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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 22, 2009 - 02:56pm PT
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This account of a visit to Dresden is Roper at his hliarious best!
The prevailing style of climbing in Dresden stands apart from the rest of continental Europe other than in Czechoslovakia and other areas inside the so called Iron Curtain. This is the wild and unfettered roots of bold rock climbing and a fascinating historical counterpoint to the thrust of drilled and hammered development seen elsewhere. No place has inspired me more than this one.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 22, 2009 - 05:18pm PT
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porn foot bump
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Nov 22, 2009 - 05:19pm PT
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great post thanks!
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Urmas
Social climber
Sierra Eastside
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Nov 22, 2009 - 07:32pm PT
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We gotta go there, Steve!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2009 - 07:54pm PT
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It would be some big fun and I am way overdue for a Euro trip! Hmmmmm?!?
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Nov 23, 2009 - 09:32am PT
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That article has always been one of my all-time favorites. I'd already been fascinated by the Elbe (Dresden) climbing scene since reading Thorington's equally-classic article about Oliver Perry-Smith in the '63 or '64 AAJ. Perry-Smith was a climber from the States who lived and climbed in Dresden in the very early 1900s, and was one of the top climbers in the region, climbing routes grades harder than any other American was to do for decades. Anyway these articles, and Henry Barber's later adventures, were the principal motivators for my too brief visit to Dresden a few years later. It lived up to expectations and then some...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2009 - 12:52pm PT
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If Fritz loves the place, that is all I need to know!
Home to the best free climbers on the planet...
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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Nov 23, 2009 - 09:59pm PT
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This is the article which first inspired me to one day become the old baldheaded climber I am now!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2009 - 10:10pm PT
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I don't think it hurt Fritz's chances, climbing or otherwise! LOL
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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Nov 24, 2009 - 11:22am PT
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Dab
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Nov 24, 2009 - 02:10pm PT
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whoa! footwear in that pic!
I had apparently mistakenly thought that the use of climbing shoes in the Elbe hadn't occurred until the early 80s?
thx
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2009 - 03:06pm PT
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I bet the locals have a good laugh if you show up with a bad case of haole feet!?! Good thing it looks like airfall city!
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 31, 2010 - 06:32pm PT
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bump.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 31, 2010 - 06:41pm PT
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trad climbing bump.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Mar 24, 2010 - 10:23pm PT
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bump
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2010 - 03:39pm PT
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Thanks to Jim Phillips for this bit of Dresden from North American Climber Winter 1977.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Sep 11, 2010 - 06:15pm PT
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I recalled this article re: Fritz Wiessner as I approached my 70th birthday; he was ....what....in his 80s in this time frame!!!
Another Fritz Wiessner anecdote involved Steve Komito (Komito Boots, now...) as a guide from the Exum School and Guide service in the Tetons many years ago: All set at the start of Irene's Arete, as Steve got ready to lead the 1st pitch, Fritz simply stated--"I lead!."
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2010 - 07:22pm PT
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That shot of Henry barefootin' it is priceless. He of all American climbers would have had the least problem with that practice!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 18, 2010 - 11:09pm PT
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Knot jammed between two Bumps!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
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Kurt Albert Memorial Bump! He was the proud monarch of this place!
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