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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Dec 14, 2010 - 01:56pm PT
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Steve, classic equipment thread. Love the first scan: E I G E R !!!!
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Dec 14, 2010 - 02:05pm PT
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Fatty
In and around that area, remember going to Sport Chalet after the meeting.
Also they used one of the shotguns in a movie had drum and recall 11 or twelve shots.
Will find it sometime this week.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 15, 2010 - 06:04pm PT
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Page 2 (of 3), in the continuing blast from the past.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Dec 15, 2010 - 06:08pm PT
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Is this like the 12 days of x-mas?
At this rate, it'll be into the new year...
Ha ha.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2010 - 11:44pm PT
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Decades ago when I plucked this from a route in the Wind Rivers I wondered who in the world made stainless steel ring angles?
Eiger, of course!
Pate- I always trail some red avalanche cord at home...LOL
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 02:34pm PT
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A shot of the classic Eiger oval carabiner. When I made my first gear purchase in 1970, I bought five blue and red anodized Eigers. I still carry a very faded red one on my Doltpin.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Dec 18, 2010 - 02:38pm PT
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Sh#t,.My whole rack consisted of those eiger ovals...never knew they were so dangerous..? ignorance is bliss...rj
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 02:38pm PT
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Always best not to fall anyhow...LOL
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Dec 18, 2010 - 02:59pm PT
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I've got the Heavy Pointed Hammer, Climbing Ladder, a few aluminum biners and assorted pins. I think the hammer was made by Stubai.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 03:07pm PT
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Luckily, the top layer is soft goods so I can usually swim out!
It's the abseiling hammers that I find funny! Very Clip and Go European! Give 'em a tap on the way down...
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 18, 2010 - 04:48pm PT
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Steve, Nice Eiger catalog!
What is cool is that it shows Leeper hangers without the final angle cut. Ed Leeper first sold the hangers in 1964 as the shape shown. He added the extra cut over the carabiner hole two years later to the shape that most people see rusting away at the crags today.
Doug Black from AZ in the early 1960s made bolts and piton angles with stainless steel welded rings like the photo shown. I am not sure that Eiger made angles?
Leeper "N" shaped pitons......I always called them Leeper Zs
I believe the Aluminum Bong Bongs and Chromolly Bongs are LONGware.
Rock on! Marty
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 18, 2010 - 05:03pm PT
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baby angles .85 cents!!!!!!!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2010 - 02:05pm PT
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Eiger Bump!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 19, 2010 - 05:27pm PT
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Is this like the 12 days of x-mas? At this rate, it'll be into the new year... Aren't art critics a pain?
The last page of MEC's first catalogue/manifesto.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2010 - 05:32pm PT
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Seven Geese A Pluckin'...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2010 - 06:50pm PT
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Spin the dial forward to the early seventies and The Eiger Company has become Eiger Mountain Sports Corporation. I have no pricelist for this one and so no definite date.
Just in case the importing aspect was in doubt! Ledergoods!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2010 - 07:09pm PT
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Not a big stretch to say that these folks were as big an importing operation as any short of REI or EMS.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Dec 20, 2010 - 02:12am PT
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Steve, The Eiger catalog is wonderful! I wish it had a date on it.
The Eiger nut on wire is probably a tough collectors item to find. So many people created this piece with no mfg stamp.
Mammuth(misspelled) Mammut Bicoin Bi-Keil Chockstone was produced in 1969. They came in three sizes and are made out of red plastic with single hole through the nut for webbing.
The Baby MoAc is cool! The nuts were cast from molds, not chopped extrusions.
Stubai is misspelled throughout the catalog. The Clog Bongs look nice. I have yet to see any of them.
Lederhosen with embroidered suspenders...........and they laugh at my Zebra tights!
Rock on! Marty
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
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Dec 20, 2010 - 03:38am PT
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What an interesting document Steve! Thank you.
Here is a very modest Eiger Hexagon museum.
The Mammut Bi-Keil (Bi-Coin in French) mentioned in the Eiger catalog but not pictured. Marty here they are!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2010 - 12:43pm PT
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Nice Mammut nuts! I bet those sold like popcicles in Iceland! LOL
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