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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Apr 16, 2011 - 02:33pm PT
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MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
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Apr 16, 2011 - 05:15pm PT
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Mark Rodell
Trad climber
Bangkok
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Apr 16, 2011 - 09:47pm PT
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Armando, I met you in Kathmandu in 93 or 94. You were working there and you let me use your address so I could get some gear sent to me there. Wanted to say thanks again. Cheers
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Hand Jammer
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Apr 16, 2011 - 10:40pm PT
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Painters Pants - Check!
Red knee pads - Check!
Socks - Check!
Leather covered EB's - Check!
Red Bandana - Check!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Apr 16, 2011 - 11:28pm PT
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Early High School days, probably about 1970. Pre-EBs. Red PAs. Roubidoux. I think this is Teflon Direct.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Apr 18, 2011 - 11:59am PT
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bvb....hilarious!! I could almost hear Olivia Newton John singing "Let's Get Physical" in the background!
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ArmandoWyo
climber
Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2011 - 12:41pm PT
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Largo,
are those PAs. Can't tell and to be honest, I don't remember that well which were the PAs. I had RRs and Kronherfers (?spelling?). For example, are these PA that Gary's wearing? I don't think so, but don't know what they were.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Apr 18, 2011 - 01:25pm PT
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Yes those are PA's, but is he going to approach in those??....ouch!!
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ArmandoWyo
climber
Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2011 - 04:36pm PT
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In defense, it was the slab approach, but today i wouldn't do it in anything as stiff as RR. I didn't claim we were smart, just smartly dressed.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 18, 2011 - 04:39pm PT
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We used to hike in EBs all the time. Probably a useful exercise, in that it stretched them a bit.
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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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Apr 18, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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Here's a contribution to Armando's bitd but "nattily dressed" thread...
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storer
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Apr 18, 2011 - 06:01pm PT
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Guide's Wall, Tetons. Butt belay, Swami, EB's, bandana. Don Black leading.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Apr 18, 2011 - 07:13pm PT
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If you look at the photos of me on the second page,
on Baskerville Terrace, you can see the vintage PA's I was
wearing at the time. . . Bright Red!!!!
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steve shea
climber
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Apr 18, 2011 - 07:59pm PT
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RDs, brown/blk, stiff, Rene Desmaison. PAs, red/blk, not so stiff, Pierre Alain. EBs, blue/wht, da kine, Ellis Brigham.
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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Apr 18, 2011 - 09:36pm PT
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steve shea
climber
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Apr 19, 2011 - 09:44am PT
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I stand corrected... Ellis Brigham was the importer distributor when they, EBs, first came into the states. Although, anyone could have, bruoght them in as we did. We brought in 40 pr to a climbing shop in Aspen in the early 70's
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ArmandoWyo
climber
Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2011 - 10:07am PT
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Steve, thanks for info. I had no idea - especially at that time - of the availability of EBs. To think of all the face climbs I did on the Apron, base of El Cap, and Meadows that we did in RR, when we could have had EBs!
I'm clearly wrong to categorize RR and PAs with the last of knickers era through the early 70s, and the 70s and 80s with the introduction of EBs, swamis and harnesses, and painter pants.
armando
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ArmandoWyo
climber
Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2011 - 10:25am PT
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Hankster, that one on the 80s was a great thread, good to look at it again, and the laught at the photo that John posted. It’s the photos here that are telling the stories, and I think that’s what we are enjoying. But one of us must start an 80s-era fashions photo-thread - up until lycra that is. I don’t want anyone to find a photo of me in my American Eagle lycra tights trying to look like a sport climber.
Armando
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Apr 19, 2011 - 01:58pm PT
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Me in Boulder Canyon in 78 with Kletters, Robertson harness and hexes. Guy in background with PA's, Rugby shirt, and painter's pants, I think on The Dome.
I was with Jack Panek, it was one of those sunny cool days in the fall, and we were doin a "wide" day. We'd been up at Huston Crack on Cob Rock, and I think here we were getting ready to finish up by losing some flesh on Umph Slot.
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Brock Wagstaff
Trad climber
Larkspur
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Apr 19, 2011 - 05:43pm PT
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Everything cycles... jeans are back! Or did they ever leave?
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