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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 27, 2012 - 02:18pm PT
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I picked up the recent issue where I always snag them: at the laundromat.
(Free here in People's Republic of Boulder ... And elsewhere as well I'd imagine).
Right on the cover I noticed this really soulful black and white shot of a surfer looking dude slack lining with El Cap in the background.
Straightaway I thought to myself to myself:
"Jeepers, reminds me of photos in that spare, grand-old-narrative sense from back in the day by the likes of Tom Frost, Ed Cooper, Glen Denny, Dean Fidelman".
So here you have it:
http://www.mountaingazette.com/
Some genre specific writing to be found there as well (looks to be from youngsters), given that it is "The Climbing Issue."
[edit] This is Supertopo and my name is Roy. I am not an agent of said magazine and I don't know anyone involved with its manufacture, publication, or distribution.
I'm just sitting here, right here right now on my flabby arse, admiring the cover. Thank you.
 Oh, I do know Bullwinkle a.k.a. Dean Fidelman, i.e. The Stonemasters book, Stone Nudes, and etc.
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fsck
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Jun 27, 2012 - 02:39pm PT
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so is MG paying for using photos yet? or are they still just stealing photos from people's flickr accounts without asking?
cool shot, nontheless.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2012 - 02:43pm PT
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'Wouldn't know about any of that fsck: certainly not pimping the mag in an official capacity over here ...
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 09:46am PT
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Second try shout out for Dean's cover shot.
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goatboy smellz
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Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Jun 29, 2012 - 09:50am PT
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Well that is impressive, maybe now he can afford to buy some shoes.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jun 29, 2012 - 09:54am PT
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Great shot, thanks for that Roy.
Howz the hip coming along brother?
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 10:10am PT
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Just took my first walk down the block a few minutes ago: fresh air and the feel of dirt crunching under my 2 feet and 1 crutch, Yahoo!
(I'm 3.5 weeks out from right hip resurfacing, the surgeon said it went extremely well, and I get better each day: it's a 6 to 12 week initial recovery with a year for full use).
(I go in for the left hip in a month or two)
I keep the Gazette with Bullwinkle's cover shot right underneath my physical therapy log ... Yo.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jun 29, 2012 - 10:20am PT
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You're just the man to pull it all together Roy. Makes me ashamed of how I feel my parts are breaking down sometimes.
I'm actually holding up reasonably well....
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Jun 29, 2012 - 11:15am PT
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Thanks for the shout Roy I Sent them a selection of Climbing Images for that Issue, they picked the Slacking Photo. That's Corbin Usanger, bad ass climber, slack liner and flyer. And yes they did ask first, didn't make much but it gets Corbins talents out there. df
Edit, Roy, Taft Point.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 11:36am PT
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Thanks, Dean, for the background on Corbin.
So where is that slack line span?
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SteveW
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The state of confusion
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Jun 29, 2012 - 04:06pm PT
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Bump for Bullwinkle!!!!
(and Tarbaby too)!!!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 08:48pm PT
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Interestingly, we've never really had a thread dedicated to Mountain Gazette. I've always been fond of it, especially the original issues.
For any of us around in the 70s, the magazine is quite familiar. Although it's probably stuck fairly close to the original mission statement (as much as even had one), the new incarnation has a different visual and editorial feel to me. Keeping an open mind, however, and adjusting for an intervening 30 years or whatever it has been, the overall complexion perhaps isn't that different. It's still a potpourri of mountain culture, much as it always was.
Probably my bias is towards climbing content/culture, which the magazine seemed to lean more heavily toward back in the day.
Mountain Gazette has been expanding their archives, check this one out:
http://www.mountaingazette.com/flashback/mountain-gazette-53-january-1975/
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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couchmaster: and thanks for noticing.
I've always been about climbing content on this forum.
It's true, I've been gone for a while, unable to use a computer, so perhaps the new crew is unfamiliar.
Take a look here, 101 threads started (okay, a lot of them very goofy, I freely admit, ha ha), but easily easily 95% climbing/mountain travel related:
The Tarbuster Supertopo CV:
http://www.supertopo.com/forumsearch.php?v=0&cur=0&ftr1=&ftr2=&ftr3=&ftr4=Tarbuster&scope=topics
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Mark Rodell
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Bangkok
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Jun 29, 2012 - 09:32pm PT
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I agree, Mt. Gazette was and perhaps is a good source of fine articles. I think Dick Dorworth had a lot of his early writing published with Mountain Gazette.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2012 - 09:38pm PT
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That's what I'm talking about Mark!
Constructive thread drift.
Go to the link a couple posts up to the archive for Mountain Gazette issue number 53, January 1975.
There is a Dick Dorworth article right there for you to reread.
And also, an article called Grace, by William Marling, with photo from Andy Carson:
Whom a few of us may be acquainted with; Andy used to own and operate Jackson Hole Mountain Guides. Really nice guy.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2012 - 12:07am PT
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Here's a picture off the Mountain Gazette website from the current issue:
Photo by Dave Montgomery, Morrison, Colorado
It's from an article called: "Blaze of Glory".
Very clever, actually a beer review (beer talk being a Mountain Gazette standard),
Which talks about some happenings (rigging for a music video) up on The Rectory out by Castle Valley back in 1990.
I happened to climb Fine Jade in 1990 and ran into Kyle Copeland in position up top, who was up there assisting with that film shoot.
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Mark Rodell
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Bangkok
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Jun 30, 2012 - 02:39am PT
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That link to Mountain Gazette's archives is wild. Very well done and fun to use. Dorworth's article is a kick as is the cartoon.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2012 - 09:28am PT
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Glad you enjoyed that Mark.
The old Mountain Gazettes showed a lot of soul.
The large-format, literary bent, and broad scope were good components to the recipe.
You felt like you were getting an insider's viewpoint and always with a bit of self-effacing humor.
Perhaps the new incarnation is more straight out mountain counterculture.
I'll note that Dick Dorworth and George Sibley are still senior correspondents.
Editor John Fayhee in his headliner "Smoke Signals" is most often a total bust up.
(Stich, it is a monthly, but I know what you meant -it shows up like a weekly in terms of the way it's distributed which is probably really helpful)
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Jaybro
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Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 28, 2017 - 11:27pm PT
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Yay EO!
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