Mountain Project is 20 years old

Hi all, was digging around in some old topos and climbing info and found this old thing from MP, back then I started the use MP more and rockclimbing. Com and Super Topo less! Happy climbing Mike A.

Mike Arechiga wrote:

Hi all, was digging around in some old topos and climbing info and found this old thing from MP, back then I started the use MP more and rockclimbing. Com and Super Topo less! Happy climbing Mike A.

2011, Vapor S $119.  today, $200...Thanks Obama. 

phylp phylp wrote:

There's no reason you would or should understand the reference - it's a California-centric comment.  The Warbler is the nickname of Kevin Worrall, a CA-based climber who did a lot of hard (for the time) and bold (for any time) routes.  He was respected, or admired, or revered (depending on your fan-boy meter) and was for a while an active contributor to Supertopo:

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/252358/Welcome-to-Kevin-Worrall

He posted a ton of valuable info and history but was banned after one too many misogynistic posts. All his content disappeared along with him.   He joined MP under his real name for a while and was banned from here as well.  Whether he is posting here again under an alias I have no idea.

Thanks!  Interesting stuff!

Rprops wrote:

MP is so old Matty Hong wouldn’t date it.

MP is 20... you can bang it, but you can't get it drunk

definitely sad about myke. i think about that crew every once in a while.  climbingboulder.com started up not too long after i got my first real job. it helped me get through a lot of those cubicle days.

2005 was when Mt Project first started calling itself Mt Project, or when the concept was first created? Rockclimbing.com was around early 2000 and was the big site at the time. Seem to remember it starting to fade out sometime around 2005 when Mt Project started taking over. Hard to imagine a new website taking over the old ones when it first was created. Usually takes a bit no? 

Double J wrote:

So that’s when all the climbing(locations).com sites merged to become MP?  Do you know when those sites started?  Sometime in the 90’s? I can’t remember that long ago….

My RA (freshman year in college) worked on the Boulder site. That would have been spring of '99.

Colonel Mustard wrote:

My account automatically transferred from the climbing Bay Area site to mountain project when the Quiter bros sold to them, so I’m not sure I ever saw the question.

It was Gri gri. If you didn't answer correctly you weren't allowed access to create an account. I remember being a total kook and sweeting bullets answering the question. Mountain project has grown but I'm still a kook. 

Andrew Gram wrote:

I started climbingmoab in 2001, and it was the first of the climbing*.com sites to really take off.  Climbingboulder was the original, and Myke started it in 2000 I think.  So sad that Myke passed away 5 years ago - way too young.

Aw man! I didn't know.