Dumb things
Ok I'll start:
Speaking of carrying beer to huts, my mates (not me, I wasn't a big drinker) would carry a box under their arm up to field hut when we were younger. I always thought it was hilarious, especially when we would encounter other hut users...
pretty sure they would take cans for obvious reasons.
I'm sure there are people who have carried a box higher/further?
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Hilarious! :D Yeah, kinda like that, only not puffy, and without the pointy head. ;)
I know the Heisenberg suits, just never heard em called that.
I had heard of the bike up the peak in Arthurs pass, carrying it up it pieces is a little sneaky though..
I would like to see the North Ridge of Aoraki climbed in hobnails and hawser just like its original ascent, that would be balls.
Or even better soloed on hobnails :)
Dont mock the hobnails and triconis Before crampons thats all there was.
Think of the other period gear as well. Oilskins were new high tech around the same time as crampons came out. Before that a worsted swandri was as good as any coat (no water came through but it didnt run off either) Ice axes main use was cutting steps as without steps you wernt going anywhere. Puttys were canvas wrap arounds and no one wore shorts any time. The women that tramped did so in skirts.
Also most of the road ends were 20k further from the good stuff and being gravel if lucky were far more fun
"Puttys were canvas wrap arounds and no one wore shorts any time"
I like to think that I started that great kiwi tramping fashion of garishly striped poly longs-johns under shorts and gaiters sometime in the mid-70's.
Prior claims will be considered.
early poly was horrid stuff. Worked as well as the modern stuff but was even more itchy than the course wool of the day. Also didnt have built in deoderisors so if you didnt need them on the second day you literally could let them walk home on there own.
I was still wearing woollen long johns then which only came in oatmeal colour.
Of course while this thread has drifted from dumb things to ancient aparell I will mention that the modern pot lifters were not required back then as everyone just folded the swani sleave over there hand and grabbed the billy out of the fire. I still remember the first time I did that wearing a polar fleece. I still have the mark across my fingers as well.
"I like to think that I started that great kiwi tramping fashion of garishly striped poly longs-johns under shorts and gaiters sometime in the mid-70's. "
Stubbie shorts? haha nice one the haircuts from that era are classic too I reckon :)
The serious women didn't always wear skirts e.g. the magnificent Jane Thomson who did the first Grand Traverse of Mt Cook at the age of 59 with Conrad Kain. Freda Du Faur wore a 'mere frill' though...
I always found it fascinating that skirts developed as women's fashion, instead of men's. I mean, it is male reproductive organs that require temperature regulation, so maybe those crazy Scotts in their kilts were onto something.... ;)
I can think of several reasons with some basis in fact but none suitable to discuss on a family forum. Let google be your research tool.
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