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Ok people, let's extend this back a little more. Bohemian Switzerland, Sandstone Towers area, Czech Republic, 1962. I was 14, just started to climb with a group of climbers from a Prague club. I'm the one in the back of the group.

ksolem wrote:

sarah.simon wrote:
NOTE: We are nearing our quota on early 80s short-shorts photos, fellas. NO MAS!

Climbing a roadcut in the Adirondacks, between Long Lake and Tupper Lake as I recall...

Wow! some of my first climbing was on roadcuts in the Adirondacks, particularly east of Gouverneur. The drill lines (for dynamite) are memorable.

I recall trying to downclimb a route, with a hairy intermediate section. A woman stopped to watch me, and began shouting, "He's going to fall! He's going to die! I just know it!"

When I got down, I indicated that I really didn't appreciate her comments.

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Ok people, let's extend this back a little more. Bohemian Switzerland, Sandstone Towers area, Czech Republic, 1962. I was 14, just started to climb with a group of climbers from a Prague club. I'm the one in the back of the group.

Alois that is brilliant! You look just the same today! (and not the least bit gay either )

Chrees, whot is dhis gey ishue in dhis poust? Du nhot undurstand. Olso, pleeze eksplane thi shortz...vary fanie!?

I and Silvretta

Labyrinth Canyon, Utah, circa 1981. I still have my arm around that girl.

Minaret Lake, '74

WP Area early 80's

EPI early 80's

On the way to Keeler Needle late 70's

Castle Rock/Erebus '79

Fall of 1970, Little Canyon Mountain, Oregon.
I think there is a road to the summit but my friend Jerry and I hiked up from my house in Canyon City. I recall it as a surpisingly hard bushwack, dirt scrabble climbing 2500' in about a 1.5 miles.

Sexy Sadie, Joshua Tree, early '80s...



Photo by Charley Crist on a nice clear cold high desert morning.

Short answer? Yes.



Butterfly Crack, Joshua Tree, 1991. Photo: Guy Keesee. Custom lycra: Ken Gohegan.

And that has to be my girl friend's chalkbag. I wouldn't be caught dead with something like that in my kit...

Chapeau à cornes, Requin, aiguilles de Chamonix, mid of 80's

Mt. Williamson, 2001.

MoapaPk wrote:

ksolem wrote:

sarah.simon wrote:
NOTE: We are nearing our quota on early 80s short-shorts photos, fellas. NO MAS!

Climbing a roadcut in the Adirondacks, between Long Lake and Tupper Lake as I recall...

Wow! some of my first climbing was on roadcuts in the Adirondacks, particularly east of Gouverneur. The drill lines (for dynamite) are memorable.

I recall trying to downclimb a route, with a hairy intermediate section. A woman stopped to watch me, and began shouting, "He's going to fall! He's going to die! I just know it!"

When I got down, I indicated that I really didn't appreciate her comments.

How'd you indicate it?

Used to have the same problem with gawkers. Unfortunately one of my favorite areas to climb was right above a summer camp. I've heard "don't fall! Huh huh huh huh!" more times than Wilt Chamberlain's had sex.

p.s. Sorry, no scanned pictures of me as a climbing kid. Actually, that's probably a good thing. Apology rescinded.

Diggler wrote:

Mt. Williamson, 2001.

What a sexy guy!

Awesome thread...
Anywho this is me in 1999 up in the North Cascades, it's the oldest picture I could find. A little blurry but what the hey.

Knee high to a grasshopper