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Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 5, 2009 - 01:16pm PT
Sweet Dolt dump, Marty! Did you notice that the Gruvy Chock in your collection is different from the one in the ad upthread. I have one like yours and I carried it on my rack for years! I was surprised that he didn't go off parallel to allow a third placement attitude. Is your Dolt rope fuscia colored?
Ever lay your hands on one of his gold plated pitons?

Somebody must have bought one! LOL From Summit 1968. I wonder if Fetish was Bill's middle name?

Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
Nov 5, 2009 - 09:32pm PT
Steve, is the woman in the photo you posted about ten back Ellen Wilts?

Awesome Dolt photos!
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2009 - 12:26am PT
Anders- I can't identify her based on anything familiar.
Fritz

Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
Nov 6, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
Marty: Thanks for posting up your photos of Dolt Gear. When I saw the "Littlepeg"-----the memory kicked in.

I bought one back in 71 or 72 with the thought: "might give it to my girlfriend."

I've hung onto it all these years and I had memories that it was a Dolt item, but it is unmarked.

So------since you did not show size of yours: here's mine! Just over 1" long and yes, I am very proud of it.

Marty: how long is yours?

Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 6, 2009 - 05:04pm PT
Very nice ,Fritz! I wonder if it was actually intended for use or purely sculptural jewelry! Anything stamped on the back where there is a little space or is the pin its own logo dimensionally? LOL

The funny thing is that it isn't even the smallest piton that he ever sold by a long shot!
crunch

Social climber
CO
Nov 6, 2009 - 05:14pm PT
Fantastic thread. I recall seeing a Dolt ad, fall of 1967 in Summit advertising a gold-plated piton. Maybe in 1968 he had some left from the previous year?

Hard to imagine anyone buying such a thing.

Like buying a gold-plated Alien, perhaps even the yellow one.
Fritz

Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
Nov 6, 2009 - 05:30pm PT
Steve: They were definitely sold as something non-functional. Maybe jewelry, perhaps art is a better catch-all category.

Under 7X magnification, absolutely no markings.

I think I bought it in a long-gone shop named Snug Mountaineering in Ketchum, Idaho.

We are getting into old memories here, but I think there were also silver versions of the same item in Snug. I was too cheap to buy the silver one.

I do remember telling a slightly later girlfriend about how I regretted not buying the cool silver piton: because she had one made for me as a Christmas present. That one is closer in size to a Chouinard Lost Arrow----------and still cherished.
old toad

Trad climber
yosemite, Ca.
Nov 7, 2009 - 04:48pm PT
Bump for a real climbing thread, unlike most of the crap posted on this site.
Ron
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 7, 2009 - 05:06pm PT
Ree-Deep! Hee-Deep! Ree-Deep!
PhilG

Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
Nov 8, 2009 - 12:22am PT
Don,
I must of missed this post when it first came around.
What great and thoughtful rock climbing history!

Two thoughts come quickly to mind:
First, thanks for opening a flood gate of memories from those wonderful times.
And, second how precious and important are my "crazy" friends of today.
rockjockrob

Boulder climber
Tempe, Arizona
Nov 11, 2009 - 11:15pm PT
Wow! Marty, you have been promising me for a long time that I would get to see all those pieces! I never guessed How many you really had! After bidding close to a hundred dollars for just one nut, I am blown away at what your detailed collection must be worth!

As Marty Jr., I have a long way to go to have a more grand collecetion, but because of his collection I now have close to 500 pieces of my own!

Go gear heads!
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 26, 2009 - 05:05pm PT
Yet another Dolt Bump, on a wire.
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Dec 4, 2009 - 05:25pm PT
I thought you all might enjoy this.

Ken
karabin museum

Trad climber
phoenix, az
Dec 6, 2009 - 12:06am PT
Jim Bridwells Dolt Jacks. Used heavily but still look new.

LONGware Jacks? Tacks? Rurps? What did LONGware call their bits?

Rope from Gerry Mtn Sports c-1948. Donated by Wally Vegors
Plymoth Nylon 7/16 rope c-1959. Purchased from Dolt in Tahquitz, CA.
Donated by William Straka

Rock on!

Marty
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Dec 6, 2009 - 12:39pm PT
Cool stuff Marty!

Ken
dee ee

Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
Dec 6, 2009 - 04:25pm PT

I've had this poster since '68. It was a present from one of my dad's climbing buddies.

Gobee

Trad climber
Los Angeles
Dec 6, 2009 - 04:52pm PT
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2008 - 12:13am PT
"Remember the reference to Dolt's feat at Stoney Point - climbing a route with a rock in his hand that no one else could repeat?"

I guess Dolt was the Org. Stonemaster?
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Dec 6, 2009 - 05:27pm PT
Any one ever climb in the blue Dolt shoes?

Ken
karabin museum

Trad climber
phoenix, az
Dec 6, 2009 - 09:31pm PT
Here's another Dolt poster

Rock on!

Marty
Mr. Vader

Boulder climber
L.A., CA
Jan 8, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
Don:

Thanks for the stories. Keep them coming. Wonderful memories. Here's a handful of Dolt hangers I got from Westridge. Recently unearthed in my garage. Never used. Still have my Westridge Sierra Cups. See you in LP for WW Marathon?

Don Feinstein
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