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chossmonkey
Jan 5, 2006, 3:06 PM
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I would guess by the lack of Lycra it is from the early 90's.
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buckeyeclimbski
Jan 5, 2006, 4:17 PM
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Definitely Early 90's, its from a television series called trailside, it aired on the local PBS station back home when I was a kid.
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akclimber
Jan 5, 2006, 4:37 PM
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Cool video, but im surprised no one has ripped apart his anchor.... :shock:
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chossmonkey
Jan 5, 2006, 4:46 PM
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In reply to: Cool video, but im surprised no one has ripped apart his anchor.... :shock:
Doesn't everyone TR that way? :?
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brianinslc
Jan 5, 2006, 5:06 PM
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Yeah, old Trailside video. They used to have a website, I seem to recall, where you could buy the videos. I think I have a few of them. Was a PBS series.
Host is John Viehman, editor (at the time, methinks) of Backpacker Magazine.
Anyone know who the climber is?
Funny, they're bouldering, and John says, "lets go do some real climbing".
Brian in SLC
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dr_monkey
Jan 5, 2006, 10:43 PM
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Hey, that anchor is solid, didn't you see the test fall to get the slack out of the rope? :lol:
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chossmonkey
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It might not have been the best set up but I'm sure it was adequate.
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shanz
Jan 5, 2006, 11:18 PM
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not a bad vid anchors were kinda freaky -
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boardline22
Jan 5, 2006, 11:29 PM
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yeah the anchor looked decent or adequete and I don't beleave cams were around in the 80's, but i may be wrong
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sbaclimber
Jan 5, 2006, 11:30 PM
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smr21
Jan 6, 2006, 12:58 AM
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Haven't gotten as far as the anchor part but what a Chalk Whore!
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shanz
Jan 6, 2006, 1:07 AM
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i noticed that too --- my god if i used that much chalk when i climbed id have to get a second job to afford my chalk habit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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sbaclimber
Jan 6, 2006, 1:11 AM
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Kind of amusing. I definitely liked the bit about 'getting the slack out of the system'. Anchor was adequate.....I wouldn't necessarily set one up that way, but at least he had in 3 good pieces and it was sort of equalised (probably simply because all the cams were so close to each other).
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boardline22
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In reply to: In reply to: I don't beleave cams were around in the 80's, but i may be wrong yes, you are!
humm, when were they invented?
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chromwells_head
Jan 6, 2006, 5:02 AM
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according to an on line encyclopedia they were invented by Ray Jardine in 1978
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Spring-loaded-camming-device
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chromwells_head
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ray jardine 1978
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punk_rocker333
Jan 6, 2006, 6:17 AM
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This video is fun to watch. Notice how the climber shows his lack of fear on top of the cliff when looking for an anchor. He's the type that wears his rock shoes all the time, ha ha. I'd like to see more of it.
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atpeaceinbozeman
Jan 6, 2006, 6:20 AM
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In reply to: Funny, they're bouldering, and John says, "lets go do some real climbing". Brian in SLC
I thought the response was funnier, "Yeah, let's set up a top rope..."
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atpeaceinbozeman
Jan 6, 2006, 6:27 AM
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In reply to: Funny, they're bouldering, and John says, "lets go do some real climbing". Brian in SLC
I thought the response was funnier, "Yeah, let's set up a top rope..."
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brianinslc
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In reply to: ray jardine 1978
Nope. Greg Lowe. I might have the dates slightly wrong, but, I think Lowe applied for his patent in 1973, and was granted in 1975.
L.A.S. cam. The first. Was using them in the late 60s and early seventies. First ascent of Supercrack (Luxery Liner) in Indian Creek used one in 1976. If you look closely in one of Stewart Green's photo's of the climb, you can see one hanging off Webster.
-Brian in SLC
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johnviehman
Feb 1, 2006, 11:53 PM
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If you're talking about the climbing episode that I think you are, it was shot in Joshua Tree c.1992--first season of my first public television series (via APT, not PBS), "Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure," first of a new genre of quasi-reality shows now so common. The climber was Paul Borne, but I've heard that he's since changed his name. Obviously, I was pretty much a novice climber, and I cringe at some of the dialogue and rigging but, hey, we didn't have a road map to making a national outdoor series at the time, so stuff like that was part of the package. And my fumbling and bumbling my way through things was the point of the series, after all... to inspire everyday people to get off the couch and get Out There.
We shot quite a few other climbing episodes for "Trailside" as well as my second public television series (on PBS), "Anyplace Wild." Hundreds of shows in all.
At the time of both television series, I was on staff at BACKPACKER magazine, first as Executive Editor and ultimately Publishing Director.
It was a great ride....
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nudge_nudge
Feb 2, 2006, 12:48 AM
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Who pooted at 2:51?
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climberboy193838
Feb 2, 2006, 2:00 AM
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haha he spent more time chalking up then he would have climbing the route 2 times without chalk
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :shock: :D :shock: :D :lol:
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kydd76
Feb 2, 2006, 3:37 AM
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very groovy, looks as if I start to get in to this climbing.
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