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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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^^^
Awesome shot. I think this year my two oldest kids will be ready to tag along and discover the place for themselves.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Nov 23, 2013 - 12:21pm PT
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See any familiar faces???
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Nov 23, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
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Damn! Looks like me right in the middle and Dick Cilley just to the right. The chick down and left might be The Creature and bottom left corner might be Banny Root? Is that Loomis down there too?
The lower right hand corner looks like a couple of kids we called the Bowling Ball Twins. Just left of them looks like the Rubidoulux aka Chris Hartfield or maybe Dave Tapes.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Nov 23, 2013 - 02:10pm PT
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Russ thanks for that.... Jeff tells me that day is sort of blurry in his memory... LOL
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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Nov 23, 2013 - 07:11pm PT
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id have guessed you were charles cole in that shot russ
CC3 is 6 inches shorter than Russ and Russ' fists are bigger than Largo's.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jan 11, 2014 - 12:45am PT
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Rubidoux, the one place besides Yosemite where you can climb "Half Dome" and at 5.8, no less. How about them apples?
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Jan 26, 2015 - 05:21am PT
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Great video of John reflecting on the spiritual aspects of the place, and giving a tour to some some pro boulderers. Some nice sequences of Teflon and Autopilot.
http://vimeo.com/98184304
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jan 26, 2015 - 08:01am PT
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Beautiful, nice job. Thanks Rick.
Some great early photos of Phil Haney (what ever happened to that dude?).
My fingertips were hurting by the end of the session.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Borson Wall, 1981/1982:
photo: Walling
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BBA
Social climber
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BITD, before freeways through Riverside, we used to drive through town to get out to Tahquitz, and the Robidoux hillside looked mighty interesting. I thought it would be a cool place to live with all those boulders, but never imagined it would come to be famous with Largo, et. al. They were lucky ducks to have lived near there!
Edit: 1958-1960
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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I loved Rubidoux...Use to ditch work early , boulder , then watch the sunset...
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I remember a few things about Rubberdux.
Running into a really hot friend of C. Cole. Never saw her again. Her mom pretty much read me the riot act. Nothing happened; she was too sweet.
The other was sitting at the top of the hill during the riots after the Rodney King verdict. Scary stuff. In those daze there was not as much development as today. The fires in LA were quite clear. I had to stop for gas on the way home. The gas station was interesting to say the least. I was not sure if I would get out of there alive.
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DonC
climber
CA
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Missed this the first time around. I starting going to Rubidoux in 1968 and was there a lot for several years, mainly with Doug Tilleskjor. We spent a lot of time there and did a lot of stuff. I really like working on what later became called Smooth Sole Wall. Lots of fun stuff there and all over the hill.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Hey DonC!
Lots of great evenings up on those noble stones.
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DonC
climber
CA
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For sure Phil. I remember spending a fair amount of time there with you, Paul, Phil, Ketih, Jim Barker, Bernie McIlvoy, and others. I spent some time with Jim Hoagland, Ben B, Robs Muir, Largo - but they probably don't remember Doug or I. We were there a lot but generally were off by ourselves.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Nice video Rick, John. Has anyone posted the link to John Gill's website.
http://www.johngill.net/
Paul Gleason and I met around 1959 in AP math classes at Azusa High School. Here's another view of the day we were doing laps on TD ca 1970.
We frequently teamed up in friendly competition with Haney and Barker in the '60s.
We rarely saw anyone else, but I do recall a day when two very talented young climbers (probably John & Rick) showed up in alpine attire - ticking off problems in mountaineering boots. We didn't name many of the boulders before then - only a select few.
I remember first going there with Schnurr in the mid-to-late '60s and I'm sure he has some firsts here. As I recall someone had recently done something left of Half Dome, probably for the first time, a thin diagonal crack and a smooth face nearby, then Candlesticks.
Most of the climbing concentrated on the summit area. The Island, Hardy Boys and other areas came rapidly thereafter, as I recall. Climbing became more active there when construction on the Lake Perris Reservoir began in 1970.
Hard to imagine crowds of thousands trampling those prickly pear forests.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Taken the month after the Stonemasters began doing Valhalla… Please note the Berkeley-styled, lace-gusseted shorts, the requisite headband, PAs (with socks), and the decided lack of chalk bag. De rigueur.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Mar 13, 2018 - 09:03am PT
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I learned to climb at Rubidoux June 1995. Took about (3) progressive classes there and then a couple of years later a lead class. All with Pacific Wilderness; Dave Harine and sometimes with Gary from REI (Santa Ana. Now at HB).
It used to be 30 minutes from my house so needless to say it was my go to. It is an excellent spot with diverse problems/routes. I sought out and climbed the classics and obscures for over 20 years..It's a great, great place.
In 1995 it was still somewhat popular with climbers. By 2000 it was a ghost town and all mine. But by 2010 the look-at-me-selfie, social media-out-door-craze had taken hold and the place was and still is an urban hikers magnet..."walkers" everywhere. On top of the Island, Sunday sermons are common with a group of Mexican Indians. They chant, sing and burn incense/sage..it's a nice diversion while taking a break.
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