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May 31, 2019
11:36pm PST |
Classic Threads
A partial and admittedly subjective and incomplete list, as of about 2010. Titles and links, although the latter may be broken, or with missing photos/posts.
Writing & Literature
Reardon
http:/... |
Mighty Hiker |
May 18, 2019
05:17pm PST |
Tobin Sorenson
Brunosafari,
This is such a great ST thread. Thank you for posting it and getting it started. I remember reading your article back in 1980? when Tobin passed away and you published the memorial art... |
Klimmer2.0 |
Dec 9, 2018
10:33am PST |
World championship WHAT climber?????
Rockclimbing
Just looking at that first video in the OP, yes, you wouldn't know that Kai has climbed outside. And it says: Rock Climber in the title.
Things have really changed quite a lot. Things... |
Tarbuster |
Oct 19, 2018
04:33am PST |
Warbler Appreciation
From Roger Breedlove's thread Barry Bates and Mark Klemens – – Valley Free Climbing
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/654801/Barry-Bates-and-Mark-Klemens-Valley-free-climbing
The original c... |
Tarbuster |
Aug 17, 2018
01:08pm PST |
Tom Frost
All of us Stonemasters started chasing Tom's lead from day one. Never did better routes then Tom Frost did years before. Cause there ain't none. No better person, either.... |
Largo |
Mar 21, 2018
03:02pm PST |
Tom Higgins
If people only knew how hard those routes Tom at put up Tahquitz, back in the 60s, in junk shoes. Try and climb the last pitch of Jonah in lug sole shoes and you're looking at 5.12 for sure. And run o... |
Largo |
Jan 22, 2018
09:09pm PST |
Your very first climb? when, where?
T Hocking, we (Stonemasters) all learned how to edge and crimp on the English Smooth Sole Slab. Rugged sh#t in the old RDs and PAs.... |
Largo |
May 5, 2017
11:24am PST |
space station
I have no idea who was first to hang out in the Space Station and I don't recall the first time I was in it. Nor do I remember who was first soloing the old standards like Double Cross, Dogleg, etc. S... |
Largo |
Nov 26, 2016
03:28pm PST |
The New "Religion Vs Science" Thread
I'll bite on this one from Mike:
Beautiful. All of life is like that, and you would think that climbers get that. But here, in this thread, they don’t seem to. They are all about the thing, the mea... |
BASE104 |
Oct 15, 2016
12:39pm PST |
West Face of Sentinel and The Misty Wall - all free
What a fine accomplishment! I have witnessed such an astounding increase in athletic climbing ability in the last sixty years. Equipment like sticky rubber accounts for a little bit of this surge, but... |
jogill |
Jul 26, 2016
07:40am PST |
What is "Mind?"
External reality cannot "provide" experience
Biggest piece of baloney in a long time. We turn to external experience all of the time, and it is every bit as valid as personal experience. Ever drop ac... |
BASE104 |
May 15, 2016
05:10pm PST |
The Sheep Buggerers of JT...BITD
Here you go, Vikki, an excerpt from Randy's article, posted way up thread:
[Click to View Linked Image]
Interestingly, when Doug and I first started climbing in what was then "The Monument", w... |
Tarbuster |
May 13, 2016
06:31am PST |
The Sheep Buggerers of JT...BITD
Ha ha. Good one Russ. Take a seat! … (classic Russ-ism)
I know you were kidding.
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Good call though, now that we ca... |
Tarbuster |
Mar 30, 2016
10:32am PST |
The Essential Yosemite Library
Since I started in the "red Roper guide" era, and have a particular love for climbing history, I would include the following, at least:
A Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (Pre-1963, with the ... |
JEleazarian |
Oct 5, 2015
03:29pm PST |
Tobin Sorenson
from page one, . . .:
Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
Oct 5, 2011 - 09:39pm PT
THE GREEN ARCH
We came from nowhere towns like Upland, Cucamonga, Ontario, and Montclair. Non... |
Gnome Ofthe Diabase |
Jul 26, 2015
08:39pm PST |
The rise of climbing
I hope that there is a ban on children as team members when "climbing' is just another Olympic event on streaming video .
Why is that?
If you look at the great leap forward in performance that c... |
David Plotnikoff |
Jul 3, 2015
10:17am PST |
Gay marriage...law of the land.
Largo,
I respect you I do. Love your writing in climbing literature, and your history and making you're mark within the Stonemasters. Great respect.
But how is it that someone like you goes to a... |
Alpamayo |
Jul 3, 2015
10:07am PST |
Gay marriage...law of the land.
Largo,
I respect you I do. Love your writing in climbing literature, and your history and making you're mark within the Stonemasters. Great respect.
But how is it that someone like you goes to a... |
Klimmer |
Jul 1, 2015
11:29am PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
I'm asking you to simply correct the misinformation and acknowledge that your closest partners, Ricky and Richard, and the rest of your noted crew came to spend extended time in the Valley a year afte... |
Largo |
Jul 1, 2015
07:20am PST |
The StoneMasters Book - Now Available + old thread list
sycorax -- "If Stonemasters is going for $600, I'll sell mine. Largo signed it at Facelift."
StoneMasters can never ever be sold.
Only the imposter can be sold.
The modern climbers call them... |
WBraun |
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