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clode

Trad climber
portland, or
Oct 12, 2018 - 03:25pm PT
Ledge Rat, that's a great stereograph! As a geologist trained to use the naked eye to view stereographs, I had no problem seeing the 3-D perception.
Any idea who took the photos?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 13, 2018 - 08:30pm PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 12, 2018 - 08:32am PT
Not the Valley's Four Seasons restaurant of yore.

And this is only one of the seasons.

https://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/four_seasons_in_yosemite/winter.html


Click where it says to for the other seasons.


Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2018 - 09:10am PT
BaggerAss ski haus.
Good one! I hadn't heard that before.

Do we have more wordplay for Badger Pass?
stunewberry

Trad climber
Spokane, WA
Dec 12, 2018 - 04:54pm PT
Video taken in 1927 by Virginia Best Adams of Ansel and his crew when he made his iconic "Monolith - the face of Half Dome" Photograph. Awesome climbing technique, too.
If the link breaks, just google Ansel Adams Diving board video

https://vimeo.com/303153816
Tarbuster

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right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2018 - 05:33pm PT
Thank you, stunewberry: that was wonderful!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 12, 2018 - 05:51pm PT
I've seen this video and probably have posted it somewhere, Stunewberry and Roy.

Here is the "Monolith" backstory.
http://www2.housatonic.edu/artmuseum/anseladams/details/monolith.html
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 23, 2018 - 02:04am PT
I know this is suppost ta be about Yosemite, but WTH. Mike Sherrick posed at Tahquitz Rock with some of the best rock climbers of the day.
L to R: Unidentified man, Mike Sherrick, Yvon Chouinard (plaid shirt), Arkel Erb (alpine hat), unidentified man, Tom Frost.
-Photo from Ellen & Charles Wilts Collection, Angeles Chapter Archives.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 23, 2018 - 02:07am PT
Some cutting edge stuff for the day.-Photo by Niles Werner, Barbara Lilley Collection, Angeles Chapter Archives.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 23, 2018 - 02:16am PT
Not exclusively SoCal.Ellen and Charles Wilts on summit of Mt. Lyell, Yosemite National Park, August 1947.
-Photo from Ellen & Charles Wilts Collection, Angeles Chapter Archives.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2018 - 04:50pm PT
Hey, since the Yosemite decimal system was invented at Tahquitz,
I think we can make allowances for content here, yo!

I had a hell of a time, Mouse, squaring that historical image of Toe Jam in the above B & W.
But here it is, Frank Hoover's hands are proximal to the baguette feature in the horizontal crack to the left of the climber in this picture:


What confused me is that most people climb Toe Jam via the start of a route called Spider.
Of course in the B & W, Frank is climbing it in the traditional way as chronicled in Vogel's guidebook, as opposed to the way it is most often shown here on Mountain Project.
Tarbuster

climber
right here, right now
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2018 - 10:08am PT
Brian,
I noticed in another thread that you mentioned your health might be failing in a circling the drain sort of way.
Though it's the least of it, I have to say I am really going to miss your contributions to this thread when you are gone, whether that eventuality is in the near or far future. I hope it is the latter!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 25, 2018 - 06:00pm PT
Thank you, Siegfried. I'll tell Roy. They'll both feel better.

Way better, in fact, and I think I'm qualified to speak for them.

Sho' nuff, it's been fun and I hope we both have a long life.

History has a way of expanding as we get older, n'est-ce pas?

Old images are like popsickles, frozen for who knows how long but still good, able to bring a smile or even a smirk.

Thanks for starting this and so many other worthwhile threads.
i-b-goB

Social climber
Nutty
Feb 15, 2019 - 04:02pm PT
Nice match up Roy, mouse 5.7 would be a challenge in canvas tennies!
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Feb 15, 2019 - 04:37pm PT
Badger Flats was always the go to name Tarbuster
BBA

Social climber
Feb 16, 2019 - 09:34pm PT
Mouse's photo from Dec 23 2018 has two unidentified's - they are Harry Daley on the left and "The Dolt" next to Tom Frost. Both also part of the Yosemite story.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 16, 2019 - 09:40pm PT
I hadn't a clue, Bill. So thanks for the clarification, update, whatever.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 20, 2019 - 10:28am PT
Splitter. Finally broke apart into three pieces. RIP...Way older than '31. Likely the aught-tens.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 7, 2019 - 10:53pm PT
I see your stringent Rule 1931 has been modified. Very good judgement, Roy.
HOT DANG! I caught the reception (haha) tonight to open the museum's exhibit, "Originals of Yosemite."

A nice assortment of old artifacts and photographs based on Yosemite's history, it will be in place thru June 9. It's worth a stop.

Hours are Wednesday thru Sunday, 1-4pm.
Merced County Historical Society is the go-to name of internet record.

The photographers and some painters you probably know of are represented, and a couple I'd not heard of, Cohen and Boysen, namely.

If no attribution mentioned, then I don't know it or it's unknown or something else.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Mar 11, 2019 - 09:53pm PT
Original photo posted by Sandfly, vamped by Peter Haaaaaaan.
Cragmont, 1933.
Definitely Richard Leonard on the right.
ChickenSkinner says the person on the left is NOT Jules Eichorn.
The girl in the middle MAY be Helen LeConte, or not.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1215152/The-Indian-Rock-Legacy-Mike-Shandrick-Climbing-Nov-Dec-1981
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