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Gunks in magazine ad, 1967
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Who recognizes the route? |
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AMC slabs? |
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Don't recognize the route, but the woman looks completely competent in her rope management and not like she is being portrayed, as some silly woman trying to please her man and get that drink. Who are the climbers? |
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I have no idea who these folks are. But this ad ran in 1967 so they'd be close to 70 years old by now. |
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Could it be Annie O? (I mean the person in the ad...Annie O'Neill) |
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Not Annie Oh or the slabs. |
sara pax wrote:You sure that's not you Mike?My wool knickers are a bit lighter shade than those. It would be very cool to re-create this shot however. (Esp. if it comes with free whiskey afterwards) |
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Canadian Club ads featured a variety of adventures. Other climbing related ones; |
Gunkiemike wrote:Not Annie Oh or the slabs.I mean the person, not the route |
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Arrow |
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I'll ask around. I think the belayer is Dave Craft; don't recognize the woman or the locale---not much to go on there. |
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Mike you seem sure of which route it is. I find it hard to guess. Could be No Glow? Could be Arrow. |
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No idea the route, but I'm kind of baffled by what's going on in the photo. The woman looks like she's belaying someone with a hip belay, except that she isn't anchored, or lowering herself with a hip belay, which would make no sense. The guy has some convoluted thing going with a different rope -- a hip belay of the woman? -- but with tension from above on the brake side of the rope. At least he's anchored. I'm sure I must be missing something obvious . . . |
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Isn't she rapping on a biner brake with a top rope backup? |
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It's Dave Craft belaying and, I think, Kaye Arnott rappelling. Everything about it is pretty normal for 1967. It is a little hard to tell what the friction set-up is. I think she's using a carabiner brake and then has the rope passed around behind her waist, presumably because the brake by itself isn't supplying enough friction for a single-strand rappel. The look of stress on her face is probably related to this. |
PRRose wrote:Isn't she rapping on a biner brake with a top rope backup?Guess that's the something obvious I was missing. Zooming in closer, I can see now that it is a biner brake. JL |
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OK new guess: High Exposure. |
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That's a good guess. Back then it was the first place everyone headed to take cimbing pictures. It is unlikely that the photographer had any climbing experience at all, and High E would have been the place to go. |
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I can see that being the "top out" of High E. If I remember correctly the crack that is visible is a good jam just before gaining the small ledge, which is a ~20 foot scramble below the true top of the cliff. Hard to say though. |
SethG wrote:OK new guess: High Exposure.We have a winner! |
Gunkiemike wrote: We have a winner!Don't wanna brag, but I thought High E was the obvious answer... I never get tired of that route. as far as what they're doing... |
