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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 30, 2014 - 05:52am PT
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Really GREAT thread. I've just started going up there and it's just so cool to learn some of the history and see the climbs. The place, sh!t the whole area, is just incredible.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 07:57am PT
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Back in the Old Days, there were never any climbers up there.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jul 30, 2014 - 08:05am PT
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Rob, those don't look like "real" climbers.
They look like a bunch of hippies!
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 08:05am PT
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My photo of Allen Bartlett on Ten Carat Gold gracing the cover of the Indigent Idyllwild Climbers' Welfare brochure.
…love the roster of unknowns. Lots of good folk were members of the IICW. (…and who the Hell taught the "Survival course"?)
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 08:23am PT
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^^
Other than Summer trips to the Vee Notch and Mendel, the only Summer ice I remember was at the Chart House!
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 08:44am PT
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rmuir.... love the shot of the WW with all parties climbing.
Who remembers the Mass Assaults Alpine Style?????
This is a killer thread, I will go home and look for some old prints....
we need to drag bullwinkle into this....
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Jul 30, 2014 - 08:58am PT
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far from home-
is that the Pirate you are aiding?
Wish we would have carried cameras BITD.
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neversummer
climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:06am PT
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#3. NAWAB..
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:14am PT
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KP also has a lot of pictures he's hoarded from bitd - sort of like all those pairs of pristine EBs he STILL has. Unfortunately he rarely visits ST so we're probably out of luck on that one.
A couple more questions:
What other name was Tar and Feathers known by for quite some time?
Here's one a bunch of people should know - how did Insomnia get it's name?
Oh yeah, another solo would be Dickhead, because it was FA'd as a solo. I guess that qualifies.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:15am PT
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Surpentine in 1970, with Roy Naaz. I led that with RRs—The Blue Suede Shoe.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:19am PT
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Another, from the Suicide Party:
And the flyer:
Low Pressure, the same day, in dress whites:
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:33am PT
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curt wohlgemuth
Social climber
Bay Area, California
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:35am PT
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This is the best ST thread in a long time. Wow.
(My first Suicide climb was also Surprise, fall '79.)
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overwatch
climber
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Jul 30, 2014 - 09:51am PT
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Great pics, thanks for sharing them. Been a couple years since I have been there
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jul 30, 2014 - 10:42am PT
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Does Valhalla still get climbed often?? That pic of BVB on it is so sick!
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Jul 30, 2014 - 11:11am PT
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jul 30, 2014 - 11:20am PT
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Robs, I'm going to take a wild ass guess. That picture may have been taken at the base of the smooth sole, right as one comes to the base of the wall. Directly beneath Ultimatum, but the rope would be running over to the start of Micky Mantle. Any chance that's possible? - assuming you can still remember what routes you did that day...
BTW, nice shirt, and hip belay.
Yes, Valhalla is still popular. I'm not sure anyone styles it anymore quite the way bvb used to though...
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Jul 30, 2014 - 11:41am PT
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One from back in the day. Me on Valhalla in 1977.
Trying to get stood on the crux knob.
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Johannsolo
climber
Soul Cal
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Jul 30, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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Trying to free Mecca Godzilla.
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henny
Social climber
The Past
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Jul 30, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
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That, ^^^, really does look good.
Edit. Yes, Woodpecker.
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