Lower Cathedral Spire Register May 1964 - Late 1973

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Roger Breedlove

climber
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2010 - 06:40pm PT
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HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Feb 28, 2010 - 07:33pm PT
Oct 17, 1970
Cindy Holmes -> Topless
you go girrrl!

Wonderful stuff Roger. I know two of those old fogeys from 1969 - 1970
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Mar 8, 2010 - 11:31am PT
get the register (thread) back on the summit (page)...
Melissa

Gym climber
berkeley, ca
Mar 8, 2010 - 11:33am PT
It might have been more popular then than now.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Mar 8, 2010 - 01:29pm PT
Wow, what a great history thread.
Thanks Roger!!

P.O.D. lost his virginity on the flake pitch

I LOVE that one!
Clint Cummins

Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
Mar 8, 2010 - 02:06pm PT
Thanks for sharing this - many cool names from the past and present.

5/22/71
5.6 Reg Route
Scott Edmondson
Jeffs (first climb) Schoen
Eric
Nice climb. Someday do a
harder route

:-)
Milkl

Sport climber
San Jose, CA
Jan 30, 2015 - 09:32pm PT
This is totally random, and I hope it is not too late to mention, that I watched the movie "Barefoot by Midnight" at Eric's home in California. Eric is my father-in-law's friend from kindergarten. When Eric found out that I climbed, he got all stoked to show me this movie he made (still on VHS).

Let me know if you are interested in getting in contact...
Jan

Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
Jan 31, 2015 - 12:35am PT
Thanks for scanning all the pages. So nostalgic to see the names of all those long ago friends.
BBA

Social climber
Jan 31, 2015 - 06:33am PT
Great of you to post the register. I saw an entry for Dave Harvey on 6/29/1968 with several others. He was the guy who got me into climbing. On 5/28/1960 rattlesnakes defeated us on the approach to Split Pinnacle so we switched to the shady side of the Valley and climbed Lower on 5/29/1960, my first climb on my first trip to the Valley over Memorial Day. Got there by Greyhound bus from LA after finals at UCLA.

PhilG

Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
Jan 31, 2015 - 08:07am PT
Ditto what Jan said.
I can smell the bay leaves while going up that long, and usually hot, approach.
Thanks, Roger
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 31, 2015 - 10:15am PT
Great thread Roger!

Another classic Valley register here...

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1533071/Sentinel-Rock-Summit-Register-Classic-Whos-Who-1934-1976

So glad that these registers didn't slip through the cracks. Nice slice of history with a big side of nostalgia.
hamie

Social climber
Thekoots
Jan 31, 2015 - 11:28am PT
It would be good to see the early register for Higher Spire as well. Any leads?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 18, 2017 - 10:11pm PT
Bump.

Hamie, I woke up thinking of the Higher Spire's register a bit ago.
It's hard to say without tapping into UC's Bancroft Library collection, which is mainly, as I understand it, Sierra Nevada mountain registers with Half Dome and Cloud's Rest tossed in the mix.

Research may be done if you register with them and they okay your viewing. They seem to prefer you do your viewing in person, but it can be done online, I THINK.

https://aeon.berkeley.edu/logon?Action=10&Form=31&Value=http://voro.cdlib.org/oac-ead/prime2002/berkeley/bancroft/m71_293_cubanc.xml
MikeL

Social climber
Southern Arizona
Dec 19, 2017 - 07:08am PT
Thx for the bump, Mouse. I never saw this. It's almost made me speechless.

Thx, Roger. Wow.
hamie

Social climber
Thekoots
Dec 19, 2017 - 08:58am PT
Mouse

Thanks for the info. I have a friend who used to work as a librarian at the Bancroft. She still lives in SF. I'll send her an email.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Dec 19, 2017 - 12:59pm PT
So much has changed in the last half century... but some things stay he same: people still disagreeing about politics and still asking others to get their gear back :)

Maybe prehistoric cave drawings were actually political disagreements, or disagreements about the ethics of spear hunting with bare hand vs the aid of a leather strap.
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