TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day
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Nov 24, 2008 - 06:45am PT
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How come nobody any more wears those bitchin' hats like Kor wore?
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stich
Trad climber
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Nov 24, 2008 - 06:47am PT
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The skull image in that last photo is pretty cool! From some angles, it looks like Kor is wearing one of those Christmas poinsettia flower pots on his head.
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Nov 24, 2008 - 09:00am PT
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This is one of the best threads in a long while. Thanks Ed. And thanks Chiloe for posting up the original NatGeo artical. I remember that article from my impressionable youthdumb. A towering accomplishment.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Nov 24, 2008 - 09:15am PT
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Note, in the caption on page 720, that famous tower is called Castle Rock, not
"Castleton" as climbers have misnamed it. Castleton was the name of a town, which
was named after Castle Rock.
(Department of Lost Causes)
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~lch/climb_01.htm
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Where are YOU from?
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Nov 30, 2008 - 01:27pm PT
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The Titan!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any Rock with a skull is the Groovinest, in my book.
Gracias, Chiloe!!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 30, 2008 - 01:52pm PT
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One of the most hilarious stories from the recent Kor slideshow had to due with waiting around for Barry to show up for the summit flyby photos. After waiting around for a long while on the summit, Kor and company decided to descend assuming that something had gone wrong with Barry's arrangements. Not long after pulling the first rappel, the drone of an aircraft began to be heard. Soon, a rather animated camera man hung out of the airplane door and began pointing upwards repeatedly. It was Barry, of course, trying to get the FA party to repeat the last pitch so that he could get the shot. An exchange via a variety of novel hand gestures ensued but failed to move the team any higher so down they went!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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It's cool when forgotten threads like this come around again and I can read them a second or third time.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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The hats were a special"touch," added just for National Geographic. They were Layton's idea. They were supposedly "Tirolean mountaneers hats." In the late 1960s, everyone was emulating Herman Buhl. Yeah, I was too. The Austrian and Italian rock climbing heroes were the real "rock stars." Hurley didn't wear one--only Layton and Huntley did.
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Pate
Trad climber
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nice bump reddirt
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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In the late 1960s, everyone was emulating Herman Buhl. Yeah, I was too.
I never knew that explained the hats! By the time my friends & I hit the Titan in '71, we had wool balaclavas more like Dougal Haston.
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reddirt
climber
PNW
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Jul 31, 2011 - 10:07am PT
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bump again
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Jul 31, 2011 - 10:13am PT
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Hoipoloi, those hats were all the rage after that Nat Geo article. They were called "Crusher" hats because you could crush them and stuff them in a pocket. They were felted wool and pretty cool.
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