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Love this image. Also am enjoying your videos! Inspiring. But...I don't have that great hair!
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mat4226
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John Layton
Yes...the infamous Mahoosuc Notch! "Toughest mile on the AT." Have not done this...not sure if we will at this point. But yes...there are many areas less traveled, as you mention, that are worth checking out - especially these days as many of the more popular routes/trailheads have become so very crowded.
Thanks for noticing the boots...we visited Peter Limmer (grandson of P. Limmer Sr., who I'd met back in 1968), at his shop in Intervale, where he measured our feet and created a great pair of boots for each of us. Perfect...and worth the price!
Another story...my very first photo assignment at age 15 - photographing the Dartmouth Winter Outward Bound program, based at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, back in 1970 - one of the instructors there was Willi Unsoeld - who had a few years before (1967 I think) pioneered a new route (the "west ridge") up Everest with Dr. Thom Hornbein. On that trip Willi had lost nine of his ten toes to frostbite, and while at the lodge, as he regaled us with one of many great climibing stories...he pulled off his socks and showed us his feet - minus the toes!
Willi Unsoeld passed away a few years after this....a climbing accident on (I think) Mt. Raineer.
At any rate...years later, as Marlene and I were getting measured for our boots...I happened to tell the story of Willi and his feet to Peter Limmer - at which point he quietly retreated to a back room, then reappeared...to then place a curious, vaguely familiar looking lump of plaster into my outstretched hand - a mold of Willi's left foot! Peter's grandfather had created for Willi some custom boots for his very special feet - and suddenly, there was Willi's left foot - looking much as it had all those years ago...in my hand!
The great thing is that Limmer's hasn't changed. I went there for the first time in 1967, when my uncle was getting boots. Willi Unsoeld's presentation made a big impression on me as well! I was 12. I saw him in Littleton, not at the Ravine Lodge, at an event hosted by Dr. Harry McDade, who was invited on, and consulted for, the West Ridge expedition. The Alpine community was much different in those days.
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ljb0904
Love this image. Also am enjoying your videos! Inspiring. But...I don't have that great hair!
Neither do I.
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Fantastic!
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Neither do I.
There's lots of us who need to admit.....we all clicked because of the hair, but stayed for the content :p
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Beano_z
There's lots of us who need to admit.....we all clicked because of the hair, but stayed for the content :p
I appreciate everybody tuning in, either for the big hair or big film! ;D
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Iran, Panoral 45 camera, Schneider Super Angulon 90/5.6, Hoya red filter, Ilford FP4 9x12cm sheet film
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Nice tones and composition Mohammad.
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Alan Klein
Nice tones and composition Mohammad.
Thank you very much, Alan.
