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You should create your own museum - that is an impressive collection! Ken Burns should contact you if he ever decides to do a documentary/series on mountaineering in North America! Very cool to look at the changing times in technology that is preserved in the (do I dare call them this) artifacts that you have. Thanks for sharing!!! :brew:

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Hey Dane, combine your tools with Bill Fix's books and Joe Collin's photos/climber's signature collection and you would have the core of a great climbing archive. Do you (or does anyone else) know what has happened to those other collections?

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Don't know about Joe's stuff. But Bill helped me a bunch of times by letting me use his library for research before trips. I had thought much of it (Bill's) was actually the Spokane Mountaineer's library.

 

If not, hopefully it was donated as such as the basis for a SML.

Steve Reynolds would know I bet.

 

At some point in the future I'll donate these as a collection.

Doug Robinson and I have chatted about a "ice climbing project" just for that occasion and others like it.

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The Spokane Mountaineer's part of Bill's books was a subset of that entire collection. The last I heard (which was several years ago) SPL was negotiating with Bill and Harriet Fix to receive Bill's collection, but I don't think that ever happened. Steve R, do you know if it ever found a permanent home? Joe Collin's photos are the best collection of climbing pictures from the post WWII era I have ever seen, comparable to Ira Spring's. His famous climber signature collection is wild.

 

Sorry everybody for thread highjack.

 

 

 

 

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