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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2009 - 09:22pm PT
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Great job of threadstoking! Is that Clune in the top shot?
Edit: How many fixed pins have outright snapped or had the eye fail in the Gunks?
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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It's Richie belaying me. I'm in the next three and then a young Romano age 17.
Who's this Clune?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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There was an article in the New York Times on the Mohonk House as a weather station. Originally posted to http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=677446, including similar stuff about Thoreau and Walden.
The station has been in exactly the same place since January 1st, 1896, and since then only five volunteer observers have been responsible for taking all 41,152 daily readings. The current volunteer is in his 34th year.
The station and its environs are virtually unchanged since 1896, and many of the original instruments are still being used. That, and the stability and consistency of the observers, makes it very valuable in terms of climate change.
Added to that, an extraordinary collection of phenological observations - essentially observations of natural history in the area. First birds, first snow, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/science/earth/16moho.html
Someday I hope to visit the Gunks, and will add a visit to the weather station to my list of things to do there.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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That's very nice RichRoss!
Your three photos upthread really showcase the elegance of Mohonk.
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 06:06pm PT
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Out biking.
Kevin Bein and Rich Romano. Mid 80's
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 11, 2009 - 09:13pm PT
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Foops,1976.
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Jan 12, 2009 - 11:53am PT
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Rich, Great photos----keep it up. I really like the photo of Kevin and Rich with their bikes. Even as fairly distant silouettes they are each recognizable!!!! Wish I knew more about some of the "off the grid" routes that you posted photos of. Guess I'll have to get back down to the Gunks some more next year and nose around a bit.
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 12, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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THE IDLE RICH and Bobby D. Gunks reunion,Rock and Snow.
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Jan 12, 2009 - 12:43pm PT
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We all do still miss Kevin. One of the high points of the Gunks Reunion last Oct. for me was the chance to see and chat with Barb---it had been much too long. I wish I had the know-how and equipment to scan in old slides as I have some decent ones of Kevin from the '60s and very early '70s.
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Jan 12, 2009 - 12:46pm PT
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You were posting the Idle Rich and Bobby D' photo as I was posting my last comment. It is my balding head that also appears in that photo!!!!
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MH2
climber
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Jan 12, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
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Looks the same as he did 30 odd years ago, around the eyes.
(Al, why not take some slides to a photo processor and let them do it?)
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Jan 12, 2009 - 05:40pm PT
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Harvey Arnold who took many great Gunks photos.Thanks Harv. Late 70's
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geiger
Trad climber
Doylestown pa
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Jan 12, 2009 - 08:59pm PT
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As an "old time climber" I started following this thread. I also remember climbing Ringwraith and looking over my shoulder to see the Mohonk house. Never finished the climb, but had my honeymoon there! Still wish I finished the climb!
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Feb 17, 2009 - 08:10am PT
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I remember that day Geiger.Did your nipple recover fully?
We had no idea how to crack climb.After a year in New Hampshire I went back and sailed up it.The cams didn't hurt either.It's sad to think others can only enjoy that climb by being guided there now.
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MH2
climber
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Feb 17, 2009 - 03:22pm PT
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Good pictures, oakie. I very much liked Mohonk in the evening when the sun was low. I fooled myself one time into thinking that Goethe's last words were "last light." A German-speaking woman from Poughkeepsie set me straight when she said that the pronounciation of that would be something like, 'leastest licht', whereas Goethe's supposed last words or word were/was, 'merlicht', or "more light", if I remember rightly. Probably could be a bit of debate over which last words would be more appropriate.
Roughly 1970
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 12:47am PT
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A few Gunks tidbits from Climbing December 1988.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 02:28am PT
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Great thread! That is the Harvey Arnold that I met in the Tetons in '79. Nice guy. We did the Exum together. I ran into him in Tuolumne years later. Anyone know how to drop him a line?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 02:33am PT
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He posts as Harv here on the ST if I remember correctly. Go back a few hundred posts on this thread! LOL
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 22, 2009 - 03:42am PT
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You're right, Steve. I sent him a message. That is funny.Thanks.
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