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Tork
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Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 10, 2009 - 02:42pm PT
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So I'm going through a bunch of stuff trying to lighten my load. All this stuff is taking over, you know. In the process I decide to let go of some of my guide books, ones I either don't use, have two of, or have newer editions of. So I come across a particular guide book from a famous place not so close to here. On the cover of this book is a picture of one of one of our own on the Taco Stand.Quess who?????????
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Apr 10, 2009 - 02:48pm PT
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I know HandCrack is on the back cover of the Joshua Tree West book(on Sail Away). But that's not the one you mean, I don't think.
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Tork
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Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2009 - 03:11pm PT
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A bit farther away happie
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Apr 10, 2009 - 03:18pm PT
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Chiloe on a book from the Gunks or Vermont?
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2009 - 03:26pm PT
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Way, way farther!!!
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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Apr 10, 2009 - 03:38pm PT
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Probably gonna get a lot of false guesses, as a lot of ST folks are on guidebook covers, throughout the years...
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2009 - 03:54pm PT
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Hey Walter!!! What book?
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Apr 10, 2009 - 04:12pm PT
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I don't know the answer, but I have a similar funny story.
Bought the climbing guide to Les Calanque, in southern France. This book is completely in French, and for a French audience.
On the back cover there's a petzl ad that is superb photo of this dude sport climbing - looks scared - in the middle of the crux, and... it looks familiar.
Now, I've never climbed in Les Calanque before, and yet this photo looks naggingly familiar. Then it hits me: it's a photo of a classic 5.11a at Waimea cliff at Rumney, basically in my back yard! I've done it several times!
I guess Petzl must've used that shot because it looked so "exotic" to the Frenchies. :)
GO
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 10, 2009 - 05:20pm PT
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survival:
Chiloe on a book from the Gunks or Vermont?
No such luck. For a brief while there were photos of my routes on the front covers of
current guidebooks for Red Rock and Eldo, but that was the closest I ever got to famous.
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katiebird
climber
yosemite
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Apr 10, 2009 - 11:40pm PT
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Jo Whitford/Australia?
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2009 - 02:35am PT
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We have a winner!!!!!!
How did you know katiebird?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Apr 11, 2009 - 04:47am PT
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Woohoooo!! Go Jobie!
chiloe,
"That's as close as I ever got to famous."
Oh, now yer flat trippin'....
You're famous to me dude!
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katiebird
climber
yosemite
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Apr 11, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Saw that book the other day - just a guess.
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2009 - 01:49pm PT
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And a good guess at that katiebird
I bought the book in a small gear store a few miles from Arapiles. We were planning on picking up a few guide books, for the different areas we wanted to hit up, until we saw the prices. Almost $50 a book. For those prices I opted out of buying any, until I found this one older, black and white book for like $10. Cool!!!!!!!!!!! But way cooler when , upon perusing the guide, I noticed it was Jobee on the cover. How fing cool is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 11, 2009 - 05:06pm PT
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hey there tork... WOW... say, thanks for the neat share, and some supertopo history!
:)
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