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Jan 15, 2010 at 10:37 pm #1563292
So cool.
Jan 15, 2010 at 10:51 pm #1563293I agree. Very cool.
Jan 15, 2010 at 11:26 pm #1563297Jeff — where are your pics? Moocher! :)
Miguel — Wow, a single wall, non-breathable fabric dome tent that's condensation free — I want one!
Jan 16, 2010 at 3:57 am #1563312Very Very Cool!!
Jan 16, 2010 at 5:23 am #1563316John, WOW that is just crazy happening, and for the record I had no intenion of getting that pack, my dad just "happened" to pick it up when I joined scouts, Worst pack ever.
Jan 16, 2010 at 6:20 am #1563324That's my dad and my brother and me (second from left) and a couple of friends. On the AT in PA in about 1975. Gotta love the 70s. I'm pretty sure I bought that pack I am wearing at KMart. I upgraded to a monster Kelty a year or two later. Still have the Kelty.
Jan 16, 2010 at 2:03 pm #1563418With my ex-photo retailer hat on…
This is a very quick 'restoration" job, 3 clicks on Photoshop. The reason I am posting this is a reminder of what can be done to save your precious shots. BTW, I am not very good at it…
Franco
Jan 16, 2010 at 4:00 pm #1563450The bad color is due to these rolls of film having sat in a drawer for many years. I found these when I was a teen and 126 film was nearly done with places to process it. The fact that they even came out was amazing!
Me and my brother at Rainier as little ones:
Us sitting in front of the climbers ranger station:
I love digital cameras in SO many ways. I never feel guilty taking photos – there is no thinking about how all I have is 24 or 36 photos, no cost after buying the camera outside of charging the battery. I take SO many more photos. I am glad though I took those rolls of film from my Mom back then and got them developed. A good half of them were trashed due to being all purple.
Jan 16, 2010 at 4:12 pm #1563451Franco, both my shots above were retouched with Photoshop. (I spend a lot of time retouching photos) It does bring out the colors and sharpen blurry images, but there is also something atmospheric and quaint about the fuzzy focus and monochromatic hues, too, don't you think?
Jan 16, 2010 at 4:23 pm #1563454Another quick job before lunch..
Jan 16, 2010 at 5:17 pm #1563466Miguel….I have to say there is something about the bad look of 1970's era 126 snapshots. They were not pretty but it has a "feel" :-)
Though Franco did clean those shots up…lol!
But nothing can change that sweet, sweet outfit I have on…lol!
Jan 16, 2010 at 5:23 pm #1563470But nothing can change that sweet, sweet outfit I have on…lol!
Disco Queen of the Snowball Hall? 8-P
I see you even have Day-Glo snow at your feet!
Jan 16, 2010 at 5:30 pm #1563472
Rebecca and me, Square Rock track 1990 (Rebecca just returned from 6 weeks trekking Nepal)Jan 16, 2010 at 5:47 pm #1563477This is the oldest picture I can come up with right now. Its not real old but its in Alaska in my pre-ultra light days for sure. I am on the right caring a hand-me-down Gregory that my grandfather gave me. It must be 20- to 30 years old. I don't use this pack anymore except when I play pack mule for a bunch of kids. My brother the left is using an external frame pack that might be even older. We've both upgraded but my brother still uses his old external frame when he has to haul really big loads.
Jan 16, 2010 at 5:50 pm #1563479CUTE!!! (both the young Sarbar and Tony's daughter).
1990 doesn't seem that long ago at all — until one realizes that the cute baby up above is now a 20-y.o. lady!
Jan 16, 2010 at 6:39 pm #1563489Took the time to emulate Franco and retouched a few photos here. Don't worry, I've thrown away all the image files I worked on!
Hope you all don't mind…
Retouching this one was difficult!!!Jan 16, 2010 at 11:03 pm #1563554Haleakala Crater, HI, 1986. My brother on the left, my Aunt, US National Park Service Ranger, in the center, I'm on the right. One of my first backpacking trips.
My Grandma dropped us off to hike the crater and would meet us at the top of the switchbacks in three days.
Jan 16, 2010 at 11:55 pm #1563559…
Jan 17, 2010 at 12:01 am #1563560I looks like a Grasshopper stove, and it used butane. That was state-of-the-art in 1977.
–B.G.–Jan 17, 2010 at 12:05 am #1563561…
Jan 17, 2010 at 5:19 am #1563580In that year, I had about the same crappy tent, crappy stove, and haircut.
–B.G.–Jan 17, 2010 at 7:42 am #1563609See the above photo of me in my Snowball Disco outfit for a reason why I hope the era of 1976 or so never comes back.
LOL!
Jan 17, 2010 at 12:21 pm #15636751973 winter X-C ski weekend in the Adirondacks. We carried everything but the kitchen sink, including our skiis on the way in and sometimes our snowshoes. I'm probably wearing army surplus mouse boots, and my X-C ski boots are inside my pack. I'm also wearing very heavy army surplus padded wool flight pants.
Notice the frame pack with the extender bar up top, big sleeping bag tied on, skiis on the side, big parka tied on the back. Inside is another skiing daypack. Also an Optimus 111B stove plus fuel, maybe 4 lbs, plus a Korean war surplus stove, another 1 1/2 lbs (in case the super-reliable 111B doesn't work, and maybe to heat some tea for lunch).
I was young and fit, but I almost didn't make it in the five miles.
My wife asks me to point out that I still have just about everything I took then except some rented equipment.
Jan 17, 2010 at 5:12 pm #1563742Forks of the Kern trail near the star just entering the Golden Trout Wilderness…or Weederness as the sign informed us.
Very first trip decked out in my school clothes, a borrowed backpack from the 70's, and a pair of brand new NF boots. Awesome
Jan 17, 2010 at 5:23 pm #1563751Nice! Curious, Patrick, do you still use an external from time to time?
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