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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 14, 2009 - 12:14am PT
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Is it perhaps the first pitch of Mirkwood Forest, at the Malemute? Before the big rockfall at the bottom?
The EBs put it in the 1970s, anyway.
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Apr 25, 2009 - 04:16am PT
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Tami
What was your sex life like in the 70's ????
Squamish is dying to know !!!
Please, for historical purposes ... do not exaggerate
Was or is Peters reputation as big as his woohoo ?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 25, 2009 - 01:54pm PT
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Does Tami have to answer that one, or is hearsay acceptable?
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Apr 25, 2009 - 11:42pm PT
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Wanted to share some old photos I just found from my visit to Squamish in the late 70's. Can you identify the climbers in this one ??
At the base of Diedre
Some other photos at Squamish
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 26, 2009 - 12:03am PT
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The '70's iz too long ago fer me to remember. Sex is much better when yer over forty yrz old.
What y'all have to understand is that when she was young, Tami devoted herself to climbing. Anything that distracted from the purity of ascent was forsaken. Consequently, she was a virgin until she gave up climbing at age forty.
The stories of epic pregnancies are about as real as all that sh#t she cartooned about. Those kids were adopted.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 26, 2009 - 01:29am PT
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Damn funny!:^)
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mazamarick
Trad climber
WA
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Apr 26, 2009 - 12:57pm PT
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Peter, Randy, Perry, not sure of the rest.....how about some help? I remember the bus, but not who owned it.
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Apr 26, 2009 - 03:15pm PT
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Maz,
Right on all counts according to my notes. The bus was mine, but I was certainly not a Squamish fixture.....just a passerby.
Cracko
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 26, 2009 - 06:16pm PT
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Blue toque might be Peder.
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Apr 26, 2009 - 06:45pm PT
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Tami,
I was traveling solo on that trip and was the only yank in the encampment. Do remember meeting Peter, Randy, Perry, and a guy named Gordon. What a friendly bunch.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 26, 2009 - 08:04pm PT
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Big red jacket guy might be Simon Tooley.
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Cracko
Trad climber
Quartz Hill, California
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Apr 26, 2009 - 08:08pm PT
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Hey, is this Diedre ??
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 27, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
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The fellow in the blue 'pit sorta resembles Dave "Fish".
I don't think it's Fish. It actually looks more like me, but I don't remember waking up with that particular group that particular morning.
Hmmm. Not remembering doesn't really eliminate the possibility, does it? Still I don't think it was me.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 28, 2009 - 01:02am PT
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Cracko: Your last photo is Diedre - the first pitch in the diedre.
In the group photo:
Lying (on left) - ?
Standing, blue top, face toward camera - Peter C.
"Bendover" (behind Peter) - ?
Red duvet person - Simon T or Randy A. (Someone tall.)
Blue hat, salt & pepper sweater - ?
Slug in purple sleeping bag - Tami.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Anyway, returning to Tami's love life in the 1970s, there are rumours that she committed serial monogamy. To add to the scandal, she hopes eventually to become a sexagenarian.
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Climbing dropout
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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Found a late 70's picture of Diedre ...
Probably the worst climbing photo I have.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 26, 2009 - 04:38pm PT
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Returning to the fray, there is another thread with considerable information about how the Grand Wall gradually came to be freed from the 1970s through the 1990s, at http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=20466 It includes the story of the freeing of Perry's Lieback and other fun stuff, with contributions from some of those involved, including Perry.
For those interested in esoterica, there is a letter in Rock & Ice 179 (page 11) about Mushroom (at Squamish - mentioned in the very first post to this thread) and its being the inspiration for the naming of Magic Mushroom. It doesn't seem to be on the R&I website, though.
I haven't forgotten that the thread has stalled, hovering in about 1978, with only a year or two to go.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 26, 2009 - 04:59pm PT
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tx for that link-- i'd missed that thread.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jun 26, 2009 - 06:23pm PT
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What is that thing red jacket guy is standing on?
I know that it looks like a pallet but it ALSO looks like a bouldering mat... made out of plywood.
70's Technology! The legendary Flintstones Car-style Bouldering Pad! snicker
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 15, 2009 - 02:59pm PT
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Some of the usual suspects, recently seen at the Squamish Mountain Festival.
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