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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 14, 2012 - 12:23am PT
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My whole family had frosine vests and booties my sister in law used to make. She would buy extra down and overstuff them!
Conrad I still have my snow lion expedition double down jacket, and my snow lion limited edition -30 degree sleeping bag. The jacket is still warm, but the bag has baffle issues.
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Paul Martzen
Trad climber
Fresno
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Feb 14, 2012 - 01:07am PT
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I had a nice frostline vest that I loved. I used it as a pillow one night on the Lost Arrow direct. I sat up to put it on, but the wind whipped it away in an instant. I watched it flutter down in the moonlight and I felt not only really cold, but very sad. Felt pretty stupid too. But then just really cold.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2013 - 11:36am PT
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Do it yourself bump!
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FGD135
Social climber
Boulder Canyon Colorado
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Mar 31, 2013 - 12:37pm PT
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I still own a Frostline 60/40 shell mountain parka that I bought as a kit on sale at Holubar in Boulder in 1979. This was when the Holubar shop was over on 30th, with Neptune's directly across the street, where Christy Sports is now located.
My now ex-wife sewed the kit for me, and the parka still fits just fine. It's amazing now to think that 60/40 cloth was seemingly so high tech.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2017 - 06:29pm PT
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Bump for more self reliant days...
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Oct 21, 2017 - 08:23pm PT
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Ha! My mom sewed me some frostline down booties back in the late seventies. She never forgave me.....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 21, 2017 - 10:45pm PT
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self reliant?
I remember foraging down the lower west side of Manhattan when there were still places that made clothing and other things out of cloth. The people there were so helpful, and we purchased scraps for pennies on the dollar. Enough to suit us up for outside.
We didn't have much money, we had to make stuff "out of whole cloth," it seemed as if having that stuff was a fiction too far for us to make into reality.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2017 - 09:18am PT
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My first sewing project wasn't a Frostline kit but a big haulbag made out of Cordura bought from the Summit Hut in Tucson. Dave Baker graciously let me use his machine to do the deed and the big red garbage can served me well with a few patches here and there on all of my wall climbs.
Strange as it seems, nobody sold haul bags BITD until Gramicci offered his zip top version. Folks improvised with varying results...
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Crazy Bat
Sport climber
Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN
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Oct 22, 2017 - 11:06pm PT
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I made two parkas, a day pack, modified a backpack for a different frame and made a sleeping bag. I still have the backpack and the sleeping bag. I still use the sleeping bag even though sone of the down has become a clump.
I had feathers flying in my room for a month after makeing the sleeping bag. LOL
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 23, 2017 - 05:39am PT
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I used to sew a bunch of my stuff... one of my first projects was a "high tech" single wall tarp tent. Not unlike some of the super-light tents popular these days.... but mine wasn't light. ha
And I bought one of the very first Lowe expedition packs, and proceeded to put in a sleeping bag section in the bottom and a removable floor. I met some Lowe related guy hitching up to Alaska and he was quite impressed with my design. Later they followed suit.
Other stuff included rain pants, gators, ponchos...
But I was so poor I never could afford an official Frostline kit, though I spent considerable time reading their catalogues.
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