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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Don,
I thought it might be an original Stoveleg made by Bill Dolt but I’m not sure. It does look like a Dolt (i.e. has the welded eye and size in the Dolt Hut catalog).
But Dolt didn't make the original Stovelegs. Those were made by Frank Tarver (1956) and Rich Calderwood (1958) and they had rings:
Tarver Stoveleg
Calderwood Stoveleg
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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You're a hard man to argue with, Mr Cummins, cuz yer usually right!! BTW-thanks for that cam...
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adkeditor
Trad climber
Saranac Lake, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2013 - 08:53am PT
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Here's an odd "piton" on the Wiessner Route, a 5.8+ crack on the summit of Noonmark Mountain in the Adirondacks. The guidebook Adirondack Rock identifies it as a 1"d lag bolt. It's only 10 feet or so off the ground. The book speculates that it was used to stand on, but the authors doubt that Wiessner, "being a purist" would have used such an aid. Incidentally, the crack is the hardest of numerous Adirondack routes established by Wiessner in the 1930s and 1940s.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Mar 15, 2016 - 09:59pm PT
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mastodon, that beefy angle iron pin looks like some that Harvey Carter had made up, originally for Totem Pole, AZ. He made a trip to the Valley in early 60s.
Don't know exactly who made them for him, some metal worker in Colorado Springs? But the design looks about right, piece of burly iron, tapered, welded at the end. If there's any traces of gold paint, that'd be one of his for sure.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mar 16, 2016 - 12:21am PT
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Let me see if I can get Dick Long, Jerry Gallwas and Dennis Hennek to come along too and we can have ourselves a grand forgefest with the camera rolling!
Please tell me you took SGropp up on his amazing offer...
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Drew Madison
Social climber
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Mar 16, 2016 - 08:07am PT
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Retro pin from the gunks
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 16, 2016 - 08:36am PT
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Not so far but Jerry comes up this way fairly often so it is in the hopper.
Getting Dick or Dennis up here is much more involved.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Mar 16, 2016 - 11:12am PT
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After reading this thread, I need to re-evaluate the contents of my "retreat kit." It contains a great number of unused ring angles, Cassin verticals and horizontals and lots of old, soft-iron horizontals, wafersm etc. Maybe I should sell them on Ebay instead, and buy something trustworthy with the proceeds!
John
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 16, 2016 - 01:09pm PT
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Hey John- Send me some pictures of what you have that isn't ring angles and I will trade you for alloy steel pitons. I have a pile of alloy blades from my collecting and lots of other stuff to trade if you are looking for bail pitons.
Cheers
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