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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 23, 2014 - 11:34am PT
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This magazine is appreciated!! -The recording of what was happening BITD and the gear...
Published (for the most part) in Big Bear which is close to home here in SoCal.
The first issues contained more skiing than climbing, but they did have some climbing articles:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 23, 2014 - 11:48am PT
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I'm down with this. Long before there was Climbing, Mountain or Ascent, Summit was what we had. That's where I first read about El Cap, and published my first story about a climb so trivial I'd be embarrassed to mention it now.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 23, 2014 - 01:57pm PT
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I'm with you, Larry. The first two issues I purchased included Royal Robbins' summary of 1966 Yosemite climbing, and an article describing an expedition to Tierra Del Fuego. The next one had Lauria's "Dihedral Diary."
As I told you before, I remember your article in Climbing on the Southwest Face of Half Dome. Now I'll have to look through my collection tonight to see if I can find your article in Summit.
John
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 23, 2014 - 03:29pm PT
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Dad:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 23, 2014 - 04:51pm PT
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I'll have to look through my collection tonight to see if I can find your article in Summit.
Ack, I was about 19 at the time.
High point of my writing from back when I didn't know how much I didn't know came a few years later, the Candlestick Tower cover story for Climbing.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Dec 23, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
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Yep, Summit was the big magazine back then. I recall writing an article requested by Royal - who was some sort of editor - about bouldering, and later learning of his comment: "Barely publishable!"
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Dec 23, 2014 - 08:44pm PT
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Yes Summit was the only magazine around that I knew of when I started climbing.
The March 73' was the first issue that I purchased.
It started my addiction to climbing on the Eastside.
The article was called East of the High Sierra by Galen Rowell.
The photos had me hooked.
I couldn't wait to hit the Buttermilk Boulders and crags.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 23, 2014 - 11:45pm PT
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Yep, Summit was the big magazine back then. I recall writing an article requested by Royal - who was some sort of editor - about bouldering, and later learning of his comment: "Barely publishable!"
I have that article, too, John. I still haven't come to emotional terms with the fact that you wrote it a bit more than 45 years ago, though. Unfortunately, I seem too impatient to reproduce the two pages properly, but here they are:
Needless to say, it greatly expanded my idea of what was possible - at least for you! The idea of that one-armed lever and that one-armed fingertip pull up were - and remain - beyond my comprehension.
John
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Rockies Obscure
Trad climber
rockiesobscure.com....Canada
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Dec 24, 2014 - 09:25am PT
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I love old books thanks for making this thread!
That piton-boxing cover is award winning as much as i love to pound.
Have a few old Summit mags circa 1950s etc on my site. The one with the leaves on the cover has a great article by Harding doing an FA.
http://rockiesobscure.com/the-book-library/
Merry Christmas ST folk!
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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In September of 1956, Summit list the climbing clubs. Surprisingly, there were many:
And you could read a letter written by RM arguing to let a 16yo go climbing:
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Bargainhunter
climber
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Jun 26, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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The AAC Teton Climber's Ranch has nearly every back issue in their library. In the evenings I must have thumbed through every single one. Great history, especially reading about the FA of the climbs I was planning to do the next day...
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2015 - 11:44am PT
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This issue was brought up on another thread:
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Jun 30, 2015 - 12:32pm PT
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Summit was every mans mag! My first published piece was in Summit, as was many,including Galen Rowell! It was homegrown, small town, and quirky! And that was just fine by me.
Long Live Summit!
TY
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Jun 30, 2015 - 02:32pm PT
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Does anyone remember the time Sheridan Anderson snuck a cartoon of a climber rappelling from a raised middle finger onto the cover?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 30, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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I have a fairly extensive archive of these soon to make the California to Moab migration...
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jun 30, 2015 - 06:37pm PT
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Alpinist Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Katie Ives recently did an article on those two old gals that ran Summit. They are still alive too and welcomed her visit and interest!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jun 30, 2015 - 07:27pm PT
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When I was in high school, I had a set from 1958-1974 or so.
They had belonged to my mom's uncle E.A. Robinson, but he was moving to Alaska and downsizing.
They had many cool articles, as Royal Robbins was the climbing editor/correspondent.
I remember:
 "Cutting Canadian Capers", by Robbins, including his scary solo of the North Face of Mt. Edith Cavell.
"The Town Wall", by Greg Donaldson, 1971 first guide to Index Town Wall
"Are Too Many Bolts Being Placed by Too Many Incompetent Climbers?", by Yvon Chouinard
"Dihedral Diary", early repeat of the Dihedral Wall by Don Lauria and partner
Shiprock article, showing all known routes
"Reisenstein Spires", hoax article (photos of Kichatna Spires)
Ball's Pyramid
Trolltind Wall
the many cool Sheridan Anderson covers
the Dolt and West Ridge ads
Eventually I wasn't using the magazines any more, and I traded them to John Middendorf (when he was doing A5 Adventures in Flagstaff, AZ) for a rappel rope!
I always wondered if Steve Grossman ended up with them....
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Jun 30, 2015 - 07:34pm PT
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I think it was Descent (Roger Derryberry) that did an "analysis" of the various climbing rags at the time. For Summit, they printed a rejection letter from someone who submitted an article about global Pleistocene glaciations. The Summit editors' reasoning was that the Bible says that the world is only 6006 years old or some such nonsense. Descent's take was something like, how could anyone take these two editors or their magazine very seriously on ANY topic! Quite humorous! Does anyone have that original Descent analysis??
BTW, I have a fair number of Summits in my collection, probably 1964-1974. I'll have to check my archives...
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