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Tarbuster
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:06pm PT
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Roger,
I can't peg those switchbacks below them.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:13pm PT
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Bloody mountain couloir, near Mammoth.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:16pm PT
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A post pubescent Tarbaby:
(photo stolen from Larry Loads)
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Tarbuster
climber
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:18pm PT
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No Jay,
No foamback for me; I made the overpants and the pack.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:25pm PT
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Ho Man!
Every one ah these is a tasty pearl, a real box 'o chocolates I tell ya:
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Feb 24, 2007 - 11:46pm PT
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yeah, off white's lembert dome outfit was a real, uh, swank set 'o threads, tell you what!
and that van. i really, really miss that van. oh, to be back, back in the day.
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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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Feb 25, 2007 - 12:02am PT
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I love this thread, more pic's pleaze!!!
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 25, 2007 - 12:19am PT
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same van, still on the road in 1985
interior shot, summer of 1977. Note the cursed Chouinard Fish pack, nasty floppy ballistic cloth sack with pancake style top pocket. No relation to Mr. Walling's fine institution.
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Feb 25, 2007 - 12:50am PT
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Both of these have been posted on this forum before, but for your viewing entertainment.
Myself in the really old days.
Kris Solem not quite as far back.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2007 - 12:53am PT
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Chouinard Pack, GPIW tee-shirt, two inch webbing, bloody leg courtesy of Scary Canary 5.12 1981.
Gunks 1978
Garden of the Gods 1978
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Darnell
Big Wall climber
Chicago
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Feb 25, 2007 - 01:23am PT
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YES, YES!! Keep the majik alive!! Post your old skool photo here to save ST
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 25, 2007 - 01:57am PT
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What did you do over X-mas break in 1974? How about the Spring Route on Baboquivari, Tucson's own little wall climbing area. Yup, it just ain't the same without the Forrest Pinbins, wool knickers, RR's, Camp Five 60/40 covered down coat, ironmongery and all!
Around the same time, this one almost ended my young school ass! Self-driving shields placed upside down with very bent bolts. As I was transferring from the second one out to the first, the first one sheared off! My whole show on a bent 1/4" bolt in a roof! "Lower me, sloooooowly!"
Lastly, rgold if John had climbed up a little higher you would probably have looked something like this from the end of the Expanding Flake. Peter Prandoni in 1975.
This was the first solid A-4 pitch to be climbed hammerless by the father of the clean aid movement, Bruce Carson (aka Super Chicken) solo. He had the entire thing all laced up with opposition wired nuts by his fascinating account.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Feb 25, 2007 - 11:13am PT
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Did someone mention "Foamback"?
Bivy at top of the Bonatti Pillar 1977, photo: Dewi Butler.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Feb 25, 2007 - 11:19am PT
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Joe Herbst, hot and tired at the end of day two, 2nd ascent (?) of Harding/Rowell route on Liberty Cap, 1972.
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Tarbuster
climber
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Feb 25, 2007 - 11:26am PT
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We recently had an Al Bartlett thread.
Well, Al Bard was greatly enamored of Bartlett and he had Big Al guide for him a couple times (or maybe just once) in the Palisades. He loved Big Al's crusty minimalism: at the core of the "Bard's" tale, was this swiss cheesed, gutter bum looking foamback cagoule, which along with the rest of Bartlett's charming kit, all but scared the clients out of the high camp, of course excepting Big A's charming demeanor.
Man, one piece of Foamback would all but top off the most commodious rucksack eh?
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Feb 25, 2007 - 11:59am PT
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I liked the stuff. The cagoule was like a bivy sack, just slip the pack over the feet and you had a pretty good shelter. Pretty bulky, though, as you say.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Feb 25, 2007 - 12:11pm PT
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All the coolest old-school stuff: EB's, hip belay, Strawberry Mountain chalkbag, swamis, etc. The San Diego Union/Evening Tribune did this article on my partner (Dave Hersey, belaying) and me, as well as the San Diego climbing scene in general, back in '80 or '81. The climb is "General Dynamics" at Mission Gorge. Seeing Dave's belay today, I'm glad I didn't fall.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 25, 2007 - 12:59pm PT
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Off White, that rope hanging from the bar in the second photo looks like a Chouinard 11mm "rattlesnake," which was my first rope... got hunks of it around still.
Old ropes never die!
Don't got any aircooled VW's anymore though I had a few... '61 bus, '67 bug, '72 bus, then switching to water cooled, '89 golf, '89 Westie (this last still in service as the "Magic OW Bus"). I miss the old days, but all in all you don't have a wrench on the new rigs as much as back then.
GREAT PHOTOS ALL!
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TwistedCrank
climber
Hell
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Feb 25, 2007 - 01:08pm PT
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The Way Back Machine. Too cool.
The Gendarme at Seneca Rocks before it collapsed. Scott is wearing a wool union suit and wool knickers from army surplus. The helmet I think is a skateboard helment from Toys-R-Us.
Some central New York water ice. Scott and Woody are wearing army surplus slacks and Woolrich blazers under their 60/40 EMS parkas.
Woody showing off his Ragg wool balaclava rolled neatly about his brow.
A Fires and no-socks smear somewhere in Toulumne.
Crossing the schund on Mt. Dana. Mr. X is wearing a early-generation lemon yellow Patagonia baggies suit.
Top of Mt. Dana. I'm wearing a wanna-be-better-than-I-was driving cap, oversized reflector Vaurnet sunglasses and a wannabe droopy moustache
A backcountry alpine trip somewhere in New England. Note the genuine Peruvian toque, Dachstein mittens, and the skinny absolutely unshaped 210 cm skis.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 25, 2007 - 01:14pm PT
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best thread award. Roll out the carpet.
rgold, that Old School Ice picture is all time.
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