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Griff
Social climber
Felton, PA
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Jul 16, 2008 - 11:45pm PT
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The number of horizontal cracks makes placing pro an added mental challenge for the leader new to the area.
They do some different stuff there.
It's a beautiful place to climb.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 17, 2008 - 12:49am PT
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Jstan...here is another one for you.
Kevin on Open Cockpit...1977
Jstan wrote: I have never met a person who lived so completely in each moment as did Kevin.
To this day and over 30 years later I can honestly say that some of my best days ever climbing were spend with Kevin and Barbara in the Gunks and SD.
I miss him dearly.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Jul 17, 2008 - 01:19am PT
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Best thread here, for sure.
Curt
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Rokrover
Trad climber
SB, CA
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Jul 17, 2008 - 11:43am PT
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Here’s Ivan Rezucha airing his pits on Matinee back in 1975. This was my first year at the Gunks after specializing in crack climbing at Frog Buttress in Queensland, Australia. I had to relearn face climbing quickly and leading this traverse onsight in clunky stiff Chouinard boots was quite stimulating. Ivan was quite active at the Gunks over the ensuing years - I wonder where he is now?
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 17, 2008 - 11:58am PT
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Ivan lives in Boulder and still climbing a lot.
Here is another shot of Kevin...
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jul 17, 2008 - 01:28pm PT
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that pic of skytop in full color way, way upthread. brings back so many bittersweet memories. there is something so tangible across the decades, the gunks in the fall, memories you can practically reach out and touch. the smell of autumn and the cool crisp sunlight. so much sweet melancholy. more than the climbing, i remember the people, so many years ago.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 19, 2008 - 05:02pm PT
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Great stuff guys!
Wasn't Kevin known as the Mayor of the Gunks?
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Jul 19, 2008 - 09:10pm PT
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Thanks everyone for the great stories and photos. This really captures the spirit of how it felt back in the day- I never went East but I can recall many of these photos from Mountain and Climbing. I can smeel the lichen and the rock when I read the story.
I used to to sign summit registers with the joke that I thought the route was easier than Open Cockpit- this came from a humorous article on one upmanship- I forget the title
Really really great
murf
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N0_ONE
Social climber
Utah
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Jul 19, 2008 - 10:16pm PT
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Good Stuff!!!
Thanks for the pics and stories.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 19, 2008 - 10:55pm PT
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I'm trying to figure out how to get back there this fall... I miss climbing there, it's been too long
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jul 19, 2008 - 11:50pm PT
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Miscellaneous Gunks pictures, some old, some new...
Todd Mummert on Beatle Brow Bulge
Bragg on Coex
Feast of Fools
Alphonse
Oblique Twique
Sound and Fury
Arrow
Tim Keenan on Trapped Like a Rat
Joe Bridges on Westward Ha!
Laura Kosbar on Groovy
Myriam Bouchard on CCK
...and on Hans' Puss
Kevin Bein on Matinee
Yellow Wall
Bragg on link-up to Yellow Ridge
Todd Mummert on Cruise Contol
Top of Annie O
Mellow Yellow
Added in edit: High Exposure
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 20, 2008 - 12:10am PT
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Wonderful shots Rich..looking forward to seeing everyone again in the fall.
PS...what are you doing hanging out with Romano woman??? :)
Mark Robinson on some roof.
Rich G on PR
Bob D on Land of Milk and Honey
That Romano Guy
Bob D on the Throne
John M on Fissure Ramins
Gary Garrit bouldering
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jul 20, 2008 - 12:22am PT
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Thanks Bob.
Romano woman sometimes is climb with beta males.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 20, 2008 - 12:44am PT
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Perch...is that you lurking out there??
RGold...what happened to Bragg's blonde hair??
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the idle rich
climber
Estes Park, CO
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Jul 20, 2008 - 01:16am PT
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Bob...Just trying to figure out how to post photos, but with limited success. Here goes another attempt. Here's Henry's answer to climbing Matinee in the clunky green Shoenards. He was just back from his trip to Dresden.
Rich
That pic of Land of Milk and Honey looks suspiciously like Frustration Syndrome?
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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Jul 20, 2008 - 05:41am PT
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Fellahs,
Those are some great, great pics. Laura and I just got a decent scanner so we are going to post some new old stuff soon. Out of a box of 3000, I don't think we have any photos of the quality that TIR, Rgold and BobbyD just submitted though.
RichP those pics of Barber are incredible.
Rgold:
-classic photo of you on Yellow Wall!
-we love that shot of you climbing with with the lightning bolt head scarf.
Bob D-thanks for kick starting this. So what year was that shot of you on the Throne? That's a tough one for sure. Great photos Bob. I don't know how you caught Romano relaxing.
RichP your screen name is hilarious. It fits too.
Look forward to October.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Jul 20, 2008 - 09:31am PT
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These photos convey how dynamic and character-ful the climbs are, across all the grades.
They especially make me want to come back in the fall.
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 20, 2008 - 10:13am PT
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Oakie...you are right...I was on my second vodka lemonade by that time.
Perch...cool shots of Henry.
Geno..funny about Richie...all the years I have know him he seems like he is always in motion.
How is Laura??
Russ Raffa on Scary Area
Bob Jahn on Wishbone Overhang 1977
One of the 20 people sieging the route that day..No Comment
Nick Morrel on Resistance
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jul 20, 2008 - 11:24am PT
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A really handsome fella on "The Fall".
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Jul 20, 2008 - 11:26am PT
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RGold...what happened to Bragg's blonde hair??
Uh, Bob, if we're gonna start down the "what happened to" road, we're gonna need a whole new thread...
Meanwhile, this just in (from 7/19/08)
Recently septegeneric Dick Williams leading one of his many new routes in the Near Trapps (protection so far consists of a micronut in a vertical seam and a pair of Ballnuts in a horizontal fracture).
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