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Tuckahoe
02-27-2014, 08:39
Thought this was a cool little video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwT7qz55bdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
kayak karl
02-27-2014, 09:02
they were wearing cotton:eek: did they all die :D
cool video!
Old Grouse
02-27-2014, 09:06
That was nice. Thank you!
GreatDane
02-27-2014, 09:42
I'm grinning from ear to ear! Thank you!!
Gear, clothing and fashion styles may change.
What does not change is the obvious love people have for being out there.
Thx for sharing.
Gives me flashbacks to my setup in the early 90s on trips to Yosemite ... good thing I didn't know that I didn't know what I was doing back then! Still had fun.
Brought a smile to my face.... Thank U
I really, really enjoyed that. Thanks!
Sierra2015
02-27-2014, 13:29
Dem shorts! Haha.
Was adorable.
Another Kevin
03-01-2014, 14:21
Did I really look like those people when I was on trail in the 1970s?
I guess I did. It's embarrassing to think about it.
Put a smile on my face, though. Thanks for sharing.
I was using gear like that in '76, and I had clothes like that, but I wasn't yet old enough to grow one of those awesome '70's mustaches, sported by men from John Holmes to Burt Reynolds.
Wow, way cool, brought back a lot of memories.
Funny though how things changed in just 3 years: I was taking a day off at Kincora, got to looking through all the Backpacker mags there, the oldest one was from 1973, of all the pictures of hikers in the (I think) 8 issues that year, there were 3 hikers in shorts. All of the rest had on cotton Jeans, & one of the shorts was jean cut-offs. So, of about 150 hikers, 3 had shorts.
I remember MY hiking clothing during that period matched the majority: Jeans, cotton long sleeved work shirt (or sometimes cotton Tee) Work boots & frame pack. I had a GREAT time every trip! So gear don't matter as much as we seem to think today do it? Just get out there & make the best of what you got, the important thing is to get our there!!
bamboo bob
03-02-2014, 13:33
That was really fun, thank you for posting. No I'm sucked in for an afternoon of Youtube. lol. They wore jeans and survived!
Alleghanian Orogeny
03-02-2014, 13:52
Very nice set of pictures, and thanks for sharing.
My first backpack was a Hillary external frame pack from Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Bought it used from a college classmate in 1975. I think I gave him $20 for it, which was a fair amount of change for a college student in 1975. I used it a lot, including on a 10 day trip into the Wind River Range in 1976. My bride and I used it and packed into some of the Rocky Mountain NP back-country on our honeymoon in 1978. We packed in Montana and Colorado with it again in 1980 and 1982. We wore cotton jeans, cotton t-shirts, carried rock hammers, Brunton compasses, folded-up USGS quad sheets, and hand lenses (we were geology undergrads/recent grads). A normal load was 45-55 lbs, and we survived it all.
AO
Mags nailed it. Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Kerosene
03-02-2014, 15:10
I could've been one of those guys, wearing jeans clothing and big boots with long hair curling at the end. My first non-BSA backpack was a thin royal blue nylon external frame from Sears (the new Mallory line I think) that I bought for my first AT section hike in '73 and used for about 5 years until I purchased a Kelty Tioga.
Here's me at the end of my first AT section hike, in full dungaree regalia.
26173
Very nice. Having worn out many a cotton hiking tee in the 70's, it really wasn't so bad, but I'm not going back, lol.
earlyriser26
03-02-2014, 17:09
That was me in 76. State of the art. Blue jeans baby. 100% cotton. My "light pack" was 45 lbs. heavy was 55 lbs. I hiked the Smokies in six feet of snow wearing what they had on. Fun Fun Fun.....
Sierra2015
03-02-2014, 22:43
I could've been one of those guys, wearing jeans clothing and big boots with long hair curling at the end. My first non-BSA backpack was a thin royal blue nylon external frame from Sears (the new Mallory line I think) that I bought for my first AT section hike in '73 and used for about 5 years until I purchased a Kelty Tioga.
Here's me at the end of my first AT section hike, in full dungaree regalia.
26173
You were a good looking guy! (From what I can see, the pic on my phone is small.)
How old are you there?
I just rediscovered these oldies from my yout. 1970s in the White Mtns. I recall the hike (I think) but none of the names of these hikers. Other frames from this film tell me it was a Moosilauke/Franconia weekend adventure.
Deer Hunter
03-04-2014, 05:18
Nice video. Reminds me of some of the pictures Mountain Mike has posted on here before. Always enjoyed his pictures.