A chunk of history from waaay back

Sorry to say that as I cleaned out my long overdue garage bins of whatever, I tossed out my 30 years of Climbing, Rock and Ice, Summit, Mountain Gazette and other print materials. But I found a folder full of really old tags and brochures and thought I'd share a couple of the really good ones. Enjoy a piece of history, most from late 70's and early 80's.
Original Jumar and Edelweiss rope purchase tags. A GPIW/Chouinard brochure with possibly some of the first Patagonia clothing listed. New England Alpine Gear price sheet.( great deals!) A CMI Figure 8 brochure. It's good for belaying and load lowering too! Finally a Royal Robbins 'Mountaincraft Telluride' climbing instruction brochure. I think it came with my purchase of his 2 instructional books back then. The fee for a day guided up Lizard Head was 50 bucks. Only 40 for Ames or Ophir walls. Hard to believe how reasonable the costs were back then.

Awesome stuff.

Really love the "Patagonia Software"...should have trademarked that.

Andy Librande wrote:Awesome stuff. Really love the "Patagonia Software"...should have trademarked that.

I thought they did. Recall seeing that term on many a catalog in the past. Somewhere I know I have the early classic 70's Chouinard catalogs intact,,just can't find them yet.

The WHEEEEEE on the CMI ring is hilarious

Alicia Sokolowski wrote:The WHEEEEEE on the CMI ring is hilarious

Kinda screams wild uncontrolled rappelling bozo overhead. But it was pretty popular to just grab your goldline rope and figure 8 and go rappel back in the 70's.

Woodchuck ATC wrote:The fee for a day guided up Lizard Head was 50 bucks. Only 40 for Ames or Ophir walls. Hard to believe how reasonable the costs were back then.

...except that a job that pays $50-60k p.a. today would have paid $10-15k p.a. in the late 70s.

Interesting that the price of climbing gear has actually come down by about 50% in inflation-adjusted terms. $4 for a biner or $30 for a harness was pretty steep relative to average earnings back then.

Tossed???? Probably an E-bay goldmine!

Mark Roth wrote:Tossed???? Probably an E-bay goldmine!

Not really. They were stored in damp garage and mice did some chewing on most issues.