Same Climb - Different Time (pics & stories)

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BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 29, 2013 - 10:49pm PT
With so many long term climbers on the Taco, I thought it would be fun to start a thread where folks can post up new and old pics from the same climb, summit etc. Maybe stories from different times as well. I'm sure there are lots of great pairs O pics out there, so dig through your collections and post up!

I'll start off with a pic from last weekend and it's 25 year old counterpart...
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:53pm PT

Thank godess you've graduated from Lycra!!!!


hee hee hee. . .
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:53pm PT


Looking good there in both photos BN! We didn't have cameras when I started climbing.
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
Wow! That is so cool!

Susan
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
Don't have photos right now, but I've climbed El Matador on devils tower every ten years or so since the middle seventies. The first time being as an aid climb, With, pitons!
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Oct 29, 2013 - 10:59pm PT
Bet some of those cams were on your harness for both trips!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Oct 29, 2013 - 11:51pm PT
same cams? I looked quickly and I don't think so... but he might be wearing lycra under those "styled for the mature climber" trousers...

cool, I'll take a look, sure I don't have a picture of me using the exact foot holds and hand jams as appears to be the case in your image above!

just noticed that it was nearly the same frickin time of day too!!
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Oct 29, 2013 - 11:55pm PT
Oh good! I can't wait to see what you have Ed!
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2013 - 12:17am PT
Here's another pair of pics from the time machine to get things rolling...
edit: Riley, I'm just weaker now :-)
RyanD

climber
Squamish
Oct 30, 2013 - 12:21am PT
This is a cool thread, did ya used to say "tape is for pussies!" Back in 88?
;-)
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Oct 30, 2013 - 12:44am PT
ah, crimpie sure has changed
nah000

climber
canuckistan
Oct 30, 2013 - 02:08am PT
"ah, crimpie sure has changed"

still just about as ripped though!
Edge

Trad climber
Boulder, CO
Oct 30, 2013 - 10:48am PT
Cathedral Ledge summit, 1962. Age 1


And same spot some 45 years later with my daughter (on the left.)

BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 30, 2013 - 12:20pm PT
Good one Edge! That time span will be hard to top!
Russ Walling

Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
Oct 30, 2013 - 12:25pm PT
Steelmonkey just did one of these on his top secret blog:

Me on Halfway to Paradise in JT:


And again something like 33+ years later (and on TR, puss!)

euro-brief-guy

Boulder climber
Auburn, ca
Oct 30, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
Shazam! Russ......looks like to many burritos and coffee drinks in those 33 years.
Brokedownclimber

Trad climber
Douglas, WY
Oct 30, 2013 - 02:16pm PT
Only 25 years apart?

Try this one:


I have misplaced my pictures of that exact climb done on September 8, 1963...a 50 YEAR interval. Here's one from another climb I did only 2 days earlier on September 6, 1963: Cima della Madonna, Scarf Arete (UIAA V+, or 5.7+/5.8-)

L

climber
California dreamin' on the farside of the world..
Oct 30, 2013 - 02:43pm PT
Cool thread!

Love those purple tights with little blue and orange dots. They just don't make spandex like that anymore, do they.

I think you upgraded your partner by 1000%, BN. That's a great pic of the two of you.
Rick A

climber
Boulder, Colorado
Oct 30, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
Ed said,

ah, crimpie sure has changed

I assume you mean she is even prettier today!

Am I right, Ed?


On the subject of repeating old climbs, here is my TR regarding RCA on DAFF Dome in Tuolumne. It describes a 39 year gap between climbs.

http://www.supertopo.com/tr/In-Search-of-Lost-Climbs-RCA-on-DAFF/t11979n.html
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Oct 30, 2013 - 09:09pm PT
fun thread!
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