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Chapter one
Trad climber
Madrid, Spain
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 25, 2017 - 02:52am PT
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Hi guys I'm new in the forum!
I'm Gathering Information about climbing protection.
I would like to know who created the first Bong-Bong. Is it a mere evolution of big anlges? All information about the date, author ... will be well received.
Thank you very much. Sorry for my english! ;)
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Chapter one
Trad climber
Madrid, Spain
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2017 - 04:34am PT
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Thanks! ;)
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john bald
climber
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Mar 25, 2017 - 07:56am PT
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The Original
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Mar 25, 2017 - 01:02pm PT
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The first time I ever laid eyes on a bong was back in 1969. My friends older brother had just returned from a 13 month stay in Nam and had one, it was made from bamboo.
He reported they were quite common and used by the locals everyday.
As a tool they are very effective, reduces waste and affords the user a custom size.
Today the materials have changed but not much else.
It is hard to improve on a good concept.
I hope I have answered your question.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Mar 25, 2017 - 01:30pm PT
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Guyman introduced me to the proper use of Bongs in 1971, as he stated a very useful tool. . .df
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 25, 2017 - 01:34pm PT
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. . . . . . . ? . . . . . . ! . . . . . !? . . . ,?
I must , Resist . . .Not my Circus,Not my monkey, Control over Pavlovian responses
I can do this . . . . . . .Well okay then !! It must be in the cosmos tonight?
Edit:Glad you don't care ! (enough to say so?)
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smart guy,
you missed that Two other posters made the same joke before me.
Thus the point of my saying ;
I must try to resist . . . . See it was ment to be funny, but I see your Ability to comprehend is limited.
So yeah I'm glad you svck so much at English but not @"Internet".
Yeah it's hard to be on top pissing Down
Glad you are pursuing an education.
Wikipedia, is there for just for this reason
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 25, 2017 - 04:32pm PT
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4" Chouinard
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 25, 2017 - 04:40pm PT
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Looks like Ike to me.
$.24 seems like such a long time ago.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 25, 2017 - 05:48pm PT
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I remember when first-class postage was 3 cents an ounce.
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Chapter one
Trad climber
Madrid, Spain
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2017 - 05:37am PT
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Thanks a lot guys. Great info! * Gnome Ofthe Diabase... i don't really care. (your life must be refreshing)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 26, 2017 - 08:37am PT
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Some of the information in the second post needs to be corrected. Dick Long didn't "dabble" in making pitons, he along with Larry Lackey ran Longware and produced a full line of pitons for several years until the demands of medical school shut down the operation. Dick produced bongs as wide as 6" in aluminum and as wide as 4" in alloy sheet steel.
For the second ascent of the Nose in 1960, Tom Frost working with Bill "Dolt" Feuerer (in Bill's shop in Santa Monica) produced a selection of large angles and bongs made of alloy sheet steel. These worked and held up well so Yvon Chouinard quickly began making them to sell the following year.
Jerry Gallwas also made some large angles for the first ascent of the Northwest Face route on Half Dome in 1957 but did not make them 2" or larger to my knowledge which is the size where a bong ceases to be simply a large angle piton.
As I understand it, the name bong-bong was coined by Yvon Chouinard while he was climbing the Chouinard-Herbert route on Sentinel and drove bongs behind the large detached flakes which were named the Afro-Cuban Flakes based on their tonal character.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Mar 29, 2017 - 09:37am PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Here are a few shots of early Longware alloy bongs 2 1/2" through 4".
An early Chouinard 2 1/2" aluminum bong and a Longware 4".
These bongs belonged to Les Wilson.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 10, 2017 - 10:57am PT
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One small correction after looking at the 1980 Great Pacific Iron Works catalog. Chouinard sold alloy bongs in 1960 and aluminum bongs the following year.
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11worth
Trad climber
Leavenworth & Greenwater WA
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Apr 11, 2017 - 04:22pm PT
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 12, 2017 - 07:44am PT
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THAT is a bushel of Bongs brother!
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11worth
Trad climber
Leavenworth & Greenwater WA
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May 24, 2017 - 12:47pm PT
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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May 24, 2017 - 06:40pm PT
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11worth has some real treasures! Beautiful bongs.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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May 24, 2017 - 07:09pm PT
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Don't sweat gnome he has an on-line relationship with a grandmother from mountainproject and I don't think he's actually sentient yet
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