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C4/1971
Trad climber
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:21am PT
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Do you remember in 1973 when Gene Foley became infatuated with rocketry and started shooting rockets at groups on the Nose. Funny times.....
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 17, 2015 - 10:57am PT
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Never heard that story.
But!!!! Gene Foley is the original inventor of the Bird Beaks long before anyone ever even thought of it.
I remember seeing his first prototype .....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2015 - 02:47pm PT
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http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1750553&tn=100
JM -- "Just like in climbing, when two climbers discuss an idea for a first ascent and the idea develops in subsequent discussions, then one of them goes off and does it with someone else without letting the other know, ..."
Now ain't that the truth. It's happened to me. It happened to Charlie Porter and many others.
That is one of the hardest thing to swallow when someone does that.
Also if someone confides in a route to keep secret and that person spills it to someone else and that party runs out there and does it sucks too.
And as an example pertaining to the above "ball nut" ... The "Bird Beak" was an interesting observation.
Gene Foley came up with that idea originally even prior to the "crackin up".
He displayed his prototype in Camp 4 and there was not much interest at that time.
Years later after the invent of the "crackin up" they cut one end off and some how Bridwell becomes the father of the invention?
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 17, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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Bridwell remembered Gene Foley's original beak years before the crack n Up was made.
I was there with Bridwell when Gene revealed the original beak.
Bridwell didn't think much of it at that time.
But later with crack n up he got the idea to cut off one side remembering the original idea from Gene's invention.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 19, 2015 - 09:45am PT
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speaking of Gene Foley
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 19, 2015 - 07:18pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 08:49pm PT
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The pic of Foley's Ford...is it in reverse?
For that matter, is Randy looking the wrong way?
Scanning is great when you get it righ.
I'ts a big pain in the as s to go back and do it over. Son't bather.
Good stuff!
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 05:50am PT
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I only worry about whether I put the slide in backwards if there is writing on it. Otherwise you will have to use your imagination, which you have plenty of Mr. Mouse.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 05:53am PT
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C4/1971
Trad climber
Depends on the day...
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Feb 20, 2015 - 11:45am PT
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I got to Chamonix much later, in the nineties, but boy did immediately feel at home. I could almost smell spring Yosemite......
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 01:39pm PT
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When I was there with Walt and Duane Raleigh in 1984 it was a crowded slum. No toilets. So the surrounding woods were filled with turds.
It was like that in 1973 too. Pretty stinky on a hot day. We camped on the Plan de l'Aiguille for a few days and that was pretty smelly too.
My understanding about Snell's Field was that it was owned by Snell who had the sporting goods store in the town. He made it a free place to camp for climbers as long as they didn't steal from his store.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2015 - 06:27pm PT
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wow...full circle. First photo of this thread.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 06:57pm PT
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We were hitchhiking to Scotland and somewhere outside of Fort Williams, a car pulled over for us. As we were running to the car, I noticed climbing gear through the back window. I said to Randy, "cool, our driver is a climber". I got in the car and as I turned to the driver to thank him I said; "oh hello Bugs." It was Bugs McKeith whom we had met in Camp 4 the year before. So we spent a week or two with him traveling around Scotland. We stayed with his mother in Edinburg. She refused to call him "Bugs". He was Alistair.
After he picked us up we drove to Fort Williams and stayed with a friend of his who was the curator of the museum. The museum had just acquired a collection of pharmaceuticals from a doctor from the eighteenth century. In it was a bottle of tincture of cannabis. So we had a cup of tea (oh yeah) and then went to the pub and proceeded to drink a few pints of Guiness. I am surprised we made it back up the stairs to her apartment.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:00pm PT
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That's confusing as hell mouse. Are we supposed to start reposting stuff now. Luckily, I only have a few ...
Charles D. taught me how to do this.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:03pm PT
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how in the hell did you manage to flip the slide? wow. cool. does look better that way. thanks
ah thanks. I figured it out in photoshop so now I can flip the rest of them.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
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Gypsy. There are many software products that will allow you to flip an image. There are in fact programs that can modify photos and videos such that you literally cannot believe your own eyes.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:19pm PT
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:41pm PT
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I got it now. I use Photoshop CS3. Self-taught. Learn by trial and error--mostly error. Just like photography. Someday maybe I will take a class in photography.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Feb 20, 2015 - 07:50pm PT
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And Gypsy....you don't have to go back to the Nineteenth Century (PS3?!!?!?!? when we are now at PS 15.2.2?!?!?!?) to flip photos. If you are a Mac user, go to Preview.app and use its simple tools.
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