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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2013 - 10:27am PT
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BBA cuts through the forum Chossapalooza and scores a big one!
Go to his link kids, there's a book in there.
From the US Government Printing Office, 1927:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 10, 2013 - 04:50am PT
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The AdAmAn Club pose on their annual hike up Pike's Peak, above Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. They wear laced boots, striped, knit hats, and tall socks; one holds skis and a dog; another has a bedroll on his back.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 10, 2013 - 05:11am PT
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15th Inf. training in Washington, WWII.
Searching for the what? Where?
We'll let them see the whites of our eyes and that's all.
And try to find the guys in this shot. I can't.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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BBA, thanks. I haven't visited the Tunnel Thread in weeks. Good stuff from a way-backer.
Here are some scans from old Sierra Club Bulletins & not necessarily related directly to Yosemite except by being in the same range or on the same continent.
and my favorite
All are taken from the SCB before it was up-sized in the fifties.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I dragged Mathew Brady up Half Dome where he took my picture...
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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this is the worst thread i've ever seen on this supertopo! :) just kidding..
great pictures. even better are the indan shots.
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stonefly
Social climber
Alameda, California
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Reads "Tuolumne Pass" on back of print. ex-Lewis Clark. Photo c.1929
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BBA
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Here are three photos from 1928-1929. My grandfather went to work for the Yosemite Park and Curry Company in 1927. His car got up to the valley, probably driven by his son. My grandfather was challenged to the extreme when it came to driving. The car just sat there in the Old Village in front of the Sentinel Hotel gathering dust or snow, depending on the season.
A film crew showed up to do some work on a serial, something quite popular then, and my grandfather was given to show them around. A big attraction in movies way back when was a car going off a cliff. One thing led to another...
The car gathering snow
My grandfather interacting with the film's stars (he's on the ground)
With all the interaction, his payoff was to sell the car to the film company and they shoved it off a cliff, probably on one of the roads leading out of Big Meadow (West of the Valley).
I mentioned a link earlier in this thread, and full details of this little story are there on page 24-29.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 10, 2013 - 07:16am PT
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Avery Burns Collection.
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BBA
climber
OF
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Mar 11, 2013 - 11:55am PT
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These shots are of a hike up Half Dome in August 1928 by my Mom and two friends. Two things are notable about the trip, the trail apparently went by Lost Lake which is far from its current location, and aside from the girls, no one was on the cables.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 11, 2013 - 12:03pm PT
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I have some old black and white pictures of getting across the bergshrund onto to the rock the first time i did El Cap. It was definetly the crux....good thing that the glacier is gone and today's climbers don't have to deal with it.....definetly R. I'll see if i can find them and get them scanned.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 11, 2013 - 12:04pm PT
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Bill, that was a wonderful share: Everyone should get to lace on a pair of the boots the girls are sporting!
Jim, don't tell me you lost the slides from the earlier ice age, please!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 11, 2013 - 12:15pm PT
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Still can't find them, i think they may have gone down with the Ark.
Or, then, did the Ark go down?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 02:35am PT
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Mar 12, 2013 - 09:37am PT
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I just found this book that I forgot I even owned. 'The binding is in pretty rough shape, but I think it deserves a gentle read-through.
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BBA
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OF
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Mar 12, 2013 - 12:48pm PT
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In researching Yosemite in the 1930's, I came across a book by Fernando Peņalosa (Yosemite in the 1930s) in which he said he spent hours and hours in the Library in the Museum building, and he had a photograph of the tables he sat at. Interestingly enough, these tables were made by my grandfather, William Kat, under contract with the Park Service and today reside at the Mariposa Museum along with some of the other furniture he made.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Mar 16, 2013 - 01:25am PT
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Thanks for all the wonderfully pictures of Yosemite.
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