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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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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Wow, Joe - nice!
Those rings on top make more sense now. So the bolts held together the two sides, with a white layer in the middle....
It doesn't look very vandal/theft proof for this decade/millenium!
(color adjust & crop to fit Photobucket 800 x 600 restriction)
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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screw the sign!!!! sell it and take that money to build new bathrooms. . .a sign marking a dump? or a place to leave a dump, your choice. . .
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Couldn't do much correction to htis pic with the program I use.
JL
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 11:36am PT
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Thank you Joe,
That will really help.
Do you know when that picture was taken? It appears that the sign had at least 2 different mounting systems over the years or else Roper took his picture leaning against a rock after the sign had been removed.
Ken
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
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Very funny Cosmic!
Ken
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2009 - 01:03pm PT
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Cosmic, Think like a sandwich.
Ken
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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I want one of those tee shirts.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Regarding the C4 tees... I got the image (with permission) from Steve Roper and prepped all the artwork and then sat down and did nothing. The backside has a qote from Largo, "You gotta have vision, man, you gotta have vision." (again, with his permission.) All organic cotton and styled to fit well so we can all show off our musculature!
If I can ever get off my butt I do plan to sell them along with some cool Yabo shirts that would only be of interest to climbers.
In fact, now that you have shown an interest maybe I can actually do something about the whole plan... Okay, on Monday I will launch the website and announce it to ST. Cool! A plan! Now... what can get in my way?
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Ken
I think it is from the early 60's as it was with a group of #600 slides I scanned all from 1958-1962, plus or minus a couple of light years.
I am working from my boat with a very very slow cell phone moden and it takes forever to get things onto photobucket. Often the system crashes and back to ground zero.
One suggestions for anyone that decides to scan a lot of photos. Label them, so when you search out the actual photo on transfer you are not looking at numbers but a specific name!
cheers
Joe
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dwain,
> Also here is a fixed version of Guidos Pic,
> Using my SUPERIOR Manipulation techniques.
Very nice!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Dwain
Offer accepted. Will be in contact.
joe
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LB4USC
Trad climber
Long Beach
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[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3266/3261874226_7affb81efc_m.jpg[img]
Bring it on.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Ohhh!... Ohhh! Can I play, too?
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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The close-up pic of the sign on granite appears, to me, to not be bolted to the granite, at all, but rather sitting on the ground, leaned against the granite. Not the grass at the bottom of the pic.
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