#stonemasters

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Valley Uprising- Stonemasters

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1) #JohnYablonski at #Yosemite 1975 📷: GeorgeMeyers 2) #RichardHarrison 1977 📷: #GibLewis 3) #WernerBraun and #RichardHarrison 1977 📷: #GibLewis 4) #Stonemasters Style 📷: #DeanFidelman 5) #WernerBraun late 70’s 📷: BobGaines

[t00muchcaffeine]

#Repost @jimmy_chin with @get_repost ・・・ “A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out.” — Jim Bridwell ••••• It was an honor to know you sir. You’re an absolute legend. Rest easy Jim. To see the @nytimes write up on Jim - link in bio. Photo : Jim Bridwell Collection Bill Westbay, Jim Bridwell, John Long after the first one day ascent of the Nose on El Cap. Yosemite Valley. #legend #stonemasters

[sonic-rust]

The amazing John Long reading to the crowd at #climbsmart2017 from his new book 'Stories From The Dirt'- one of the original #stonemasters, Largo and his crew practically invented the modern version of heady trad climbing. And his writing is unusually gripping too! What followed his reading was the hilarious #ReaditlikeLargo contest, resulting in a tie between Cliffhanger guide Roddy and Bernadette (JTNP's Climbing Ranger!) - they each won a signed 'genuine article' and Randy Vogel's newest guidebook to JTree. Congratulations you two! (Hey Largo, I need another book...) #johnlong #adidasoutdoor ##joshuatree #storiesfromthedirt

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how is today??#heartchakra#astrolights#stonemasters#蛇紋石#onlineshop#serpentine

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[anacapaprojects]

Great article by Luke Zaleski over on GQ Style about The Stonemasters, a group of California outlaws who invented - or at least shaped - rock climbing cool in the 70s.

Climbing wasn’t a mainstream thing at all then. So [climbers] had an outlaw curious feel to them that I found interesting. And they were all fit—an energetic subset of athletics and culture that I also found interesting. Outlaws, really. The regular rules didn’t really apply to them ‘cause there was nobody to enforce anything. They simply weren’t hypnotized by regular values. They were like jazz musicians or something. 

The attitude, as it always does, began to express itself through the clothes:

All of us were aware of what was going on in surfing and we all thought that those guys were bitchin’, you know. They had style. They had the style, and that’s what we started bringing to climbing—a certain style. And it first started with the clothes—the white painter pants and the chalk bag and then the headband. It also went to the way you climbed. You climbed super smooth, but when there was a big hold, you’d hang on it. You know, you’d show how strong you were and how fluid you were. And then you wouldn’t use a whole lot of protection to show how big your balls were.

Read the whole thing here