pm PT
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That would be Ellis Bringham's Ego Boosters!
Gratton means "hold" in French, incidentally.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 15, 2009 - 12:18pm PT
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Edmond Bourdonneau.
But Pierre Allain and his fellow Bleausards actually began gluing truck tire rubber to the bottoms of their canvas high-top tennis shoes. Thta was the original model that Bourdonneau followed.
Here's a pair of late '70s EBs doing what they did best:
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 15, 2009 - 02:03pm PT
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You sure it's Edmond? I always thought it was Edourd.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 15, 2009 - 02:13pm PT
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I had always seen "Edouard" in print, but EB's web history says, "Edmond." Maybe it was one on the baptismal papers and another at the crags.
http://www.eb-france.com/historique.htm
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 16, 2009 - 11:28am PT
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What, you've seen enough of the Bering and Barents Seas? Here's a different one
(with fortunately no surf).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 16, 2009 - 11:56am PT
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Enough with the decadent sun-splashed beaches! All I can think of are all the things beneath the waves which can do me harm and all the trouble I can into above the sea level.
Here's some proper beach shots: mid-November, balmy mid-40's. Alas it was sunny, you can't have it all. Sorry I don't have any shots of the scarier routes on Gogarth and the Red Wall. They were too scary to lug a Nikon up.
Dream
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 16, 2009 - 12:34pm PT
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Great shots, Reilly. Invigorating conditions, not like these:
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
the outer bitterroots
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Feb 16, 2009 - 02:09pm PT
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yeow, this thread just keeps getting better and better.
where waves hit crags, what could be better than that. better than sex. (ok, what little sex i can afford).
^,,^
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Feb 16, 2009 - 02:17pm PT
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chiloe "fortunely no surf" what's wrong with a few waves!!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 16, 2009 - 03:21pm PT
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what's wrong with a few waves!
Hah, take a walk on the ironshore!
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 16, 2009 - 04:35pm PT
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Not technically a sea, but climbable rock on the sea shore. Hopefully this summer I'll get out there.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 16, 2009 - 09:03pm PT
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I know this isn't religion or politics but we were looking for climbing! We sailed out of Seward looking for booty and wenches, uh, in addition to climbing.
Cap'n Piss Gums scans the main
Note the Carman 60/40 jacket!
Not much climbing here
Ahoy! Oops, it is already spoken for and I've a strong aversion to being barfed upon by rabid seabirds.
As you were maties!
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 04:34am PT
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If I had a ship,
I'd sail my ship,
I'd sail my ship
Through Eastern seas;
Down to a beach where the slow waves thunder-
The green curls over and the white falls under-
Boom! Boom! Boom!
On the sun-bright sand.
Then I'd leave my ship and I'd land,
And climb the steep white sand.
Face to the cliff as the stones patter down,
Up, up, up, staggering and stumbling,
Round the corner where the rock is crumbling,
Round this shoulder,
Over this boulder,
Excerpts from an A.A.Milne poem
Reilly, even your pictures tell good stories.
I got a feeling I know what this guy is thinking.
And this one says a lot about time and place. The rock seems to be mirroring reflective caustics from the sea. (Using my new vocabulary word in a sentence.)
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MH2
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2009 - 04:45am PT
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and on the subject of boats, a little thread drift
this was on a tree on the way to The Traverse
Six-year old nails Supertopo parody?
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