Old skool

[Dru]

What defines old skool to you?

1) Alpenstocks and hemp rope

2) Tennis shoes and ropes tied around the waist and Army surplus ring angles.

3) webbing swamis and Terrordactyls.

4) White canvas painters pants and whillans harnesses

5) EBs worn with striped socks, chalk bags the size of basketballs hung on a biner from a tube webbing belt, and Adidas track pants

6) Lycra, Fires, and quickdraws made of two D biners.

7) 3-layer Goretex, simond pirahnas, purple fleece, and a carpet chunk for a crash pad?

[philfort]

I've seen both 1 and 2 used in the past 2 years by teenagers from small rural washington towns attempting mountaineering. It ain't old skool for them folk!

[Dru]

http://www.bivouac.com/TripPg.asp?rq=Pg&TripId=1463

[Bronco]

Dru, if # 2 said clothsline instead of rope, probably 1/2 the people reading this would fit that catetgory, or did at one point in their life.

[JayB]

Dudes leading desert splitters on hexes...in painter paints and a rugby shirt...

[Cpt.Caveman]

Anyone that has previously climbed a big wall without cams is old school.

Hemp Ropes and sling harnessesTenniesFred Beckey TerrordactylsSumner Ice axesThose fruity looking pants they used back in the day. (short and wool)Hobnail bootsRatty pitons like army surplus yesSisu SuomiPrusiking to a summitShoulder stand aid movesWooden skisthere is more but........

[ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: Cpt.Caveman ]

[ScottP]

Ring angle pitons

Steel carabiners

1/4 inch star drivin lead sleeve bolts

120 foot goldline ropes

Goldline slings

Swami belts

Shoulder stands

Dulfersitz

Standing shoulder belays

Wood shaft ice axes

[Dru]

Skins and furs, wooden club, bone tipped wooden arrows, hemp fiber shoes stuffed with straw, hemp fiber sun hat, beard.

[ScottP]

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Originally posted by Dru:

Skins and furs, wooden club, bone tipped wooden arrows, hemp fiber shoes stuffed with straw, hemp fiber sun hat, beard.

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Like that dude they found in the Alps on the Austrian/Italina border in 1991.He was oldschool (like 5000 years old.)

[Dru]

quote:

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Originally posted by ScottP:

Like that dude they found in the Alps on the Austrian/Italina border in 1991.He was

old

school (like 5000 years old.)

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And Kwadai Dan Sinchi in the Yukon.

Yeah... and they went and got Messner to come and take a look ot "Otzi" the Iceman, and Messner just grabbed the body and yanked it off the ice. And it turns out the Iceman's dick was still frozen to the ice and when Messner did that the poor ice man's whole genital apparatus was ripped right off the body and remained frozen to the ice.

Which goes to show you that climbing 8000m pks without O's does not make you an archaeologist. I was waiting for the headline in "Hot Flashes" - REINHOLD MESSNER RIPS DEAD GUYS BALLS OFF - but they never ran it.