Other retro things in your life
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Have a collection of early climbing guidebooks. Mostly from the begining of the 1900's. Have quite a few complete sets.
I also have many modern ones but they just arent the same. For example some routes are no longer in newer guides, either through access issues, nature(overgrown or fallen down) or just arent fashionable now. Some old routes were climbed with the aid of a patners shoulder or a bunk up, now with modern climbers skills advancing they have been climbed without aid and then regraded and renamed, resulting in the old climb disapearing.
The best part of the old guides for me is how they were writen. A modern guidebooks description of a route gives brief and to the point directions as it were. An old guides routes are more like little essays or storys of the ascent and not only detailing the directions. One route on a famous popular cliff in Wales traverses the cliff and suggests climbing in a large party and taking a picnic hamper to stop on various ledges for the stunning views and observe the frustration of others who are waiting to climb up the cliff. All writen in ye olde style grammer.
Anyway, just a couple of pics of one of the boxes i came across when moving things about...
I also have many modern ones but they just arent the same. For example some routes are no longer in newer guides, either through access issues, nature(overgrown or fallen down) or just arent fashionable now. Some old routes were climbed with the aid of a patners shoulder or a bunk up, now with modern climbers skills advancing they have been climbed without aid and then regraded and renamed, resulting in the old climb disapearing.
The best part of the old guides for me is how they were writen. A modern guidebooks description of a route gives brief and to the point directions as it were. An old guides routes are more like little essays or storys of the ascent and not only detailing the directions. One route on a famous popular cliff in Wales traverses the cliff and suggests climbing in a large party and taking a picnic hamper to stop on various ledges for the stunning views and observe the frustration of others who are waiting to climb up the cliff. All writen in ye olde style grammer.
Anyway, just a couple of pics of one of the boxes i came across when moving things about...
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zombiemax69
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zombiemax69":viq4axy9 said:i love old motors... 70s, 80s japanese stuff is my fave
Oh, lovely. I've just sold my Mk1 MX-5 Japanese import. I'll be relying on my bikes for transport from now on ...
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