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Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 07:45pm PT

Hey eKat

Here's one of Jessica. I think it was at Curtis's 40th birthday. Or there about.

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 07:50pm PT

And Guy

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2016 - 08:25pm PT

Hey Jim, really!! good to hear from you. I have another photo I wanted to post but could not find it.
I'm jealous that you've not lived in the US for a while. I wanted to move to the Phils but it didn't work out for me. Oh well.

But anyway to you other folks if you remember Wild X this the original Wild X crew.

Jamesthomsen

Social climber

Mammoth Lakes, California

Dec 19, 2016 - 09:09am PT

Great photo Peater....... what a truly wonderful group of people! We had an Ex-WildX party a couple of years ago at Greg's house. About 35 people showed up.....and there were stories about you!

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Dec 19, 2016 - 05:17pm PT

C'mon folks. Bump a climbing thread and get the product reviews off the first page.

jeff constine

Trad climber

Ao Namao

Dec 19, 2016 - 05:21pm PT

Bottom photo over tilted.

Hot Buttered Rump 5.10

rottingjohnny

Sport climber

Sands Motel , Las Vegas

Dec 19, 2016 - 09:17pm PT

Thomsen...Did you use to own Access in Mammoth...? rj

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 11:27pm PT

Hey Jeff C

Loved the tilted photo of Hot Buttered. It would make a great cover for the Rack of Lies Mag. (Rock and Ice for those that may not know)

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 11:39pm PT

I've seen some posts regarding the sale of vintage Chouinard gear for exorbitant prices. OK but I think a vintage Wild X Klettersack would top that market.

I've seen them occasionally at OR shows. I think the owners are really proud to have them. I wish I still had mine.

Jamesthomsen

Social climber

Mammoth Lakes, California

Dec 19, 2016 - 11:52pm PT

Peater, I still have my Klettersack and will be using it over the next couple of weeks. There is a company in Japan making it again, they have the trademark in Japan and Hong Kong.....maybe we will bring some into the USA just for fun. Greg saw one in a retail store for $300.

Rottingjohnny, yes, Access and before that the Mammoth Postal Center were mine (actually mostly Katie's.) We sold Access in 2000 when we moved to Belgium.

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 01:17am PT

Jim

Is the Wild X brand still alive? That would be fantastic news to me. To have worked at 3 of the best brands in the industry. Wild X, Gramicci and BD. I also made women's underwear and bikini's in the mean time :).

Now I'm experimenting with retirement. I've already been to Asia 40 times and traveled the US and Canada twice on a motorcycle, I don't have the travel bug. It's just nice to stay at home.

I really wanted to move to the Philippines but that's not happening, not now at least.

Jamesthomsen

Social climber

Mammoth Lakes, California

Dec 20, 2016 - 09:02am PT

Peater,
The Wild X brand is alive and well............in Asia, especially Japan and Hong Kong. Nothing in the USA.

guyman

Social climber

Moorpark, CA.

Dec 20, 2016 - 10:18am PT

Wow.... some shots from the way back....

Do you remember when Bullwinkle took THE FALL YOU DONT WANT TO TAKE on Hair Lip???? put some big ass scrapes across his chest.

and Jessica is alive and well and living the life in Colorado.

Pete...great to see you here.

rottingjohnny

Sport climber

Sands Motel , Las Vegas

Dec 20, 2016 - 06:19pm PT

Guy.....What about Curtis...? Where did he end up after he left Mammoth..rj

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 06:35pm PT

Hey Guy, fun to be here

I think Bulwinkle is into massive abrasions.

Like when he took a 120 footer on something on the Glacier Point Apron.

Or when he fell off a skateboard going about 40 mph wearing a T shirt for protection. I witnessed that. He was just one bloody abrasion.

Or when he fell off his Kawasaki triple at Riverside or Ontario Raceway (don't remember which). He was wearing 2 piece leathers which of course slid up exposing skin while he was sliding into the hay bales. He came back to the pits looking like the Straw Man from Wiz of Oz. Walking kind of wobbly with straw poking out from everywhere.

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 07:02pm PT

Jim

I saw some Wild X stuff in a HK store some years ago. I thought at the time they were Alibaba knock offs. I met a woman on a plane carrying a Wild X pack. She said she bought it in Japan and it was really expensive.

It's kind of funny how Asia loves US brands, but they're all made in Asia now and cost more than they do here.

dee ee

Mountain climber

Of THIS World (Planet Earth)

Dec 22, 2016 - 12:43am PT

Peter,

I just got back in town and looked back in my records.

The first time I see us climbing together was May 25-27 1974 with Matt Cox, Bullwinkle (aka. Dean Fidelman) Jim Wood and Jim Angione
Suicide Rock
we did:
Captain Hook 5.7
Graham Crackers 5.6
Tabby Treat 5.1
E. Buttress Gully
Continuation 5.6
Commencement 5.9
Stretch 5.9
Skigliak 5.9

2nd time
July 23-24
With Matt Cox, Eric Ericson, Bullwinkle, Mike Pope, Sean Curtis, "Wild" Jim Wilson and Guy Keesee
Suicide Rock

Hair Lip 5.10B
Harms Way 5.10B

3rd time
Nov. 16 1974 Joshua Tree National Monument
with Matt Cox, Alan Lennard

Peyote Crack 5.8 (free solo)
Negasaurus 5.10A
Judas 5.10B
Dandylion 5.10A
Howard's Horror 5.7

4th time
Yosemite/Easter 1975
with-Matt Cox, John Long, Gary Ayres, Meesa Geesee, Alan and Spencer Lennard

Swan Slab (in the rain)5.10 A2/3 (clean) (Matt and Largo (on pitch one) only)
Vendetta 5.10B
Anathema 5.10B
Moby Dick 5.9

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2016 - 07:20pm PT

Dave

I remember you of course and all the dates are when I would have been there and 99% of those people I remember. But I never kept records of anything or if I did they are long since lost.

The Lennards, the homemade hash boys. They also got arrested for GTA (grand theft avocado) if I recall.

Hair Lip was when Bulwinkle fell off the lip.

Easter of 1975 I came up with... in his Mercedes and he had a half pound in the trunk. And gave each of us a key.

Mike G. and maybe it was Tobin got stuck up on Washington Column that week when it snowed.

Thanks for the memories.