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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 6, 2009 - 01:41am PT
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I would like to get the replica of the Camp 4 sign up where it belongs. I have located it and am trying to get it installed. To do that more quickly, I need some pictures of the original sign and where it was placed to make it past the compliance issues. Help me out old dads and moms please. The more pictures the better.
Thank you,
Ken Yager
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Sign location bump.
Camp 4...pretty magical place, for a dirt patch in a big ditch.
Woohoo.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 11:58am PT
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Anyone have one?
Ken
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Ken- post a shot of the original sign to jog those venerable memories! Do you have the torch cut plate steel C4 sign?
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 12:13pm PT
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Steve,
It is a replica of the large torch cut original and has been hidden away in the El Portal sign shop for about ten years. I don't have a picture of it yet.
Ken
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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I haven't had time to look, but aren't there pictures showing the sign in "The Vertical World of Yosemite", "Camp 4", or "Ordeal by Piton"? Does the NPS have photos, or the Yosemite Institute, or the AAC, or? Or maybe Armando?
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Cool. I can't wait to see it up.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 12:54pm PT
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Mighty Hiker,
There is one in Vertical World. NPS does not have one. I am looking for as many different angles as possible. Exact location of the old sign and the mounting system used will help push this through more quickly.
Ken
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
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Google image came back with nothing, and I looked through all 120 or so of Glen Denny's plates at www.glendenny.com and didn't find anything.
Good luck - sounds cool.
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WBraun
climber
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Just pound it in somewhere so people can see it.
99.9% of the people coming to Yosemite could care less about some sign.
The original entrance is where the metal gate is. The kiosk used to be there too.
People think they are walking into Camp 4 and God almighty will greet them because of some sign?
Camp 4 is a consciousness that transcends that material campground people see with their defective eyeballs.
And now obligatory, Hahaha ......
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 01:21pm PT
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Werner, Do I have to come over there and kick your butt?
Ken
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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It sounds like Werner may have just volunteered to dig the hole for the sign's post.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Whatever sign goes up better be theft proof. Didn't the old router-engraved brown and white signs come before the torch-stenciled ones? I also recall a wooded sign hanging from two chains so motorists could see them; these had a different font. Camp 7, Camp 14, Camp 9, etc. The torch-stenciled signs are for the trail system.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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There is a photo on p.10 of Camp 4 by Steve Roper.
No photos of the sign in The Vertical World of Yosemite, Yosemite Climber, Ordeal by Piton, or Yosemite in the Sixties. Photos of people and climbing are more fun, no doubt!
The photo in the Camp 4 book looks like the sign is bolted onto a larger granite post/pillar. Probably on the left side of the entrance gate, as Werner described it.
Have fun with the project!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 08:38pm PT
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Thanks Clint,
Any photos out there?
Ken
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RDB
Trad climber
Iss WA
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"People think they are walking into Camp 4 and God almighty will greet them because of some sign?
I would but I have a full time job and there is no sign?!
this is GOD (so be mighty careful when you start flaming me) I think me (and WB) are funnier than sh#t...
bump for a good cause
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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A great sign to be sure!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Thanks Clint.
If you are looking to position a sign in the original spot, consider knocking out a reproduction and keep the original for a safer spot. Easy to pattern and fabricate.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Ken
I found this old photo after hours of searching my "archives" of slides scanned last summer while back in Santa Cruz. Most likely circa early, early 60's?
cheers
Joe
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