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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Aug 14, 2009 - 06:03pm PT
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Working as a Boy Scout camp counselor at Camp Old Indian teaching 10 year olds important stuff like clove hitches and Morse code!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 14, 2009 - 06:18pm PT
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Too Funny, Ricky D! I went to Philmont as a a scout that year (might have been July) a few twists and you might have taught me how to tie a clove hitch!
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, I guess nobody was able to teach me to spell, skully.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Boise....
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Aug 14, 2009 - 06:19pm PT
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tiw?
ok.....(lookin' out for ya, Jaybro.)
All good.
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Shimanilami
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 06:52pm PT
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I was an itch in my papa's pants.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Aug 14, 2009 - 07:19pm PT
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I was a paperboy for the Philadelphia Inquirer.Got the word out without a hitch at 6am every morning,365 X 3.Remember watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon,a few weeks earlier,then delivering the news the next day.MAN WALKS ON MOON.
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jstan
climber
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Aug 14, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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I was beginning to worry about retirement.
Go ahead. Tell me there is no age diversity here!
Edit:
66 or 67. Got married in 69 and aged rapidly after that.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Aug 14, 2009 - 10:10pm PT
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Wind Rivers with my girlfriend Carol from Yosemite. Pratt and Hennek were in there at the same time. Went back last summer for the first time since 69 and amazed how little the Winds have changed in 40 odd years.
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richross
Trad climber
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Aug 14, 2009 - 10:20pm PT
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Year unknown,maybe 1969?
Don't know who took photo.I found it online.
Great picture of jstan,Kevin Bein and ?
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 10:29pm PT
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My sister worked at the Tuolumne Lodge that summer, and she got me signed up with the mountaineering school that occupied the tent cabin between the parking lot and the back dock. (see http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=922000&msg=922000#msg922000 ) Tom Gerughty dragged me and my buddy up Mt Lyell for my first noteworthy summit. When we returned, my dad drove us over to Agnew Meadow. We hiked in to Lake Ediza, where we met the real Ed Ames on the trail just below Shadow Lake. This was the same trip my dad told me the tale of Norman Clyde wandering the hills with a huge pack, and even carrying an anvil.
The second day, my dad led us as far as he could up Mt Ritter (on to the SE glacier) where he let proceed onward on our own. Gloriously, we summited, then skid and glissaded back down and met my dad at about the same spot, and stumbled into camp after dusk.
Here’s a few shots taken along the way (sorry for the poor quality).
Man, it was steep. . .
Pre-giardia
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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Aug 14, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
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Huntington Lake. Sailing El Toro, messing around, and fishing for rainbow trout and suckers.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Aug 15, 2009 - 02:50am PT
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1969 I was 21 and spent the whole summer in the Valley. Started out working for Curry Co. and soon gravitated to Camp 4. Summer of '69 Bruce Price took me climbing for the first time and it was a kind of miraculous revelation. Hope he's well, the guy seemed heroic at the time. What a great crazy wonderful summer it was! If I could I'd go back and do it again I would in a flash!
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Aug 15, 2009 - 05:41am PT
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Tom Johnson
Trad climber
Guerneville, Cal
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:01pm PT
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Plane just landed in Vietnam
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:02pm PT
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nutsack
edit- Lowers in 69? You suck, Dogtown!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 20, 2009 - 01:13pm PT
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Camped out with a friend at Maroon Lake below the Bells, pretending we were hippies, bumming roaches from some older long hairs, I was 15.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Aug 20, 2009 - 02:35pm PT
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This was me in August 1969:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Bianchi's, a big tomato shipper, hired me to load reefer cars with boxes of green tomatoes to go east. I was lucky to get such a cush job out of the heat.
I had lost my job as a houseman at good old YL in May. They didn't cite sexual misconduct as grounds for dismissal. I contravened housing rules concerning visitors. Huh? Whaaaa??? I had a woman in my tent. With intent, but who's to judge?
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Land of God-less fools
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Hiking the John Muir Trail
Correction- that was in '70
'69, Sierra Club clean up trip, Whitney environs.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I received my one and only day of rock-climbing instruction in summer 1969. A friends older brother covered: belaying , climbing, and a short rappel in a couple hours on low-angle granite near McCall, Idaho.
I soon bought a copy of Mountaineering, Freedom of the Hills, ordered a 120 ft. Goldline, some cheap soft iron pitons, and some steel-biners from REI, and grabbed some friends in Ketchum, Idaho.
"Look"---I said, "We're going climbing, I know how!"
It was Simpler-times, combined with the audacity of youth.
Other than that climbing schist, it was a helliciously fun summer.
I spent most of it in the outdoors, at a required Forestry Summer Camp for U of Idaho Forestry students.
Outside of spending everyday learning plant names, forest ecology, fire-fighting techniques, and surveying, we spent every weekend hiking, drinking, & doing drugs.
Ah------the late 60’s.
Good times for those of us in college.
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Matt
Trad climber
it's all turtles, all the way dooowwwwwnn!!!!!
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in the womb
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