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They were a game group...young, trusting, not smart enough to know we were sometimes in over our head. One summer we had 3 of us handling 52 on the side of that rockface. Lots of yelling, OCD and "STFU and do what we say" for a while. We raised hobb with the Admins of the program after that...

Hahaha...you really are bored over there!

You are right about the melting. I had forgotten that. When we had some early edition aluminum carabiners that were colored red or blue and you made a fast rappel you had to get off the rope in a hurry. Otherwise you left a melted colored spot on the rope... The color of the carabiner.

My pleasure to share...these kids were changing their lives during the month we had them...a reunion of some of us is in the works now. For some reason this picture didn't show -- they (we) climbed with a round the waist bowline on the climbing line. She has a "safety line" over her shoulder...

They helped...greatest danger for the head was people dropping stuff (we ate C-rations all summer...kids had pockets full of cans of p-butter, jelly, crackers, from the c-rats)...or kicking stuff loose and not yelling, "rock!!" when they did...or dropping biners when doing party climbs. The...

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You got me tripping down memory lane now....I went thru the picts from the survival program...Operation Upstream. I was a victim in summer of 1969...later in the 70's I was a counselor/teacher. Most of these picts are probably early to mid 70's. All have a common thread in them.... :D

Goldline!! My first serious use of rope was with Goldline. As a 16 year old I went thru a week long mountaineering course taught by Army Rangers at My. Yonah in N. GA. They ran it the way they did with Rangers...tough course. I learned bowline, square knot, double butterfly, half-hitch...