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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2011 - 02:24pm PT
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Here's a bit on Rubidoux spelling:
RUBIDOUX - THE SPELLING
It is a fact that Louis Robidoux spelled his name as given here, but Mt. Rubidoux is correctly spelled with a "u" not an "o." Jane Gunther, Riverside County, California, Place Names, gives in the appendix of her book 32 variations of the spelling of this name. It was S. C. Evans of Riverside Land and Irrigation Company who bestowed the name and the spelling on the mount. In a contract made by Emil Rosenthal to buy the mountain variously known as "the mountain west of town" and Riverside Mountain was named in the contract as Mt. Rubidoux with that spelling. This was in November 1887. S.C. Evans was a well-educated, intelligent man and certainly knew how Robidoux signed his name. Why did he choose this one? Perhaps he thought it easier to pronounce or liked the sound better. Anyway the die was cast.
JL
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2011 - 02:32pm PT
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I also am very curious whatever happened to Phil Haney. He and Ben Borson were on hand during the first few months we were learning the ropes out at Rubidoux. We were totally amazed and very fortunate to get dialed into the whole gymnastic chalk, super tight varrape boot, hippy athletic bouldering ethos, which we soon took to the walls of Yosemite.
But we learned the original Stonemaster gig from watching Haney, Borson, and from getting mentored by Paul Gleason. Early on (I was 17) I was fortunate enough to have climbed a bit with Phil Gleason, who had WAY more experience than I did and set me straight about a lot of things per long routes. Phil and I also almost got fried alive on Arrowhead Arete, which I have written about, and which is still probably my closest call with disaster on a climb.
Freaking lightning bolt missed us by that much. That's no sh#t.
Great times.
JL
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Nov 15, 2011 - 03:33pm PT
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Thanks John and others for the stoke...i live 15 mins from there but have always given the bird to going downtown to climb...weather permiting im there this wknd.
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rick graham
Trad climber
irvine,ca
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Nov 17, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
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Oldie bump…..Bill Antel TRing the center route on the Smooth Sole Wall (January 1973).
At the base, the only other person I recognize is Gary Lilligard in the dark sweater. Gary’s dad owed the Pack & Piton shops in Upland and Glendora. Sorry TonyY, I don’t have any good photos of us ‘Pack & Piton’ boyz climbing from that era.
Hard to see, but Bill's 8-track tape deck at the base with the volume cranked up to 11 is blaring Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’.....good times!
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Nov 17, 2011 - 08:52pm PT
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No Way!!!
Antel of all people! How cool is that?
Thanks for that picture.
Yeah, Deep Purple would be about right for that timeframe.
Killer.
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 17, 2011 - 10:43pm PT
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Nov 18, 2011 - 12:10pm PT
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Someone say beehive? The cock-of-the-walk and lord supreme sand shoveler.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Nov 18, 2011 - 03:06pm PT
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Ho Rick! those were the days! I remember Gary's natty reddish sweater. And look how young Bill is!
@ Bolton, nice tat work!
TY
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Nov 18, 2011 - 07:45pm PT
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Good fun here. Thanks for the photos. Rubidoux after a rainy winter could be as green as Ireland--for about a three weeks before it turned brown.
In that first post, I seem to recall that the crowd had gathered to see Muir doing the amazing "Candle Stickless" problem.
Smooth Sole Wall! I haven't thought about that one for some time. What's the modern rating?
Rick
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Nov 20, 2011 - 06:48pm PT
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Thanks Bolton. I knew I could count on you, it was just a matter of time.
Still jealous of the talons of steel, eh?
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Nov 20, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
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That's a pretty young looking Dr. F there.
Cool.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Nov 22, 2011 - 08:39pm PT
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The tat was a team effort, but unless my accomplice wants to be outed I won't throw him under the bus.
Henny,
How many times do we have to have this discussion? Chickens don't have talons! They are weak, brain-dead, flightless food. See below for the University of Illinois article on chicken feet.
Chicken feet
The foot of the bird contains only part of the ankle bones. In mammals, all of the ankle bones are included as part of the foot.
Poultry raisers use the term "hock" synonymous with the ankle region and "hockjoint" with ankle joint. The bird does not have a well developed calcaneum, which forms the heel of man.
No bird has more than four toes except chickens of the Dorking, Faverolle, Houden, Sultan, and Non-bearded Silkie Bantams, all of which have five toes. In these breeds the extra toe arises above the base of the hallux and projects upward, never touching the ground. In the Silkie, the extra toes often lie nearly in the same plane as the hallux. Some birds have only three toes, while the ostrich has two toes.
Coues in 1903 classified avian feet according to the position of the first digit as elevated, insistent (the tip touches the ground), or incumbent, full length of the first toe touches the surface on which the bird rests. All domestic fowl are included in the Galliforms.
In poultry literature, reference is made to booted and booting. This refers to feathering of the metatarsus rather then to a fusion of scales. "Ptilopody" would be a better term to designate leg feathering.
The claws in chickens are relatively short and not greatly curved and serve the function of scratching.
The chicken metatarsus has four surfaces, but they are not of equal size and some have an irregular shape. The two or three scutes on the forward surface of the metatarsus aid in identifying the anterior surface. The marginal boundaries can be seen fully only in medial and lateral views, but the encircling proximal and distal boundaries can be seen in several views. The proximal boundary is common with the ankle region; the distal boundary is the caudal end of the tarsometatarsus at the junction with the basal end of toes II, III, and IV.
The posterior boundary follows the margins of the medium size scutella on the caudal surface of the metatarsus. The medial margin of the posterior surface bypasses the base of the metatarsal spur so that the spur is included in the medial surface. The inferior boundary of the posterior surface was placed at the basal end of the accessory metatarsus.
The metatarsal spur, like the beak and claws, has two parts: the underlying osseous structure and the covering of heavily keratinized epidermis. The spurs in the chicken project from the axis of the metatarsus at an angle of about 90 degrees and are pointed posteromedially at about a 45 degree angle. They are placed between the middle and distal thirds of the metatarsus.
The proximal and distal joints are the reference landmarks for the foot; the latter is more readily palpable. These joints are circular because the accessory metatarsus is rodlike. (Refer to the figure on the next page for details.) Below the accessory metatarsal is a thickening called the metatarsal fold; it lies between the metatarsal pad and the base of digit I. The metatarsal pad is at the end of the tarsometatarsal bone. Its boundary is well indicated by the crease on one side between fold and pad and on the other side between pad and bases of toes.
The joint between tarsometatarsus and the bases of thirds and fourth digits established the distal end of the medial surface of the metatarsus. The lateral surface, like the medial surface, is broad adjacent to the ankle, and it narrows distally to a point between accessory metatarsus and fourth digit. It contains reticulate scales.
The phalangeal formula for the chicken is 2, 3, 4, 5. The first toe is the shortest, the third is the longest; the fourth toe has five phalanges and is only slightly longer then the second with three phalanges. In the chicken all flanges are relatively long except the terminals and those of the fourth toe. Although round in cross section, the toes seem to be divided into dorsal and ventral surfaces, based chiefly on scale structure and placement of the interdigital webs.
The chicken has an intermediate interdigital web joining toes II and III and a lateral interdigital web joining toes III and IV. The webs in the chicken extend no farther than the distal ends of the basal phalanges. The free edges of the webs are curved with the concavity outward. The webs are located at the junction of the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the toes, and their surfaces are covered with small reticulate scales.
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Nov 22, 2011 - 09:01pm PT
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There's always a rogue "research" article on the internet that can be dredged up to "prove" a point.
Pure steel.
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Dimes
Social climber
Thinking about Retirement
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Nov 22, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
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I will volunteer to be the "rogue researcher" and support the article as fact! Go to tree, go to tree!!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 22, 2011 - 10:41pm PT
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Henny is probably thankful that turkeys will be eaten, but not chickens.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Nov 26, 2011 - 12:27pm PT
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Bouldering at Rubidoux... A place to either watch butts or show butts.
So here's a little bit of both!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 26, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
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Jesus, Rob. Where the hell'd you find that shot. We were juniors in High School I think.
JL
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Nov 26, 2011 - 02:37pm PT
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Nice.....er.. shot Rob. Never seen Turtle Dome styled quite like that!
TY
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Nov 26, 2011 - 05:05pm PT
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Craig ya highjackin' that photo of the parrot from me or did you get one similar to mine from way back when?
Peace
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Nov 26, 2011 - 07:38pm PT
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Nice one, eh Johnny?
...more RH goodness. The one above=the hard way. This one=a bit easier.
Hemophiliac's Horror, Turtle Dome, Mt. Rubidoux.
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