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Chapter one

Trad climber

Madrid, Spain

Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 25, 2017 - 02:52am PT

Hi guys I'm new in the forum!

I'm Gathering Information about climbing protection.
I would like to know who created the first Bong-Bong. Is it a mere evolution of big anlges? All information about the date, author ... will be well received.

Thank you very much. Sorry for my english! ;)

Jon Beck

Trad climber

Oceanside

Mar 25, 2017 - 04:21am PT

From

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=isbn:159485503X

Chapter one

Trad climber

Madrid, Spain

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2017 - 04:34am PT

Thanks! ;)

john bald

climber

Mar 25, 2017 - 07:56am PT

The Original

guyman

Social climber

Moorpark, CA.

Mar 25, 2017 - 01:02pm PT

The first time I ever laid eyes on a bong was back in 1969. My friends older brother had just returned from a 13 month stay in Nam and had one, it was made from bamboo.

He reported they were quite common and used by the locals everyday.

As a tool they are very effective, reduces waste and affords the user a custom size.

Today the materials have changed but not much else.

It is hard to improve on a good concept.

I hope I have answered your question.

Bullwinkle

Boulder climber

Mar 25, 2017 - 01:30pm PT

Guyman introduced me to the proper use of Bongs in 1971, as he stated a very useful tool. . .df

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Mar 25, 2017 - 01:34pm PT

. . . . . . . ? . . . . . . ! . . . . . !? . . . ,?

I must , Resist . . .Not my Circus,Not my monkey, Control over Pavlovian responses
I can do this . . . . . . .Well okay then !! It must be in the cosmos tonight?

Edit:Glad you don't care ! (enough to say so?)
&

smart guy,

you missed that Two other posters made the same joke before me.

Thus the point of my saying ;
I must try to resist . . . . See it was ment to be funny, but I see your Ability to comprehend is limited.

So yeah I'm glad you svck so much at English but not @"Internet".

Yeah it's hard to be on top pissing Down

Glad you are pursuing an education.

Wikipedia, is there for just for this reason

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Mar 25, 2017 - 04:32pm PT

4" Chouinard

zBrown

Ice climber

Mar 25, 2017 - 04:40pm PT

Looks like Ike to me.

$.24 seems like such a long time ago.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Mar 25, 2017 - 05:48pm PT

I remember when first-class postage was 3 cents an ounce.

Chapter one

Trad climber

Madrid, Spain

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2017 - 05:37am PT

Thanks a lot guys. Great info! * Gnome Ofthe Diabase... i don't really care. (your life must be refreshing)

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Mar 26, 2017 - 08:37am PT

Some of the information in the second post needs to be corrected. Dick Long didn't "dabble" in making pitons, he along with Larry Lackey ran Longware and produced a full line of pitons for several years until the demands of medical school shut down the operation. Dick produced bongs as wide as 6" in aluminum and as wide as 4" in alloy sheet steel.
For the second ascent of the Nose in 1960, Tom Frost working with Bill "Dolt" Feuerer (in Bill's shop in Santa Monica) produced a selection of large angles and bongs made of alloy sheet steel. These worked and held up well so Yvon Chouinard quickly began making them to sell the following year.
Jerry Gallwas also made some large angles for the first ascent of the Northwest Face route on Half Dome in 1957 but did not make them 2" or larger to my knowledge which is the size where a bong ceases to be simply a large angle piton.
As I understand it, the name bong-bong was coined by Yvon Chouinard while he was climbing the Chouinard-Herbert route on Sentinel and drove bongs behind the large detached flakes which were named the Afro-Cuban Flakes based on their tonal character.

nutstory

climber

Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Mar 29, 2017 - 09:37am PT

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Apr 2, 2017 - 06:57pm PT

Here are a few shots of early Longware alloy bongs 2 1/2" through 4".

An early Chouinard 2 1/2" aluminum bong and a Longware 4".

These bongs belonged to Les Wilson.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Apr 10, 2017 - 10:57am PT

One small correction after looking at the 1980 Great Pacific Iron Works catalog. Chouinard sold alloy bongs in 1960 and aluminum bongs the following year.