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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 8, 2011 - 01:45pm PT
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This was in the last section of Belaying the Leader, 1956 (Sierra Club) and formed much of the basis for climbing cartooning to come. Also note it was MAY, and not Mary:
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scuffy b
climber
Three feet higher
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Wasn't the falling leader used in Roper's red guide?
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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The perfect leavening for a great little book.
I remember poring over this volume when it was new and I was very young and just starting to climb. Had no idea then that the ideas in it -- the serious part about dynamic belaying -- were so cutting-edge in the whole world of ropework for climbing. At the time I took it for how it looked: barely more than a pamphlet with some ideas from local guys just across the Bay in Berkeley. And great cartoons.
But then I just happened to be nearby. Turns out that the rest of the climbing world was pretty clueless too about these advances, actually pretty huge, in how to hold falls.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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The one drawing also showed up on the 1956 Tahquitz guidebook (the one that first introduced the Decimal Rating System).
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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This thread is a little gem!
My father had a copy of Belaying the Leader, which I perused carefully. It was amusing that most of the book is fairly technical and dry essays on detailed things, up to and including manufacturing your own pitons and what sort of metal to use. (All by males.) Leavened by the cartoons at the end.
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dipper
climber
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I knew I recognized her name from a register in my collection of images.
I think I have others, though this is a nice one to share. Her name is at the top of the page.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May (not Mary) Pridham has a number of solo FA's in the Sierra. More than any other woman in Secor, IIRC. I wish I knew more about her.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Well, Dr. F. has his big thread about rocks and crystals that he collects, so other gem threads deserve attention also.
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Scot
Mountain climber
Los Angeles
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@dipper - On which summit did you snap that pic of May Pridham's July 1936 entry in the Register?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Dipper has not posted on ST in over 4 years.
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