Climbing Magazines for Sale

[YoungBoySimon]

I would like to sell my collection of Climbing and Rock & Ice magazines to make room for my ever-growing pornography collection. I have a complete set of Climbing from issue 150-present (issue 205), and a complete set of R&I from issue 81-present (issue 110), as well as five previous R&I back to issue 66. If you are interested, please call me at work ((425) 564-7912) or e-mail "johnsha@expedia.com."

Thanks,

John Sharp

[willstrickland]

Hey, just a thought...

If you have issue 156 or 163, there are a couple of profiles in there...namely Slater and Cosgriff respectively. Any chance you could transcribe the soloing on acid lines out of there and post them?

I've been trying to hunt down a copy, but there aren't any around here to be found.

[Retrosaurus]

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Originally posted by willstrickland:

Any chance you could transcribe the soloing on acid lines out of there and post them?

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From Climbing no. 163, p.115:

Cosgriff briefly went to college in Santa Clara, California, then transferred to the University of Colorado in Boulder. At times, It seemed he might be heading toward normality -- he majored in math and fantisized about getting his credentials and teaching at Fairview High School in Boulder. "Just kicking back," he says. "I wanted to climb and just have a nice quiet life." But the pendulum kept swinging. He started climbing with the likes of Rob Slater, Neil Beidleman, Jerry Greenleaf, Bruce Bailey, Rufus Miller, Skip Guerin, "The Great Matt," and some partners who prefer to remain anonymous. He and one partner would head out on full-moon winter nights to Eldorado, drop acid to keep their fingers warm and enhance the graphics, then climb a 200-foot, mostly vertical 5.9+ route on Wind Tower called Metamorphosis. They had no rope for protection, only T-shirts that read "Blotter Is My Spotter."

The Slater profile in Climbing no. 156 makes no mention of acid solos. To the contrary, it affirms Slater's abstinence:

He promised to drink a beer with me after he triumphed on K2, and partake in all his friends' vices they had been egging him to try. He never wanted to do any of these things, and he never had. He didn't need to -- he was crazed on life. But after all the hard work and sacrifices and effort, and all the living life on his own agenda so that he would climb K2, he was ready to give up that agenda to please his friends. I don't need to drink that beer with Robbie, because I know he would have kept his word. In some ways it seems fitting that he didn't have to lower himself to that act, even if it was just one beer. Rob's purity remains intact, and therefore so does his spirit.

[This message has been edited by Retrosaurus (edited 08-01-2001).]

[Dru]

From memory, the other soloing on acid quote is from Middendorf article, not Slater. ("Walt and I did a lot off days of taking hallucinogens and soloing. Walt was definitely better at that than I was" or words to that effect) Slater was a straight-edger, he didn't even drink, according to the Sherman article anyways.