[ianv]

Looks like bachar, looks like the verdon, definitely not chasing train. That is in the frankenjura.

[slackline]

Fair-do's, I just found it on Reddit and that was how it was described.

[Falling Down]

Rather than train, isn't it "Chasin' the Trane" ? Bachar was an accomplished sax player and this was his homage to John Coltrane who composed said piece.

[cowboyhat]

Does anyone have the Crags magazine with Ron on the cover, Supersonic 'is this the worlds first 6c'...?

If so can you email a pic to me please?

Will be very much appreciated. Thanks

[cowboyhat]

got one now thanks.

Ask and the resource provides...

[andy_e]

Care to upload it for us to view? I've never seen it but heard about it... Ta!

[slackline]

[lagerstarfish]

despite all the clever photoshoppery on that pic, I reckon she's hanging some of her weight on that peg

[shark]

Care to upload it for us to view? I've never seen it but heard about it... Ta!

[cowboyhat]

"Well its a bit of a slab" - Basher

Signed! amazing, is that yours?

What are the covers of issues 1,2 & 3? Or any Crags for that matter; before my time....

[slackline]

Signed! amazing, is that yours?

It was signed ~34 years after publication

[shark]

What are the covers of issues 1,2 & 3? Or any Crags for that matter; before my time....

Bit before my time too.

[shark]

http://www.chesslerbooks.com/item/10726-crags-magazine-full-set-issues-1-33---1976-1981--uk-.asp

Don't know what they go for normally but a full set is available for $75 from Colorado which sounds like a good deal if shipping costs are reasonable

[Nibile]

I think this one somehow belongs here. My dad taking up climbing at 73...

Untitled by Nibile, on Flickr

[JackAus]

Loads of amazing photos here:

www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s

[slackline]

Loads of amazing photos here:

www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s

Good find.

[Fultonius]

Slackers, any more info on the one you posted further up?

[slackline]

Slackers, any more info on the one you posted further up?

Which one?  If its the b/w shot of the lady its hyperlinked to the page I found it on so just click on the picture for more information.

[mark s]

my uncle is coming over this weekend,he climbed alot in the 70's and 80's and 90's.will ask him if he has any he can bring for me to scan.
did find one from at home from the mid 80's at a bbq in la palud.rab with a black ball of hair for a head,just a pair of glasses.martin boyson was also in the shot.

[willackers]

I've uploaded some of my dads photos from the 60's to my Flickr account. My dad was one of the founder members of the Cioch Club, they used to rent the hut above Eric's Cafe at Stoney Middleton. He's got some great stories about the things they used to get up to, I think they did more drinking than climbing 

Chris Jackson has put together a great website about the Cioch Club, well worth the read, some great pics as well.

http://www.zen68262.zen.co.uk/archives.html

There are some more photos on my Flickr page.

I wonder what their views on lycra and chalk bags would have been? 



ack-0409 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

Windy Ledge. Years before chalk bags and lycra.


ack-0173 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

Jack Street on the FA of Jasper.


ack-0116 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

Some of the Cioch Club in the hut.


ack-0071 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

Froth, Stoney Middleton.


ack-bw-05-56 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

My dad John 'Ackers' Atkinson.


ack-bw-27-09 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

Bouldering in the 60's!


ack-bw-44-09 by willatkinson85, on Flickr

My dad on the FA of The Creeper - A girdle traverse of Central Buttress WCJ

[grimer]

Brilliant 

[Wood FT]

great pictures Will, the one of the lads in the Cioch hut could be a bar on division street today, top fashion.

[jcm]

I think that John Bachar picture is Miroir du Fou. It was made into a poster which used to be up in a climbing wall somewhere.

[Falling Down]

Fantastic pics Will.  Shame you didnt get 'em to Phil Kelly for the book!

[willackers]

Cheers!. They're pretty good photos

I think they've been in touch with Geoff Birtles who has passed them on, not 100% about that though. I think Geoff has the original club book containing some FA's and other info from around that period.

We'll see.