Nice! I really like seeing these "vintage" photos.

Wow!! Look at all that 1 inch webbing Randy has wrapped around his waist. He must have 20 feet wrapped in 10 coils. Oh yes! The pre-modern harness days... even before the famous Willans (sp?) Harness showed up on the scene. I used to do the same thing way back then and remember always finding it hard to breath with all that stuff coiled around my waist.... I think I got my first Willans in 1983.

Randy has made the jump to 2" material in this photo..... but the 1" stuff was pretty nice too. I think the standard was 20ft or so at a time.

Classic!

I think the coolest part is the shoes... Climbing anything in those must feel like 11d...

Are those chucks?! WHAT?! Randy is a Machine.

Shoes look like mean Vasque 'Ascenders', all thick full grain leather, stiff as a rail and great for aid or trad edgeing. The 2" 'swami' belt was a true classic. I couldn't afford my first Whillens harness until about 78' and still have it in my climbing museum today.

ahhhh. actual climbingish shoes. I was thinkin' converse allstars. Killer.