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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 20, 2012 - 08:45pm PT
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Anyone have some of Charlie's dream pitons?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 21, 2012 - 02:55am PT
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Only nuts Steve, only nuts... I promise.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 21, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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It seems Porter pitons are rarer still...
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mctwisted
Social climber
paradise
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Jan 21, 2012 - 12:58pm PT
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ken, your post reminded me i have some forest (tetons?) that appear to be unused, any interest in these and i will get them to you
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jan 23, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
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I thought this picture might be an appropriate addition to this thread. Here's Charlie standing outside of his shop on a summer's afternoon.
Note the stained hands from working metal. This was a great place to be summer of '73.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 24, 2012 - 02:46am PT
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Awesome photograph PhilG! I tried to figure out what Charlie Porter’s workshop looked like… Thank you very much for posting such an historical document here.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 25, 2012 - 03:09am PT
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Something I'd like to see is the notched alum blocks CP used in conjunction with pins to pro Excalibur. "You could belay off those things...they were bomber!" I would also love to see these Porter aluminum blocks. I would suspect that they worked in a rather similar way like the “block channels” produced by Peck Climbing Equipment in England during the sixties.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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More Porter Equipment!
Cool Peck Blocks Stephane!
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Werner or Phil
Was that the bus (in the pic) that Bev and/or Charlie drove into the Merced that day?
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Tom:
Don't recall that story. I left the Valley shortly after I took that picture.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Phil, do you have any other photographs taken inside Charlie’s workshop…?
“you may say I'm a dreamer…”
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Up early Phil, I'm in Coyhaique, Chile waiting to jump on a plane back to Estados Unidos. Charlie, by the way, now lives on the island of Chiloe just to the NW of here.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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These are from the "Odd pieces of gear that never really caught on"
thread.
I can't remember if these are mine or Matt Pollock's, but I think the gold tape is mine.
The following is a link to a story in that thread that I wrote and Clint posted about getting them. Clint kindly edited out references I made to being in an altered state of reality.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1335975&msg=1336867#msg1336867
It's funny, after I had stopped climbing (subsequently resumed), I completely by coincidence ran into Porter at a pension in Punta Arenas, Chile around 1980. He spoke very interesting Spanish.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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May 14, 2012 - 10:02pm PT
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anyone know where CP's '73 shop (in the photo) was at (town, state)?
also, might someone know what gear he took on his Cassin climb? really curious about that, and whether anyone else was on that part of the mountain at the time
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2012 - 10:52pm PT
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His workshop was at Bryceburg. It is still there on the right traveling Highway 140 from El Portal West toward Mariposa at the start of the grade as it leaves the Merced River.
Ken
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