Found: Beacon - Old Bonatti biner

[JosephH]

Must be another old-timer...

[billcoe]

Hmmm, thats what I favored for years.

 

Started with the ovals with blue gates (3000 lb test -most of the blue is gone) to replace my 1800 lb test Eiger Ovals, moved up to the D's with the red gates (4400 lb test most of the red is gone) and wound up with the smaller modified ds, which as the newest Bonattis aren't that old, maybe 20 years or so s they tested to like 5200 lbs or so. Still use them for Toproping.

[billcoe]

Besides that, you must be freezing your cold, wet, frozen nards off out there?

[iain]

Still climbing at beacon in this weather, clipping bonattis? That is definitely core.

[Blake]

Joseph, I found an old carabiner out there on Free For All last winter that someone had bailed off, it said "Chamonix Simond" on it, and was shaped differently than anything else ive seen. I still use it to keep a nut tool on. Anyone run into these before?

[JosephH]

Yeah, I've seen those "Chamonix Simond" ones before along with the various Bonatti's, but I never cared for the early euro stuff myself, always used Chouinards,they were heavy by comparison; but then I didn't do alpine which everyone liked them for. Found this one the other day when I was out getting the haul line down for the season. Strange, though, it was just sitting there on the first bolt on Young Warriors. I just hopped up in my tennies and grabbed it. Odd spot to leave one...

[iain]

Probably Opdycke's. He just forgot he needed a partner to belay him, so he tied in, climbed on, and the gear didn't get cleaned.

[billcoe]

Probably Opdycke's. He just forgot he needed a partner to belay him, so he tied in, climbed on, and the gear didn't get cleaned.

 

 

Seems reasonable.

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Either that or someone went out and in the process of freezing their nards off just backed off and left it.

[John Frieh]

He's going to be pissed when he finds out his name appeared on this site or... he'll have some more good "theories"

[billcoe]

He's going to be pissed when he finds out his name appeared on this site

 

Nah. He should be happy folks remember him in a good way.

 

or... he'll have some more good "theories"

 

Always!

[kevbone]

You guys, and you know who you are, ( and Im not dissing you ) spend way to much time on the internet, and expecialy this site!!!! here here to the flying dutchman!!

Edited December 6, 2005 by kevbone

[billcoe]

You guys, and you know who you are, ( and Im not dissing you ) spend way to much time on the internet, and expecialy this site!!!! here here to the flying dutchman!!

 

Thanks for the heads up Kev, more clues follow:

 

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[billcoe]

Still climbing at beacon in this weather, clipping bonattis? That is definitely core.

 

It is core, but clipping the first bolt and lowering off is SOFT core however

[kevbone]

I would rather be hard core.

[billcoe]

I would rather be hard core.

 

Not me. In this weather I'm just pussycore, in front of the fireplace at home, warm. Looking to be @30 degrees and wet, which probably means freezing rain, but most likely not enough to really freeze any waterfalls. Just enough so you can't even drive up to go skiing.

 

BTW, di you just get sucked in? Dude, I might just forsee your post count heading to 21,000 something.