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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 24, 2007 - 01:40am PT
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I came across this article featuring our own elcap-pics Tom Evans back in the day in Summit May 1973. You look marvellous dude, all gussied up for adventure!!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 24, 2007 - 01:50am PT
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Thanks, Steve - very nice!
All that and a Dolt ad, too.
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mingus
Trad climber
Grand Junction, Colorado
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Oct 24, 2007 - 02:23am PT
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Righteous photo!! I believe I see a 'Swiss' seat in there and blue jeans no less. This is certainly one for the ST archives.
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elcap-pics
climber
Crestline CA
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:54am PT
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Yo.. boy you really have to dig deep to find that stuff!!! Actually the climb was done in 1970 and is a treasured memory... Oh the days!!
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TwistedCrank
climber
Caution: Filling may be hot.
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Oct 24, 2007 - 10:56am PT
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Bloo Swade Shoos
Yah
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Oct 24, 2007 - 11:18am PT
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Thanks for the post, Steve. I especially like the state-of-the-art haul bag and the Robbins boots.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2007 - 11:37am PT
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Those old articles really stir up the cauldron of memories and remind me of wilder and more adventurous times. Really cool slices of life that wouldn't be there without the effort required to write and publish them. Just a little payback on my end for all of Tom's continuing efforts to keep people psyched up on the big wall front with reports, killer photos and support for the climbing organizations like the YCA and AAC. Once a Wall Man, always a Wall Man!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2007 - 12:57pm PT
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Tom- I'm sure that you have a box full of slides like the rest of us. Any more wall shots from those good old days?
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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Oct 26, 2007 - 01:18pm PT
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Wow...this one brings back some memories! I had been climbing about 2 years when this issue came out. I must have read this article 100 times. I read every word of it again and was transported back in time...was once again a skinny 14 year old with acne, reading climbing mags on a rainy day and dreaming of my next day on the rock...and the future beyond....
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John Moosie
climber
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Oct 26, 2007 - 05:08pm PT
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Good story. Thanks !!!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Oct 26, 2007 - 05:46pm PT
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wait 'till Tarbuster sees those Robbins boots!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 27, 2007 - 01:15am PT
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Electric Royal Blue on this thread and a fine Powder Blue fifteen years later on the 3D thread elsewhere. Still the ticket for standing around in slings a lot and especially toetip and T-stacking with that 3/4 steel shank. The comfy shoes! Ahhhhh!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2010 - 10:04pm PT
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Another Tom Evans Bump!
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nutjob
Trad climber
Berkeley, CA
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:17pm PT
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Nice pithy prose.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:21pm PT
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Yes real hard men in classic pose.
How come Tom don't look like that no more?
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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Jul 23, 2010 - 10:27pm PT
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Propers.
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Mimi
climber
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Jul 23, 2010 - 11:06pm PT
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Thanks Tom, for all the hard work. Stalwart contributor to raising climbing awareness. You do such a good job of delivering accurate and succinct information to the masses. No BS or hoopla.
Or chinchucks for cheatersticks.
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F10
Trad climber
e350 / Bishop
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Jul 23, 2010 - 11:19pm PT
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I remember that cover shot on Summit, way cool stuff
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 24, 2010 - 01:42pm PT
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Great Article! Thanks for posting and bumping, Steve.
Does Tom or anyone know if the Frank Hoover who is credited for that aerial HD photo is the same guy who was a UCLA Bruin Mountaineer, who worked in the UCLA Nuclear Medicine Bldg. for many years, and who organize some early non-commercial river trips on rivers in the West, including the Middle Fork of Salmon trip where Don Wilson drowned? Many will remember that Don Wilson made an early attempt on the FA on the HD NW Face.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2010 - 01:48pm PT
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Nice shot of Don!
I can't help you with Frank Hoover info.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jul 24, 2010 - 02:01pm PT
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That summit shot.
Am I mistaken? Those appear to be one inch tubular swiss seats you had for harnesses?
Feckin' SWEET!!!
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Jul 24, 2010 - 06:08pm PT
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Yeaaaahhhhh.... hell they had just invented nylon! We all made our own stuff back then... much better today!!
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jul 24, 2010 - 06:18pm PT
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Yeah man.
Don't worry, I made a million of them in the military as late as the early 80's!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2010 - 07:31pm PT
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Funny to consider that everybody made their own gear right from the outset, BITD. Twenty five feet of one inch tubular please. LOL
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Jul 24, 2010 - 07:57pm PT
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Tom,
The account of your Nose ascent that you told me this spring deserves a TR. You should write it up, it's classic!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 24, 2010 - 08:22pm PT
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many before him. many after.
whoo f*#kin whoo.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jul 24, 2010 - 08:52pm PT
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Weedgie sat on a pointy stick this morning?
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Jul 24, 2010 - 11:00pm PT
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It must be a really slow day to dredge this old time stuff up again... Norwegian is right... nothing special in the world of climbing, very average stuff... ah but the point is missed here... every person gets something different out of a climb.... for me they were all were great adventures as I was not a particularly good climber and I had to go years between the big wall climbs, as I had to work to support a family and found satisfaction in my career, so I was not able to "get used to" the experience, so it never became routine. They were all epics to me!!
I wrote the articles because long ago people were interested in what the so called "average man" could do if he set his mind to it. If they were unworthy of being printed then the editors wouldn't have published them! Regular people could relate to what I was going through. How many of us can even comprehend what guys like Hans, Hondo, Tommy, Rob.... etc etc... do these days? We just shake our heads! This every day man theme carries through in my photography these days. I spend 99% of my days in Yosemite shooting people you never heard of climbing routes that are far from earth shaking. And through the Report they can have a little of the glory that the heroes get every day. Interesting that over 27,000 different people have read the Report in just over a year. It must not be too offensive to most but if you don't like what I write or photograph then you are free not to look at it or read it! I can't imagine why some people are so hostile... but they say that people like that are just reflecting on their own problems... it isn't about me.... it's about them.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 24, 2010 - 11:14pm PT
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ah norwegian is an insecure fcuker jealous of those whose passage has endured where his has failed.
his is predictable behavior, attacking others to build itself. ridicule substituting for courage.
carry on despite me in this tribute to el cap pics. no need for foul thoughts for they accomplish nothing for the author, nor for the subject.
im piecing an existence together one act at a time, making them up as i go. my tears are invincible though, not to be exhausted by a desert of emotions.
his shitty poetry is a lazy substitute for his lack of action.
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apogee
climber
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Jul 24, 2010 - 11:28pm PT
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Norwegian, your vitriole is very uncharacteristic of you...what gives?
Bad sh#t befall your life today, or is there some kind of score you are seeking to settle?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 24, 2010 - 11:52pm PT
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I like your accounts, Tom and so I bump them.
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Jul 25, 2010 - 12:23am PT
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Thanks Steve and of course it's great to see Tom and hear about those early days!!
Good on ya!
TC
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2011 - 04:41pm PT
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Birthday Bump!
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Jun 16, 2011 - 06:41pm PT
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Werner said: "Yes real hard men in classic pose.
How come Tom don't look like that no more?"
Um, beer?
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Bad Climber
climber
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Jun 16, 2011 - 07:45pm PT
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Great! Brings back fond memories of my own ascent of the wondrous rock about 25 (gulp) years ago. What a great time that was!
BAd
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2019 - 11:29am PT
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WBITD Bump...
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Mar 10, 2019 - 12:54pm PT
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Tom bought me a burger when I was flat broke, had just sold a #5 cam for $40 in Camp4 to have some money to hitchhike out of the Valley. I always remember that and appreciate him for it. Also for all the cobras and random bread and chips and apples hooked up from him at the bridge. And for the bitchin hi res pics of us on the Zodiac.
You're the man, Tom!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 10, 2019 - 02:48pm PT
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Written in the terse, stingy style of a real BRONSON-type, bound to become a classic.
Here is a man who knows what a heming weighs to the last ounce.
I hope you're enjoying the cruise ship, Tom.
TFPU, Steverino.
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